Hello band students,
Don't forget that registrations for the MHS Band solo/ensemble festival on January 29th are DUE TODAY. Please fill out the form tonight if you intend to participate in solo/ensemble this year.
I will keep the form open through the weekend for late registrations in case you encounter any difficulties. On Monday, I will send a separate link to register for the WSMA festival on February 29th.
Mr. V
Hello band families,
1. Fruit Delivery Day
THANK YOU to all students and parents who volunteered for this weekend's delivery day. Even though it was our first time taking orders online and doing delivery day in the new space, the day went super smoothly thanks to all of our volunteers. Special thanks to our fruit chairs, Shannon Schaefer and Lisa White, and to our webmaster, Danielle Boorstein, who really made the day run smoothly.
2. Extra Fruit
We have just a few leftover items for sale. Contact Mr. Kurr (skurr@mcpasd.k12.wi.us) if interested to see what might be left.
3. Solo & Ensemble Registrations DUE FRIDAY
Our solo & ensemble festival is coming up soon! Make sure you're practicing your solo as well as any ensembles that you are participating in. Registrations for our festival are due Friday. Click here to register!
There will be a separate form sent out and due after break for the WSMA festival in February. (I didn't want to confuse anyone by sending it now...)
4. No Jazz Rehearsal 12/20
There will be no jazz rehearsal during the short week next week.
5. Jazz Concert Reminder
Don't forget that our annual winter jazz concert will take place on January 14th! For various COVID-related reasons, this year's event will be held in the PAC and without dinner. Performer dress code is all black. Concert begins at 7:30 and students report at the following times for sound check:
Seven o' clock -- report at 6:15
Jazz Orchestra -- report at 6:30
Cardinal Big Band & Jazz Lab -- report at 6:45
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Michael Ver Voort
Middleton High School
(608) 829-9680
Halie Silverman-Brown is currently a Madison freelance player and educator and was formerly principal trumpet of the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and San Juan Symphony. She completed her Bachelors in Trumpet Performance at the Eastman School of Music in 2008 and Masters of Music at Louisiana State University, where she studied with Brian Shaw and was a teaching assistant and performed in orchestras, big bands, and ensembles of all types. Silverman-Brown has performed with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and with the LSU School of Music brass faculty, Spacecoast Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Sanibel Island Ensemble, Miami Players Ensemble, Rocky Mountain Brass Band, The New Sousa Band, Univision, and continues to freelance and perform throughout the country and now the Midwest. Long interested in international trumpet study, Silverman-Brown traveled to Europe in 2007 to work with Ole Edvard Antonsen in Norway and Bruce Rhoten and Bob Platte in Germany. In the summer of 2008, she was invited to attend the Chosen Vale Music Seminar, a workshop featuring renowned trumpeters from around the world. Silverman-Brown has performed Alexander Goedicke’s Concert Etude at Louisiana State University, the Music in the Mountains Festival in Colorado, with the Symphony of Toys at Meyerson Symphony Hall in Dallas, and on National Public Radio’s From The Top, a radio show featuring talented young musicians. Her major teachers include James Thompson, Bob Earley, and Michael Hesse. She has also studied with Mark Gould, Ed Caroll, Gabriele Cassone, Stephen Burns, Markus Stockhausen, Thomas Stevens, Tony Plog, and Scott Ramsey. Silverman-Brown has held teaching positions at San Juan Community College in Farmington, NM, North Broward Prep in Coconut Creek, FL, Miami School of the Arts, and is currently a trumpet instructor for the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School district. Members of her studio have studied at Baylor University, The Frost School of Music, Boston Conservatory, Arizona State University, Eastman School of Music, UW Madison, George Washington University and are consistently awarded music scholarships and performance opportunities.
