At Liberty Tech High School, we strongly believe that music has the ability to enrich every person’s life in unique and powerful ways.  Thus, our primary goal is to foster the development of a life-long relationship with music in every student.  Whether our students go on to be symphony musicians, doctors who play in a community band or orchestra one night a week, or simply music fans, our goal is for them to have a love and appreciation of music and music-making.

Beyond the purely musical goals of the program, we also aim to develop students’ interpersonal and interpersonal skills.  Teamwork is a requirement for both the concert bands and the marching band.  There are no “second-string” players in a band.  Instead each individual in the ensemble - down to the last chair player - plays a vital role in the quality of the whole.  Additionally, there are no right or wrong answers in music.  Each musical performance is unique and can never be perfect.  Even the best professional musicians spend their entire lives reaching for perfection, never quite attaining it.  These two characteristics separate music from other subjects and are what make it is such an irreplaceable aspect of a student’s education.

Given all of this, we are not in the business of producing only “conservatory players” who have ambitions to pursue music as a profession.  We are - very much - in the business, however, of developing a life-long relationship with music in every student.  Along the way we will also be providing and encouraging positive interactions and personal growth through the medium of music.  The road towards these goals is extremely rewarding, yet very challenging.  Only through positive effort on the part of everybody involved in the program can true excellence be achieved.