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WCS musicians selected Whitinsville Christian School Honor Roll to All-State Music Festival
Heading to the all-state Music festival! Whitinsville Christian High School is pleased to announce Isaac Bates, violist, Colin Bradley, baritone, and Morgan Dzicek, soprano, have been selected to participate in the 2012 Massachusetts Music Educators Association 57th AllState Music Festival in Boston. Isaac, a junior, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bates of Douglas. Colin, a senior, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kristan Bradley of Sutton. Morgan, a junior, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Dzicek of Northbridge. The Massachusetts Music Educators Association sponsors the music festival,
and participation gives students an opportunity to demonstrate their artistry and to create new friendships. Isaac, Colin, and Morgan were required to audition in January to qualify for their spots. At school, Isaac performs in the high school, chamber, and power chamber orchestras under the direction of Mrs. Monica Vander Baan. Colin and Morgan are members of the high school choir and the vocal performing group Encore under the direction of Mr. Joshua Lawson.
GraDe 6 High Honors Heidi Albright, Jacqueline Cloutier, Briana Fleming, Julie Kaminski, Katelyn Lashley, Grace Malabanti, Shannon Morrill, Andrew Quercio, and Cynthia Swartzel. Honors Jacob Belanger, Zachary Bergeron, Julia Bobe, Joshua Cook, Abigail Greer, Elizabeth Marder, Jacquelyn Rose, Brianna Smith, Jake Violette, and Tatiana Wiersma. GraDe 7 High Honors Lauren Bek, Emily Cutler, Adelaide Dykstra, Abigail Graves, Samuel Gulinello, Danielle Harvey, Katrina Holm, Sidney Johnson, Naomi LaDine, Jonathan Leduc, Hannah Mercer, Nicholas O'Toole, Elizabeth Quercio, Christopher Tulley, Mikaela Vanden Akker, Jacob Vander Hart, and Noah Zeyl. Honors Peter Casey, Bianca DiVitto, Patrick Estrella, Hunter Gorgas, Charlotte Herndon, Colin Irwin, Benjamin Koopman, Maura Kulesza, Gabriel Lenart, Kade McCann, Veronica Rios, Colin Swaim, Nicholas Swiader, Aiden Van Tol, and Katie Wilcox. GraDe 8 High Honors Abigail Cook, Angela Epplett, Spencer Gorman, Molly Hardiman, Sarah Jarosz, Clara Kim, and Grace May. Honors Andrew Baker, Katelyn Baker, Luc Booz, Owen Brookhouse, Jarrod Buma, Joshua Casey, Michael Dunlap, Yong Jun Kim, Ethan Lamoureux, Stefani Moore, Devin Morrill, Aidan
Olson, Michaela Perkins, Jessica Vigeant, William von Hein, and Jacob Wiersma. GraDe 9 High Honors Angela Bobe, Katherine Caswell, Ji Hun Ha, Kate Killoy, Jamison Koeman, Renee Marinone, Jihee Son, Juhee Son, Haley VanderSea, Katelyn Vriesema, and Elena Wassenar. Honors Victoria Caswell, Nicole Cloutier, Lydia Hong, David Oh, Sarah Poquette, Jonathan Randall, Joshua Schneider, Jacob Van Dyke, and Julie Wiegers. GraDe 10 High Honors Lauren Baker, So Jung Choi, Matthew Colonero, Hunter Darling, Montana Darling, Abigail Epplett, William Fredericks, Steven LaDine, Evan Perkins, Kevin Pierro, Emma Quercio, Richard Santos, Sarah Sullivan, Jacob Swaim, Mackenzie Thibodeau, Rachel Treide, and Timothy Vander Hart. Honors Rachel Andrews, Nathan Brookhouse, Diana Brown, Nathan Casey, Daniel Gandek, Elizabeth Groot, Jacob Gulinello, Alexander Hebert, Matthew Leduc, Kate Monaghan, Graham Tienhaara, James Walden, and Megan Williams. GraDe 11 High Honors Robert Brodeur, Rebecca Caswell, Ashley Cook, Andrew Cozzens, James Dunlap, Antonio Estrella, Paul Hamlet, Young Soo Kang, Elizabeth LaCava, Ji Young Na, William Rugo, Amarillys Santos, Olivia Smith, Molly Stark, and Robert Vigeant.
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Honors Matthew Applegarth, Isaac Bates, Natalie Booz, Micah Curtis, Morgan Dzicek, Ana Fomin, Alexandria Hay, Caleb Holt, Maxwell Kuik, Cory Lennox, Colin Richey, Kathryn Rubin, Jake Swartzel, Julia Thayer, Sara von Hein, Sara Vono, and Nicole Wiegers. GraDe 12 High Honors Julia Berkowicz, Jonathan Buma, Thomas Cook, Connor Dolan, Samantha Ervin, Breanne Hamlet, Anna Hardiman, Heather Irwin, David Jassmond, Casey Johnson, Rachel LaDine, Joshua Lewis, Jake McGriff, Jessica Mitchell, Eric Monroe, Brian Pierro, Hannah Plantinga, and Deanna Ristaino. Honors Laura Allen, Andrew Banning, Emily Barrett, Colin Bradley, Mu Sol Byun, Sienna Clough, Jacqueline Cronin, McKenzie Dion, SaraBeth Hanny, Samuel Koopman, Kathryn LiVigni, Nicholas Marino, Micaila Olson, Maya Palmisciano, Michael Park, Thomas Rodger, Amber Shannon, Alison Sohigian, Kristen Sullivan, Nathan Swaim, Aksel Thibodeau, Tyler Vanden Akker, Matthew Vriesema, Thomas Walden, Paige Whittaker, and Amanda Williams.
Celebrating the Arts Nationally, March is designated “Music In Our Schools Month.” The Uxbridge Public Schools are spotlighting the music department by hosting the 5th Annual Music and Meatballs dinner concert on March 6th, (snow date March 8th) in the Whitin Middle School cafetorium. Seating will open at 5:30 PM and the dinner and concert will begin at 6:00 PM. This fundraising event will feature the Whitin School and Uxbridge High School Jazz Bands and the “Spartones” – the a cappella vocal group from the high school. The Meatballs and Music dinner concert is a ticketed event with a limited number of tickets available. Tickets are available in advance on a first-come, first-served basis. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door. Tickets are $8 for Adults and $5 for students and senior citizens. There is a $25 maximum cost per family and toddlers will eat for free. The menu for the evening is: Salad, Bread sticks, Ziti (with or without sauce) and meatballs. Coffee, orange drink and water will be available. Desserts will also be served. In addition, there will be several baskets raffled off during the evening. Raffle tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5 and you don’t need to be present to win. The funds raised at this event will benefit the Uxbridge Public Schools Music Department. Please consider supporting this event by attending the dinner concert. It is sure to be a memorable evening filled with good food, good music and good friends! To reserve tickets, contact Kathleen Penza at kpenza@uxbridge.k12.ma.us or by calling 508.278.8640.