ILMEA All-State Festival names 29 District 214 participants

Posted January 25, 2015 10:00 pm

High School District 214

Twenty-night students from High School District 214 schools have been selected to perform at the 2015 Illinois Music Education Association (ILMEA) All-State Festival, the highest honor a high school musician can achieve.

To earn their spot, the students competed against other musicians from around Illinois and were ranked highly in categories including: required selections, sight-reading, improvisation, and stylistic, accurate and quality intonation.

The ILMEA All-State Festival will be held in Peoria from Jan. 28 to Jan. 31.

The selected performers include:

Buffalo Grove High School --

Cassandra Deck, Future Music Educators Seminar, Jesse Brooks, Vocal Jazz, Liza Shapin, Chorus, Brendan Altierei, Band, Milan Babic, Vocal Jazz, Don Wells, Chorus

Elk Grove High School --

Paschal Pahl, Vocal Jazz, Jordan Niebuhr, Chorus, Kathryn Riopel, Chorus

John Hersey High School --

Luke Maslanka, Future Music Educators Seminar , Yuki Nojima, Band,Tom Powers, Band, Morgan Buckley, Chorus, Erin Heuck, Orchestra,Gallia Kastner, Orchestra , Angela Kucharski, Band, Emily Heuck, Band

Prospect High School --

Timmy Banna, Orchestra, Nickolas Konstantinou, Orchestra

Rolling Meadows High School --

Wes Carroll, Jazz Band, Mike Priller, Orchestra, Jake Rosenberg, Chorus, Jack Stahl, Band, Erin Rivera, Chorus, Nathaniel Lindstrom, IMEC Composition Track, Athena Kopulos, Chorus

Wheeling High School --

Bryan Marban, Jazz Band, Anthony Gonzalez, Jazz Band, Shannon Richards, Chorus

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