About Us
Founded in 2007, New Horizons Band of Cape Cod is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit band, established to provide opportunities for adults, especially seniors, to expand their knowledge, increase their skill level, and play a variety of musical genres and styles in a concert band setting that promotes fun and fellowship with other volunteer musicians. While also maintaining a standard of musical performance appropriate to the mission and membership. Provide the community musical entertainment free to the public. Without regard to race, sex, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation.
Our Director
We are pleased and proud to have Alex Pendleton as our Director. Alex has been a music teacher in the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District for the past sixteen years. In 2004 he was appointed the full time position of Band Director at the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School. Alex is also the Music & Performing Arts Department Chair where he directs and oversees the 200-member Concert Band, Jazz Band, Marching Band, Winter Percussion, Color Guard, and other various music courses.
Along with his teaching responsibilities at D-Y, Alex is an active musician and member of the Cape Cod Music Educators Association, Director of the New Horizons Band, and co-manager of the All-Cape Jazz Festival. Alex is a proud alumnus of the D-Y District where he began his musical training as a clarinetist and conductor. He went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music in Berea Ohio; later in his career he earned his Master’s Degree in Education from Cambridge College.
One of his proudest personal achievements was in 2013 when he was voted “Educator of the Year” by the faculty of the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School.
Outside of the music field he served as the co-chair of the D-Y NEASC Steering Committee, teacher at the D-Y Academic Leadership Institute, and a licensed Realtor® with RS Cash Realtors of South Yarmouth.
Our Director
We are pleased and proud to have Alex Pendleton as our Director. Alex has been a music teacher in the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District for the past sixteen years. In 2004 he was appointed the full time position of Band Director at the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School. Alex is also the Music & Performing Arts Department Chair where he directs and oversees the 200-member Concert Band, Jazz Band, Marching Band, Winter Percussion, Color Guard, and other various music courses.
Along with his teaching responsibilities at D-Y, Alex is an active musician and member of the Cape Cod Music Educators Association, Director of the New Horizons Band, and co-manager of the All-Cape Jazz Festival. Alex is a proud alumnus of the D-Y District where he began his musical training as a clarinetist and conductor. He went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music in Berea Ohio; later in his career he earned his Master’s Degree in Education from Cambridge College.
One of his proudest personal achievements was in 2013 when he was voted “Educator of the Year” by the faculty of the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School.
Outside of the music field he served as the co-chair of the D-Y NEASC Steering Committee, teacher at the D-Y Academic Leadership Institute, and a licensed Realtor® with RS Cash Realtors of South Yarmouth.