On March 26th, Drum Corps International cancelled the 2020 summer tour due to safety concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. We have subsequently cancelled our regular programming, and replaced it with a special project: The 2020 Zephyrus Virtual Drum & Bugle Corps. Soon after, we merged with the Virtual Drum & Bugle Corps on KickStarter, and set our sights on 2021.

​-Aaron Morton
Executive Director, Zephyrus Drum & Bugle Corps

Zephyrus family,
As we closely monitor the information provided by health services about COVID-19, our top priority remains the safety and wellbeing of our performers and staff. Drum Corps International has released a statement that we feel is perfectly in line with our aims for both optimism and caution. As of right now, we still plan on hosting our April 11th brass and percussion camp, our May 2nd color guard camp, and our Summer rehearsals and tour which don’t begin until June 29th. If anything changes, we will let you know. In the meantime, video auditions are still being accepted at ZTulsa.com.
For any questions or concerns, feel free to send an email to [email protected].

​-Aaron Morton
Executive Director, Zephyrus Drum & Bugle Corps

​Thanks to Marching Band Gear, we now have a full line up of shirts, hats, hoodies and more available to purchase NOW! We’re so excited to already see so many members and fans wearing our merchandise we couldn’t wait to make more designs available to everyone, everywhere!

​These partners helped equip ZMA 2019 with what we needed to fulfill our mission: to provide a life changing experience for our students!

Zephyrus Arts is thrilled to announce the Chelsea Arenas will be joining our staff for the 2019 Zephyrus Marching Academy as Color Guard Coordinator!

Chelsea Arenas is a graduate of Norwin High School, just outside of Pittsburgh, PA. She attended the University of Houston to study Dance Education while minoring in Early Childhood Development and American Sign Language. She has been teaching children of all ages since the age of sixteen. She has spent the past eight years as an educator in the Texas and DC areas. Chelsea enjoyed teaching both dance and color guard in the Texas public school system. She worked with The Woodlands High School and was the color guard director at The Woodlands College Park from 2011-2013.

In addition to her many years of teaching color guard, Chelsea was a featured performer with The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps from 2008-2011, where she helped to capture their 10th DCI World Championship. She has also performed with the WGI World Class Champion color guard Pride of Cincinnati in 2010 and 2012. Most recently, Chelsea performed in Japan with the tour of Blast! The Music of Disney during the summer of 2016.
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Chelsea is the Color Guard director at Union High School in Tulsa, OK.

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He has worked on countless blockbuster films, and now he will be speaking at the 2018 Zephyrus Marching Academy!

David Reed James has been a professional sculptor for more than 20 years. Since 1997 he has created huge, immersive sets and props for more than 50 major motion pictures including Avatar, Black Panther, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers, Team America, Jurassic World, National Treasure, Indiana Jones, Kill Bill, The Grinch, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

His personal work employs whimsical conceptual and kinetic elements often created using discarded and repurposed materials. A great-stellated-dodecahedron shape made from real cheese pizza slices and a moving ring of dominoes that perpetually knock themselves down are just a couple examples.

In the summer of 2013 he moved to Tulsa where he spends his free time with his 10-year-old daughter.

During the seminar at ZMA, we will have a discussion about how to take the arts into adult life, and express creativity in everything you do.

​Samuel Jeremy Stevens is currently the Education and Development Coordinator for the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, having spent the last 10 years as a public school teacher with Broken Arrow Public Schools and Union Public Schools. Jeremy has a degree in Piano Performance, Voice Performance, and Clarinet Performance, and a minor in Theatre, from Arkansas Tech University. As a strong advocate for the arts, Jeremy has been on stage either as a director or performer for most of his life and values the educational process that it brings.

Jeremy is a supporter of Zephyrus Arts Institute and will be speaking at the 2018 Zephyrus Marching Academy.