BIEMS Bandestra

04/05/2025

CONCERT VENUE UPDATE:

If you’re planning on coming to the band concert at 6pm on 4/8, we will be hosted by the wonderful Jason Morgan at Frederick Douglass High School!

03/29/2025

Reflecting on now:

Looks like official contest season is a wrap! You know what that means! Photo dump and bravos!

7th and 8th orchestra in, Ms. Millirons first year, coming strong with I’s in Sight Reading and I’s on stage!

7th band did well with I’s in Sight Reading and II’s and III’s on stage.

8th band had a great performance but came up a little short on the results we felt we earned with III’s on stage and II in Sight Reading.

We celebrated with some Main Event on the windiest day of the year and got an extra free day at Main Event out of it!

And we finished it off with the following solo and ensemble results which you can find in the link below.

Band: we had 6 soloists who received 4 superiors and 3 excellent ratings (one of them kicked butt on both flute and bassoon), our brass ensemble received an excellent, and our first ever BIEMS percussion ensemble, comprised of only 7th graders, received a superior!

Orchestra: our soloists had 4 superiors, 1 excellents, and 2 good ratings! Our ensembles received 4 superior 1 excellent, 2 good ratings!

Way to go all!

On to the future:

Next week we get to do our annual partnership with Putnam City to have 6th graders (and, some of them - their older siblings get to join) perform their own solo and ensembles!

We will finish off the full year with our first ever soccer Pep band on 4/7 and kick it on stage on stage with the band on 4/8 (more deets to come).

We will have a full concert for you in a great venue in an actual auditorium on an actual stage with the following on our program:

6th:

Spring
Antagonist
Soar with the Dragons
Emerald Sky
Skysplitter Fanfare

7th:

The Tempest
Macarena
Stay
Incantation and Ritual
Sword of Fire
After the Rain

8th:

Ancient Moon
Trust
Snowscape
Waltz No 2
Ciao Bella Ciao
Clarinets Packing Up Early

https://gvlabs.com/festivalmanager/ossaa/text/scores_26.htm

02/25/2025

7th grade band clinic was today, and they killed it!

At Belle Isle, you know what that means… PIZZZZZZZZZAAAAA!

02/14/2025

Belle Isle 8th grade band doing what Belle Isle does: getting better and eating Cici’s!

Thank you to the wonderful Ms. Kelli Taylor from Harding Charter Prep coming in to clinic our band! She brought a lot of wisdom, a lot of laughs, and a lot of high quality music making to our band! Here’s to no more snow days (or at least not after next week…. Pretty please…)

Special shout out to our 7th graders cool enough to play 8th grade level music on a second instrument!

02/13/2025

Our 7th grade set the stage with their performance and then, in yet ANOTHER first for our band program, we had the FIRST EVER 6th grade band to perform at the OKCPS OSSAA Band Clinic. Proud of all of our kids, especially the 6th grade who proved they are highly motivated to and

Fun fact: one of the 6th grade’s songs they played is normally for our 7th graders and it’s only February. Mr. Hall just conveniently never shared that 💁🏽‍♂️🔥💪🏽

P. S. Mr. Hall has dubbed himself the Cicis Pizza eating champion. He just didn’t wanna show y’all up … yet 👀

01/24/2025

And the annual BIEMS All City current students and alumni photo is a wrap!

01/24/2025

We hope you’re as excited as we are to watch these students perform at 6:30 (high school at 7:15)!

Here’s a photo dump of your kids doing what they do best: being awesome at being awesome!

Annual Belle Isle current and former photo to be in the comments when we break for dinner!

01/11/2025

As promised, here are the videos from the Christmas concert! We hope you all had as much of a blast as the kids did!

Show some special appreciation to Ms. Millirons who arranged/wrote music for it and led it!

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

12/18/2024

Some of our French horns in 7th and 8th grade joined them “on stage”… little did they know they would be sight reading with a college horn group for a class performance today! 💪🏽

12/18/2024

We want to thank University of Central Oklahoma’s French Horn Quartet for reaching out and coming to perform for our students! They loved it and were extremely excited about it!

11/25/2024

Congratulations to our orchestra students and all of their hard work with an AMAZING performance! Send some love and appreciation to Ms. Millirons for her first concert as a teacher at Belle Isle!

Can’t wait to see what Ms. Millirons and the BIEMS orchestra have in store for the rest of this year! All of our concert videos have officially been uploaded!

Feel free to share as you go about fundraising for the LOMA raffle!

6th Grade Band https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9b6UHkg1VOh3TJsjNb_kLJghDMRKCXyO 7th Grade Band https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9b6UHkg1VOjPSLIhLOQxagudAK9tGCQX 8th Grade Band https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9b6UHkg1VOghEAAokgvBlUMa8p93p-A7 6th Grade Orchestra https:...

11/21/2024

Bravo to our band students for their performance!

We want to give an extra special shout out to our 6th grade who are the first group to perform a really real concert song (Midnight Mission by Brian Balmages) in the fall, thanks to our new schedule, amazing students, and supportive staff, admin, and guardians!

https://youtu.be/PyEaGqRG9fc?feature=shared

Here are all the performances:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hwLQ08Smkt-agU8Q_9zUIYBJBf0gaQlslzUl1QJuSBo/view?usp=sharing

11/17/2024

Congratulations to all who auditioned, especially those whom this was their first time!

We’d love to give an extra special shout out to our 7th graders (asterisk) who worked so hard to bring us to 20/84 spots held by Belle Isle students! Let’s gooooo Bulls!

Updated in the clarinets:

Flute:

Danna Zuniga Moore 2nd
Madison Smith 6th
Delta Mazariegos Monterroso 9th
Mailen Resendiz Rojo alternate*

Oboe:

Aaron 1st

Clarinet:

Di’Marco Norris 10th
Kara Hohman 19th

Bass Clarinet:

Jonathan Alvarado Navarrette 1st
Zoe Blair alternate*

Tenor Sax:

Kayden Smith 3rd

Trumpet:

Caden Gard 4th

Euphonium:

Ler Moo 1st*
Nakaela Wright alternate

Tuba:

Elijah Ollison 1st
Oliver Pool alternate*

Percussion:

Travis Tran 1st*
Brian Nguyen 3rd
Antonio Ortiz 5th*
Chloe Espolt 6th
Mia Jackson 7th*

11/09/2024

Congrats to Oliver for making 7th Grade CODA Honor Band. He will be the 3rd chair tuba!

Give a round of applause to all our auditionees this year. They had some tuff 💪🏽 competition!

We can’t wait to see everyone at Harding Charter Prep next Saturday on the 16th for All City auditions and add some new and old names to our list of honor band performers!

10/02/2024

Come be a part of history!

All alumni, family, and supporters: please join us on Oct 8th at Taft Stadium at 7pm for our FIRST EVER pep band. We will be supporting our favorite football team, THE Belle Isle Bulls to beat our rivals, Classen SAS.

We are also debuting our FIRST EVER drumline with their own song unique song just for them! On top of that, students have been absolutely killing it and managed to learn an incredible 11 (might even get to 12) songs in roughly 3 weeks, so we have quite the playlist which includes:

Plaza de Toros (unofficial fight song)
Radioactive
Kernkraft 400
Zombie
Seven Nation Army
Hey Song
And many more

Tickets are only $5 and come with the best band in the land for free… THE Belle Isle Enteprise Middle School Pep Band. They might look like middle schoolers, but let me tell ya: anyone not at the game will think they’re a bunch of seniors with that beefy sound 💪🏽🔥

Don’t miss out on being a part of history!

08/27/2024

INSTRUMENT DONATIONS OF ANY CONDITION WANTED!!!

Are you an alumni, or a guardian of an alumni that played in band or orchestra?

Did you, someone you know, or their child play in band or orchestra?

Our program which is projected to grow by nearly 50 students in the next 2 years, would greatly appreciate any instruments of any condition (broken or perfect condition) donated to our mission to ensure that every child who wants to play an instrument can play an instrument, whether or not they can afford it!

We are currently working on securing a professional to appraise the instrument and any and all instruments donated will be tax deductible, after they’re appraised. Any instruments that are broken or in need of repair will be fixed by us, as fixing an instrument is generally cheaper than buying new ones and we need to maximize every dollar.

We’re the most in need of flutes, clarinets, and percussion.

Please message us or email [email protected], if you have an instrument you’re wishing to donate!l

If you don’t have any instruments, then help us by sharing this post!

05/16/2024

04/23/2024

Bravo to all on an awesome performance to end the year! Gotta say thanks to the 6th and 7th band who decided it was a good idea to add a story line! Making concerts fun is the BEST!

We would like to give 2 BIG shout outs!:

1) Special shout out to all chaperones, but especially our super chaperones/volunteers: Ms. Patrick, the Ortiz’s, Ms. Marzett, and the Clark’s! Our concerts and events would not have gone near as smoothly without your help and literally dozens of hours of collective support!

2) Our 8th graders who debuted as either a conductor or a for real for real soloist at their concert! Super proud of y’all! Handle it like a champ!

Donation/Mr. Perry’s hair-dyeing update: we well exceeded our goal and raised more than enough to ensure THE Mr. Perry will be dyeing both the top of his head AND his beard! Way to go Bulls!

Enjoy the concert and feel free to share!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18sF6QHVXl5-Dg3qjp15KuOblIQVZho5EV64307KNcCA/view