Concert Bands
Northview Wind Symphony (Adv Band)
The Wind Symphony is the premier wind band and is comprised of primarily upperclassmen students and selection into this ensemble is by audition only. Performers in the Wind Symphony perform the widest selection of wind literature which include transcriptions/arrangements of choral and orchestral literature, and music of different time periods dating as far back to the 1850s. The Wind Symphony performs music at grades 3-4 from a scale of 1-5.
Northview Symphonic Band (Int Band)
The Symphonic Band is usually comprised of freshman and sophomore students with prior playing experience or students on secondary instruments. Students in the Symphonic Band perform music that builds their individual performance and further enhances their performance ability. The Symphonic Band performs music at grades 2-3 from of a scale of 1-5.
Northview Concert Band (Beg Band)
The Concert Band is a non-auditioned ensemble that is comprised of students with limited to no prior experience playing music. This ensemble focuses on the fundamentals of music such as rhythm and note reading, tone production, and ensemble playing. A limited performance schedule is set to focus on fundamentals instead of performance.
About the concert bands
The concert bands perform regularly throughout the year which includes on campus concerts and rated festivals. At the end of the year in May, all the Northview students perform together with the middle school and elementary schools for a concert.
These ensembles perform in the following performances:
Winter Concert - On campus concert featuring holiday music and standard wind literature
Rated Festivals - Off campus performances for judges and a rating is given based on the quality of the performance. Literature selection is from an approved list of "academic" music and a superior is the highest rating that can be earned. Festivals can include a workshop with a guest clinician or a rating based on the sight-reading ability of the ensemble.
Retrofest - On campus performance of selected students that features all of Northview's visual and performing arts program which surveys a different decade of the arts. The performing arts students perform music from that selected decade and visual arts students create artwork.
Spring Concert - On campus concert to finish the school year and is a culmination of the skills and techniques the students have learned the entire year. Literature selection includes standard both standard and non traditional repertoire.
APU Concert - Final concert of the year which includes Las Palmas Middle School, Cypress, Manzanita, and Merwin Elementary schools. Concert is held at Azusa Pacific University and showcases the entirety of the Northview track in the Covina-Valley School District. Each high school has their own concert featuring the music programs in their track.
Graduation - Freshman, sophomore, and junior students perform for the graduating senior class!
Past performances from Northview's concert bands
Northview Wind Symphony
Winter Concert 2019 - "Companion Of My Voice"
Northview Symphonic Band
Spring Concert 2018