Assumption School Music Program

Welcome to our Assumption School music webpage. I am so blessed to be the music teacher to all our students from TK to 8th Grade. I have been music teacher here since 2012. 

Before coming to Assumption School, I was organist and choir director at various churches around the Bay Area. My graduate degrees are in organ performance, choral conducting and theology. 

The music program here at Assumption School is a choral (choir) program. We sing 3 concerts each year and many, many Masses and liturgies throughout the school year. 

Each grade from TK to 8th Grade is a choir unto itself. We also have a children’s choir with over 30 students (from TK to 8th Grade) singing in it this year. That choir practices on Wednesdays after school and also sings for concerts and Masses throughout the school year. 

In music class, we sing, sing, and sing. In the midst of all the singing we do, we also study music theory. By the time our students graduate, I would like them to be able to read music and be comfortable with their God-given voice. Some of our graduates have gone on to study music in high school and college. Three of our graduates are currently cantors here at our Sunday Masses. 

This year, classes from 1st to 8th Grades are singing in 2 parts. I am working on training their ear to hear not only a melody but also a harmony. To hear harmony is very hard to do, because our ear always hears the top part which is melody. Some older grades now are able to even sing 3 parts. Stay tuned…

After each piece we “perform,” I make an unlisted YouTube recording. This is a digital scrapbook that the students love to view years later. Those YouTube recordings are available to family and to whomever they would like to send the link. There are some school concerts though on YouTube that you can listen to that are not unlisted. You can go to Assumption San Leandro (all one word). 

Thank you for checking out this webpage. Please contact me at the email address on the previous page if you have any questions. 

Thank you,

Bill Vaughan 

Assumption Music Teacher