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Music

Spring Musical

Peter Pan enjoyed a successful three-day run March 7-9. The aerial achievements were awesome.

Music Department Honors

Chorus

Illinois Music Education Association selected Kiana Basu, Joline Buege, Paige Callahan, Nick Drahos, Natalie Fedeczko, Carrie Gutgsell, Suzanne Hutchinson, David Paulik, Keri Shay, Emily Simon, Lauren Stillman, Ryan Townsend, Raymond Tuazon, Todd Van Stolk-Riley.

Illinois All-State selected Paige Callahan, Nick Drahos, Carrie Gutgsell, Suzanne Hutchinson, Lauren Stillman, Raymond Tuazon, Todd Van Stolk-Riley.

Illinois High School Asssociation State Solo and Ensemble Contest Div 1 Pam Cook, Julie Glyman, Keri Shay, Emily Simon, Christine Vittorio, Ryan Townsend, Todd Van Stolk-Riley, Diti Ghosh, Ameena Husain, Andrew Tyrrell.

Arion Award Lauren Stillman.

National School Choral Award Paige Callahan, Nick Drahos.

Heritage Music Festival National Competition gold award.

Band

Illinois Music Education Association selected John Arrotti, Eddie Hermanek, Peter Johnston and Michael Yu for jazz band and Mehak Sethi for band.

Illinois High School Association State Solo and Ensemble Contest Durga Borkar, Eddie Hermanek, Mark Lindberg, A.J. Palileo, Bennett Quarles, Jessica Rukavina and Utsav Sethi for mixed percussion ensemble and Eddie Hermanek for snare drum solo.

Arion Award for band Lydia Reynolds.

Arion Award for jazz band 1 Baylie Roth.

Arion Award for jazz band 2 John Arrotti.

John Phillip Award Chris Lopatowski.

Patrick J. Gilmore Award Mehak Sethi.

Marching band took first in its class at Northern Illinois University with high scores for winds, general effect, percussion and marching.

Orchestra

Illinois Music Education Association selected Joseph Bigio, Justin Chou, Hannah Field, Ruth Fiorentino, Jessica Huang, Ken Huang, Utsav Seithi, Alison Wong (concertmistress), Shu-Hsin Yank, Cathy Yu.

Illinois Music Education Association All-State selected Justin Chou, Hannah Field, Alison Wong (first stand).

Arion Award Andrea Oh.

National Student Orchestra Award Ruth Fiorentino, Jane Hutchinson.

Chicago Youth Symphony Hannah Field, Andrea Oh, Alison Wong.

DuPage Youth Symphony Orchestra Justin Chou.

DRAMA

Improv Comedy

ComedySportz improvisation played ApriI 24-27. A series of three person teams competed with theme skits based on audience suggestions. Audience votes also decided the “winners.” No scripts, no rehearsed characters. The production was an experimental move that seemed to be received well.