Music

Welcome to the Department of Music Page. Here you will find information about upcoming events, news and updates. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our staff information is listed to the right.

March 8, 2021

Congratulations to:

Brandon Fu, Band and Jazz Band

Abigail Song, Band

Aditya Machiraju, Band

On being accepted to the 2021 CDMEA Junior District Festival

February 12, 2021

The Hopkinton Music Association is holding a calendar raffle during the month of March. You can read more about at the HMA website.

February 10, 2021

Congratulations to the following HHS Students were accepted into the 2021 Mass Music Educators Association All-State Festival.

January 11, 2021

The following students were selected to participate in the 2021 Central District Mass Music Educators Senior Festival.

January 4, 2021

Dear Families and Students,

We are pleased to announce that beginning on February 2, 2021, we will begin remote Middle School Orchestra, Chorus, and Band ensembles.  Mr. Hay is excited to be working with your children again as we prepare to bring back performances in the future with this first step of engaging with our students remotely. 

In order to facilitate the scheduling, we ask that you fill out this form by Tuesday, January 19, so that we can schedule students appropriately and update our database with current email addresses.  As soon as we have our sections complete, we will email the schedule and the zoom links for class.

We will continue to offer the HMA Private Lesson Program, HMA Group Lesson Program, and our virtual offerings outside of school as we bring back the ensembles during the day. 

We would like to thank Dr. Cavanaugh, Mrs. Parson, and Mr. Keller for helping make this come to fruition and we would like to thank you, the students and families who have continued to support the music program through these challenging times.

Please fill out the attached sign up form and return it by Tuesday, January 19. We look forward to bringing the performance ensembles back to you in 2021.

Sincerely,

The Hopkinton Public Schools Music Department

chay@hopkinton.k12.ma.us

Ensemble 2021 Form

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Hopkinton Music Association Private Lesson Program 2020-2021

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HMA Scholarships and National Awards 2020
Joseph Markarian Scholarship: Linnea Pappas Byers
Steven T Yavarow Scholarship: An-Chi Huang
HMA Scholarship: Rebecca Gallant
John Philips Sousa Award: Advait Nene
Louis Armstrong Award: Linnea Pappas Byers
USMC Semper Fidelis Award: Joe Wang

Reminder to all HHS Band students.....please make sure you have a lyre, a flip book (new flip books will be provided to freshmen and students new to the program) and please print out your parts from the Pep Band 2020 folder. We will be playing outside at 5 yard (15 foot) intervals this fall on either field 7 or 8 during school.

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The following students participated in the 2020 Central District Mass. Music Educators Association Senior festival concert at Mechanics Hall in Worcester January 18th.

Jessie Franks*                                                                                               

An-Chi Huang*

Andrea Liu*

Advait Nene*

Jacob Chastain*                                                                                            

Linnea Pappas-Byers*                                                                                 

Allison Chen

Luciano Duca                                                                                                

Bryce Foti                                                                                                      

Carly Ozmun

Kira Sward                                                                                                    

Tony Weissinger    

*Recommended to audition for MMEA All State               

Dear Parents and Students,

Last night you heard the disappointing news that our ensembles, Band, Chorus and Orchestra, will not be meeting during the HMS hybrid school day. While we are disappointed, we understand that this is being done out of an abundance of caution to make sure the students, faculty and staff remain as safe as possible this school year.

With that said, the music department is working on a virtual ensemble program for our students. We will have more information available to you in the next two weeks. I can say that HCAM is very excited to help us put this program together so we can offer some virtual performances available to the community throughout the school year.

The HMA will also be offering the Private Lesson Program remotely again this year. The lesson program was very successful when we switched to remote in the spring and our private teachers are very eager to continue. Information about the program is attached below.

If you have any additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at chay@hopkinton.k12.ma.us.

Sincerely,

Craig Hay, M.Ed.

K-12 Music Subject Matter Leader

Hopkinton Music Association Private Lesson Program 2020-2021

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The following students have been accepted to the 2020 Junior District Festival Ensembles:

Abigail Baskin, Orchestra

Anjana Venkatram, Chorus

Brandon Fu, Band

Daniel Applebaum, Orchestra

Holly Thompson, Band

Jefferey Wu, Orchestra

Megan Cappetta, Chorus

Peter Liang, Band

Saahil Minocha, Orchestra

Sean Miniman, Band

Tarun Prasanna, Band

Dear Hopkins,Elmwood and Marathon Families

Thank you for all you did to make the last three months successful. Enjoy your summer and we miss you!

The Hopkins Music Department.