Music

Wright Middle School STEAM and Gifted Magnets is a sequential arts middle school. Students are able to stay with a instrumental music elective all three years if they wish. In the music department we offer beginning strings, winds, technical stage crew, bucket drumming/modern band, advanced band and orchestra. We also offer a drum line group that meets as a club at lunch. In addition to the drumline students in advanced band can participate in the jazz band. Your child will be taught by two highly trained musicians. Ms. Maureas is a 24 year K-12 music teacher. She is a professional flutist with a BA from UCLA and a MA from NYU. She is also a LAUSD Teacher of the Year 2022 and a Grammy Educator Quarter Finalist 2016/17. Mr. Mike Hyziak is our part time music instructor who spends the rest of his professional time preparing music forA list musicians through out the world. He is also a prolific composer, arranger and transcriber. He currently works with Randy Brecker, The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars and many more. Mr. Mike has two BAs from University of NY at Buffalo and a Master’s Degree from NYU. Both Ms. Maureas and Mr. Mike has proudly been serving the WMS community for twelve years.

Since Wright is a project based learning community our music department promotes student growth in PBL by collaborating with the theater program on a annual Junior musical.

Students do not need to have an instrument or previous musicial knowledge! All instruments are provided by and maintained by Wright. All instrument loans are free of charge! We are also dedicated to affirming students’cultural backgounds in the classroom. In addition to learning music theory students are affirmed by learning about diverse musical styles and musicians.