BIEMS Bandestra

BIEMS Bandestra For the BIEMS Band and Orchestra families and community supporters to find and follow information about upcoming events as well as celebrate student successes.

02/09/2026

Today we’ll be at NW Classen HS at 6pm to support THE Belle Isle Enterprise Middle School Girl’s Basketball team at the ACAC finals!

You an alum? Join the fans, hear what we’ve been up to, and watch our all-stars put on a show! $5

You an alum and still in band/playing? Wanna come play with us? $5, send Mr. Hall an email by 11am so he can get you music to look over before it’s time, and bring your instrument!:

[email protected]

01/16/2026

We ended the year strong by starting December out having the Bulls visit the Bronchos! It was an amazing start to what will hopefully be an annual tradition for our BIEMS (and soon to be, BIEHS) students of collegiate band side-by-sides and visits!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PTce0IxO6-Ks4TtxHZnUO72tE1mtWplC

We finished it off the year with Ms. Millirons leading our annual holiday concert where 70+ 6th-8th band and orchestra students VOLUNTARILY rehearsed and performed on top of all their other banding/orchestrating duties (and learned all the sharps).

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9b6UHkg1VOiLSrCg0ho1qUSA3ZaRVPbf&si=Du5Br0jnmv-tv9NU

Now we’re starting the year even stronger getting to work on really cool stuff with our 6th graders, like mature lyrical music making, breathmarks and all to prep for February’s OKCPS clinic! These kids might be only in their second semester of playing, but they’re locked in, ready to show up and show out!

The BIEMS All City streak is still alive!The band came in hot with nearly half our 7th and 8th grade band program making...
11/17/2025

The BIEMS All City streak is still alive!

The band came in hot with nearly half our 7th and 8th grade band program making up almost half of the entire All City Honor Band, including both 7th graders and first-year players taking 17 of those spots, specifically!

With our leadership, academic, and musical growth, clearly BIEMS students work hard and play harder🎺! And that’s why we’re

We’re looking forward to our concert Tuesday and even more to our first-ever band college tour and side-by-side with the UCO Stampede of Sound Marching Band when we get back from break! It’ll be a blast!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WLIyGvaeH-JObBvFkeHpRZNVnG_2KxRd/view?usp=drivesdk

11/08/2025

It has been a weekend in the best kind of way!

Last night, our orchestra kids rocked the house with nearly half of the All City orchestra being exclusively from THE Belle Isle Enterprise Middle School. Many of whom actually play 1-2 extra band instruments!

Today, 17 of our band students auditioned for CODA, an honor band for the metro, including those at All City Orchestra last night.

Safe to say our kids have been putting in the work!

We’d like to give a special shout out to the following students that made CODA today:

Gage, 3rd chair tuba
Silas, 7th chair horn
And, the beast, Antonio, that beat BOTH 8th AND 9th graders to get his second chair spot for horn!

Way to freaking go, y’all!

Next up: Student body concerts on the 13th, All City band auditions on the 15th, and the fall concert on the 18th!

10/28/2025

Our closer for the OKCPS Foundation Wall of Fame Event! Safe to say the kids showed up and showed out!

We’ve generally had some students practicing at the library while they waited for their guardian the last few years. How...
09/19/2025

We’ve generally had some students practicing at the library while they waited for their guardian the last few years. However, last year, our most recent alumni and current students practiced so much that the library has taken it upon themselves to designate a dedicated time and place just for Belle Isle students to play music.

We all know it takes a village, a love for music, and a place to do it. And the staff of the Belle Isle Library have shown that not only are they a safe place to be and enjoy music, but they want to encourage and promote to all of our students.

We cannot thank them enough. We know librarians are the unsung heroes of reading literacy and performance, our kids adore theirs, and these folks have proven, yet again, just how awesome they are to our students.

We also want to give a shout out to our recent alumni. You know who you are, and this is a prime example that when you lead by example, people notice and opportunities are made. You not only made yourself better and created opportunities for yourself to be successful, but also have now created opportunities for others. Thank you for leading our legacy yet again, even if you didn’t realize you would be.

08/22/2025

We know our alumni/guardians of alumni have been wanting updates on pep band for this year:

We are planning to have pep band for a basketball and soccer game (no football team this year)!

We will have exact dates after season schedules come out, we have a chat with coaches, and update here! Hopefully next year we’ll be able to do one for volleyball, too!

Here are the end of year concerts*! We hope you enjoy!https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9b6UHkg1VOi50EnC67FBWyAwyEuBDS...
05/16/2025

Here are the end of year concerts*! We hope you enjoy!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9b6UHkg1VOi50EnC67FBWyAwyEuBDSAn&si=vtkJ_KfYCzfeicG4

We want to give a special shout out to our Composer-in-Residence, Rogelio! He had his AMAZING debut of, “Maltos Concerto Grosso No. 1”. Give it a looksee to understand why we say

*We are extremely sorry, but, unfortunately, due to the busses being an hour late from triple routing and our concert also running an hour late as a result, we were not able to have the 8th grade band concert filmed. They were informed of this the next day. We apologize and we will make it a point to reserve a videographer for up to 2 hours over the projected finish time to avoid this issue occurring ever again.

Let’s Goooooo Bulls

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*Concert videos to be posted tomorrow!*Our 7th grader band wanted to show you what we’ve been been cooking up as we look...
05/14/2025

*Concert videos to be posted tomorrow!*

Our 7th grader band wanted to show you what we’ve been been cooking up as we look to next year! What you see here is a result of many of the changes we have made that has led to an explosion of numbers in our program over the last few years!

https://youtu.be/ndde_s7kjdI?si=89sgNG50WUojYIeV

Because of this growth in both size (over half of students in 6th-8th grade will be in band and orchestra) and opportunities, we project to have a larger program than even some nearby 6A schools, despite having such a small middle/high school. For this reason, we are starting our first…. Drum roll please…..

BIEMS Joint Band and Orchestra Booster Club!

If you are a guardian of a current or former student, (an adult) alumni, or a strong supporter, we would love to have you be a part of our first set of super volunteers helping us further maximize the potential, success, and opportunites of our programs. We have officer roles which will need filled, as well as super volunteers that don’t want the responsibilities but do want to help push us to succeed! See our form below and fill out and/or share:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgX5m346QmvUu0TMVXSbvykmSgJK4LkDprDRAOguysiWUWpQ/viewform?usp=preview

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!

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