Jazz Band is available for musicians in Grades 9 – 12. Placements into this class are made by auditions, which take place after school by instrument classification (brass, saxophone and rhythm section). Auditions will take place the week after Spring Break. This class is considered an intermediate jazz course.
2016-2017 Highlights
Spring Jazz Concert – Tuesday May 16 @ 7pm in PAC
Jazz Audition Results for 2017 – 2018
These results are posted as the outcome from the audition process. All students must make sure they completed all the criteria that is expected of them to be involved in the Jazz program. Failure to complete any criteria may result in the forfeit of your position in the Jazz program. Due to lack incoming students on wind instruments, the Jazz Band Class has been cancelled for 2017-2018
Alto Saxophone
Corinne Smith
Shreyas Rao
Liam Multhaup
Tenor Saxophone
Colton Sawires
Surya Shultes
Baritone Saxophone
Memet de Carion
Emily House
Trumpet
Ethan Pires
Justin Rueb
Evan Lacey
Adam Martin
Trombone
Andrew Hanze
Kyler Fung
Joe Vindasius
Guitar
Sam Gazarian
Matthew Swida
Bass
Dominic Dalenberg
Ce-Lai Fong
Imogen Serle
Piano
Kathy Shi
Michelle Gurovith
Drums
Nico Bianchi
Charlie Nickerson
SRVHS Invitational Jazz Festival – Saturday December 10
Thank you to all the Wolf-Tones volunteers that helped to make the Jazz Festival run smoothly and allowed everyone to enjoy the excellent music showcased!
Central California Band Review Update – Saturday November 12
The SRVHS Jazz Program and Marching Wolves participated in the Central California Band and Jazz Competition on Saturday in Merced.
(It was kind of entertaining to see all of these musicians at 5:45 AM dressed in concert clothes!)
Our competition times were spread out over 5 hours: It was great to have the marching program cheering for the jazz program and the jazz program cheering for the marching program in the competition!
Our Jazz groups compete by high school enrollment; In order to avoid having our Intermediate Jazz Band competition against our Advance Jazz Ensemble, they bumped the advance group up a division – where they competed against schools with a significantly higher enrollment.
Our Program is pleased to announce the following:
- Jazz Band won a 3rd place award.
- Ethan Pires (9th grade, Trumpet) received an Outstanding Musician Award!
- Jazz Ensemble won a 2nd place award.
- Corinne Smith (11th grade, Alto Sax) received an Outstanding Musician Award!
- Our Marching Wolves won a 2nd place award.
- Our Drum Major, Eric Michaud, won a 3rd place Military Drum Major Award!
2016-2017 Jazz Band
