Our Music Ensembles
Welcome to a new school year! We look forward to a wonderful musical experience. The HVA Music department offers musical training in the areas of choral and instrumental ensembles. We have two different choral groups: The HVA Choral and the Highlanders. We have two instrumental ensembles: The HVA Wind & String ensemble and the Highland Ringers (Handbells). There are plenty of performance opportunities, traveling, recording, and fun experiences you can received while attending HVA music department. You are welcome to watch some of our video productions on this website. If you are not yet an HVA Musician, we invite you to join us!
Class Syllabus here
Class Syllabus here
Our Music Director
Dr. David Nino has taught at Colombia Adventist University, Northern Caribbean University, and several High school institutions in North America. Dr. Nino loves teaching and working with youth and adult musicians, he writes musical arrangements and original works for choirs, band, handbells and other musical ensembles (visit: www.allpraise.net). His music has been performed in the U.S.A, Canada, South America and Asia. Dr. Nino has also being invited for clinics, workshops, and as a guest conductor to several SDA music festivals including Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, California, and overseas countries such as the Philippines, Colombia and Mexico
Dr. Nino holds a bachelor in Music Education, from the Adventist University of Colombia, a Master's in Music with emphasis in Music theory/composition from West Texas A&M University, and a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership from the American College of Education in Indiana. For his dissertation, Dr. Nino carried a qualitative case-study directed to band directors about the use of cooperative learning strategies as teaching strategy in the band class. Dr. Nino also offers seminars and clinics in several areas: handbells, Band, Choral, and church music while currently serving as director of music at Highland View Academy in Maryland.