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  • Staff
    • Christina Latham, Director
    • Ron Salinas, Asst. Director
    • Jay Salter, Bagpipes
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    • Band Camp 2022
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Christina Latham, Director

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Ms. Latham started playing clarinet in elementary school in Walnut Creek. She continued throughout Intermediate School with Mr. Scott, the teacher for both elementary & middle school. She joined the high school band when her family moved to Manteca. There, she received the Louie Armstrong Jazz Award and a scholarship from the Manteca Teachers Association. She served on the band council and was a teacher's assistant for band director, Mr. Prat.

After high school she attended San Joaquin Delta College. At Delta she was the assistant to the band director, Charles Jennings, and learned many skills essential to running a band.

Ms. Latham transferred to San Francisco State University to complete her Bachelors of Music Degree. She became the MENC Student chapter president and fundraised enough to send the group to the state conference for two consecutive years. She was the assistant to the band director, LeRoy Roach and helped run the band during the school year and the Band Directors reading clinic for many summers.

After her degree she started the credential program working at Lowell HS in San Francisco. After one semester she was hired to teach elementary music in San Francisco for one semester while the permanent teacher was on sabbatical. Her master teacher was Sally Ann Ryan, who provided guidance and inspiration.

From 1999 to the present she has been the band director at Santa Cruz High School. She has been a member of the Watsonville Community Band, Cabrillo College Symphonic Winds and “5 o’clock jazz band”.  She served as the Secretary and Awards and Clinics Chairperson on the Board of the Northern California Band Association (NCBA). Her service to the profession also includes serving the Santa Cruz Jazz Festival Board as a member at large. In 2010, Ms. Latham was awarded Band Director of the Year by the NCBA.

 

​About Us - Established in 1925, the band program at Santa Cruz High School is one of the oldest in California, and we are proud and privileged to represent our community and our school as we travel throughout Northern California and beyond. We strive to foster a sense of camaraderie and family amongst our members: color guard and musicians united as one team—the Cardinal Regiment. More about us here, or click any of our social presence below.
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