All State Honor Band

Our very own Evan Johnsen (trumpet) has been selected to the All-State Honor Band. He is one of 8 students of all San Diego County Selected. He will be going to Fresno CA to rehearse with the top 100 musiciand from the state and perform at the Saroyen Theater. Their concert will be the final performance of a 3 day Music Conference. Other performing groups include The Canadian Brass, UCLA Wind Ensemble, Fresno State Orchestra, High School and Middle School All-state Band, Orchestra, and Jazz Bands. College’s from all over the United states will be recruiting from this event as well.

Feb 19-23rd – CBDA.org to see complete list of students and conference details.

Disneyland with Advanced Orchestra

The Advanced Orchestra had a great performance on Jan 23rd. There were many groups performing from all over San Diego and Los Angeles on that day. While we were waiting for our performance a very famous (in the band director world) director named Richard Meyer was there performing with his middle school orchestra. I had to meet him. It just happened to be that our Advanced Orchestra was playing one of his songs called “Night Shift”. Once he heard that he decided to come back and see our orchestra. One of my long terms goals has become a reality. To commission a piece of music where students get to give input into a subject or idea and we will submit it to a composer like Richard Meyer. Well after he heard our orchestra he is very interested. What a great opportunity. Can you imagine if the piece gets published and is performed worldwide with Hillsdale and CVUSD accredited.

Stuart Caldwell, Hillsdale Music Department
Hillsdale Middle School