Solo and Ensemble Festival Schedule

The schedule for the CMEA Solo and Ensemble Festival has been released. Here are the times for band participants from Sequoia. For a complete schedule, please refer to an email sent out today by Mrs. Wiseman.

A.J. Lee - Snare Drum - 3:00pm
Cameron Sewell-Snyder - Saxophone - 11:00am
Celeste Pena - Clarinet - 9:30am
Cole Green - Alto Saxophone - 3:15pm
Elle Hebrard - Flute - 3:30pm
Hannah Berglund - Trombone - 9:45am
Joseph McKenna - Alto Sax - 11:45am
Kevin Braemer - Clarinet - 2:45pm
Laney Green - Trumpet - 1:45pm
Sequoia Clarinet Trio - Diego Corona, Kevin Braemer, Nicholas Richardson - 2:30pm
Sequoia Clarinet/Flute - Chloie Newsome, Chloe Loya - 2:15pm
Sequoia Sax Duet - Emily Stolz, Jacob Mikesell - 2:00pm
Sequoia Tenor Sax Trio - Mary Conner, Justin Grace, Mason Newsome - 1:15pm
Trumpet/Trombone Duet I - Hannah Berglund, Kevin Kirk - 10:45am
Trumpet/Trombone Duet II - Andrew Moon, Kevin Kirk - 10:30am
Trumpet/Trombone III - Emma Burke, Nikole Baker - 1:30pm   
   

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

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

Craft Bazaar and Raffle Baskets

We raised over $1,800 from all our baskets and the craft bazaar.

Thank you to all those who volunteered their time! We had amazing help from those getting this event organized and advertised, those making sure the gym was set up and cleaned up, parents and students selling raffle tickets and bake sale items, and those who brought in items for the bake sale and raffle baskets. Also a special thanks to all the band students who played on Saturday morning, you were the highlight of the bazaar! This was a promising event for us, and we hope to do this in the future.

Craft Bazaar

Due to water damage from recent storms, the location of this event has changed. Please join us on Saturday in the gymnasium at Turtle Bay and browse through all the wonderful booths and hopefully you will check some gift items off your shopping list!

Honor Band

Junior High Honor Band

January 18th and 19th, 2013 at the Center For the Arts (CFA) at Pleasant Valley High School in Chico.

Bob Calonico from UC Berkeley will be the guest band director.

Congratulations to the following Sequoia students who will be participating:

Clarinet:  Diego and Nicholas

Bass Clarinet:  Alex

Trombone:  Hannah and Kevin

Alto Sax:  Joey

Trumpet:  Andrew and Jahmill

Percussion:  A.J. and Michael O.

Oxford Suites is a great hotel choice and will be a reasonable distance from the high school. Many other parents, students and directors will be staying here and it is recommended you make reservations soon: Oxford Suites Chico

For more information on Pleasant Valley High School, including address, visit their website here: Pleasant Valley High School    

 

Raffle Baskets!

We are planning our upcoming Holiday Craft Bazaar and we need your help in preparing raffle baskets. During the bazaar we will be selling tickets for these baskets, the proceeds from those sales will be put right back towards the band!

What we are asking is that each instrument group donate items as follows:

• Clarinets - Kitchen Basket
• Advanced Band Trumpets - Anything Chocolate or Chocolate-related
• Intermediate Trumpets - Coffee and Tea Basket
• Trombones - Fishing Basket
• Drummers - Christmas Basket
• Flutes - Spa Basket (Lotions, candles, manicure, pedicure, gift certificate)
• Saxophones - Movie Basket      

We have collection boxes in the band room for each basket.  The last day to bring in donations is Saturday, Dec. 1st - the day of the Christmas parade.

 

Please look for more information about this bazaar very soon!