Concord-Carlisle HS Bands and Orchestras

🚀 And we're off! Thrilled to welcome Rodrigo Martínez Torres back to CCHS as our composer-in-residence for the 2025/26 school year! Lots of risk-taking and exploration underway already! 🎶

Mark your calendars for the premiere of this new work on 2/12/26! 📅

🙏 Thank you .pa for helping us get this project rolling! We look forward to announcing our additional partners in the near future!

We are proud to share that the Concord Public Schools and Concord-Carlisle Regional School District have earned the title from for their unwavering commitment to music education!

Thrilled to be performing at the National Association for Music Education Eastern Division Conference! Catch the CCHS Concert Band during the 2pm Concert Hour on Thursday, April 24th! We are honored to have been invited to perform and are so excited to share the program below:

- “Never Forget, Never Remember” by Jennifer Jolley

- “Our Director” by F. E. Bigelow

- A consortium premiere of “Onda Tropical” by Rodrigo Martínez Torres, featuring the incredible Mariana Malinalli on Accordion

- “Give Us This Day” by David Maslanka

Congrats to the CCHS Orchestra, Symphonic Band, Concert Band and Select Choir on a Gold Medal sweep at MICCA! 🥇🥇🥇🥇🧹

We are incredibly proud of the art these young musicians passionately put out into the world today - and we’re just getting started! Keeping our foot on the gas these next two weeks as we prep for Concord250 events and the Concert Band’s upcoming performance at All-Eastern!

Go CC!! 🎶

MICCA is this weekend! Swipe through to see what we’re playing! ➡️➡️➡️

Don't miss out! Reserve your seats today for an extraordinary concert featuring the Concord-Carlisle High School Concert Band and the Lexington HS Bands, with WORLD PREMIERE performances by each band!

CCHS Band, Chorus and Orchestra students had an amazing day at the MMEA Future Music Educators Summit!

CCHS Concert Band is already preparing for our NAfME All-Eastern Conference performance - thank you Dr. Messier for joining us today and guiding us through this first read-through! We’re so incredibly excited to bring “Onda Tropical” to All-Eastern this April and thrilled to be a part of the consortium for this amazing work’s 2nd and 3rd movements! 🪗

This year’s student leadership team is already hard at work! We are discussing leadership skills and planning some exciting opportunities for our ensembles this year!

🚨 Huge news! The Concord-Carlisle High School Concert Band has been selected to perform at the NAfME Eastern Division Conference in Hartford, CT on Thursday, April 24th at 2:00 PM! 🎶