cmea band and orchestra festival
Saratoga High School Music Department is pleased to host the CMEA festival, March 14-16, 2024!! Performances are open to families.
We welcome all schools participating in the event: Cabrillo MS Combined Ida Jew Academy & August Boeger MS Cupertino HS Fisher MS Hayward HS Homestead HS Los Gatos HS Lynnbrook HS Monta Vista HS Presidio MS Redwood MS Santa Clara HS Saratoga HS Union MS Valley Christian Schools |
The California Music Educators Association (CMEA) is a federated unit of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). During CMEA festival each individual concert ensemble performs in 30 minute sets (30 minutes on-and-off-stage) for a panel of 3 performance judges, followed by sight-reading evaluation for a 4th judge. The judges use a rubric and classification system that connects daily class rehearsal practice to a performance, and ultimately a rating.