Catherine Maust participated in the Michigan Youth Symphonic Band at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor on Monday, Nov. 14. The Michigan Youth Symphonic Band (MYSB) provides woodwind, brass and percussion students rigorous experience in performing intensive and demanding repertoire in a broad range of styles.
Maust, 13, is an eighth grader at Mill Creek. She plays trombone in the Mill Creek band with Mr. Damman as well as the MYSB this year.
“I started playing in fifth grade at Creekside (fall of 2019),” she says. “We got to pick from all the band and orchestra instruments and the trombone looked the most interesting. I started taking private lessons with my teacher Elliot Green that fall. He is still my teacher!”
Catherine says shen COVID started, they changed to virtual lessons. “Our band teacher Ms. Wilson ran our school band classes on Zoom,” she says. “I got to go to Blue Lake last summer for trombone and I tried out for MYSB last summer so I could try playing harder music and challenge myself.”
The daughter of Susan Crane & Donovan Maust, Catherine also likes to sing and dances at Dancer’s Edge and on the Edge All-Star team.
“I got play last year in the middle school All-State Band, and I’m excited to be in the DHS bands next year,” she says. “I like that music can tell lots of different stories.”
The Michigan Youth Symphonic Band is open to advanced high-school aged level woodwind, brass and percussion musicians.
