Wind Ensemble to be featured at "Music for All" National Concert Band Festival in March 2020!11/4/2019
Congratulations to our Wind Ensemble on again being selected to perform a featured concert at the National Association for Music Education All-Eastern Convention. This year our guest soloists will be Jim Nova, Trombone, and Chad Winkler, Trumpet, from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The Wind Ensemble has performed at either the PMEA All-State or NAfME All-Eastern Convention 8 of the last 9 years. Thank you for making North Hills a special place to learn and make music! Register here for our 8th annual North Hills Summer Strings Camp 2018! We are so excited to have you be a part of this great tradition in our orchestra program. Camp will take place from Monday, June 25 - Friday, June 29, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. at Ross Elementary School. Come with your friends to make music and play your instruments over the summer. Registration is FREE and open to any student entering grades 5 - 12 in the North Hills School District! We are very excited to again be offering a summer strings camp for all our North Hills orchestra students!!!!!
Click here to access the registration page.  Congratulations to the North Hills Wind Ensemble on being selected from the entire East Coast to perform at the 2017 NAfME All-Eastern Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
In the last 7 years, North Hills Bands have been invited to perform 3 times at the PMEA All-State Convention and 3 times at the All-East Convention, all in different years. Thank you to our community and administration for their support and thank you to our wonderful students for believing in our fine tradition! THANK YOU to our amazing chaperones. We are so blessed to have these caring parents treating all the music students like their own.
THANK YOU to our families back home for your support and encouragement all year through. CONGRATS to all our students! We hope it was a worthwhile and memorable weekend together! Best Overall Marching Band: Marching Band Best Overall Jazz Band: Jazz Band Best Overall Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra Best Overall Choral Ensemble: North Hills Singers String Orchestra: superior/first place Chamber Orchestra: superior/first place Jazz Band: superior/first place Wind Ensemble: superior/first place Wind Symphony: superior/first place Symphonic Concert Band: superior/second place (second to Wind Symphony) Marching Band: superior/first place Women’s Choir: superior/second place Symphonic Choir: superior/second place North Hills Singers: superior/first place Outstanding Jazz Soloist: Jared Adams  Our students continue to do amazing things together with your support. We are very excited to share these great young people with musicians and teachers from across the state in two weeks at the PMEA Convention.
For our alumni and music lovers, we will perform: Grainger, Lincolnshire Posy Mackey, Sheltering Sky Williams, Victor's Tale SSG Aaron Scott soloist from The U.S. Army Band, “Pershing’s Own” North Hills High School class of '99 Holsinger, Liturgical Dances Sousa, The Thunderer Since most of you won't be in Hershey, feel free to join us for a PMEA Preview Concert on March 29th, in the North Hills Middle School Auditorium at 7 PM. Thank you North Hills! |
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