Mission Bay High School is an International Baccalaureate (IB) school and offers a wide variety of music courses as well as a rigorous academic course load. 

From Concert Band to Orchestra, Jazz to Choir, Mission Bay has something for every music student!

2020 NAMM Award recipient for “Best Communities for Music Education,” the MBHS Music Program includes entry level classes for winds, strings, percussion and vocalists. Our advanced ensembles include multiple year-long jazz ensembles that meet during the school day as well as our Symphony Orchestra, MB’s elite classical ensemble.  Ensembles like our Preservationists, Swing Choir, Mambo Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra give students a cross-cultural experience they will not find anywhere else!

See all classes offered here.

Performance is our passion

It is our belief that students grow through performance.  Our students enter as musicians and leave as professionals, understanding the depth of creativity, dedication and love for their art-form needed to take the next step in their musical journey.

We aim to give our students opportunities that will stay with them for the rest of their lives, helping to shape them into incredible musicians but more importantly, incredible people.

Students in our program

  • Travel the world to perform (past trips include: New Orleans, Japan)

  • Perform at local and nation-wide festivals

  • Learn college level music theory

  • Receive instruction and workshops from local professionals

  • Learn how to record, mix and engineer their own music in our in-house recording studio.

  • Compose, arrange and record in our in-house recording studio

  • Are featured on television, radio and news throughout the country

  • Work as paid professionals before they leave high school

  • Learn about the music business through our work study and concert series at the Japanese Friendship Garden.

Interested in joining our program?

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