Four Heritage students selected to County Honor Band

Four Heritage High School students were among those selected for the first Riverside County High School Honor Band.

The band consists of 79 students from 19 high schools throughout the county. It will give its first performance Saturday at 6 p.m. at Palm Springs High School's Richards Center for the Arts, 2248 Ramon Road in Palm Springs. Admission is free.

Assembling a county-wide band is part of County Superintendent Judy White's commitment to increasing student access fo the visual and performing arts, according to a news release.

"Our intent was to have representation from every high school that had students auditioning. As it turns out, every high school that came out for auditions had at least one student who scored high enough with the adjudicators to be accepted to the program based on merit," said Louisa Higgins, the Arts Administrator from the Riverside County Office of Education. "The experience should be challenging and rewarding for students as they strive to play new and high level music, travel and meet and make new friends, and perform for a public audience that is out of their normal school or district setting."

The Heritage High School students on the band roster are Ian Alvarado (first trumpet); Maegan Calder (third clarinet); Maya Cervantes (third clarinet); and Goviani Vasquez (bass clarinet).