Getting to Know our Fullerton Union High School Tri-M Chapter by Troy Trimble, CMEA Tri-M Representative
Fullerton Union High School Tri-M Chapter Officers
Troy Trimble Chapter Advisor
Esther Liu President
Elistein Estrada Vice President
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et me start by acknowledging that in recent CMEA Magazine articles we have been seeing and hearing from Collegiate NAfME Chapters from across California thank you, Anne Fennell, for doing this! After talking with our current CMEA President and President-Elect, we decided that it is now time to do the same for our wonderful Tri-M Chapters across the state. Our Tri-M chapters are lead by the absolute best music students and they are doing so many great things that many of us may not be aware of. It is my goal to have this quarterly highlight to be inspirational and to give other Tri-M chapters ideas on how to move ahead to do the best at their school sites. I am excited to begin “at home” and present the student officers of chapter #7054 at Fullerton Union High School. Our chapter was established in 2014 after a conversation between former CMEA President Scott Hedgecock and myself about expanding the opportunities for the music students at our high school. Tri-M is such a natural bridge between all the music ensembles and students between the Vocal and Instrumental Music Programs and has really found its identity over the past three years with the great student leaders we have been blessed with. They have really taken on the idea of service and creating opportunities for our students to create and perform music in the community while being good advocates for music in our schools. I could not be a prouder Tri-M advisor, especially after such a trying year!
Meet the Tri-M Chapter #7054 Officers
Chelsea Yun Secretary
Samantha Dennis Treasurer
Isabel Van Wye Historian/Social Media
My name is Esther Liu and I am the President of Tri-M Music Honor Society and a member of the Academy of the Arts (Instrumental Music pathway) at Fullerton Union High School. I have been playing the oboe for seven wonderful years, and I am currently the principal oboist of the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra and oboist in Fullerton Union High School’s Jazz Ensemble. My name is Elistein Estrada and I am a part of the Instrumental Music Program at Fullerton Union High School. I play trumpet in the Jazz Ensemble, Concert Band, and was Drum Major for the Marching Band. My name is Chelsea Yun, and I am the Secretary of the Tri-M Music Honor Society Chapter #7054, a member of the Academy of the Arts program at Fullerton Union High School (FUHS) focusing on Jazz Studies, the pianist of the Jazz Ensemble at FUHS, and a keyboardist at The Cause Church in Brea. I started playing piano in kindergarten and transitioned out of classical piano and began studying jazz piano in high school; additionally, I’ve been learning about music production since April 2020.
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