Education Outreach
EDUCATION OUTREACH is a cornerstone program of MCBB, providing several activities developed over a number of years to augment school music programs. In-school residences are specifically designed to expose students to professional guest clinicians, music directors and the brass band art form. Click the tabs below to learn more about the MCBB Education Outreach programs.
- Artistic Residencies
- Motor City Youth Brass Band
- Motor City Youth Brass Day
Artistic Residencies
Artistic Residencies provide a day long program with in-school clinics and workshops and an evening concert with MCBB, the guest clinician, a guest music director and student ensembles.
In addition to the sponsors listed below, MCBB
Artistic Residencies are also sponsored by
the
National Endowment for the Arts and the
Michigan Arts & Culture Council
MCBB has worked with multiple schools across Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb Counties and beyond including:
Wyandotte Roosevelt Waterford Kettering Southgate Anderson Van Dyke L’Anse Creuse Troy |
Warren Lincoln Oakland Christian Utica Eisenhower Lamphere Fraser Chippewa Valley Southfield |
Dearborn Annapolis Rochester Adams Lapeer Anchor Bay St. Clair Royal Oak |
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Philip Hannevik - 2022
Clinician: Philip Hannevik - Norwegian championship conductor
Location: Southfield
David King - 2022
Clinician: David King, world renown Cornet and Conductor
Location: Southfield
Bona Opatich and Toby Kmet - 2020
Clinicians: Bona Opatich and Toby Kmet, Detroit area music educators and MCBB mucicians
Location: Southfield High School for Arts and Technology
Rex Richardson - 2018
Sponsors: Troy High School
Anonymous Donor
Sponsors: Annapolis High School
Annapolis Music Boosters
Clinician: Rex Richardson, world renown trumpet soloist
Locations: Troy High School and Dearborn Annapolis High School
David Jackson - 2017
Sponsor:
Clinician: David Jackson, Professor of Trombone at the University of Michigan
MCBB Guest Conductor: Mr. Greg Payton
Location: Chippewa Valley High School
Andrew Mitchell - 2016
Sponsor:
Clinician: Andrew Mitchell, Principal Trombone of the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra and the Midland
Symphony Orchestra
MCBB Guest Conductor: Mr. Greg Payton
Location: Wyandotte Roosevelt High School
Colonel Thomas Palmatier - 2016
Sponsors:
Retired leader of the United States Army Band "Pershing's Own", COL Palmatier conducted clinics at Rochester High School, Utica Eisenhower High School, Iroquois Middle School, and with the Motor City Youth Brass Band.
John Rutherford - 2016
Sponsors:
Detroit's leading freelance trombonist - Lapeer High School, St. Clair Middle School, and Anchor Bay High School
MCBB Guest Conductor: Mr. Greg Payton
William Lucas - 2015
Sponsors:
A member of the trumpet section of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra - Dearborn Heights Annapolis High School and Rochester Adams High School
MCBB Guest Conductors: Mr. Greg Payton and Dr. Kenneth Kroesche
Dennis Nulty - 2014
Sponsors:
Principal tuba for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra - Dearborn High School, Utica Eisenhower High School, and Oakland Christian School
MCBB Guest Conductor: Mr. Thomas Hanton
David Ammer - 2013
Sponsor:
Principal trumpet Michigan Opera Theater - Waterford Kettering High School.
MCBB Guest Conductor Mr. Thomas Hanton
John Rutherford 2012
Sponsor
Detroit's leading freelance Trombonist – Fraser High School 2012
MCBB Guest Conductor Dr. Dennis L. Horton
John Rutherford 2012
Sponsor:
Detroit's leading freelance Trombonist – Southgate Middle and High Schools
MCBB Guest Conductor Thomas Hanton
Kris Johnson 2011
Sponsor:
Kris Johnson trumpeter, composer, educator, and jazz lecturer, the Ohio State University – Lamphere High School
Motor City Youth Brass Band
Motor City Youth Brass Band (MCYBB) provides an after school program for students to participate in a brass band ensemble experiencing its unique instrumentation and sound. Instruments are available on loan to students, low/mid/high brass and percussion sectional instruction is provided along with full band rehearsal and concert performances. These performances have included, beginning in 2014, competing in the North American Brass band Championships. CLICK HERE to see some videos of the band members and their parents commenting on their experiences.
MCYBB instruments and equipment are provided by granters Ronald McDonald House Charities, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DeRoy Foundation, D'Addario Foundation and Lula C. Wilson Trust.
Learn more about MCYBB by visiting their web site at www.mcybb.org or contacting conductor Bona s
Rehearsals at the Southfield Music School
Motor City Youth Brass Day
Motor City Youth Brass Day provides an introduction to the brass band held on a Saturday in late November as a kick-off to the MCYBB season. Students from Middle School through College age spend the day in sectional and full band rehearsals culminating in grand concert for friends and family including a mass performance by MCBB and MCYBD students.
