Pleasant Grove High School & Albiani Middle School Concert Bands Receive Top Honors at Festivals

March 23, 2010 - PRLog -- Elk Grove , CA – March 20, 2010.  Both the Pleasant Grove High School (PGHS) and Katherine Albiani Middle School (KAMS) Concert Bands took top honors at their respective Music Festival.

PGHS Concert Band performed at the 55th Annual Golden Empire Music Festival held at Sheldon High School and received unanimous Superior Ratings from four adjudicators. Judges rated the students on multiple areas of technique, sound, performance, and sight reading. The band played three pieces: Kinesis, Hennepin County Dawn and Convergence.

“This is the first time in my 30-year teaching career that we have received a score of 99,” noted Jay DeWald , Music Director at both PGHS and KAMS.  “This concert band has the best use of dynamics, balance and blend that I have ever had the pleasure of instructing.”

KAMS Concert band performed at the First Annual Elk Grove Middle School Band Festival held at Joseph Kerr Middle School .  This new festival was open to all middle school bands from the Elk Grove Unified School District and was adjudicated by the esteemed Grant Parker.  Students were treated to a clinic with Mr. Parker as well as a performance by the Cosumnes River College Concert Band.  KAMS received a Superior rating for their performance of Cayuga Lake Overture, With Each Sunset, and Visigoths.

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The Pleasant Grove High Band Boosters is an association organized to create interest in and give moral and financial support to the music and related programs of Pleasant Grove High School and Katherine Albiani Middle School, located in Elk Grove, CA.