It was a golden weekend for band students from École Glenbrook Middle School.
The school’s Grade 8 band made a trip to Whistler for the 2019 Whistler Cantando Festival, April 26 to 28.
The festival brought together more than 2,000 band and choir students from B.C. and Alberta. Students had a chance to take part in workshops on their instruments, as well as hearing professional jazz and concert band ensembles.
They also had a chance to play for adjudicators – and the local students earned themselves a “gold” award for their performance.
Teacher Peter Zaenker noted the adjudicators praised the group’s energy, intonation and repertoire choices in their performance, which included four concert band pieces.
The band included 44 students: six percussionists, one mallet percussionist, two bassists (electric and upright), two baritones, one trombone, five trumpets, four tenor saxes, eight alto saxes, one bass clarinet, one oboe, four clarinets and eight flutes.
“Students were blessed with good weather for the weekend, undertook a brisk hike around Lost Lake as a group and made lasting memories together in the process,” Zaenker said in an email.
