Please note: The deadline for submitting an online application, with audition recordings embedded, is Jan. 15, 2027. Notification of acceptance will occur by Feb. 15, 2027.
Honor Band and Honor Jazz Band Festivals
April 2-4, 2027
The Concordia High School Honor Band takes place every spring, where students can come together and create music at a high level. We're looking forward to welcoming you to campus April 2-4, 2027, for our next honor band!
Additionally, The Concordia College Band is excited to offer an Honor Jazz Band Festival as part of the Honor Band Weekend. The Honor Jazz Band Festival will feature a guest artist/conductor who will work with students throughout the weekend.
Honor Festival Highlights
- Making music in an artistically rigorous and nurturing environment
- Performing chamber repertoire coached by Concordia's distinguished wind and percussion faculty
- Rehearsing and performing challenging repertoire under the direction of Concordia's Dr. Peter Haberman, director of bands, and Professor Russ Peterson, director of Jazz Studies and Jazz I
Shuttle Transportation Available
Transportation is available for students who live in the Twin Cities or along I-94 to Moorhead, Minnesota. This optional shuttle bus is available for a flat rate of $20. Stops are currently planned for Rosemount, Maple Grove, St. Cloud, and Alexandria. The form to sign up for the shuttle bus will be emailed to students who have completed the application and been accepted to the 2027 Honor Band.
Carol Brittin Chambers is currently the composer and owner of Aspenwood Music and a highly sought-after conductor and clinician. She lives in San Antonio, Texas, where she is also on the music faculty at Texas Lutheran University, teaching composition and serving as Composer in Residence.
Chambers is commissioned each year to compose and arrange works for concert band, marching band, orchestra, and various other ensembles. Her concert works have been selected to the J.W. Pepper Editor’s Choice List and the Bandworld Top 100 and have been performed at state educator conferences across the country, the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, and other international events. She was named the winner of the 2019 WBDI (Women Band Directors International) Composition Competition and also served as the 2025 TBA Texas Bandmasters Association Featured Composer. She has arranged and orchestrated marching shows for multitudes of high school bands nationwide, as well as The Crossmen Drum Corps. Chambers travels coast-to-coast conducting music ensembles of all ability levels and ages, and she has now joined the Conn Selmer Educational Team as an educational clinician.
At Texas Lutheran University, in addition to composition, Chambers has taught a variety of music education courses, including Band and Brass Methods, Orchestration, Music Technology, Ear Training and Sight Singing, and Trumpet lessons, to name a few. Before teaching at TLU, Chambers taught middle school and high school band for many years in the North East Independent School District, San Antonio. She also taught private lessons in NEISD.
Chambers received a Master of Music in trumpet performance from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Music Education from Texas Tech University. She studied under Vincent Cichowicz, Will Strieder, John Paynter, Arnold Jacobs, James Sudduth, and Pat Anthony.
Guest Artist Phil Holm
Phil graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education. He is one of the original directors for Minnesota Youth Jazz Bands. MYJB, now in its 23rd season, enjoys four dynamic High School Ensembles, one Middle School Ensemble and one Super Sax Ensemble. The Bands are comprised of some of the most talented, young, and upcoming jazz players in the 13 county Twin Cities area.
Phil has performed in numerous ensembles in the Twin Cities over the past 50 + years including Klibre-24, Bella Diva, The Casablanca Orchestra, Minnesota Vikings band, Wolverines Classic Jazz Orchestra, North Stars Power Players, Bozo Allegro, Acme Co. Big Band, Cedar Avenue Big Band, Doug Haining explosion Big Band, Mick Sterling & the Stud Brothers, Latin Sounds Orchestra and more.