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ABODA State
Marching Band Championship

Division II:

Basha HS 82.25 1st

Chandler HS 80.25 2nd

Hamilton HS 73.85 3rd

Perry HS 73.68 4th

Mesa HS 72.81 5th

Chaparral HS 69.41 6th

Ironwood Ridge HS 65.25 7th

Sunrise Mountain HS 63.31 8th

Maryvale HS 63.0 9th

Deer Valley HS 60.62 10th

Superior at
State Festival

We received a Superior rating at the State Marching Band Festival! Highest scores were in General Effect where we scored a 92 out of 100! Amazing! A big thanks go out to Mark Richardson for amazing drill design, and Matt Cornwell for wonderful wind parts, and of course to our own Sean Mireau for excellent percussion parts!

Great Job at
AZ-PAS

Our Drumline received an Excellent Rating and Outstanding awards for Best Bass Drum Line and Best Front Ensemble (or Pit).

Superior in Tucson

Congratulations on a SUPERIOR rating and caption awards for:

Outstanding Music Performance
Outstanding Visual Performance
Outstanding Percussion
Outstanding General Effect

Band Camp 2012

Band Camp is scheduled for July 21-25 at Camp Shadow Pines in Heber, AZ. We have been approved for 100% tax credit eligible for our $255 cost for camp. This includes charter bus transportation, food, lodging, and facilities. Please pay your $255 to the Chaparral Bookstore by Friday June 8. Or you may be able to pay online through the district. Please contact Jill Stewart in our school bookstore for that information.

Here are the Band Camp permission slip, Booster letter and Medical Form.

California Pizza Kitchen Fundraiser on Tuesday, May 22
11am-10pm

You Must Bring This Flyer.
Click on the flyer for a printable version.

State Jazz Festival

This year the State Jazz Festival will be held at South Mountian HS. The festival is over 3 days and we are on the last day...May 4th.

Good Luck Jazz I.

Itinerary HERE

Superior and Best Overall Concert Band!

On Saturday March 3rd students from Chaparral's Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Percussion Ensemble, and Band Aux Corps performed as the Chaparral Concert Band in the 2012 "Music in the Parks Festival" in Yorba Linda, California. The Band performed two pieces and received an overall rating of SUPERIOR and after all the bands were judged the Concert Band from Chaparral also recieved the TOP HONOR in the Festival by recieving a trophy for "Best Concert Band" in the festival!!! Congratulations to everybody who came together to make the performance AMAZING!

Jazz I = 1st Place and
Overall TOP Jazz Band!
Jazz II = 3rd place in California!

Congratulations to Jazz I members for receiving TOP honors at the "Music in the Parks Festival" in Yorba Linda, California. 1st place and OVERALL BEST HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND! Coming back with 2 trophies!! Great Job!!!

Great Job to Chaparral Jazz II for putting on a wonderful performance.

Hard music, students on 2nd or 3rd instruments, few rehearsals the week of AIMS...and you did GREAT.

Congratulations!

Top 10 at State Championship

We have placed in the TOP 10 marching bands at the State Marching Festival and are now off to Championships! We are amoung the BEST marching bands in the State again this year, and we are performing in the State Championships at Glendale Community College Saturday November 12! We are the only marching band from our district to make it this year, and the only band from our district to place top 10 in every Championships since the event began in 2009. Chaparral is amoungst some tough competition this year. Other bands to qualify are; Basha, Chandler, Hamilton, Mesa, Maryvale, Perry, Ironwood Ridge, Sunrise Mountain, and Deer Valley.

Good Luck Firebird BAND!!!

First Place in
Las Vegas!!!

Great Job this past Saturday as we placed 1st at the "Summerlin Spectacular" in Las Vegas! We beat the other 3 bands in our division (AA) AND 3 of the 4 bands in the next highest division (AAA)! We also received the High Music Performance and High Visual Performance awards!!!

Congratulations!

Excellent Rating at NAU

Well, with only a couple rehearsals the weeks going into festival season Jazz I has begun its season with an Excellent Rating! Great Job everybody....on to California!

Grease...
A HUGE SUCCESS!!!

Great Job to all the students who performed in the Grease Musical! A special pat on the back goes to all the BAND students who were part of the production including Tech Crew member Ethan Berbaum, Cast Members; Austin Bloom, Devon Batista, Julieanna Morton, Sean Cain, Jonathan Whitby, and Pete Bradley, and of course the Amazing Grease Band; Kristen Puch, Jonathan Whitby, Matt Carey, Shivaan Kulanathan, Ausitn Gander, Ellie Macklin, Nolen Cook, Richard Laston, Chase Klyn, Adam Robb, Nicki Luhrs, Thomas Espe, Chaz Delph, Chris Zbonjiewicz, Josh Cannatelli, and Ben Wik. Special recognition to Chase Klyn who memorized "Jonny B Good" just one day before the show and then sang and played as the crowd joined in for a fun Sing-a-long!

The Gilbert Competition
HUGE Success

On Saturday October 1st we competed in the Gilbert Marching Competition.

We competed in Division II (Bands with 65-95 members) Out of the 9 bands in our division we placed 2nd! Scoring a 68.75 AND earning an Excellent rating to qualify us for this year's State Marching Festival - November 5th.

CONGRATULATIONS BAND!

If you want to see the point totals for all the bands in attendance see the Gilbert Results on the Links page or click HERE and view the video on the Gallery page.

2012 Jazz I Auditions Results

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING JAZZ I PERFORMERS FOR 2012!

Michael Larson, Shivaan Kulanathan, Ben Krakoff, Tal Eitan, Richard Laston, Josh Cannetelli, Connor Jennison, Matt Carey, Liz Boyd, Josh Monson, Jonathan Whitby, JC Besing, Jerry Weisbrod, Zach Wik, Elijah Weisbrod, Chaz Delph, Chase Klyn, Chris Lawrie, Mara Green, Brenna Wagy, Austin Gander, Ali Stockdell, Adam Robb, and Taylor Rowe.