The 2024 Pride of Paradise Marching band is celebrating a 2nd place win last season! We are eager to have our new students join us as we keep the momentum going! The PVHS Marching Band and Color Guard rehearses 1st block during the school day during the Fall semester, in addition to Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5:30pm-8:30pm. Percussionists should register instead for our 5th Block Percussion class, but if they have room in their schedule, are also welcome to join the 1st Block Marching Band class. No audition required. Course enrollment required.  

The PVHS Concert Band is the counterpart to Marching Band in the Spring, and rehearses during 1st block during the Spring semester.  The concert band performs at least 2 times per semester, and focuses on both staples of the concert band repertoire, in addition to contemporary music. The Concert Band performs a Chamber Concert in March, and a themed concert in May. In our May concert, the Concert Band will combine with the Spring Orchestra Ensemble to create a full Symphony Orchestra. No audition required. Course enrollment required.

- District Honor Band, Regional, and All-State events as well as the Spring Musical all take place during Concert Band Season.

The PVHS Jazz Ensemble is one of the premiere performing ensembles at PV, and is the only PVHS Instrumental Ensemble that meets all-year.  This course offerings is a Zero-Hour Course that meets from 6:40am-7:20am every day before school.  This course offers students the opportunity to explore: how to play in a jazz style, how to improvise on their instrument, and the history of jazz as a musical medium. The PVHS Jazz Ensembles gives special performances in December and an end-of-the-year Evening of Jazz. No audition required. Course enrollment for the full school year is required.

PVHS is proud to feature exclusively live student musicians in our pit orchestra to accompany the Drama Department's Spring Musical Production.  This past year our students performed the live music for "Mean Girls" the Musical. We are now the only high school in PV to perform with a live pit orchestra. Musicals take place near the end of April. Rehearsals will begin in January, and will take place after school 2-3 days per week. Audition required. Course enrollment not required.

In 2025 we started PV's first ever indoor winds program. Indoor winds is an extension of the marching season. It's an opportunity for students to keep marching year round, but also offers them a different type of marching experience. This activity is for woodwinds and brass, but there are other indoor opportunities for percussion and guard as well in the district! In it's inaugural season the Pride of Paradise Unified Winds took up 3rd place!

Many students enrolled in the PV Instrumental music program also participate in many extracurricular ensembles. 

Here are a few ensembles that our students have been involved in:

Indoor Percussion & Guard:

• Pinnacle Percussion

• Horizon Indoor Percussion Ensemble

• Horizon Winter guard

• Vision Percussion

• LINEA

• Breakthrough Indoor Percussion

Drum Corps:

• The Academy Drum & Bugle Corps

• Phenom Drum & Bugle Corps

• Boston Crusaders Drum & Bugle Corps

Concert Performance:

• Phoenix Youth Symphony

• Salt River Youth Brass

• PVCC Brass Choir

• PVCC Jazz Ensembles

• North Valley Youth Orchestra

PV music students have also served with many middle and elementary school youth groups. In the 2023 spring semester, many of our students have donated their time to help young musicians with both the PVUSD Encore Ensemble and Horizon Indoor Winds. 

For more information about extracurricular ensembles, please visit our links page.