GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PROGRAMS

WELCOME to the online home for all Grandview Heights instrumental music programs, including the GHHS marching and concert bands, jazz ensemble, and orchestra, as well as the middle school band and orchestra. We are glad you're here!
The Grandview Heights Band Parents Association maintains this site, and provides financial, volunteer, and programming support for all Grandview Heights instrumental students in Grades 5 through 12.
Interested in donating? Click the yellow "donate" button above. To become a sponsor, click here.

TIME TO GET READY FOR
BAND CAMP!

Families, please click here for all the details relating to the GHHS Marching Band's 2023 Band Camp at Otterbein University. Pre-camp rehearsals begin on July 17, and Band Camp will be June 23-30. WE CAN'T WAIT!

Forms and Payment are due by June 30.And don't forget to visit the signupgenius to volunteer to help!

GO BOBCATS!

(Updated May 23, 2023)

CONGRATULATIONS, 2023 SQUAD LEADERS!

Mrs. Olis recently announced Squad Leader appointments for the 2023 edition of the GHHS Marching Band. These students are selected based on their leadership, attitude, and musicianship, and will play an important role in helping shape and develop the Marching Band and lead their peers before and during the rigors of marching season. The Band Parents Association is thrilled to congratulate the following GHHS MB Squad Leaders for 2023:

Way to go Bobcats, we are looking forward to a great year!

(Updated May 23, 2023)

A GREAT DAY FOR OUR SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE MUSICIANS!

Saturday May 6 was an amazing day filled with learning, team building, and fun for our seventh and eighth grade band and orchestra students. They began their day at GHHS, where the two groups (orchestra and band) met separately with professional adjudicators - local music educators who were hired to observe our students performing and then provide feedback and coaching. Each group performed several full music pieces while their adjudicators listened carefully and took notes, and then each adjudicator spent time with the student groups providing detailed feedback on the performances. Opportunities like this, to perform for and learn from instructors other than the same ones they see on the daily, can really help broaden and strengthen our young musicians' skills and abilities. And our students rose to the challenge and performed well, and engaged constructively in the feedback opportunity!

After the hard work of the day was over, the students boarded school buses and headed off to King's Island for the rest of the day. This part of the day was mostly for fun and a nearly-end-of-year celebration, but it was also planned in recognition of the fact that these two grade levels of students were the ones who were "just starting out" as instrumentalists when the pandemic hit, so they had to endure a lot of interruptions and challenges to their developing music careers. Our directors wanted to recognize and reward those efforts, and say thanks to our students for working so hard and sticking it out!

A day like this does not come together without a whole lot of contributors, and the GHBPA would like to say a particular thank you to all of the following:

Our middle school directors Thomas Stanley and Scott Heath, and interim director Dr. Julie Vish, who worked so hard to make this day a reality;
Our professional adjudicators Danny Gleich (band) and Andrea Tippery (orchestra), who showed up at our school before 8am on a Saturday morning just to work with our students;
Our volunteer chaperones Dave Barber, Oliver Decker, Beth Francis, Kelsey Lozano, Elizabeth McCusker, and Bob Rutter, as well as Mr. Stanley and Mr. Heath, who went along to King's Island and helped make sure our students had a safe, fun day at the park;
Shawn Hinkle and the Grandview Heights Schools, who supported the effort and underwrote the costs of bussing to and from the park;
all of YOU for your contributions to GHBPA fundraising, which underwrote the fees paid to our adjudicators;
our students' families for financially supporting the rest of the day's costs (park admission, food, and other purchases at the park);
Mother Nature for providing practically perfect weather, with no rain and pleasant temperatures throughout the day; and last but CERTAINLY not least
our seventh and eighth grade band and orchestra students who made us incredibly proud in both venues - first by embracing and taking the performance and feedback opportunity very seriously at school, and then by using good judgment and behavior while being allowed to run semi-wild at the amusement park.

What a special, special day for our students! The GHBPA is tremendously grateful for everyone who had a hand in making it happen! Be sure to check out the photo albums to see photos you may have missed if you aren't a member of our Facebook group, including new ones that came in too late to be posted.

(Updated May 7, 2023)

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SCHEDULE SNAPSHOT

Remember this is just the highlights! A full band department calendar is available here, and orchestra calendar details are available here.

MAY
25 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
Blue Star Mothers event
27 Grandview Heights Memorial Day Parade
28 Graduation!
JUNE
15 GH Band Parents Association meeting
30 BAND CAMP FORMS AND PAYMENT DUE
JULY
17 Pre-Camp rehearsals begin (GHHS MB)
23-30 BAND CAMP! (GHHS MB)

Items in italics are other GH performing arts group performances. We share them here for your information and convenience, and because they often involve our GH instrumental music students as well! More details for these events are available by clicking here.

(Updated May 23, 2023)

SATURDAY PERFORMANCE PHOTO ALBUM

KING's ISLAND FIELD TRIP PHOTO ALBUM

THANK YOU TO OUR CAKE WALK SPONSORS

An amazing number of local businesses offered gift cards, cakes, and other goods and services for us to auction at our highly successful spring Cake Walk fundraiser, including: Start Talking Grandview, La Tavola, La Chatelaine, Pistacia Vera, Sadie Baby Sweets, Paul’s Kitchen, Chocolate Cafe, Sweet Carrot, Kroger, Aladdin’s, DK Diner, Cakes & More, Whole Foods Market, The Original Goodie Shop, Z Cucina, Golightly Bake Shop, Pure Imagination, Chocolatier, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Lion Cub’s Cookies, Figlio, Dewey’s Pizza, Watershed Distillery, Bobcat Sports Bar, Third & Hollywood, Krema Nut Company, Modo Yoga, and Little Ladies Soft Serve.

We encourage you all to stop in and say "thank you" as well, to let them know how much the community appreciates their support of our students. And one more big thanks goes out to Band Parent Jenni Betz for spearheading the effort to gather these sponsorships.

(Updated May 7, 2023)

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