SBCC Music Department

WANT TO LEARN TO PLAY A STRING INSTRUMENT FOR FREE?

The FALL 2024 semester at Santa Barbara City College starts up on Monday, August 26th, and once again -Beginning STRING Techniques--is not only offered as a credit course but is also being offered as a FREE, NON-CREDIT class (called "Beginning STRINGS for Older Adults," or CRMO NC150) through SBCC's Continuing Education division.

The class is essentially Beginning Orchestra for adults--you're learning how to play a traditional string instrument (your choice of violin, viola, cello or double bass), getting to play classic tunes such as "Hot Cross Buns" and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” By the end of the course you will learn to play in a beginner ensemble. NO PREVIOUS MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE IS REQUIRED--you will also learn to read sheet music!

Best of all--if you don't own your own instrument already, SBCC has school-owned instruments available for you to check out for the semester for FREE as well!

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED in joining this class--please sign-up today to ensure the class will continue! Questions? Please write to Valerie Malvinni, [email protected].
The String technique class meets Monday and Wednesday mornings from 9:35 a.m. until 10:55 a.m. in room DM-105 on SBCC's West Campus.

And for those of you already familiar with enrolling through SBCC's Pipeline registration system, follow the link here, and type "42635” when asked to enter the CRN you wish to add. If you have not taken a SBCC course recently, you will need to apply first (it's also FREE!) Here is the link to SBCC's Pipeline website:
https://pipeline.sbcc.edu

If you are a SBCC student looking for course credit, you can enroll in this version of the course instead: Music 150, CRN 31270.

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Please sign-up today to learn to play a STRING INSTRUMENT! Past graduates of the class have gone on to play in chamber music and orchestra. It is a wonderful opportunity that you will not want to miss!

(*3 of the 4 students in the photo continued playing in Chamber Music class and Orchestra after successfully finishing the Beg. String Techniques course.)

CONTINUE THE FIGHT FOR MUSIC EDUCATION IN SANTA BARBARA!!!

The next Santa Barbara Unified School District board meeting will be held TONIGHT (Tuesday, May 28th) at the District Offices (720 Santa Barbara St.) beginning at 6:00 pm. Your overwhelming support at the last meeting has put music education on as an official agenda item for tonight's meeting--but we must continue to speak out to the board in order to reinstate the 7-period day at our local junior highs, thereby allowing increased access to music and all Arts courses! ALL music courses at Santa Barbara Junior High School have been already cut for next year, as have theater arts courses at SBJHS and La Cumbre JHS! Our local programs are dying off while those in Lompoc, Santa Maria, and Ventura are flourishing thanks to a 7-period day--it is shameful that our students are being denied access to the Arts, and the board must hear from ALL of us that this is absolutely unacceptable!

So once again, anyone who'd like is welcome to come and speak about the necessity for arts programs in our schools. To speak in person, you can fill out a card when you arrive at the offices. I'd advise that anyone who'd like to attend and speak come no later than 5:30, as parking is difficult, and they stop accepting speakers at 6:00.

And if you are a former student, parent, community member, or general supporter of the Arts, you haven't already signed the open letter to the district superintendent and school board members from our local music educators, PLEASE consider adding your name to this open letter that will be presented to the School Board and Cabinet (it only takes a minute, and we already have over 900 signatures!):

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScn7aJW4fpo7tZ3NeBfgjuxDlIKjIkDkSFt1kvOuJouzEisfA/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0

Thank you for your consideration and your support--we hope to see you at tonight's school board meeting, and please know that we need as many people as possible to be aware of this crisis, so PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION with everyone you know!

School Arts Open Letter - Santa Barbara USD In response to cuts in the arts programs in local schools, the arts teachers of Santa Barbara Unified School District are collecting signatures to add to the following letter. Please consider adding your name by filling out this form. We plan to send this to the school board and district cabinet mem...

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String and Wind Festival hosted by the Santa Barbara City College Music Department From 9AM to 7PM the SBCC Music Department willl host performances by school orchestras and bands from Santa Barbara and beyond. The groups will perom and the...

THE 2024 SBCC STRING & WIND FESTIVAL IS UNDERWAY!!!
Here is the LINK to our LIVE-STREAM of today's performances in the Garvin Theater:

String and Wind Festival hosted by the Santa Barbara City College Music Department From 9AM to 7PM the SBCC Music Department willl host performances by school orchestras and bands from Santa Barbara and beyond. The groups will perom and the...

THE SBCC STRING & WIND FESTIVAL IS UNDERWAY!!!
Here is the LINK to our LIVE-STREAM of today's performances in the Garvin Theater:

String and Wind Festival hosted by the Santa Barbara City College Music Department From 9AM to 7PM the SBCC Music Department willl host performances by school orchestras and bands from Santa Barbara and beyond. The groups will perom and the...

Are you interested in hearing small classical music ensembles? Please come to our end-of-semester concert this
THURSDAY, May 9th at 7pm.
Please note the location has changed. The performance will now take place in DM-101 West Campus of SBCC.
FREE ADMISSION!
You will hear some of the groups from the class including a flute quartet, string quartet, clarinet duo, classical guitar and clarinet quartet with Prof. and Director of Chamber Music Valerie Malvinni performing on violin. It will be beautiful!

If you are a musician and interested in joining a chamber music group in the Fall, you won't want to miss this concert!


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SBCC Jazz Combo Concert is tomorrow night at the SOhO! Come and see our student’s interpretation of the jazz classics.

Happy 4th and can't wait to see you at the concert tomorrow! The Symphony did celebrate today at rehearsal with wonderful Star Wars specialty cakes baked by Symphony members. But of course the cakes were gone before a pic could be taken!
Spread the word about the concert- they are sounding AMAZING!
Tickets online or at the Garvin Theatre Box Office.
https://ci.ovationtix.com/36624/production/1190073

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Happy Star Wars Day from the Santa Barbara City College Trombone Choir! Here is a video of our recent performance of the "Throne Room" scene (and ending credits) from Star Wars Episode IV, played at our April 6th "Slide Show" concert with special guest artist Alex Iles! Special thanks to Cody Anderson for arranging and conducting the piece! May the 4th be with you!

Throne Room SBCC Trombone Choir performs Star Wars end credits classic arranged by C Anderson at spring 2024 Trombone Day.

MUSIC EDUCATION IN SANTA BARBARA IS IN CRISIS!!! WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!

As some of you already know, there have been some drastic cuts to music education in the Santa Barbara Unified School District. Santa Barbara Junior High will NOT be offering ANY music classes next year, and a theater class has also been cut. Arts classes at La Cumbre Junior High are also being cut. Such cuts are the result of junior high students not having access to Arts classes due to the district's failure to reinstate the 7-period school day at the junior high campuses (which were cut more than 20 years ago due to a budget crisis that has long since passed), combined with increasing requirements for all students, including a recent state-mandated health course that blocks 7th graders from having ANY electives for one of their semesters.

HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP:

1). Local SBUSD Arts teachers have penned an open letter to the district superintendent and school board members. If you are a former student, parent, community member, or general supporter of the arts, PLEASE consider adding your name to this open letter that will be presented to the School Board and Cabinet (it only takes a minute!):

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScn7aJW4fpo7tZ3NeBfgjuxDlIKjIkDkSFt1kvOuJouzEisfA/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0

2). Show your support by attending the next SBUSD board meeting! The next SBUSD Board Meeting will be held at the District Offices (720 Santa Barbara St.) this coming Tuesday, May 7th beginning at 6:00 pm. Anyone who'd like is welcome to come and speak about the necessity for arts programs in our schools. To speak in person, you can fill out a card when you arrive at the offices. I'd advise that anyone who'd like to attend and speak come no later than 5:30, as parking is difficult, and they stop accepting speakers at 6:00.

Thank you for your consideration and your support--we need as many people as possible to be aware of this crisis, so PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION with everyone you know!

School Arts Open Letter - Santa Barbara USD In response to cuts in the arts programs in local schools, the arts teachers of Santa Barbara Unified School District are collecting signatures to add to the following letter. Please consider adding your name by filling out this form. We plan to send this to the school board and district cabinet mem...

Garvin Theatre, West Campus, SBCC, Santa Barbara, CA, 7pm, May 5, 2024. The Santa Barbara City College Symphony presents a program of Slavic music including Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto on Sunday, May 5 at 7pm.

The SBCC Symphony is directed by interim conductor and SBCC professor Valerie Malvinni and features her daughter as soloist, the award- winning violinist, Sofia Malvinni, playing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.35. It will be fascinating for the audience to witness the dynamic musical relationship between the mother-daughter pairing, as Valerie was also Sofia’s first violin teacher. The program starts with Shostakovich’s rousing “Festive Overture,” and in the second half offers a rare opportunity to hear Dvořák’s Symphony no. 5 in F Major, his first mature work in the genre that shows him at the highest level of musical accomplishment that will lead to his ascendancy on the international stage.

Valerie sees this as an ideal follow-up to the Fall concert: “I am honored to have had the opportunity to direct the SBCC Symphony this year while our multi-talented conductor James Mooy has been on sabbatical. Our first concert in December was incredible! We had world-renowned classical guitarist Eliot Fisk perform a new guitar concerto by Giovanni Piacentini in its USA premiere. Also on the program was Rossini’s “L’Italiana in Algeri” and a lesser known work Symphony no.1 by the African American composer Florence Price. On May 5th, we have another incredible concert planned for you. It presents a local venue for Santa Barbara audiences to hear a one of their own at the start of her career performing the romantically expressive and a virtuoso violinist’s right-of-passage, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.

Sofia is a former dual- enrollment student of SBCC and Dos Pueblos High School (early) graduate where she was in the prestigious Engineering Academy. She is currently a sophomore at San Francisco Conservatory studying with Professor Simon James. She also studies with Kirill Troussov in Munich, Germany. Sofia has won several esteemed awards, including her most recent Third Place win at the Hong Kong International Youth Violin Competition in April. When she was a freshman and only seventeen, Sofia won the SFCM’s Concerto Competition with Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.1. Sofia was a three-time winner of the SB Symphony Youth Symphony Concerto Competition and in 2023, Sofia won First Place in the Adult Division of the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation. She has attended numerous masterclasses and has given performances in Germany, Austria, Italy and the Netherlands.

For tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36624/production/1190073
Or call Garvin Theatre box office 805-965-5935

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Get your tickets now! Don't miss SBCC's Symphony with Director Valerie Malvinni perform three delightful Slavic pieces. Shostakovich Festive Overture, the famed Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and Dvorak's 5th Symphony will not disappoint!
Our soloist this concert, Sofia Malvinni, is a former SBCC dual enrollment student now at San Francisco Conservatory of Music studying violin performance with Simon James.
Among her accolades, Sofia was a 2023 PASF winner in the adult division, First place winner 2023 SFCM Concerto Competition and most recently won 3rd place in the Hong Kong International Youth Violin Competition. As a soloist, she has performed in Austria, Munich and in Amsterdam and we are thrilled that she has the opportunity to perform with our very own SBCC Symphony!

Buy your tickets here:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/36624/production/1190073

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The Santa Barbara City College Trombone Choirs have been quite busy lately!

In case you missed it last night, here is our full SBCC Trombone Choir playing James Horner's "Titanic Fantasy" last night, arranged and conducted by Cody Duke Anderson, and performed on the very day of the 112th anniversary of that ship's fateful meeting with destiny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8tPDgehyzo

And if you weren't able to make last week's "Slide Show" concert with the great Alex Iles, here are some videos of that afternoon's concert, courtesy of SBCC Trombone Choir member Paul Gaddis. Paul's YouTube playlist includes performances of some great movie music including "Star Wars," "How to Train Your Dragon," "Bohemian Rhapsody," and many more! Here's the direct link to all of them via Paul's YouTube playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvsdqHoey0eqNXS0WO3d6ZxSOXWBBU12g

Santa Barbara City College Trombone Choir: "Titanic Fantasy" (SBCC Chamber Winds Concert, 4/14/24) The Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) Trombone Choir performs "Titanic Fantasy," composed by James Horner and arranged by Cody Duke Anderson, at the SBCC Cha...

SBCC Music Event

Our very own Lunch Break Big Band will be performing at the Dos Pueblos Jazz Festival with SBCC alumni Karl Hunter!

Tonight is the night! The Monday Madness Jazz Orchestra returns to the SOhO in Santa Barbara!