SEQUIM — Six high school students will attend a musical conference in Bellevue in February which will be capped by performances at Benaroya Hall in Seattle.
The Sequim students were chosen for either the National Association for Music Education’s all-Northwest performance or the Washington Music Educators Association’s all-state symphonic choir performance.
Sequim students who will sing in the National Association for Music Education’s all-Northwest treble choir are seniors Stephanie Dunbar and Gianna Venetti, both Alto 1’s, and junior Sarah Stoffer, a Soprano 2.
Students who will sing in the Washington Music Educators Association’s all-state symphonic choir are Dalton Ackley, a senior and a Bass 2; Rachel Chumley, a senior and a Soprano 1; and Yu Chen, a sophomore and a Soprano 2.
Both choirs will perform at Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 20.
The National Association for Music Education chose nearly 1,000 music students from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Wyoming, as well as Washington state, for the event, while the all-state choir is only from the state.
Students were selected through auditions and will rehearse with world-renowned conductors before presenting their final concerts in Seattle.
Well-known Northwesterners who have participated in past years’ honor groups include world-renowned trumpeters Doc Severinson and Allen Vizzutti, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey, 2008 National Teacher of the Year Andrea Peterson and jazz saxophonist Kenny G.
Tickets to the Seattle concert are $20 and can be obtained at www.wmea.org.
