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Now introducing the FIRST ANNUAL, Wolverine Winter Premiere, hosted by Deer Valley High!
Mr. Carr has been the Director of Bands at Deer Valley High School since 2023. A 2012 graduate of Sonora High School in Sonora, California, he began his academic journey at Columbia College, where he earned an Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts. He then studied Popular Performance at the University of Chester in England before completing his Bachelor of Music in Music Education at California State University, Stanislaus in Fall 2021. He went on to earn his California teaching credential from CSU Stanislaus in Spring 2023.
Mr. Carr’s primary instruments are trumpet and drum set. His passion as an educator is to create a fun, positive, inclusive, and empowering environment where every student has the opportunity to grow; not just as musicians, but as confident, capable individuals ready to make a meaningful impact on the world.
Phone: (925) 779-7570, ext. 40010. (Email Linked in Name)
Joshua Suarez
- Color Guard Coach -
Joshua Suarez
- Color Guard Coach -
Joshua has been the color guard director at Deer Valley High School since 2023. He attended Deer Valley From 2016-2020 where he was in marching band all 4 years playing trumpet. After graduating in 2020, he became a mallet percussion tech in 2021 and then ventured off into color guard in the winter of 2022 and has been teaching both mallet and guard since. He has been composing the mallet music for the school since his Junior year and is still writing for them to this day. He is currently in school to become a music teacher and hopes to become a band director one day.
Joshua is also a cast member of the World Class In Motion Performance Ensemble competing all around California. He strives to make his teaching environment fun and lively so students can be excited to learn the material that is given. Joshua wants to see his students grow not only as people, but as amazing performers.
Kate LeMonds
- Percussion Coach -
Kate LeMonds
- Percussion Coach -
Kate has been working with DV Drumline since 2023. She attended Deer Valley from 2019-2023 where she was in Marching Band and Drumline for 3 years. Coming right out of high school, she started as a bass tech for the drumline and learned how to coach a full ensemble through the fall 2023/24 season. Kate is currently attending school and studying to become a music teacher and more specifically is hoping to become a choir director someday. Alongside coaching at Deer Valley during the fall season, during the indoor winter season she works with both Antioch High and Deer Valley as the combined group Antioch Unified Indoor Percussion (AUIP) and has been working with them since the group formed in 2024.
When it comes to teaching either group, Kate’s goal is to create a fun, comfortable environment where students feel safe to be themselves and thrive while doing what they love.
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