UTC Bands

Attention high school students! Join us for Band Day 2024 and be a Marching Moc for the day! Registration opens in early August, but mark your calendars for a day of music and fun supporting the UTC Mocs as they take on Portland State!

I haven't done well with posting pictures from the UTC Teaching and Conducting Institute Week TWO!!! We are so fortunate to have Dr. Kevin Sedatole, Director of Bands at Michigan State University, as our featured clinician! So much incredible information this week! Our UTC Master's Degree students are SO LUCKY to have this opportunity! Go Mocs!

We are so excited that these amazing ensembles will be able to join us this coming January for the UTC Tri-State Honor Band Festival! With our event being canceled this past January due to weather, we are honored that all four invited High School Guest Ensembles could accept our invitation to perform at the 2025 festival! Go Mocs!

Here we go! Marching Mocs Fall 2024 Show will feature music of Nelly Furtado, the Beatles and Lynyrd Skynyrd! The 101st edition of the UTC Marching Mocs bringing UNCAGED to you this fall! Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird", the Beatles classic "Blackbird" and the ever popular "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd will make for a very entertaining show for all of our MOCS fans! Look for us this fall! We can't wait! Go Mocs!

We are so excited to announce the appointment of Professor Ethan McDaniel from adjunct Instructor of Percussion to full time Professor of Percussion and Assistant Director of Athletic Bands! Professor McDaniel has been an integral member of our UTC Bands staff and our adjunct instructor of percussion for the past two years. We are thrilled to welcome him to this new full time position with the UTC Music Department and UTC Bands! Go Mocs!

We are excited to welcome Dr. Christopher Lawhorne to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as our new Associate Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands! In addition to his work with the Marching Mocs and Pep Bands, Dr. Lawhorne will serve as the conductor of the UTC Symphonic Band. Welcome to Chattanooga, Dr. Lawhorne and GO MOCS!!

Percussion, Twirler and Guard auditions today! Welcome to our incoming Mocs and welcome back to our returning Mocs!

Come join us for an amazing experience this summer!

Unlock your musical potential: Inside the success of UTC Music’s summer intensive conducting workshops | UTC News Taking place on the UTC campus during the weeks of June 10-14 and June 17-21, the UTC Summer Pedagogy and Conducting Institutes are for music educators and ensemble directors hoping to improve and refine their conducting and rehearsal techniques while learning from nationally and internationally rec...

Hope you can join us Tuesday, April 9 for the our SIDE BY SIDE concert featuring our guests the Ringgold High School Wind Ensemble, Tracy Wright, conductor. We are also proud to present the first performance by the UTC Symphonic Band, Dr. Robert Truan, conductor and our wonderful UTC Bassoon Ensemble, Dr. Staci Spring, director. Join us at 7:30 PM on Tuesday for a great night of music! Go Mocs!

Just finished an amazing two days hosting the ETSBOA Lower Region Concert Performance Assessments at UTC. We hosted incredible bands and had almost 2000 students in our building over the two days. A huge THANK YOU to all of our students who worked incredibly hard for two days...to our building administrators, Steve Ray (Theatre) and Kenyon Wilson (Music) for allowing us to hold the event in our wonderful Fine Arts Center. Couldn't have done it without the support of our "band team"... Robert Truan and Ethan McDaniel. Our adjudicators were the best... Teresa J. Elliott, J Jeff Beckman, Blair Callaway, David Aydelott and Rich Stichler! A big shout out to the organizational "wizard" Jenny D'Andrea for making things go so well. Lots of steps, lots of chairs and stands...lots of stairs...but a great two days at UTC!

Ready to host ETSBOA Lower Region Concert Performance Assessments tomorrow and Wednesday! Welcome to UTC! Go Mocs!!

Attention current at FUTURE MOCS!!! Take a moment and reserve your spot in the 2024 edition of the Marching Mocs! ALL STUDENTS planning to participate in the UTC Marching Mocs this coming fall should fill out this form! Go Mocs! .

2024 Marching Mocs Band Camp Registration and Audition Information This form is for band camp only. If selected as a member, then you will need to register for marching band as a class as the school year approaches. Brass and woodwinds need to submit an audition video to [email protected] by May 1st. Audition music for brass and woodwinds can be found here: https:...

TONIGHT!!! Please join us for an amazing concert by the UTC Wind Ensemble and our very special guests Dr. Alexis Davis-Hazell, Mezzo-soprano, Dr. Rosalyn Floyd, piano, Ben Van Winkle, cello and the UTC Clarion Chorale. If you can't join us in person, we will be streaming the concert here: https://livestream.com/utc/wind-concert-feb-27
Hope to see you tonight! GO MOCS!!

Make your plans to join us for the first concert of the semester by the UTC Wind Ensemble, "A Song Full of Hope", Tuesday, February 27; 7:30 PM in the Roland W. Hayes Concert Hall in the UTC Fine Arts Center. We are thrilled to welcome our guests Alexis Davis-Hazell, Rosalyn Floyd, Ben Van Winkle and the members of the UTC Clarion Chorale, under the direction of Dr. Allison Allerton. You don't want to miss this incredible program. See you there!

Attention FUTURE Marching Mocs! If you are planning to attend UTC and would like to be a part of the Marching Mocs, please scan the code and complete the form so that we will save your spot for the 2024 Marching Mocs! All students, future and current, who are planning to be a Marching Moc this fall should complete the form! Go Mocs!!

The wait is over! Registration for UTC Marching Mocs Band Camp 2024 is NOW OPEN! All students, new and returning, should register for your spot with the 2024 UTC Marching Mocs on the link below. Please enter your information carefully, as we will use this information to communicate with you throughout the spring and summer leading up to BAND CAMP 2024! Come join us.... . GO MOCS!!

The wait is over! Registration for UTC Marching Mocs Band Camp 2024 is NOW OPEN! All students, new and returning, should register for your spot with the 2024 UTC Marching Mocs on the link below. Please enter your information carefully, as we will use this information to communicate with you throughout the spring and summer leading up to BAND CAMP 2024! Come join us.... . GO MOCS!!

Thank you for your understanding and support for the difficult decision we had to make in canceling our 2024 UTC Tri-State Honor Band. Unfortunately, we will not be able to re-schedule the event this semester. We hope you will be able to join us next January (January 15-18, 2025)! All students who paid your participation fee, you should see a refund for the full amount soon, if not already. Again, thank you for your understanding and GO MOCS!

Here we go! Colorguard, Percussion and Twirler audition information! Go Mocs!

Mark your calendars! Two concert dates for this semester!
Go Mocs!

Come join us at UTC! Associate Director of Bands/Director of Athletic Bands, tenure track. .

Assistant Professor of Music/Director of Athletic Bands, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

Out of extreme caution for the safety of students, faculty, and staff, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this weekend's UTC Tri-State Honor Band Festival. With many of the schools in our region having been seriously impacted by the recent winter weather, and conditions not predicted to improve until Friday or Saturday, we feel this decision is the best. We will search for a potential date for a re-schedule later in the spring and will make an announcement later this week if a weekend can be secured. If we are not able to re-schedule, all participation fees will be refunded. Thank you for your understanding, and Go Mocs.

Congratulations to our Drum Majors for the 2024-2025 season! Meet Dylan, Abbey and Natalie! Go Mocs!

Two solo acts: Music, Theatre to operate own departments - UTC News Thanks to programmatic innovations in both divisions, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of Performing Arts is being dissolved and replaced with a pair of autonomous units. When students return to campus for the spring 2024 semester, they will come back to the Department of Theatr...

Marching Mocs Flight Group 1 is on the bus headed to Chattanooga! Flight Group 2 is still in the air. Go Mocs!!

We’re in line! Go Mocs!!