Concert Band

The Concert Band is the third performing concert ensemble and includes members working toward the highest goals in music. Emphasis with this group is on instrumental technique and fundamentals, ensemble rehearsal skills, music literacy, music history, and performance practice.

The best in wind literature, as well as the standard classics, serves as the group’s repertoire. Music will include all grade levels but will mostly focus on high school level music literature. Students will have the opportunity to perform in other school ensembles such as Jazz Ensemble One, Jazz Workshop, and chamber ensembles. Students also perform in one of the other concert bands if the student is interested in playing more than one instrument.

Since Fontainebleau High School has grown into one of the largest high schools in Louisiana, the ensemble must perform music at a higher level than most other schools’ third groups. The repertoire for the FHS Concert Band includes music by well known composers such as Frank Ticheli, Frank Erickson, Charles Carter, Daniel Bukvich, William Himes, and Fred Allen.