Music

About Composition Clubs

West Coast Fiddleheads:

Nearly half of our school population is involved in our music programming, which includes Concert Band, Jazz Band, Guitar, Glee, Show Choir, and Musical Theatre.

5 song EP featuring 11 students and community members from the Kitasoo Community High School class in Klemtu, BC. In collaboration with and produced by artist Milan André.

Niagara Elementary Instrumental Music is an extra curricular music program for all elementary students within the DSBN.

We offer in-school classes for the following instruments: 

As a master percussionist, Fana will introduce traditional playing techniques of the djembé, West Africa’s most popular drum, as well as other hand-held percussion instruments. He will share call and response in various languages native to northern Ivory Coast.

In a group songwriting experience, students explore and celebrate the things that make their classrooms unique by writing and recording their own classroom songs. Gary also helps schools compose ‘theme’ songs.

Baque de Bamba is an Afro-Brazilian percussion group based in Toronto, founded in 2009 by Brazilian percussion artist and JUNO-nominated singer-songwriter Aline Morales. We perform Afro rhythms originating in the northeast of Brazil.

Kamancello, comprised of Shahriyar Jamshidi (kamanche) and Raphael Weinroth-Browne (cello) blurs musical genre conventions with their highly evocative improvised performances.

This choral project mixes a folk song from China's Xinjiang province (called "Yan zi" 燕子 or little swallow} with the folk song "She's Like a Swallow" from Newfoundland, Canada. The piece - written for SSATB (or SSSAA) and string orchestra - was composed by Dr.