Several named to all-state
Published 12:22 pm Saturday, November 21, 2009
Enumclaw Middle School students Redman Svederg, Dylan Hamel and Henvey Chen will participate in the Washington Music Educators Association All State Band or Orchestra Feb. 13 in Yakima, teacher Leo Altamiranda said.
Each student auditioned before a panel to earn their spot.
“What a treat for them to experiencae putting some very challenging music they have never played with fellow musicians they have never met, including the conductor and produce a concert that will blow your mind in one weekend,” Altamiranda wrote in an e-mail.
Svedberg earned his spot playing the snare drum and mallets. Hamel plays French horn and Chen is a violinist.
Enumclaw High School
Six Enumclaw High students were also among a large group of talent music students from across Washington to be invited to participate in the 2010 WMEA All-State performing groups.
Alyssa Hudon, Kaelynn Dirks, Mary Jarvis, Anne Wolfe, David Schiff and Janice Fair will join other outstanding high school student musicians in band, orchestra and choir to perform at the Washington Music Educators Association-sponsored event in Yakima Feb. 12-15. The musicians will rehearse and perform in concert under the direction of wold-renowned conductors.
These WMEA All-State musicians were selected through auditions.
Dirks, violin, will perform with the chamber orchestra. Wolfe and Hudon, violin, and Jarvis, viola, will perform with the symphony orchestra. Schiff will play the trumpet with the wind ensemble and Fair will perform in the concert band on the clarinet.
Many professional musicians credit their All-State experience as crucial in their decision to choose music as a career, noted EHS band instructor Lynda Alley. Thousands of others whose career paths took them in other directions have great memories of participating in this inspiring and motivating musical experience and claim that it was a life-changing experience for them.
Washingtonians who have participated in past years’ all-State groups include The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey, 2008 National Teacher of the Year Andrea Peterson and jazz saxophonist Kenny G.
