page_title: Midwest Clinic
section_title: Clinics
hierarchical_section_title: Midwest Clinic / Events / Clinics
caption_attribution_description: English: Early photograph of the Midwest clinic, unknown date
context_page_description: The Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference is the world's largest instrumental music education conference, annually drawing approximately 17,000 attendees to Chicago from all 50 states and as many as forty countries. It is held every December in downtown Chicago. For the past several years, Midwest has used the following venues simultaneously: Hilton Chicago, Palmer House Hilton, Congress Plaza Hotel, and the Merle Reskin Theatre in downtown Chicago. In 2009, The Midwest Clinic moved to a new venue after spending the last 30 years at the Hilton. The conference is held at McCormick Place West - a state-of-the-art facility that opened in 2007 and is part of McCormick Place, a complex of convention space located about a mile south of the Hilton.
context_section_description: More than eighty clinicians offer guidance and inspiration covering all facets of instrumental music.  Clinics are now held at all four Midwest Clinic venues. Many clinics are presented more than once to allow educators to attend clinics that may overlap with other clinics and/or performances that they wish to attend. There are now clinics specifically presented for College Student/Beginning Teacher attendees as well as clinics directed toward high school students.  Past clinicians include Gunther Schuller, Tim Lautzenheiser, John Corigliano, Wynton Marsalis, Mark Camphouse, Frank Ticheli, Frederic Fennell, Col. Arnald Gabriel, Himie Voxman, and Karel Husa.
caption: Midwest National Band Clinic, unknown date
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