The band has an album where photos and videos are shared with the community. We don’t have a lot of performance videos in the collection unfortunately, if you have any, please share them, along with photos, here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/d5qnrehtN8CJYuLs8. Much appreciated. Thank you!

Congratulations to ALL of our amazing chamber groups who performed at State on Friday, April 29th at MHCC.

We had three groups receive trophies and two more in the top 5.

• State Champions – Small Percussion Ensemble Category: Aidan Bagby & Hayleigh Roth
• 2nd Place – Small Woodwind Ensemble Category: Saxophone Quartet (Auden Koeneke, Aidan Schauer, Rae Kertzner, Rena Marthaler)
• 3rd Place – Large Brass Ensemble Category – Brass Quintet (Maia Connelly, August Shin, Miles Wheeler, Liem Friel, Gavin Downs)
• 4th Place – Small Percussion Ensemble Category – Anwar Laraway & Jesse Broderick
• 5th Place – Large Woodwind Ensemble Category – Woodwind Quintet #1 (Maya Hausman, Alice Bokman, Ben McHarris, Ariah Piper, Jordan Livermore)

ALSO a HUGE thank you to the amazing Cleveland Band Parents that helped me run a VERY smooth contest. Another reason I am so blessed to work at Cleveland HS!!

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An amazing experience for all of our state qualifying soloists!!

Three Cleveland students medaled on Saturday:

• Anna Suydam – Bass Clarinet (2nd Place)
• Henry Parker – Trombone (4th Place)
• Liem Friel – Trombone (5th Place)

The following students were in the top 8:

• Rena Marthaler – Tenor Sax (6th Place)
• Maia Connelly – Trumpet (7th Place)
• Ben McHarris – Clarinet (7th Place)
• Lena Thomas – Bassoon (7th Place)
• Ariah Piper – Bassoon (8th Place)

An unprecedented showing for the Cleveland Band program.

– Gary Riler

Color Guard practices will begin this Thursday, May 5th from 3:45 – 5:15pm.  I am very excited for our crew to meet Tracy Buldoc, our new color guard coach!

The Jazz Lab will be performing at the Mt Hood Jazz Festival at MHCC on Saturday, May 7th. The permission slip and itinerary can be found HERE.  Just scroll down until you find it.

This is the first 2nd jazz band from Cleveland to perform at a jazz festival since its inception in 2017. Very proud of the hard work occurring in this ensemble!!

This Friday, our chamber students will be performing in the State Chamber Music Contest at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham. There is an evening rehearsal with coaches today, Monday 6:30 pm–8:30 pm.

On Saturday, our soloists will be performing in the State Solo Music Contest at Pacific University.

Sign up for a morning or afternoon shift for this Friday’s State Chamber Music Contest at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham. Cleveland Band Director Gary Riler is a key organizer for this statewide event and our parent volunteers are essential to ensuring the event runs smoothly.

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Our Color Guard students will begin rehearsing for the Starlight Parade on Thursday, May 5th with their newly hired coach Tracy Buldoc. Please refer to the band calendar for times as it might fluctuate a little bit.

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The Jazz Lab will perform at the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival. They will play at 9:10 am on Saturday, May 7th in the 5A division, which performs in the student union.

We had two ensembles playing at the Portland Art Museum on Sunday, April 24th at 1:00 pm as part of HeArt of Portland—an annual showcase of the arts programs from across PPS. Our Saxophone Quartet & Woodwind Quintet from Wind Symphony (pictured above). Bravo!

Attention parents of musicians in Concert and Symphonic bands! Mr. Riler still needs two more volunteers to chaperone the Second Band Festival at West Linn High School. The bands will attend this all-day event Thursday, April 21st. Please sign up to volunteer if you’re able to and watch our musicians perform!

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