Desert Winds Freedom Band Outreach Activities
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
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Each year the Band awards scholarships to deserving high school seniors and college students who graduated from a Coachella Valley High School who will be majoring in music while in college. To date the Band has awarded $56,000 in scholarships. The Awards are made from funds received from the Ralph Fingerle Education Trust annual donation and individual donations made to the James Hobart Davidson Scholarship Fund. The scholarships are awarded at our Spring Concert. This year, the Band was able to award scholarships to EIGHT local students!
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COMMISSIONED MUSIC |
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Next Fall will begin the Band's 23rd Season. For our upcoming 25th Season, the Band has commissioned composer (and Band member) Rossano Galante to create a special piece of music to help us celebrate a quarter of a century of the Desert Winds Freedom Band. |
MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL WORKSHOPS
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The Desert Winds also provides outreach to local high schools and middle schools during our spring concert week each year with our guest composer/conductor for that concert. In 2024, our guest composer/conductor Dr. Frank Tichelli and our Artistic Director visited six middle and high schools in the Coachella Valley. At each school they held a workshop with the school band, rehearsing one Dr. Tichelli's many compositions and allowing the students the rare chance to study a musical piece with the actual composer.
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The Band has held these workshops for nine years now. They are very popular with the area school bands and we hope to continue this program every spring.
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