Music

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SPSV WINS SWEEPSTAKES!

After a two-year COVID absence, SPSV Music returned to the competition scene. On April 9, 2022, three of our groups (Choristers, Women’s Choir, Wind Ensemble) participated in the WorldStrides OnStage Heritage Festival in San Francisco. Twelve groups from seven different high schools from across California performed. In the end, SPSV won the top prize: Sweepstakes Award for Best Overall Program.

Sweepstakes is given to the school earning the highest combined score for all its performing groups. It was truly a group effort from all of our singers and instrumentalists. In addition, Emma Boyle (Class of 2024) won the Maestro Award for her solo during the Women’s Choir performance.

Choristers

SPSV Choristers is an audition-only mixed choir. Capable of learning and performing complex, 4- to 8-part choral music, students sing with proper diction, breathing, and vocal technique. Students develop their music reading skills, learning music on their own with the aid of part recordings. Students work together, take pride in their achievements, and share their accomplishments with the community through concert performances and regional, national, and international festivals.

Recent Awards and Recognition

WorldStrides OnStage Heritage Festival, San Francisco 2022

Sweepstakes Award
2nd place, Silver Rating

WorldStrides OnStage Heritage Festival, Anaheim 2019

2nd place, Silver Rating
Maestro Awards: Audrey Rafols, Cory Hamilton

Vocal Jazz

Vocal jazz is an advanced, audition-by-invitation-only choir. It is a small ensemble, made up of 8 to 12 singers, capable of performing complex arrangements of vocal jazz music.

Recent Awards and Recognition

WorldStrides OnStage Heritage Festival, Anaheim 2019

Silver Rating

Women’s Choir

This extra-curricular choir is open to all female students. Students learn to read music through practical application, and the choir performs regularly at school concerts and competitions.

Recent Awards and Recognition

WorldStrides OnStage Heritage Festival, San Francisco 2022

Silver Rating

WorldStrides OnStage Heritage Festival, Anaheim 2019

Gold Rating

Concert Choir

This class is open to all students. Singers learn to sing with proper diction, breathing, and vocal technique. Students become more disciplined in their approach to music, singing, and other aspects of their lives. Students learn to read music through practical application and through learning basic music theory. Students learn and develop an appreciation for a variety of styles of music in a variety of languages. This group performs regularly at school concerts and functions.

Men's Choir

This extra-curricular choir is open to all male students. Students learn to read music through practical application, and the choir performs regularly at school concerts and functions.

Instrumental Music

This class aims to expose students to the foundational principals, concepts, and mechanics of collaborative music through the applied medium of a wind ensemble. Students will become proficient in the pillars of music, including a sound understanding of musical structure and notation, deciphering of basic rhythms, and the individual techniques of applied instruments and their roles in the ensemble. With emphasis on personal accountability, students will become proficient in the skills of musical preparation, personal practice techniques, ensemble rehearsal techniques and etiquette, as well as understanding the historical and contextual settings of performance material. The Wind Ensemble will give a minimum of two concerts each school year. Additional performances may be seasonal, competitive, or in support of other organizations and/or functions within the school.