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About The Teacher Label:


About The Teacher
Becky Hicks is currently in her seventh year of teaching band, and her fifth 1mickey1year of teaching at Pitcher. She graduated from both Dominican High School and the New Orleans Creative Center for the Arts (NOCCA) in 1994. Her musical career started in fourth grade when she began playing the clarinet in the school band. She began playing the electric and upright bass in high school for various theaters, and she is now known around the city as "just a bass player". While attending Dominican, she was awarded a four-year full tuition scholarship to Loyola University in New Orleans based on her academic performance. Mrs. Hicks majored in Instrumental Music Education with Dr. Joe Hebert while at Loyola and continued to play for many of the New Orleans area theaters. She graduated cum laude from Loyola and began her teaching career at St. Mary Magdalen School in Metairie where she taught both band and general music. In 2003, she started a Master's in Music Performance degree at Southeastern Louisiana University under the tuteledge of Dr. Glen Hemberger and Mr. Dave Carbonara. She completed her Master's degree in 2005. Mrs. Hicks has been employed by the St. Tammany Parish School Board since August of 2004. She spent the 2004-2005 school year serving as band director for 5th and 6th graders at three schools: Bayou Lacombe Middle School, Alton Elementary, and Brock Elementary. She began her current teaching position at Pitcher Junior High and Pine View Middle School in 2005, and she is still extremely grateful to her principals and supervisors for her wonderful position. Mrs. Hicks has started an all-year jazz band at Pitcher that has performed around the community and was recently invited to play the opening of the new school board building in Covington. In her free time (ha, ha) Mrs. Hicks continues to play her bass on the weekends for musical theater shows and concerts in and around the New Orleans area, and she is also a much sought after private bass teacher on the Northshore. She has performed for the Saenger Theatre, the Jefferson Performing Arts Society, LePetit Theatre, Southern Rep Theatre, and Rivertown Theatre. She has also played for numerous high school productions including ones at Jesuit, Immaculatta, St. Scholastica, and Mt. Carmel. In addition, she has performed with the Gulf Coast Symphony, the Pensacola Symphony, and the New Orleans Civic Symphony. In 2003, she played bass for the recordings used for two of the live shows being performed at the Six Flags New Orleans theme park.

Mission Label:


Mission
The purpose of our band is to provide a positive musical experience for our band students through constant musical learning. Students will be given opportunities to create & discover their own musical identities. They will gain valuable life skills with every performance, and will use this knowledge in practical applications. Our goal is to produce happy, smart, disciplined, and productive band students who will go on to bigger and better things in life.