About Us
Welcome to the Yale Music Department! Yale Music is part of Yale Secondary School's Visual and Performing Arts Department in the city of Abbotsford, British Columbia. Students enrolled in music programs at Yale explore the art form of music, both instrumental and vocal, in various small and large ensemble settings. Our ensembles provide unique opportunities for students to not only become excellent musicians, but outstanding role models and leaders in our community, learning values that will be with them for the rest of their lives.
About the Music Director
Ms. Mercedes Sargent has come to work at Yale after teaching successful music programs at Mountain Elementary and Abbotsford Traditional Secondary. She also has over a decade of private piano and music theory teaching experience. She still currently teaches private lessons in her studio on weekends.
Ms. Sargent earned her Diploma in Music at Capilano University, Bachelor of Music majoring in Music Education (Secondary Instrumental) at UVIC, and subsequent Diploma in Secondary Teacher Education (Music) at UVIC.
She majored on the piano during her time in university, and she has also had a large amount of wind band and choral experience including performing with Capilano University Wind Ensemble, Don Wright Symphonic Winds (UVIC), UVIC Chamber Singers, and Capilano University Singers where she toured Italy in 2011.
Ms. Sargent is excited about building more ensembles at Yale, and is looking forward to working with each of these ensembles and learning more about the students and the community.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Sargent:
mercedes.sargent@abbyschools.ca
