Performance Groups
Archbishop Spalding features a number of performance groups, including Instrumental and vocal ensembles. Instrumental groups include Guitar Ensemble, String Ensemble, Jazz Band, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Wind Ensemble. Vocal groups include Advanced Women's Chorus, Girls' Chorale, Chorus, Chromosome Y, and Vocal Ensemble. Music Theory is also offered as an elective class in the Spalding curriculum. Shawn Heming is the current guitar instructor, Beth Hough is the vocal director, and Stephanie Huesgen is the current Band Director and Music Department Chair. Stephanie Huesgen has been teaching for 19 years at the Archbishop Spalding community. A student of Huesgen was selected as a finalist for the 2005 Hershey's All-USA High School Band. Also in 2005, she was selected as one of SBO's national list of "50 Directors Who Make a Difference". In 2007 at the national Musicfest in Orlando, Florida, Archbishop Spalding was awarded "Grand Band Champion", and thus the overall national winner for that week's competition.
Several Instrumental and Vocal Scholarships are available to incoming students upon audition.
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