Please join us for a fun night of jazz this Tuesday, starting at 7:00 pm at the CHS auditorium! Jazz Lab and Jazz Ensemble will perform. Special guest Paul Mazzio will solo with both groups and perform with his quartet to finish the evening.

The Cleveland HS Concert & Symphonic Bands will be performing at the West Linn Second Band Festival on Thursday, April 21st. This event will be at West Linn HS all day and into the early afternoon.

At this event, the groups will listen to other “second” bands perform, receive adjudication scores and enjoy a clinic with one of the music educators on the panel of judges. View the itinerary for the day.

There are two more opportunities this month to support Cleveland band members, and student musicians from throughout Oregon:

Thursday, April 21 –  Sign up here to chaperone for the 2nd Band Festival at West Linn High School.

Friday, April 29 – Sign up here to volunteer at the State Chamber Music Contest at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham.

Your support is appreciated!

Color guard is in the recruiting stages. We also have a fantastic coach!! We are just waiting for background checks to be done. Practice will begin once we get the okay from the district.

Featuring Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab. Special guest Paul Mazzio will solo with both groups and perform with his quartet to finish the evening.

Help Cleveland musicians prepare for the Starlight Parade!  Sign up here for a shift in April to help with marching band uniform fittings. We have two slots we still need to fill:

• Thursday, April 7 from 11:50 am – 2:45 pm
• Tuesday, April 12 from 10:00 am –11:45 am

No sewing experience is necessary. A lead volunteer will guide the process each day.  If you are not yet registered with PPS to volunteer, please visit this website to confirm your COVID vaccine and complete a background check.

Sign up for Uniform Fitting Volunteer

The PPS All-City Honor Band will be hosted at Cleveland HS and 24 Cleveland band students will be participating!!

The event starts Friday morning April 8th and the concert will be Saturday, April 9th. Here is a link with all of the pertinent information.

Students in Symphonic and Concert Band (including percussionists for those bands) were handed permission slips for the band’s trip to West Linn HS on Thursday, April 21st.

Those will be due Tuesday, April 5th.  Please look for those if you have not seen one yet. Here is a link to the Band Website page called “Docs & Forms” with digital versions of the permission slip AND the letter/itinerary.  You will need to scroll down to find them.

Three parent volunteers are needed to ride the bus and spend the day at West Linn High School on Thursday, April 21. Volunteers must have a background check and COVID vaccination on file with the district, which can be completed here.

As the band prepares their music for the OSAA State Band Championships, Mr. Riler have enlisted a fantastic resource to work with them this Friday, April 1st for a scheduled evening rehearsal from 6:00 – 8:00pm.

Stuart Welsh is the band director at West Albany High School. They have won the 5A Championship several times, and placed in the top 5 of the 6A division a couple times when they were in the 6A division. He has done “Enigma” with his band at West Albany (that is who Mr. Riler borrowed the music from). He is an incredible educator, and we can’t wait to watch him work with our ensemble.

The students did a great job in the reading session, and Mr. Riler believes with some sectional work, this clinic, and familiarizing themselves with the piece (listening to recordings), they will have a wonderful set for STATE!