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Toronto Catholic District School Board

Band

The Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts Music Department is dynamic, energetic and always busy!

 

Our music students perform many times in the year in school based concerts at Christmas and in the spring. We also frequently perform outside of the school in large groups, small groups, at music festivals and competitions, and nationally and internationally on our biannual music trips.
 
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There are 5 rehearsal classrooms, 3 practice studios and our state of the art, professional theatre, but you’ll find Carter music students practicing their music all over the school, wherever there’s a little space!
 
Liturgical Music
As a Catholic community, we have monthly Liturgies and Para- liturgies and the Music Department is a big part of these celebrations, with the choir, small instrumental ensembles and vocal and instrumental soloists having opportunities to lead the community in prayer through music every month.
 
Musical Theatre
The CCAA community has produced and presented amazing musical, including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2018), Guys and Dolls (1995), Oklahoma! (1998) The Music Man (2002) Seussical (the Musical) (2005), Crazy for You (2007), Footloose (2009), Les Misérables (2011) and Legally Blonde (2013). The Music Department is an integral part of these productions, with many string, brass, woodwind and percussion players playing in the Pit Orchestra. Many vocal students have earned leading roles and many more sing in the cast and chorus for these productions. Some instrumental students expand their horizons and dance, and sing and act as well.
 
Instrumental Band
In all instrumental music courses, students learn music theory, music history, listening, dictation, ear training and the performance of repertoire, studies, chamber music, technique and solos. There is opportunity to compose and arrange music, attend performances throughout the city as field trips and plan and perform in your own solo recital as a senior student.
 
 
Brass woodwind and percussion instruments are taught in Instrumental Band classes, grades 7-12. All students are placed in a large performing ensemble:
 
Junior Winds plays repertoire at the 200-300 level
 
Intermediate Concert Winds plays repertoire at the 300-400 level
 
Senior Wind Symphony plays repertoire at the 500-600 level
 
Jazz Band with an open-training option as well as a core group
 
All students are placed in an ensemble according to their playing and reading ability,
regardless of age or grade. All bands participate in Music Festivals such as: the Ontario Band Association Concert Band Festival, the Kiwanis Music Festival, and the TCDSB Music Festival.

 

Awards Our ensembles participate yearly in OBA Concert Band Festival and the Kiwanis Music Festival.  The band department received over 15 first place awards in the Kiwanis Music Festival from 1992- 2005.  Here are some of the other awards they've received more recently:
 
2006                Gold Award    Woodwind Section of Excellence Award
2007                Gold Award    Brass Section of Excellence Award
2008                Gold Award    Woodwind Section of Excellence Award
2009                Gold Award    Brass & Percussion Sections of Excellence Awards
2010                Gold Award    Woodwind Section of Excellence Award
2011                Gold Award    Brass & Woodwind Sections of Excellence Awards
2012                Gold Award    Woodwind Section of Excellence Award
2013                Gold Award    Woodwind Section of Excellence Award, Overall Excellent   Ensemble Award
2014                 Gold Award   Brass Section of Excellence Award
2015                 Gold Award   Woodwind Section of Excellence Award, Overall Excellent   Ensemble Award
2016                  Gold Award   Woodwind Section of Excellence Award, Overall Excellent   Ensemble Award,  Kiwanis-Jazz Band 1st Place Provincial Final, 1st Place Challenge Class Provincial Finals, 1st Place
2017                  Gold Award   Woodwind Section of Excellence Award, Overall Excellent   Ensemble Award,  Kiwanis-Jazz Band 1st Place Provincial Final, Two 1st Place Challenge Class Provincial Finals
2018                  Gold Award   Woodwind Section of Excellence Award, Overall Excellent   Ensemble Award, Kiwanis-Jazz Band 1st Place
 
Jazz Program Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts has two extra curricular Jazz groups: a Big Band (Jazz Band),that plays jazz, big band swing, Latin fusion and improvised pieces, and Jazz Combo a smaller group that workshops its own arrangements and is highly improvisatory.  In the spring of 2017,  the Jazz Band worked with world reknowned conductor and adjudicator, Dr. Dale Lonis.
 
Band Tours The Wind Symphony has traveled nationally and internationally to perform and has received the following awards:
2006    Ottawa ON                  MusicFest National Finals                  Gold award
2007    Montréal QB               Rhythms International Festival           Superior (1st Place)
2008   New York NY               Heritage Music Festival        Gold Award & Best Ensemble 
2010    Chicago IL                  Heritage Music Festival        Gold Award & Best Ensemble 
2012    Cleveland OH            
2014    New York NY              Carnegie Hall Festival
2016    Washington DC          Rhythms International Festival            Superior (1st Place)
2018   Whistler, BC                 Cantando Music Festival

 


 
 
 
   
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