Upcoming Festival and Concert Dates
Please make sure you have our performance dates in your calendar to ensure all students are ready to participate. This list will be updated and added to as move throughout the year.
Please make sure you have our performance dates in your calendar to ensure all students are ready to participate. This list will be updated and added to as move throughout the year.
- Feb 6th: CMS Performance - all Grade 11 and 12 students
- Feb 27th: Arts For Africa - Commercial Music and Jazz Combo students
- March 12th: Grad Variety Show! - Grade 12 Jazz Band and Commercial Music students
- March 13th: Okanagan Concert Band Festival - ALL Concert Bands - times TBA
- April 18th-20th: BC Interior Jazz Festival - ALL Jazz Bands - times TBA
- April 23rd-30th: CUBA! Grade 11/12 Performance Tour
- May 7th-10th: Vancouver Island! Grade 9/10 Performance Tour
- Spring Concert Band Showcase Concert: TBA
- Jazz Band Showcase Concert: TBA
EXTERNAL CLASS SCHEDULE:
External class will start the week of September 11th. Please know that these times/dates could change.
Commercial Music: Monday 3:30pm - 5pm and Thursday 7:45am - 9am
Jazz 9/10: Monday 7:45am - 9am and Wednesday 3:30pm - 5pm
Jazz 11: Tuesday 7:45am - Thursday 3:30pm - 5pm
Jazz Combo: Tuesday 3:30pm - 5pm and Friday 7:45am
Choir: Monday 3:30pm-5pm
Theory: Wednesday - 3:30pm - 5pm
Program Highlights
Congratulations to grade 12 student, Cole Bach for his acceptance into the prestigious Berklee School Of Music with a full ride scholarship!!
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTRE ORCHESTRA
We had a short trip down to Vancouver to see the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra perform at the Orpheum Theatre. With some of the top performers in the world, it was an awesome display of the power of a big band!
BC INTERIOR JAZZ FESTIVAL 2023
We had an amazing run at the BC Interior Jazz Festival in April. The festival had over 1200 students attending from all over BC and there were 5 festival-wide awards given out this year to the top performers in the entire festival. 2 OKM students were selected from the 1200! Check out the results below.
Festival-wide Awards:
Jiwon Shin - Most Outstanding Woodwind Player and Graeme Haw - Rising Star Award
Jiwon Shin - Most Outstanding Woodwind Player and Graeme Haw - Rising Star Award
Jazz Band Results:
Gr. 9/10 Jazz Band - Gold Gr. 11 Jazz Band - Gold Gr. 12 Jazz Band - Gold Gr. 11 Combo # 1 - Gold Gr. 11 Combo # 2 - Gold Gr. 12 Combo - Gold |
Showcase Concert Invitations:
The Gr. 12 Jazz Band and Gr. 12 Combo were both selected to perform in the Saturday night Showcase Concert as the most outstanding ensembles in their categories. |
OKANAGAN CONCERT BAND FESTIVAL
Our Grade 11/12 Concert Band recently performed in the Okanagan Concert Band Festival in Penticton and the students performed incredibly. They received a "Superior" rating in all categories earning a perfect score! This has never happened at OKM since Ms. Frederick has been here (2007) and one of the adjudicators searched us out to tell us the group was one of the best group he's ever heard in the 17 years he's been adjudicating! He also took the time to phone our principal the following day to let them know how amazing the students did and how proud they should be of OKM music students.
We are super proud of how hard this crew of students worked! Thank you for showcasing OKM in such a positive light and for being incredible role models for the younger festival participants. Here's some back stage video clips of our performance and fun photos!
We are super proud of how hard this crew of students worked! Thank you for showcasing OKM in such a positive light and for being incredible role models for the younger festival participants. Here's some back stage video clips of our performance and fun photos!
LIONEL HAMPTON JAZZ FESTIVAL AND SEATTLE TOUR
GR. 9/10 ALBERTA PERFORMANCE TOUR
NIGHT OF THE ARTS!
The community packed into the multi on Dec. 12th to watch students from Combo, Commercial Music, Choir, Theatre, and Dance perform their hearts out! It was wonderful to see 3 of our fine arts departments come together to showcase the awesome work students are doing in our building. On top of that, the fine arts team worked with our leadership program to fundraising for 'The Bridge', which provides support to teens struggling with mental health, addictions, and homelessness. Through the generosity of our audience, we were able to provide a large donation to their program. A huge shout out also goes to grade 10 musician and photographer, Kevin Kim, for documenting the night and submitting these amazing photos!
We are so excited about this event!! Please help to spread the word by sharing on social media and encouraging people to donate to our GoFundMe.
See you all on June 26th!
Our OKM Senior Combo, "Friends of Frederick" with special guest, OKM Alumni - Francisco Rubi, had the honour of performing an hour long set at the Opening Ceremonies of Kelowna's Cultural Days on Sept. 24th. It was great way to kick off the school year! Stay tuned for a photo review by eiKelowna.
2020/2021 Highlights!
We had an absolutely incredible year last year and are so proud of our students. Here are some highlights!
OKM Senior Combo Patio Gigs
Our Grade 12 Combo performed 3 patio gigs as the province started to open up in June. Check out the fantastic review of the group by Miles Overn at eiKelowna! Click HERE to see the full review/photos and stay-up-to date with all music events happening in the city.
Our Grade 12 Combo performed 3 patio gigs as the province started to open up in June. Check out the fantastic review of the group by Miles Overn at eiKelowna! Click HERE to see the full review/photos and stay-up-to date with all music events happening in the city.
OKM/CATO Recording Project
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Phil Nimmons Canadian All-Star Youth Project - Kai Trottman and Francisco Rubio
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OKM Jazz Christmas Project 2020!
I am so excited to share the wonderful Christmas project we have been working on with Jazz Band 12 students and 3 long-term-care homes to spread a little joy to some families! Please visit our Virtual Concerts page to read a bit more about this project and to access all 3 videos created with Jazz Band 12 students. Thank you to everyone for all your hard work on this project!
Ms. Frederick |
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