Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Solo & Ensemble Festival

The CMEA Solo & Ensemble Festival will be held at Sequoia on Saturday, February 9th.
The fee for solos is $23 and the fee for ensembles is $30 per ensemble (divided by the number of students in the group). Mrs. Wiseman will be sending registrations in tomorrow, January 24th. If you send a check, make it to Sequoia Band; If you have already sent a check to CMEA, that is okay, they will all be sent together.
If you have a specific time that will work better for you and your student, please let me know and I will write that on the registration.
Here is the list of who is signed up. If you are working on a solo or ensemble piece and are not listed below, please let Mrs. Wiseman know. It is not too late, as long as she gets it in by tomorrow.

Ensembles:
Woodwind Quintet
Clarinet/Flute Duet (Chloie & Chloe)
Sax Duet (Jacob & Emily)
Clarinet Trio (Kevin B., Nicholas R. Diego)
Sax Trio (Mary, Justin, Mason)
Trumpet/Trombone Duet I (Laney & Hannah)
Trumpet/Trombone Duet II (Andrew & Kevin)
Trumpet/Trombone Duet III (Emma & Nikole)

Solos:
Celeste Pena
Cameron Sewell-Snyder
Joseph McKenna
Ella Hebrard
Laney Green
Cole Green
Kevin Braemer
Hannah Berglund
Emma Burke
A. J. Lee

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

CMEA Honor Band Follow Up

Last weekend at Pleasant Valley High School in Chico, eleven of our Sequoia students participated in the CMEA Junior High Honor Band. After one and a half days of rehearsals, the students performed in an outstanding concert.
This honor band is a great opportunity for our students, who get a chance to work alongside other selected band students, under the direction of a guest director. The guest director this year was Robert Calonico from UC Berkeley, you can read a little about him here.

These are the wonderful musicians who participated:
A.J. Lee - Percussion
Alex Lowther - Bass Clarinet
Andrew Moon - Trumpet
Bryan Neill - Bassoon
Diego Corona - Clarinet
Hannah Berglund - Trombone
Jahmill Woods - Trumpet
Joey McKenna - Alto Sax
Kevin Pantoja-Kirk - Trombone
Michael Oilar - Percussion
Nicholas Richardson - Clarinet 

Also participating were these Sequoia alumni, currently representing Shasta High School:
Asha Woods - Trumpet
Patric McGuire - Trumpet
William Moon - Flute and Piccolo