Upper School Choral Students Selected to Quad-State Choir USJ Choir students selected to this honor choir are: Back row L to R: Tyler Bruno, Patrick Aherrera, Alex Peftoulidis, and Michael Mantooth Front row L to R: Aaron Evans, Clara Mariencheck, Caroline Sammons, Sydney Kwasigroh, Caroline Miller, Molly Morris, Molly Maroney, and Evan Griggs
Twelve USJ choral students were selected by audition to the Quad-State Honor Choir. The event took place November 1-2 at Murray State University in Murray, KY. Students and teachers from Kentucky and the surrounding four states had a unique opportunity to study and perform a major work from the choral/orchestral repertory. A truly remarkable musical opportunity, the Quad-State High School Choral Festival is the only festival in the region to focus on the choral-orchestral repertory. Over 250 individual singers selected from more than 35 high schools became a choir with the singular purpose of making glorious music together. Monday evening, November 2, they performed Mozart’s Requiem with a professional orchestra. It was an intense period of rehearsal and of musical, intellectual, personal, and professional growth.
Students Selected for Northwest Tennessee Honor Choirs Twenty Upper School USJ choral students were selected by audition to the Northwest Tennessee Sr. High Regional Honor Choir. Students selected include: Patrick Aherrera, Summer Basham, Tyler Bruno, Ashlee Dunn, John Giampapa, Evan Griggs, Sydney Kwasigroh, Parker Lewis, Michael Mantooth, Clara Mariencheck, Molly Maroney, Caroline Miller, Molly Morris, Gray Northern, Alex Peftoulidis, Caroline Sammons, Landon Sellers, Jack Tygart, Abby Vaughn, Morgan Williams, and student accompanist John Henry Woods. Thirty-three Middle School and ninth grade USJ choral students were selected to the Northwest Tennessee Regional Jr. High Honor Choir: Ashlee Allison, Tanner Atkins, Brooke Baldwin, Jake Booher, Jenna Box, Sarah Beth Brauss, Chloe Burnette, Olivia Cherry, Marimac Ellis, Gabrielle Evans, Mary Humphrey, JD Jaggers, Phoebe Larkins, Lili Mahalati, Madison Maroney, Keaton Miller, Meg Miller, Bailee Norris, Drake Norris, Baker Northern,
Chidera Nwokolo, Esosa Odeh, Ethan Persons, Grant Reid, Lily Richardson, Morgan Royer, Ethan Schlegel, Macy Scott, Annie Short, Seth Spry, Vincient Stanfill, Holland van Buren, and Blaine Verdung. The concert was held November 21 at West Jackson Baptist Church. Clara Mariencheck, Summer Basham, Molly Maroney, Molly Morris, Caroline Miller, and Caroline Sammons received the Northwest Honor Choir Five and Six-Year awards.
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