Photo: Belmont High School musicians at MMEA NE Senior District Festival.
By Arto Asadoorian, Belmont Public Schools’ Director of Visual and Performing Arts.
This past Saturday, Nov. 17, 134 students from the Belmont High Music Band, Chorus and Orchestra programs auditioned for the 2019 Massachusetts Music Educators Association (MMEA) Northeast Senior District Festival.
Each student was asked to perform excerpts from a selected solo or choral work, as well as to demonstrate technical proficiency on a variety of scales and sight-reading exercises. Jazz musicians were also required to improvise solos to the selected piece for their audition.
The process of preparing for auditions like this is rigorous, and it takes a great deal of courage to walk into an audition room and put your work on display. Congratulations to all 134 BHS students who took the opportunity to audition on Saturday for your hard work and determination.
The following 74 students were selected to participate in the 2019 MMEA-Northeast Senior District Festival Band, Chorus, Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble, which will take place in early January 2019. It is worth noting that many of the students who were not accepted to participate were only within one or two points of being accepted, and we know that they are certainly Senior District-caliber musicians regardless of the outcome of this one audition.
In addition, 37 students earned the opportunity to audition for the MMEA All-State Festival. Those auditions will take place at the end of January, and students will compete for the chance to perform at the All-State Festival in Boston at the beginning of March.
| Angus Abercrombie | Chorus | |
| Idris Abercrombie | Trombone | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Rebecca Anderson | Tuba | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Katherine Arkin | Oboe | |
| Zoe Armstrong | Chorus | |
| Pierre Ayer | Chorus | |
| Eli Barnes | Chorus | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Lot Bates | Cello | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Owen Chan | Percussion | |
| Alyssa Chen | Violin | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Jason Chen | Clarinet | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Katarina Chen | Viola | |
| Caleb Christensen | Chorus | |
| Grace Christensen | Chorus | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Liam Cmok-Kehoe | Chorus | |
| Andrew Cubstead | Chorus | |
| Margo Danahy | Viola | |
| Phoebe Derba | String Bass | |
| Chantal Dunn | Chorus | |
| Garrett Eagar | Trombone | |
| Joia Findeis | Viola | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Mariko Findell | Euphonium | |
| Jessica Giorgio | Chorus | |
| Christopher Giron | Bassoon | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Anthony Haddad | Jazz Bass | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Lydia Haddad | French Horn | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Honor Hickman | Flute | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Aditya Jain | Jazz Trombone | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Allen Jang | Chorus | |
| Seiyoung Jang | Trumpet | (All-State Recommendation) |
| David Jen | Chorus | |
| Ethan Jin | Jazz Trumpet | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Nate Jones | Jazz Trombone | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Tilly Jones | Flute | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Daniel Joh Kang | Violin | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Emily Kim | Violin | |
| Isabelle Kim | Violin | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Francesca Kitch | Violin | |
| Megan Kornberg | Oboe | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Isaac Laing | Cello | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Edward Lee | Chorus | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Gaeun Lee | Clarinet | |
| Miro Leeb | Viola | |
| Philip Lynch | Trumpet | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Yatin Mankan | Chorus | |
| Jackson Mann | Chorus | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Clare Martin | Alto Saxophone | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Colin Martin | Bassoon | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Elizabeth Mason | Chorus | |
| Noah Merfeld | Chorus | |
| Matthew Miller | Clarinet | |
| Charlotte Nilsen | String Bass | |
| Lora Ovcharova | French Horn | |
| Alex Park | Jazz Trumpet | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Chloe Park | Trombone | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Jessica Peng | Flute | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Lila Searls | Alto Saxophone | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Irene Son | Clarinet | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Ian Svetkey | Chorus | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Jason Tang | Clarinet | |
| Soleil Tseng | Violin | |
| Cooper Valentine | Chorus | |
| Shankar Veludandi | Chorus | |
| Joshua Wan | Trumpet | |
| Albert Wang | Cello | |
| Andy Wei | Flute | |
| Alex Wilk | Viola | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Bianca Windemuth | Viola | |
| Andrew Xu | Bass Clarinet | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Alex Yang | Cello | |
| Jimi Yao-Smith | Trumpet | |
| Daniel Zhang | Tenor Saxophone | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Kenneth Zhou | Tuba | (All-State Recommendation) |
| Henry Zuccharello | Trombone | (All-State Recommendation) |
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