6th Annual Fiddle Festival Concert
Creative, Performing, Media Arts (CPMA)
5050 Conrad Avenue, 92117
Friday, November 16, 2018
Concert 7:00pm
Fifty three violin, viola, and cello students from eleven elementary schools, ten middle/K8 schools and six high schools will all come together this Friday night, November 16th to perform at the district’s 6th annual “Fiddle Festival.” The concert is sponsored by the Visual & Performing Arts department and will be held at the performing arts center at the Creative, Performing Media Arts School beginning at 7:00pm.
Music teachers Steven Luchs and Brianna Valeska along with other VAPA elementary music teachers have engaged these highly motivated students in weekly rehearsals leading up to the concert. Both Luchs and Valeska have a wealth of experience teaching the art of playing the violin and are excited to be preparing these fine young fiddlers for the show.
Appearing midway through the concert will be a special guest student performance by the well-known “Gypsy Jazz Quartet.” This impressive group of students from Mission Bay High School will perform a variety of traditional show tunes. Gypsy Jazz Quartet is under the musical direction of Mission Bay music teacher, JeanPaul (JP)Balmat, and has been featured at numerous school and community events all throughout the district.
Schools participating in the 6th annual Fiddle Festival are: Bird Rock elementary, Challenger middle school, Creative, Performing & Media Arts, Crown Point Jr. Music Academy, De Portola middle school, Dingeman elementary, Doyle elementary, EB Scripps elementary, Ericson elementary, Fay elementary, Grant K8, Hickman elementary, High Tech High Media Arts, Knox middle school, Lewis middle school, Marston middle school, Mason elementary, Morse high school, Mt. Everest Academy, Muirlands middle school, Pacific Beach middle school, Sandburg elementary, Scripps Ranch high school, San Diego high school, Silver Gate elementary, Standley middle school, and University City high school.
