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Joel Pagano conducts the Sebastian River High School Wind Symphony in
concert leading up to the Music for All National Festival in March.
high school since 2006 and is conductor of the Vero Beach
Community Orchestra, Vero Beach Chamber Orchestra and
Treasure Coast Wind Ensemble.
Joel Pagàn, 35, earned his master’s degree in music education
at Florida State University and is director of bands at Sebastian
River High School. The SRHS Wind Symphony, with
67 students, has been asked to participate in the festival three
times but it is far from the only honor earned by the group
over the years. The
musicians have
been invited to perform
in concerts up
and down the East
Coast and as far
west as Chicago.
For the Music for
All event, bands
submitted recordings
to a judging
Shanti Simon, class
of 1998, is deputy
conductor of the
U.S. Air Force Band
in Washington, D.C.,
with White House
performance responsibilities.
panel. “This was
a blind process,”
Pagàn says. “No
one on the panel
knew the identity
of any of the ensembles. The adjudicators then pick the top 16
high school bands from across the nation to perform ... .”
Pagàn points to another honor garnered by local school programs.
“Indian River County was recently named one of the
‘2012 Best Communities for Music Education’ by the NAMM
(National Association of Music Merchants) Foundation,” he
says. “All of the instrumental ensembles at Sebastian River >>
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