By Camille Juton
Staff Writer
The Mira Costa Percussion Band performed in the 4th annual Spring Percussion Festival on May 19th in the auditorium.
The Spring Percussion Festival served as an opportunity to both practice and to learn new pieces. Joel Carlson, the Costa band director, invited university professors to the festival.
“It’s in part performance, in part educational endeavor,” Carlson said. “We are bringing in clinicians to come and listen to our groups and make suggestions about how [band] can play better and more expressively.”
Costa percussion players performed a variety of styles of percussion music at the festival.
“The percussion studio concert is a great show featuring the percussionists,” percussionist Ben Schwartz said. “It showcases their hard work put in after regular concert bands and school.”
Band students played both traditional and contemporary songs at the festival.
“Some pieces are more fun and lively,” Carlson said. “There’s one that’s centered around playing on balloons and the different sounds you can get out of balloons.”
The Spring Percussion Festival was a way for the Percussion Studio to show its growth since the beginning of the year.
“The concert went really well, but it was more like a percussion ensemble concert this year than in previous years, when I feel like we were more focused on fun and entertainment,” junior percussionist Zack Thomasson said.
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