More than 150 music students from Middleton High School, Kromrey Middle School and Glacier Creek Middle School participated in the Wisconsin School Music Association (WSMA) State Solo & Ensemble Festival at UW-Platteville on April 26.
Students qualified for the state festival by earning high marks at local festivals held in February and March. They performed solos or in small ensembles in front of a judge and audience members, and received scores and commentary on their performance.
Several MCPASD students earned the prestigious WSMA State Exemplary Performance Award. Students are nominated for this recognition for musical performances that far exceed an expected school level.
Each of the 20 judges can only select two performances from the more than 1,000 performances at the festival to receive the award. A record 47 MCPASD performances were nominated for an Exemplary Performance Award, and 15 performances received the award!
This represents 10% of all nominations made across the state that weekend. In addition to UW-Platteville, state festival sites that weekend included UW-Milwaukee, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Whitewater and the School District of West Salem.
Congratulations to the MCPASD students who were nominated for or received (in bold below) an Exemplary Performance Award!
Nithya Allu, Lily Hanson, Audrey Kim, Pete Navratil | MHS | Marimba Quartet |
Linus Ballard | MHS | Tenor Solo |
Aditya Behara, Aiden Wijeyakulasuriya, Jeffrey Chang | MHS | Woodwind Trio |
MHS Flute Choir (Emma Bickett, Madison DeRidder, Aditya Behara, Clara Unbehaun, Haley Jodlowski, Grace Kim, Ben Freiberg, Kavya Kashyap, Cora Wienecke) | MHS | Flute Choir |
Fritz Bush | MHS | Trumpet Solo |
MHS Chamber Singers (Dina Abdel-Megid, Linus Ballard, Julia Burkholder, Karista Deuhs, Mazi Dossa, Lila Elliott, Ben Freiberg, Ava Greenberg, Lily Hanson, Isa Jefko, Luke Latino, Sid Loniello, Helen Machleidt, Ari Marckel, Mallory Peters, Liev Schiffman, Selah Streets, Max Tyler, Charlie Vanderbloemen, Matthew Wagner, Foster Wohlers) | MHS | Mixed Vocal Jazz Ensemble |
Roger Chang, Audrey Kim, Kyla Meicher, Jayden Wijeyakulasuriya, Mirielle Spahn | MHS | Percussion Ensemble |
Andrew Chen, Dhriti Prakash, Anja Schmidt-Voils, Eunice Chung | MHS | Cello Choir |
Joanne Choi | MHS | Flute Solo |
Eunice Chung | MHS | Cello Solo |
Eunice Chung, Dhriti Prakash, Anja Schmidt-Voils, Kyle McIntosh | MHS | Cello Choir |
Jackson Cubick, Ethan Hunter, Annushka Nenide, Zane Johanson, Josh Gustafson, Lauren Kim | MHS | Percussion Ensemble |
Madison DeRidder | MHS | Flute Solo |
Erika Eichhoff | KMS | Pedal Harp Solo |
Lila Elliott | MHS | Music Theater - Soprano/Alto Solo |
Leela Fang | KMS | Piano Solo |
Vivian Feng | MHS | Piano Solo |
Vivian Feng | MHS | Violin Solo |
William Gilliland, Reya Khatri, Nikhil Quintin | MHS | Saxophone Trio |
Lily Hanson | MHS | Marimba Solo |
Shaila Holland | MHS | Violin Solo |
Natasha Jaeschke | MHS | String Bass Solo |
Pavil Jones | MHS | Piano Solo |
Jamie Joyce | MHS | Marimba Solo |
Hajin Kim | KMS | Violin Solo |
Isa Killian | MHS | Soprano Solo |
Audrey Kim | MHS | Marimba Solo |
Jihong Kim | GCMS | Violin Solo |
Jacob Krueger | KMS | Eb Alto Saxophone Solo |
Siena LaMartina-Kuersten | MHS | Violin Solo |
Grace Lee | MHS | Bb Clarinet Solo |
Kyle McIntosh | MHS | Cello Solo |
Kyle McIntosh | MHS | Piano Solo |
Indre Raghavan, Vivan Feng, Akshay Manna, Eunice Chung, Hannah Lee | MHS | String Quintet |
Ilyaas Razvi | MHS | Tuba Solo |
Lauren Sakai | GCMS | Alto Solo |
Karl Schaefer | MHS | Tuba Solo |
Liev Schiffman | MHS | Baritone/Bass Solo |
Liev Schiffman | MHS | Music Theater - Tenor/Bass Solo |
Anja Schmidt-Voils | MHS | Music Theater - Soprano/Alto Solo |
Taranjit Seerha | MHS | Marimba Solo |
Ryan Slattery | MHS | Eb Alto Saxophone Solo |
Max Tyler | MHS | Baritone/Bass Solo |
Arthur Wang | KMS | Bb Clarinet Solo |
Matthew Wang | KMS | Violin Solo |
Edward Yao | MHS | Eb Alto Saxophone Solo |
Levin Zhang | GCMS | Piano Solo |