The award-winning Titan Marching Band & Color Guard is a fun way to experience the joy of music, make new friends and learn the value of hard work. Each season (August to November), the Marching Band & Color Guard perform in marching band competitions. In addition, the band represents the Titans at all home football games.
Unlike many of the other distinguished high school bands around the country, the Marching Band program is open to ALL music students without audition. Any student can join the band which consists of approximately 100 musicians and performers. Each year band members learn and perform an entirely new show created by professionals who design the music, choreography, costumes and props.
Antelope High School is home to two concert ensembles; the Symphonic Band & the Wind Ensemble.
The Antelope Wind Ensemble is the premiere Wind Band for advanced woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists. The Ayala High School Wind Ensemble performs standard and contemporary band repertoire including transcriptions and college level pieces. Advanced technical concepts and skills are taught as required by the musical selections. The Wind Ensemble performs at local & state music contests and festivals. This past school year, the Wind Ensemble received “Unanimous Superior” at the Delta College Band & Orchestra Festival.
The Antelope Symphonic Band is a performing wind band ensemble comprised of instrumentalists at varying stages of their musical development. Symphonic Band students focus on expanding ensemble skills, musical concepts, and technical skills. The Symphonic Band performs a wide variety of wind band repertoire.
The Antelope Jazz Ensemble is a year-long, audition-based class for intermediate and advanced Jazz musicians. Students rehearse and perform many styles of music; Swing, Afro-Cuban, Latin, Samba, Rock, Funk, and Contemporary. The Jazz Ensemble has numerous performances on campus and in the community, as well as attending a variety of local jazz festivals.
*Jazz Ensemble is a zero period class.
**Students who wish to join the jazz Ensemble must be concurrently enrolled in a band class during the regular school day.
The Antelope Color Guard is a component of the Marching Band during the fall, using choreography and equipment to enhance the visual effect of the marching band show, is judged as part of the overall visual appeal, as well as in its own category. Beginning in late November and continuing through April the Color Guard competes in Winter Guard, an indoor Color Guard activity.
The Antelope Percussion Ensemble, much like the Color Guard, is a year-long activity. During the fall the percussion section competes as part of the Titan Band & Guard, then in mid-November they transition to the indoor percussion season, competing as a standalone ensemble through mid-April.