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SIERRA VISTA — A select ensemble of musicians, all high school honors students, will perform at the Southeast Regional Music Festival this weekend.
More than 30 schools will be traveling to Sierra Vista to take part in the concert. Students from Cochise and Graham counties, and from the cities of Nogales, Tucson and Casa Grande will all be in attendance for the highly-anticipated event, which will feature a 100-voice chorus, festival orchestra and festival band.
A total of 25 musically-gifted students from Buena High School choir, band and orchestra will perform at the concert — a major accomplishment for the musicians, since only 100 students from the entire southeastern region of Arizona were chosen to participate. And the way in which the candidates were chosen was not a simple process; auditions were in fact complex and challenging for every student who tried out.
Those representing Buena choir include Chelsea Brown, soprano; Sara Brzozowski, alto; Lucas Burrows, baritone; Rafael Chon, tenor; Jed Cross, tenor; America Hanson, alto; Alex Haws, tenor; Rachel Haws, alto; Ron Hegedus, bass; Sarah Jarvis, soprano; Evan Lake, tenor; Kristin Lee, soprano; Victoria Simms, alto; and Terrence Taylor, bass, with Buena choral director Jill Brown.
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Students performing from Buena band will be Brenda Martinez, flute; Andrew Schaeffer, clarinet; Kyle Maskell, bass clarinet; Max Silva, tenor sax; Dan Blaker, trumpet, Rachel Clemmer, trumpet; Jakob Klein, trumpet; and Brian Becker, trombone.
Orchestra members will include Liz Czernik, violin; Joseph Howdeshell, English Horn/Oboe; and Zach Huffman, tuba.
All festival musicians were in daylong rehearsals on Friday and continue today before the main event at 5 p.m. today.
The festival, sponsored by the Arizona Music Educators Association, is open to the public and will be held at the Buena Performing Arts Center today. Admission is $5 at the door.
HERALD/REVIEW reporter Lorie Roberts can be reached at 515-4611 or by e-mail at lorie.roberts@svherald.com.
CONCERT
The Southeast Regional Music Festival will wrap up with a concert at 5 p.m. today at Buena High School. Admission is $5.
