Arts

Performing Arts

Performing Arts

The Performing Arts Department, recognizing that the performing arts are at the core of human existence, offers ensembles and classes in a supportive environment that provides for performance-based assessment and process-oriented learning. Students are encouraged to exceed previous levels of achievement, discover self-confidence, develop self-esteem, build self-discipline, and achieve self-awareness. Teachers are models for active learning, risk-taking, and self-expression. Students are taught the arts for the sake of the arts and as a model for all learning. Motivated students are prepared for advanced study.

The study of the performing arts is a major component of a well-rounded education. As such, the performing arts at Rivers aim to help students understand how to listen to and interact with other performing artists as well as to express themselves confidently, articulately, and artistically.






2025-26 Nonesuch Players Season

Upper School Fall Play:
Little Women
November 6, 7, and 8, 2025

Middle School Fall Play:
Sounds Off
November 13 and 14, 2025

Upper School Winter Musical:
9 to 5
February 19 and 20, 2026

Middle School Spring Musical:
Annie Jr.
May 14, 15, and 16, 2026


Performing Arts Events

List of 3 events.

  • May
    13

    CP Musical Theater Concert

    Haffenreffer - Haff Black Box - Black Box
  • May
    14

    MS Musical

    Haffenreffer - Haff Black Box - Black Box
  • May
    15

    MS Musical

    Haffenreffer - Haff Black Box - Black Box
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Music Ensembles

List of 3 items.

  • Instrumental Program

    Select String Ensemble (US) - Ben Carson, director
    Select Wind Ensemble (US) - Dan Shaud, director
    Select Piano Ensemble (US) - Victor Cayres, director
    Chamber Ensemble (US) - Dan Shaud, director
    Chamber Ensemble (MS) - Dan Shaud, director

  • Jazz Program

    Rivers Honors Big Band (US) - Philippe Crettien, director
    Rivers Big Band (US) - Bill Jones, director
    Select Combo I (US) - Philippe Crettien, director
    Select Combo II (US) - Philippe Crettien, director
    Intermediate Jazz Band (US) - Philippe Crettien, director
    Beginning Jazz Ensemble (MS) - Clayton DeWalt, director
    Middle School Jazz Ensemble (MS) - Bill Jones, director

  • Vocal Program

    Select Chorus (US) - Krissy Skare, director
    Chorus (US) - Krissy Skare, director
    Middle School Chorus - Krissy Skare, director


Performing Arts News

List of 3 news stories.

  • String quartet of Rivers students performing with featured soloist William Socolof

    Young Performers and Composers Explore Contemporary Music in Annual Seminar

    At the Rivers School Conservatory (RSC), the annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young allows students to immerse themselves in the entire music creation process. For some, that means learning contemporary music written within the last 25 years for the very first time. For others, it means stepping forward as composers, hearing their own work come to life in performance. This year’s Seminar, the 47th in RSC’s history, was defined by both experiences, embodied in the journeys of two RSC students: Eduardo (Eddie) De Souza ’26 and Gavin Armstrong.
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  • “Nothing’s Gonna Change If You Don’t Change It”: Nonesuch Players Present 9 to 5: The Musical

    For two nights this February, the Nonesuch Players’ production of 9 to 5: The Musical whisks audiences back in time to the 1970s, when the grind of office life meant typewriters, landlines, lots of paper—and keeping to the status quo in which women were treated as less than their male counterparts. With a tagline of “Nothing’s gonna change if you don’t change it,” the show tells the story of three women taking charge of their own lives to make a difference—with plenty of humor, heartfelt songs, and flashy dance numbers along the way.
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  • The Rivers School Conservatory Hosts Sold-Out Holiday Pops

    On a Saturday night in early December, The Rivers School’s Benson Gymnasium was filled with the sounds of marimba music, musical theater song and dance, big band jazz, and a full symphony providing holiday revelry.
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