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HS Fine Arts Winners

Mr. Pelt — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:24:44 +0000

In February, HS band students competed for the annual Fine Arts competition. Students played solos and small ensembles for a guest judge and received ratings and feedback. This years winners were:

1st: Taylor Bryant, flute

2nd: Bryant Beal, clarinet

3rd: Shelly Ditchfield and Charity Floyde, clarinet

HS Band Trip to Cleveland, OH

Mr. Pelt — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:59:05 +0000

Members of the HS band traveled to Cleveland during the weekend of Feb. 18-20. The students saw the sights and performed at several venues, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
Read more about the trip

School Year 2010-11

Mr. Pelt — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:05:00 +0000

We’ve had a great start to a new school year. I am pleased to be back at Timothy, and am very pleased to see so many familiar faces returning to the band program.

Each member of band should have received several handouts. First is our grading policy for the school year. Each student earns a grade in band by accumulating points in several categories.
Download: Grading-Policy_2010.PDF

Part of each student’s grade is individual practice outside of class. Practice Charts must be filled out and turned in every week. Information regarding this policy is always available on this website under Practice Charts.
Download: practice-chart-procedures-2010.PDF

Also important are our concerts for the school year. All performances are mandatory, so please get the dates on your family’s calendar ASAP.
Download: Band-Concert-letter-2010.PDF

I will be periodically sending out email communication. Please be sure to update your email address with the school and with me personally so that you don’t miss anything.

Mr. Pelt

Fine Arts Winners Announced

Mr. Pelt — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:19:22 +0000

Congratulations to the participants in the Fine Arts Festival. The 1st place winners were the Mozart Quintet of Julia Pattison, Ana DeJong, Abby Helmus, Chelsea Bardolph, and Will Roelofs.

Second place was awarded to the clarinet duet of Abby Helmus and Julie Schram.

Ana DeJong also won 3rd place for her oboe solo, and a horn quartet won 4th place with Vesper Moods.

Concert Dates for 2009-10

Mr. Pelt — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:37:48 +0000

High School
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:30p – Band/Orchestra Concert
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 7:30p – Band/Orchestra Concert
Monday, May 10, 2010 7:30p – Band/Orchestra Concert

Grades 7-8
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 7:00p – MS Band/Orchestra/Choir Concert
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 7:00p – MS Band/Orchestra/Choir Concert
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:00p – MS Band/Orchestra/Choir Concert

Grades 5-6
Monday, December 7, 2009 7:00p – 5th-6th Band/Orchestra Concert
Monday, May 24, 2010 7:00p – 5th-6th Band/Orchestra Concert

TC Band plays “The Little Mermaid”

Mr. Pelt — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:16:18 +0000

While at Walt Disney World, the TC Symphonic Band had an incredible clinic where we got to find out what it is like to be a professional musician in a recording studio. This video is what we came out of it with…after a little rehearsal, we put our music to the movie. The results aren’t perfect (they are only HS kids) but cool nonetheless. Just click on the link. Enjoy!!!!!

“TC Band does Little Mermaid”

The TC band tours Disney!!!!!

Mr. Pelt — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:06:49 +0000

Keep up with the Timothy Band by going to our trip blog. Click on the link TC Florida Trip Blog

Becky Visser 3rd chair in state!!!!!!!

Mr. Pelt — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:04:37 +0000

Becky Visser selected 3rd chair All-State Honor Band

TC clarinetist/bass clarinetist/tenor sax player Becky Visser recently auditioned and placed third in the state’s Honors band. Third chair is the highest any TC student has ever gotten in classical music. Becky wrote this about her awesome weekend…
“On January 29-31 I had the pleasure of going to Peoria Illinois for the 2009 IMEA All-State convention. While I was there I auditioned and was chosen as the 3rd chair bass clarinet player for the All-State Honor Band, which is the highest level band that a high school student can be in. While I was there I thought that playing for 10 hours a day would be very draining but it was actually very exciting and I never got sick of playing with all the best kids in the state. Our conductor, Mark Camphouse was an amazing conductor and just by looking at him conduct it was so easy to feel the emotion of the music and apply it to the songs we were playing. He had a very good way of squeezing every little bit of musicianship out of all of us. It was a weekend filled with music that I have never experienced before, and will never forget about. I hope that I can someday be in another ensemble as sophisticated as last weekend.”
Congrats Becky!!!!!!!

TC Band watches Obama speech….

Mr. Pelt — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:58:28 +0000

The TCHS band took some time out to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration speech yesterday. This is unrelated to band except for the fact that prior to the speech, there was one of the most amazingly beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. It was arrranged especially for the occasion by John Williams, composer of fantastic movie soundtracks for “Star Wars”, “Indiana Jones”, “Jaws”, the “Olympic Theme”, “Harry Potter”, and almost any other recognizeable movie music you can think of. It featured a quartet of cello (Yo-Yo Ma), violin (Itzhak Perlman), clarinet (Anthony McGill), and piano (Gabriela Montero). It was incredible. I would normally put something like this in my director’s blog, but it was so good I wanted everyone to see it.

The Sixth Grade Band works with Doug Pelt

Mr. Pelt — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:37:04 +0000

On Saturday, December 6th, the Sixth Grade Band got to work with Doug Pelt, an elementary band director in the northern suburbs of Chicago. (and one of Mr. Schoenbach’s best friends) He worked with the band on their music for their upcoming Christmas concert, helping bring out the subtleties of the music and giving them a fresh point of view. The kids were very receptive and attentive. Our concert is Monday, December15th.

For more pictures, see the “pictures” link in the sixth grade band page.