CHS Instrumental music
Welcome!
This website is for the followers of the Instrumental Music Program at the Academies of Racine at Case High School! Whether you are a student that needs the links to our Google Classroom, a parent that wants to look at our schedule of events, or a visitor from around the world to come say hello, welcome to our new website. Enjoy seeing what it means to be a student musician and an Eagle "Up Where We Belong!" at Case.
A student musician speaks during the piece Each Time You Tell Their Story, composed by Samuel Hazo. Photograph by Sarah Greening Photography, LLC.
Three trumpets performing Leroy Anderson's Bugler's Holiday at the Winter 2022 concert. Photograph by Sarah Greening Photography, LLC.
A student musician speaks before the piece (not) Alone, composed by Randall Standridge. Photograph by Sarah Greening Photography, LLC.
Photograph by Sarah Greening Photography, LLC.
Photograph by Sarah Greening Photography, LLC.
Director Max Feiler. Photograph by Sarah Greening Photography, LLC.
About the Director
Max Feiler has been the Director of Instrumental Music since the Fall of 2018 at the Academies of Racine at Case High School. A graduate of Case High School in 2012, Mr. Feiler graduated from UW-Parkside in 2018 with a B.A. in Music with concentrations in violin performance, music education, and jazz studies. Mr. Feiler then graduated Cardinal Stritch University with an M.S. in Educational Leadership in 2021.
Max Feiler's primary instrument is violin. He started studying in 2001 with Charlene Melzer, then with Ann Heide, and then Dr. Alexander Mandl. Mr. Feiler performs with many groups in the region, including the Brandgás String Quartet, the UW-Parkside Community Orchestra, the Lake County Symphony Orchestra, and the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra.
Students of the pit orchestra for Honk! pose for a photo with stuffed animals deemed "the potatoes."
The Jazz Band performs as the District Jazz Festival at Horlick in March 2020.
The Freshman Band performs in the Spring 2023 concert with a student conductor. Photograph by Sarah Greening Photography, LLC.