Students participate in Haysville festival
Peabody-Burns Junior High band and choir and five PES sixth grade soloists participated Saturday in the Walnut Valley Invitational Music Festival at Haysville.
The junior high choir received a 1 and a 1- and the band received two Is.
Band solos/ensembles receiving 1+ ratings were Kali Alstrom, clarinet; Megan Cox, trumpet.
I ratings went to Chris Milstead, flute; Jesse Riggs, alto saxophone; Derrick Simmonds, alto saxophone, Krista Stafford, clarinet; Lindsay Wiebe, flute.
I- ratings went to Ashley Elliott, alto saxophone; Laura Hoffmann, bells; Andrew Topham, trumpet; Jason Unruh, trombone; Traci Windsor, trumpet, Jacob Wolf, trumpet, Anna Zappone, flute.
The flute trio (Heidi Knust, Lindsay Wiebe, Anna Zappone) received a I. Also receiving a I was the saxophone trio (Ashley Elliott, Jesse Riggs, Derrick Simmonds) and the trumpet quartet (Megan Cox, Andrew Topham, Traci Windsor, Jacob Wolf).
1- ratings were received by the clarinet ensemble (Kali Alstrom, Alyssa Carter, Kaela Gillet, Jessi Hilliard, Ruth McLeod, Krista Stafford), the brass ensemble (Megan Cox, Andrew Topham, Jason Unruh, Jarred Weems, Oliver Whitney, Traci Windsor, Jacob Wolf), and the percussion ensemble (Josh Ardrey, Eric Dutton, Isaac Good, Stacy Hague, Laura Hoffmann, Jennifer Schmeling, Lindsay Wiebe).
Ratings received by vocal solos/ensembles were: Andrew Topham, voice, I; Anna Zappone, voice, I; Laura Hoffmann, voice, I-; Christina Newfield, voice, I-; Jade Garcia, voice, II+; boys vocal ensemble (Derrick Simmonds, Andrew Topham, Jason Unruh, Oliver Whitney, Jake Wynn), I; girls vocal ensemble (Megan Cox, Jade Garcia, Laura Hoffmann, Christina Newfield, Sarah Peugh, Stephanie Vetter, Rachel Womack, Anna Zappone), I-; mixed vocal ensemble (Megan Cox, Jade Garcia, Laura Hoffmann, Jason Unruh, Stephanie Vetter, Oliver Whitney), II+.
PES sixth grade solos earned a I for Duane Unruh, trumpet; and I- for Ben Eldridge, trumpet; Tabitha O'Neal, flute; Jessica Rosine, trumpet;, and Ryan Wiebe, trumpet.
According to Steven Glover, instructor, all students performed well and did a fine job of representing their schools and the community.
