Casteel Choir

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Chorale Tour 2026 to Anaheim
A Pirate Adventure! 🏴‍☠️

Thursday morning we boarded a charter bus and headed to Fullerton College where we got to workshop our pieces with the incredible John Tebay. He had such a way of inspiring and encouraging us. We loved working with him! He was extremely complimentary and was so kind and great with us.
Afterwards we went to the Pirate Dinner Adventure! So fun and silly and a great way to spend the evening!

Friday we woke up and went to our Forum Festival. It was wonderful to watch other choirs perform and support other schools. We especially loved cheering on Mountain Ridge and Scottsdale Prep from AZ! Chorale performed about 11 with Encore soon after. Both groups sang with passion and had taken the notes from Mr Tebay and responded so well and so quickly. They each gave memorable performances and impressed the judges a lot, earning GOLD!!! 🏆Gianna and Derek won individual awards as well for outstanding musicianship!
From there we went to the beach for some dry beach fun! Volleyball, walking the pier, frisbee…being together in perfect weather was the best part of all! ☀️🏖️ Fullerton College happened to be performing Pirates of Penzance this weekend, so thanks to Boosters, we were able to go see this incredible show! 🏴‍☠️

Saturday we woke up early and went to sing at Disneyland for their Imagination Campus choir experience. We got to work with Disney recording artist and performer Terron Brooks on Moana and Encanto music and had the best time! We then had 12 hours in Disneyland to have fun! We loaded the bus at 11:45pm for an overnight drive back to school.
What a wonderful trip! Huge thanks to Project Exploration for designing our trip! And thanks to our parents and Boosters for helping us get here through fundraising efforts, our amazing pianist Erin Blake, incredible colleague Jennifer Pearce and chaperones extraordinaire: Marvin Pearce, Matt Clausen, Katie Burleson, and Amy Fernandez. Amy Williams Fernandez Ben Katie BurlesonJennifer J Pearce

Monday and Tuesday March 2-3, the JH and HS choirs from Casteel put on two amazing shows, “A night on Broadway”.
The students came up with the costumes, the choreography, and the hair/make-up. Even the lighting and sound was done by students! In addition to the 8 choirs performing, 8 showcase numbers were performed by invitation after an audition process. Everyone did an amazing job!

Full videos can be found on our website www.casteelchoir.org

Chorale - Guys and Dolls
Dolce - Thoroughly Modern Millie
Forte- Little Shop of Horrors
Men of ‘Steel - Mulan
Encore - Oh, Kay (Gershwin)
Triple Threat - Into the Woods
Angels of music - Enchanted
C**t choir - Shrek

Thanks to everyone who supported us! Big thanks to boosters for feeding us, tech theatre students for running lights and sound, Mr Clausen for filming, Mr Garrett (student teacher extraordinaire!) and all the students for working so hard!

Congratulations to Mrs. Jennifer Pearce and the Angels of Music choir on a fabulous CA tour! Angels of Music WACDA performance tour was incredible! These girls not only sang musically and beautifully, they behaved throughout the whole trip with maturity and respect. You made Casteel and CUSD very proud!

Highlights of the trip:
*Singing at the Basilica in San Jose, what a beautiful setting!
*standing ovation 👏
*Wi******er mystery house 🏠
*group dinners 🍝
*Golden Gate Bridge 🌉
*muir woods 🌳
*Ghirardelli Square 🍫
*watching NAU jazz choir 🙌🎤
*Hotel 😴
*Flying on a plane✈️
*Making memories that will last a lifetime!

Thank you so much WesternACDA for selecting Casteel JHS to perform at this conference. It was an experience we won’t forget! 💗
Thank you to the parents who have supported us, some of whom came to watch us and help us with last minute needs- thank you! Thank you to the admin who helped us get there and paid for our programs. Special thanks to Mrs Woodworth for coming with us and cheering us on! Thank you to our incredible pianist, Mrs Raquel Suarez for your musical brilliance and for being so wonderful to work with! Thank you to our amazing Boosters who helped us fundraise like crazy and who gifted us with “swag bags” for the journey. You’re the best! Thank you to all the AZ choral directors who mentored, supported, and cheered for us. Your love means so much! Thanks to the Casteel fine arts team for your love and encouragement. Most of all, thanks to these amazing singers who brought this music to life in such a powerful and emotive way. Keep shining bright! 🤩

Jennifer J Pearce
AzACDA
Casteel High School

Chorale had the best time at seeing Guys and Dolls Saturday night! 🎲What a great show!

We perform Guys and Dolls Tuesday night in our Broadway concert🎭🎶 It was so fun knowing all the music and just being together!

🍗 was amazing, too! 😋 yummy!

What a great night! Thanks to everyone who came and made it a special nigh! Big thanks to those people who bought fundraisers this year to help us be able to go! 💵

And thanks to Mrs Pitner for driving the second bus and being an amazing chaperone! 🚐💜

Today is National Pizza Day, what better way to celebrate than with a Restaurant night!

NAU Jazz/Mad 2026 was amazing! Encore had the best time. They sang so well and made some pretty great music together!

The jazz set was one of their best performances of the year! Everyone was locked in and it was magic! Peter Eldridge of New York Voices was our clinician and was very impressed. It was so rewarding to have all that hard work be recognized by someone like him!

Our madrigal set went really well too. The venue was a bit hard to hear but the singers did outstanding making it work. We got to perform the festival premier of “Aurora” by Gianna Owen’s and that was incredible. Working with the great Zanaida Robles was incredible.

Other highlights include:
Watching NYV live
Hearing Las Vegas academy’s Sunset Swing (wow!)
Hearing High Altitude 🤩
Road trippin with friends
The Drury
Chick-fil-a
Sunset point impromptu photos
Anthem outlet food court
Chat gpt 🤣
Making lifelong memories ❤️
Getting superiors on both performances and getting one point away from perfect scores in each was also pretty cool 😎

Thank you Dr Ryan Holder and everyone at NAU for putting together such an outstanding event! We loved every minute!