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GREAT JOB Chamber Groups – EVERYONE

We have a GREAT DAY Friday!
You can click on the masked results and notice that Cleveland HS band students earned 5 trophies!  Including State Champions – The Five Stars (Woodwind Quintet)

Chamber group members, be sure you take the time to share your gratitude to your coaches that have provided valuable input to your successful performances.

HERE ARE THE MASKED RESULTS

Detroit Pistons Brass Sextet was 4th
Horn Trilogy was 7th
AR Flute Duet was 8th
Trustworthy Strangers Perc Duet was 9th
Symphonic Sax Quintet was 12th
Squidward Large Perc was 14th

Congratulations!
Gary Riler

State Solo Roundup

We witnessed some amazing performances from our 12 state solo participants.  It is an amazing honor to have the opportunity to be a participant at this event, and they all deserve recognition one more time!

Annecy Rice (Flute)
Sebastian Bernard (Oboe)
Maya Faulhaber (Oboe)
Vince Randol (Bassoon)
Tate Robert (Bassoon)
Avery Wiesler (Trumpet)
Barrett Oilar (Horn)
Remi Vasquez (Horn)
Tai Friel (Trombone)
Nathan Julian (Tuba)
Eli Amundson (String Bass)
Jesse Broderick (Rudimental Snare)

I also want to recognize some of our students that were recognized for their stellar performance today.
Jesse Broderick (Rudimental Snare) 2nd Place
Nathan Julian (Tuba) 3rd Place
Tate Robert (Bassoon) 3rd Place
Sebastian Bernard (Oboe) 4th Place
Maya Faulhaber (Oboe) 5th Place

Just missing receiving a medal were the following:
Vince Randol (Bassoon) 6th Place
Eli Amundson (String Bass) 6th Place
Avery Wiesler (Trumpet) 7th Place

What an amazing couple days for the Cleveland Band!!!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
More opportunities to come…
State Jazz – May 9
State Band – May 17

Musically Yours,
Gary Riler

FOCB Meeting and Board Elections TONIGHT! Monday, May 5

The next FOCB board meeting is tonight, Monday, May 5th at 6:30 pm.

If you’re interested in getting involved with us and help support our band program, this meeting is the perfect opportunity to get plugged in! Someone will be at the back entrance gate on SE 28th just before 6:30 pm to let you in. Email info@clevelandbandspdx.com for more information.

We will be electing new board members for the 2025-26 school year. Open positions and candidates to fill them are:

President: Laurel Walker
Vice President: Kris Carlson
Secretary: Tayler Kim
Treasurer: Khamille Neumann

We will also elect other board members, and the full slate up for election will be shared at the meeting.

The meeting is open to everyone who wants to attend.

The Band Merchandise Store is Having a Spring Cleaning Sale

SquadLocker, who hosts our merchandise site, is having a sale. Some items are 25% off, no promotional code is required.

To keep the prices low we do add any surcharges to our merchandise store, therefore purchases do not financially benefit the band. T-shirts, hoodies, fleece and flannel pants, and a beanie are currently available.

Shop here at the Cleveland Band Merchandise Store

The National Band Association awards Cleveland HS Band

Last week the National Band Association bestowed the Program of Excellence Blue Ribbon Award to the Cleveland HS Bands. Our band was one of 10 high school bands in the nation that were recognized for this level of accomplishment.

The NBA Programs of Excellence initiative recognizes quality programs at all levels. Those programs and educators which challenge students and promote standards of excellence will be honored nationally through this initiative.

This award will be presented at a concert sometime in the future this school year.

Congratulations to all of the students that have passed through this program the last five years.  Recordings, concert programs, literature performance lists and achievements from the last three to five years of this program were requested by the NBA in determining if our program was worthy of this award.

It has been (and continues to be) an honor to work with all of the amazing students and families at Cleveland HS!

Musically Yours,
Gary Riler