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Two rows of college and high school brass players seated in rehearsal, including French horns and euphoniums.

[Media Coverage] Symphony Band Presents 2025 Tour Across Michigan

Jun 10, 2025 | Bands, Communications, News, Outreach

The 2025 State of the Arts Tour took the University of Michigan Symphony Band around Michigan to engage local communities, connect with high school students and educators, and showcase the university’s world-class performing arts programs. With support from the U-M Arts Initiative, the band performed eleven free public concerts at venues across the Lower Peninsula. View the concert program and ensemble roster at the tour website.

Led by Jason Fettig, professor of music and director of bands at SMTD, the tour also featured interactive clinics with high school band students in Belleville, Troy, Fenton, Grand Blanc, Flint, Midland, Interlochen, Traverse City, Muskegon, and Allendale.

A conductor stands gesturing to a large group of student band members seated at stands with music, a drummer and cymbal player are seen in the foreground. A white board on the back wall says "GO BLUE!"
Two rows of college and high school brass players seated in rehearsal, including French horns and euphoniums.

Jason Fettig leads a clinic with students from Belleville High School and the U-M Symphony Band.

Enjoy these links to media stories about the Symphony Band’s 2025 State of the Arts Tour:

A large band and conductor in black concert attire stand on stage, holding instruments and facing audience members in a darkened house. Two video screens of the performers are seen in the upper corners of the stage.

Performance at Troy High School

In a large classroom space, a conductor guides a large group of seated students playing instruments with music stands, while rows of seated students face them. A keyboard player and harpist are seen in the foreground, and large banners line the back wall.

Clinic at Fenton High School

Photo Gallery

In the Belleville High School auditorium, an audience fills the seats facing the Symphony Band and a speaker on stage.

Belleville High School Auditorium Symphony Band Tour May 2025

Close-up of a row of five saxophone players standing, attired in concert black, while performing on stage with the Symphony Band.

Saxophones Symphony Band Tour Belleville May 2025 Boyes Photo

The Symphony Band performs on stage at Belleville High School auditorium, as Jason Fettig stands conducting with arms held high. The audience watches from a darkened house.

Symphony Band Tour Belleville High School May 2025 Boyes Photo 35

In performance on stage, Jason Fettig holds a conducting baton showing a trail from its quick movement; the heads of seated band members face him in the foreground.

Jason Fettig Symphony Band Tour Troy High School May 2025 Mark Clague Photo

Attired in concert black, graduate assistant Kristina LaMarca conducts the band on stage, holding a baton with the other palm raised up.

Kristina LaMarca conducting Symphony Band Tour Troy High School May 2025 Mark Clague Photo

Six student trombone players stand on stage holding their instruments, posing with David Jackson and Jason Fettig.

Trombones Symphony Band Tour courtesy Marlia Nash

Three students pose standing in a band rehearsal, next to a harp and a piano.

Symphony Band Tour posing with harp courtesy Maydine Bellot

Six students and Professor David Jackson ride together in a van during the Symphony Band Tour.

David Jackson Symphony Band Tour in the car May 2025

Assistant Dean Mica Harrison-Loosemore and Director of Bands Jason Fettig pose standing next to an outdoor marching band sculpture, both wearing blue Symphony Band Tour t-shirts.

Mica Harrison Loosemore Jason Fettig Symphony Band Tour May 2025

A view of music on a stand as the band prepares to take the stage in a Traverse City auditorium, facing a crowded audience in the house.

Traverse City Symphony Band Tour May 2025 courtesy Jarod Schafer

View of a Muskegon city street, with a tall silver sculpture across from the Frauenthal Theater, where the marquee promotes "The University of Michigan Symphony Band in Concert."

Muskegon marquee Symphony Band Tour May 2025

Visit the ensemble’s YouTube channel for select performance recordings or catch a live concert performance of the Symphony Band during its 2025-26 performance season.

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