The Instrumental Music program attracts students from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels. Through thoughtfully designed courses, our students’ talents reach greater levels that enable them to play with incredible passion and zeal. Musicians set the mood for prayer services, lift the crowd on the athletic field and add a melody to SHC events and more. In Concert Band, String Orchestra and Jazz Band, students explore techniques from a variety of wind and brass, percussion, and string instruments, as well as piano and electric guitar and bass.
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SHC's Instrumental Music program performs regularly for the school community, including two major concerts (Winter and Spring), masses, special events and sporting events. Additionally, our program holds outreach and service-related performances and workshops. SHC Instrumental tours festivals and competitions nationally and internationally.
Tiv Cumberbatch serves as the Director of Instrumental Music and the Visual and Performing Arts Department Chair at Sacred Heart Cathedral. With over a decade of experience in both public and private junior high and high school instrumental music education, Tiv has conducted numerous wind ensembles across the country (Arkansas, New York, and California). He is a passionate and fearless educator, with a philosophy centered on teaching music through performance and the correlation to individual student growth. He graduated from Henderson State University with a Bachelor of Music in Education, and from The State University of New York in Fredonia with a Masters of Music in Performance with an emphasis in Instrumental Wind Conducting, where he served as a graduate assistant.
