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Gilbert High School is a thrilling place to perform, study, and create music. It’s a great place to sing! With over 230 students involved in five choirs, collaborations with the other performing arts areas, musical stage productions, many varied opportunities for performance and education, tours and festivals, and support from our administration and parents, the Gilbert High Choirs have become some of the finest high school ensembles in the nation. We are proud of the choral program and invite you to explore, get involved, and support our choirs and music education!
GHS Choir Mission
- Provide an experience-based education, balanced between performance and academics that fosters a love and appreciation for singing, for choral music, and for the arts in general.
- Pursue the highest musical standards that enrich our students’ lives, our audience, and our community.
- Study, sing, perform a variety of music ranging from the classic choral tradition, world musics, popular and show music, and jazz.
- Pursue excellence both musical and personal.
- Provide personalized vocal and musical instruction that focuses on building individual talent and esteem, musicianship, as well as group success.
- To cultivate an environment where personal development, discovery and creativity can lead to professional/collegiant career choices in music.
- Create and foster a corporate environment in which students are safe, contribute to, thrive in, and benefit from being with other committed students.
- Participate in local, regional, and national music events for edification, assessment, and visibility.
- Value culture and diversity through the enrichment of music.
Simply put...
"I want every student to learn what it feels like to create something
beautiful or interesting, or exciting, or thought-provoking through singing.
I want them to be immersed in music in a manner in which they can get beyond
the basics of note reading and experience what was intended by the composers.
This means that they have to become accountable for all that IS basic (right
notes, rhythms, notation, pitch, tone, style, etc.) so that they can surpass
this and experience the music. I want students to become independent
musicians by learning to READ music. I want students to CARE about
excelling. I want them to desire something so much they WANT to perfect it.
I want them to know what it is like to WORK at something until it is close
to perfect. I want them to know the JOY that can come from doing this with
other singers. I want them to KNOW, to FEEL, to THINK, and to PERFORM to
the very best of their ability."
~ Dr. Spencer
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