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Click Here for Current Practice Schedule.... Attention all Students.... PRACTICE-PRACTICE-PRACTICE !!! "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit"For helpful hints and interesting topics Click
here to view a cool website... Click on the Calendar page for important dates and times...About UsThere 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: ♪ CHS Pep Band ♪ Wind Symphony ♪ Drum Line ♪ Winter Guard ♪ Spring Musical Pit Orchestra ♪ CHS Jazz Band THE CARLSBAD HIGH SCHOOL WIND SYMPHONY, an ensemble of ninth through 12th grade 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 . Our DirectorGreg 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.
On Staff MembersThe 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.Our Coaches Our Outstanding Coaches are: Dorea Tate, Amanda Wadleigh, Sean Reusch, Mike McCoy, Scott Sutherland, Jonathan Ingber, Brian O'Donnell and Jason Correa Contact Information
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