CHS Marching Lancers and Wind Symphony

CONCERT WITH MIDDLE SCHOOLS - MAY 27TH
Greg Anderson and the three Carlsbad middle school teachers have decided to have a combined performance of all the bands on May 27th in the Carlsbad High School new gym! This will be a great opportunity to bring all the middle school band students together and show them the great opportunities that lie ahead by joining the high school band. It should be a great night of music!

YEAR END CONCERT AT CARLSBAD COMMUNITY CHURCH ON JUNE 6TH
Our annual year end concert will be on June 6th at the Carlsbad Community Church at 7pm. This is always a highlight of our year. Make sure you can be there.

YEAR END AWARDS BANQUET - JUNE 9TH OR 10TH
We don't have a firm date set yet for our awards banquet, but it should be on one of the days above. We would love to have everyone attend this years banquet where awards are given out and the seniors are honored.

GRADUATION - JUNE 12TH
All underclassmen band members will need to be at the graduation ceremony as the band plays during the ceremony.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ANDERSON FAMILY!!!

Greg and Katie Anderson are now the proud parents of a new baby boy, His name is Bennett Joseph Anderson and he came into this world weighing 6 lbs and 13 oz.

About Us

There are many opportunities for the music students at CHS to excel in preparation for college and/or a professional music career. All students participate in the Marching Lancers plus several different performing units throughout the year. The list includes:

THE CARLSBAD HIGH SCHOOL WIND SYMPHONY, an ensemble of ninth through 12^thgrade students, made astounding advances in a very short time. The ensemble is now recognized as one of the finest in the nation, having progressed from junior high to college level repertoire through hard work, high expectations, and increased participation in competitions, festivals and All-State and regional honor bands. The CHS Band Program is unique among schools as it has only one band which is open to all students without audition. The entire enrollment marches in the fall football season, then dons tuxedos and gowns in the spring to perform symphonic works. This level of inclusiveness is unusual among performing arts and other campus groups, leading to an unusually high degree of student diversity. In spite or perhaps because of this, the program consistently produces a disproportionately high number of National Merit Scholars, Governor’s Scholars, and honor roll members. Recent band graduates now attend the U.S. Naval Academy, Stanford, USC, University of Oregon and the Universities of California Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and Merced, and the United States Marine Corps Band .

This group of dedicated young people and their gifted leader are a great source of pride for Carlsbad High School, the school district, and the Carlsbad community. Their consistent record of accomplishment includes:

♪ February 2002 - Invited by the California Band Directors Association to perform as one of the featured bands at their annual convention. Members gave a standing ovation to the Wind Symphony for the stunning performance of a difficult symphonic program.

♪ April 2002 - During the spring 2002 concert tour of France, music faculty at the Conservatoire Jean Philippe Rameau mistook them for a professional ensemble.

♪ Sping 2002 – Invited to participate in the 2003 Cardiff, Wales Band Festival.

♪ March 2003 - The Wind Symphony was one of only eight high school bands invited to the prestigious Western Band Association 2003 Concert Band Festival in Long Beach, CA.

♪ April 2003 - The percussion section won the 2003 American Drum Line Assn. Sweepstakes Championship in the Standstill Division for their inspired original percussion composition “5.”

♪ May 2003 – The orchestral accompaniment to the CHS production of ‘Les Miserables,’ rescored by Mr. Ewell and performed primarily by Wind Symphony members, received a 2003 San Diego Theater Playbill Award.

♪ Spring 2003 – Invited to the 2004 Eric Wittacre Wind Ensemble Festival in Sydney, Australia.

♪ April 13, 2004 – They took the stage at Carnegie Hall* as participants in the 2004 New York Wind Band Festival. Along with a prolonged standing ovation, they earned a gold award for the highest score ever awarded in the World-Projects International Festival series.

♪ January 13, 2006 – At the request of internationally-known Gershwin pianist Kevin Cole, the Wind Symphony accompanied him in a performance of the full “Rhapsody in Blue.” One critic present announced that they gave a more authentic performance than the L.A. Philharmonic did with Cole in 2002.

♪ April 7, 2006 – The Wind Symphony was the first high school ensemble ever to take the stage at the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. where once again, they earned a gold award for excellent performance.

♪ Invited to perform a showcase concert in Carnegie Hall at the June 2007 World Projects Concert Band Festival.

Our Director

Greg Anderson has been teaching music in public schools for ten years. Mr. Anderson has taught music at Carlsbad high school, Rancho Bernardo High School, Timpview high school (Utah) and Calavera Hills middle school. In his five years with the Carlsbad percussion ensemble and as assistant band director the group has won several awards including medals at SCSBOA and WBA championship competitions, and many awards for the percussion section in drumline and solo and ensemble competition.

In his first year at Calavera Hills both the beginning and advanced bands received superior ratings at festival and the group was named best overall group by the adjudicators. Mr. Anderson has performed with the La Jolla Symphony, the percussion ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, African Ensemble (Ho Asogli), and Wind symphony at San Diego State University. He also was a featured Marimba soloist with the Utah Valley Symphony as the winner of the young artist concerto competition in 1999.

At the 2000 Drum Corps International championships in Washington D.C., Greg received 6th place at the national solo and ensemble competition with his original snare drum solo "Goldfish Cracker". He also performed with the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps winter percussion ensemble in 2001 and earned a silver medal with that group in national competition.

Greg has two published works on marching percussion performance to his credit and has composed and arranged music for the SDSU percussion ensemble, Utah Valley State College percussion ensemble, and many middle and high school drumlines in Utah, Colorado, and Southern California. He is also an active arranger and composer for winds and percussion. Greg lives in Rancho Penasquitos with his wife Katie and daughter Renae.

About Us

Our Director

On Staff Members

The Marching Lancers are very fortunate to have Mrs. Patricia Feaster heading up the Color Guard coaching staff. Mrs. Feaster is also known as the coach for the nationally-acclaimed Lancer Dancers, Excalibur, and is a student-favorite Spanish teacher.

We also have 2 new staff members this year.

Oscar Miranda, Marching instructor. Michael Chavez Front Ensemble instructor.

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