Guest Artist | Drake Trio
It was a pleasure to have the Drake Trio on campus yesterday to share a morning of chamber music with our students. Dr. Sidon (Cello), Dr. Roth (Piano), and Professor Padilla (Clarinet) performed a number of chamber works for our orchestra classes during third and fourth period.
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Many thanks to the Drake University Music Department for making their visit possible. Thank you!

Fall Performance Assessments
The Fall (2018) Performance Assessment Packet has been included below. As a reminder, performance assessments are undertaken at the beginning of the year as a means of determining the current abilities of our orchestral ensemble members.

The schedule for performance assessments is as follows:

• Violins - September 19, 20, 21
• Violas & Celli - September 26, 27, 28
• Basses - September 25

Etudes have been selected with the intent of reinforcing positive performance habits.

Resources
A number of wonderful online resources exist to assist students in preparing. Specifically, students may access stringskills.com for scale assistance, utilize the Habits of a Successful String Musician texts that are available in class, and play along with both Spotify and YouTube playlists of intonation drones.

Spotify Playlist | Intonation Drones

YouTube Playlist | Intonation Drones

String Camp (2018)
Our 5th Annual Mira Mesa Summer String Camp is officially in the books. Thanks, everyone!

String Camp | Day Four
​These wonderfully accomplished and serious musicians would like to invite you to their camp-culminating performance tomorrow.
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The concert will take place at 1:00 PM here at Mira Mesa High School. Admission to the performance is free and will feature a variety of works for both the larger string ensemble and smaller student-led chamber ensembles. Featured composers include Mozart, Shostakovich, and Vivaldi, among others.

​See you there!