Awards & Praise

Marching Band

Vero Beach Crown Jewel Competition: Grand Champions (Best Guard, Best Visual) (4th Vero title)
Santaluces Marching Chiefs Invitational: 4th Place (Best Music, Best Brass, Best DM)
FBA District Marching Evaluation: Straight Superiors (22nd consecutive superior)

Concert Ensembles

District Festival
Wind Orchestra-Superior
Wind Symphony-Superior
Symphonic Band-Excellent
Orchestra-Superior
Jazz Ensemble-Superior
Fusion Ensemble-Excellent

State Festival
Jazz Ensemble-Excellent
Wind Orchestra-Straight Superior
Wind Symphony-Straight Superior

Other

NBC Today Show Performance with Al Roker (27 September 2002)
NBC "Light Up the Holidays" Performance (4 December 2002)
Commissioned a work by Donald Grantham to be premiered in Spring 2004.
Selected as a Grammy Signature School by the Grammy Foundation.
Gramd Champions in all categories entered, Gatlinburg Pigeon Forge Music Festival (Tennessee).
 

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J.P. Taravella Band & Orchestra