2025 Owasso CHAMBER summit

Join us for the Owasso Chamber Summit, a premier summer experience for junior high and high school woodwind players!

Dates: June 18-21, 2025
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM daily
Location: Owasso High School
Registration Cost: $210 (includes daily lunch & event T-shirt)
Private Lessons: $25 for 30 min.; $45 for 60 min.

This camp is open to students who play Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, and Saxophone.

Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your musicianship, work with expert instructors, and connect with fellow woodwind players!

Register now to secure your spot!

About the Owasso Chamber Summit

OCS is a 4 day collaborative chamber-focused experience for public school students in middle school through high school.  Currently, OCS offers studies for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, and Saxophone.

A typical day at OCS includes masterclasses with world class teachers, a large chamber ensemble for your specific instrument, two sessions in a small chamber group (trio, quartet, quintet, etc) each guided by a teacher specializing in your instrument, and practice time, with additional opportunities to take lessons as an add on.

Previously known as the Owasso Woodwind Summit, participants have earned placement in the Oklahoma All State Ensembles and formed a great collaborative connection with fellow students across Oklahoma.

MEET OUR clinicians

Click on the clinician’s name for more information about them.

  • Saxophonist, Educator, and Composer/Arranger, Mark Smith has served his local community through music since first picking up the saxophone 23 years ago. His passion for music and teaching young students has left a lasting impact on the Texas band and chamber music community. His student quartets, Quantum Quartet and Plexus Quartet, have been featured on the nationally-syndicated program, From the Top, and have received several Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award Scholarships. Mark works as an applied teacher, chamber music coach and masterclass instructor at Hebron High School and its feeder middle schools, Killian MS, Arbor Creek MS, and Creek Valley MS.

  • Helen Blackburn is the Artist Teacher of Flute (in the Yvonne Franklin Endowed Chair) at West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) in Canyon, TX. Helen is also principal flutist with the Dallas Opera Orchestra and a core member of Dallas’ modern music ensemble, Voices of Change. She performs with her husband (marimba virtuoso, Drew Lang), is a regular “extra” with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and has numerous credits with major performing arts organizations, including the Breckenridge Music Festival (principal flute for 13 years), Aspen Music Festival (piccolo fellow for 4 years), the Brevard Music Center, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra. Playing flute is her passion; teaching and mentoring flute students is her calling, and she is thrilled to have a life that embraces both equally!

  • Brent Baldwin is Assistant Director of Bands at Bixby Public Schools and serves as coordinator of jazz studies. His teaching duties at Bixby High School include assisting the Pride of Bixby Marching Band, leading the Bixby High School Jazz Ensemble I, conducting the Bixby High School Symphonic Bands and teaching the High School Saxophone Choir, High School Flute Choir. At Bixby Middle School, Mr. Baldwin assists with the 8th Grade Band, Middle School Jazz Bands, and beginning woodwinds at East Intermediate and West Intermediate. In addition to his teaching responsibilities at Bixby, Mr. Baldwin has also served as an instructor for Zephyrus Arts Institute and is active as a private saxophone instructor and performer in the Tulsa area. Prior to his teaching at Bixby, Mr. Baldwin taught for Sapulpa Public Schools.

  • Bryant Anderson is originally from San Antonio, Texas. He recently graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in music studies and a minor in arts management and administration. During his time at UT, he studied saxophone with Dr. Stephen Page and had the opportunity to perform in groups such as the UT Wind Ensemble, UT Symphony Orchestra, and the famous Longhorn Band. Bryant is also a huge proponent of chamber music, having played in and competed with various saxophone quartets since his sophomore year at Ronald Reagan High School in North East ISD. Previously, Bryant worked as a marching technician for Westwood High School in Round Rock ISD and as an education intern for the Austin Chamber Music Center.

  • Jill Johnson officially joined the Jenks Band staff in the Fall of 2019 and teaches all beginning flute classes at East and West Intermediate. Mrs. Johnson has four years of experience teaching band and over 25 years of experience teaching all levels of flute. She currently maintains a private flute studio of over twenty students who are consistently selected for NCDA Honor Band, OKMEA All-State Band, Tulsa Youth Symphony, and The Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain. Her students are also very successful at the District and State Solo and Ensemble Contests in the spring, earning many superior ratings. Jill also has a love for chamber music and enjoys coaching small flute and woodwind ensembles.