Our Mission

We believe that aesthetic education through instrumental music performance is essential to the school curriculum. Our mission is to provide educational leadership to the membership of the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association. To fulfill our mission, we provide opportunities for professional growth through developmental resources. These resources include: conferences, clinics, publications, performance evaluation, association with institutions of higher learning and interaction with professional musicians.

We provide enrichment opportunities which present outstanding student musicians as models for all instrumental programs. We also provide resources to assist with the development and/or evaluation of curriculum should it be requested by a school or district.

• SCSBOA sponsors band, orchestra, solo and ensemble, district and regional festivals.
• We select and train approved adjudicators for band, orchestra, solo and ensemble festivals and for parade and field event competitions.
• SCSBOA maintains a continuing program to evaluate and update the adjudication forms being used for band, and orchestra festivals and competitions.
• We sponsor clinics and workshops for in-service training of teachers of instrumental music.
• SCSBOA sponsors the All-Southern California High School Honor Groups, the All-Southern California Middle School Honor Groups, and the All-Southern California Honor Jazz Ensembles.

Welcome to the SCSBOA
Music Educators Working Together Since 1937

The Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association is a non-profit organization whose active membership is drawn primarily from educational institutions—elementary schools, junior high/middle schools, senior high schools, colleges and universities. Additional membership includes students and others (private instructors, business establishments) who are active in the musical community.

The association is dedicated to enriching the cultural environment by helping all students to develop a greater appreciation of music, providing students with the means for exploring both vocational and non-vocational opportunities in music, raising performance and adjudication standards, and improving teaching techniques.

 

AB 351

Please read and contact your Senators, Legislators and Assembly Members - both school's address representatives and your home area. Have them vote YES on AB 351. These people need to know how important AB 351 is and how much we care about this issue.  They won't know unless we call or email all of the representatives in our areas. By looking up a specific zip code, you'll find several people representing each areas. For example, Huntington Park has three Assembly members. This issue is not exclusive to L.A.U.S.D.,  it affects the entire state of California.  It doesn't take long to contact people, so please get the word out. For more information, please go to the links below. 

 

Please go to www.AB351.org and read the directions on the front page.
Contact your Assembly member as soon as possible.
Go to www.assembly.ca.gov 

If you called in the past, call again.

Have friends, parents, students who can vote and others contact assembly members.

 

 

News & Announcements

 

• NEW CALENDAR - Event Hosts - please send Mike Gangemi your applications and info and they will be posted directly to the calendar.
• The 2009 Field Tournament Schedule can be found in the Marching Band section!
• Field Season Forms are currently being updated online. New Parade and Field Tournament Schedules are posted, as well as Championships Venue Applications.

Save the Date!

• Judges' Training Seminar - August 15th
• Fall Conference - September 12, 2009