Camp Jobey

Dr. Jobey Wilson — Director

Jobey Wilson’s charismatic style of tuba playing has entertained audiences all over the world. Dr. Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Music at Pittsburg State University in southeast Kansas where he Directs the Pride of the Plains Marching Band, Symphonic Band, Pep Bands, and teaches applied Tuba, Euphonium, Trombone as well as courses in Brass Techniques and Brass Chamber Music. His students have been accepted to the most prestigious institutions in the country, such as Juilliard, New England Conservatory, Oberlin, Indiana University, Michigan, Rice, and many others.

A Boston freelance musician for 24 years, Dr. Wilson is Principal Tuba of the New Bedford, Lexington, and Atlantic Symphony Orchestras, the Portland Brass Quintet, and he is often called to perform with groups such as the Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and many others. He is a solo recording artist for PARMA Recordings and a clinician for the Eastman Music Company.

Dr. Wilson served as Director of Athletic Bands at Bentley University and also taught at Boston College, the University of Southern Maine, and UMASS-Boston. He developed the Camp Jobey Summer Brass Institutes in 2012 after teaching numerous summers at Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, the Atlantic Brass Quintet Seminar, and Boston Youth Symphony Camp.

Dr. Wilson often includes guest faculty artists in his camp programs.