Saturday, October 20, 2018

Students Selected for 2018 Northwest Iowa 7th and 8th Grade Honor Bands


Sioux City Community Schools Band Students Selected for Northwest Iowa 7th & 8th Grade Honor Bands.

Students have been selected to participate in the 51st annual Northwest Iowa Junior High/Middle School Honor Bands Festival. On Saturday, October 13th, over 330 seventh and eighth-grade band students from 41 Northwest Iowa schools auditioned for a position in two honor bands. Approximately 190 students were chosen. These selected students will perform a concert at Storm Lake High School, Saturday, November 3rd. Selected from Sioux City Community Schools are:

East Middle School - Angela Kroska, Brad Anderson, and Anna Scott, Directors
Mackenzie Crawford, 7th Grade, Euphonium
Joe DeBates, 8th Grade, Trombone
Ivy Mehlhaff, 7th Grade, Percussion

North Middle School - Amy Ortmann, Austin Simon, and Faith Hall, Directors
Keera Adajar, 8th Grade, Oboe
Kailynn Thiele, 7th Grade, Clarinet
Gretchen Hoffman, 8th Grade, Bassoon
Ian Julius, 8th Grade, Alto Saxophone
Matthew Hawkinson, 7th Grade, Trombone
Michael Toben, 8th Grade, Tuba

West Middle School - Katie Birch, Patrick Patterson, and Eric Elker, Directors
Antonio Ferraro, 8th Grade, Flute
Marin Frazee, 8th Grade, Clarinet
Anh Nguyen, 8th Grade, Clarinet
Abigail Hammer, 8th Grade, Clarinet

Two 8th grade students will represent Northwest IA in the 8th Grade All Iowa Band at the Iowa Bandmasters Convention in Des Moines in May. Those students are Marin Frazee, 8th Grade, Clarinet from West Middle School and Michael Toben, 8th Grade, Tuba from North Middle School.

No comments:

Post a Comment