Superior Ratings winners make WHHHS website

Our Show Choir, WHHHS Madrigal, three vocal soloists and four band students made the WHHHS website.  The school recognized their outstanding achievement at Solo & Ensemble Competition with a great "shout out".

Piqua and Solo & Ensemble Results

On January 19th we got our "feet wet" in the competitive show choir world at Piqua's Show Choir Invitational.  We learned a lot and are excited to improve our show before we perform at The Double H Showcase on February, 23rd.  Kevin Quinlivan brought home a Best Performer trophy - Congratulations Kevin!

We had a busy day at Elder with OMEA High School Solo & Ensemble competition on Saturday, January 26th.  This competition allows students to prepare challenging chamber music, traditional art songs, classical solos and even operatic arias.  The music is selected from a required list of pieces that has been accepted by the OMEA adjudication committee for appropriate level of difficulty.  Much of the literature may double as audition material for Conservatory Music schools.

The WHHS Show Choir scored I (Superior) performing a Classical Chamber Ensemble.  Our WHHS Madrigal group also scored I (Superior) with their extremely difficult mixed ensemble madrigal.  Students performing in these ensembles include: Brooke Cordray, David Corman, Lee Davis, Natasha Davis, Andrew Farringer (Show Choir & Madrigal), Andrea Harding, Karley Jones, Ryan Keith, Sara Keith, Julie Kleiner (Show Choir & Madrigal), Amanda Pack, Kevin Quinlivan (Show Choir & Madrigal), Katie Raleigh, Danielle Ross, Sarah Smith, Jennifer Spencer (Show Choir & Madrigal),  Johnny Vidal, Jake Mueller (Madrigal only) & Katie Lofton (Madrigal only).

Three vocal soloists earned superior ratings: Jennifer Spencer, Andrew Farringer & Danielle Ross.   See the High School website for a picture of all band and choir Superior Rating recipients.

We also had several students who earned an excellent rating for a solo and/or ensemble performance: 

Anna Roell, Danielle Lieber,  Starr Wymer, Jessica Hammons & Bethany Waller and the WHHS Freshman/Sophomore Women's Ensemble (Debra Rueter, Marissa York, Nicole Roark, Cora Bolen, Allie Bronnert, Kylie Huesman, Brianna Wiesmann & Abigail Woodworth) 

Show Choir's first Competition

Our first competition is Saturday, January 19th at Piqua.  The bus loads at 10 am at the activity center.  Make sure you have everything you need for both costume sets, a full day away, money to buy lunch and (if we make finals) dinner and your entertainment while we wait for scores.  Although the homeroom will be locked while we are on stage, I do not recommend bringing expensive items with you, because we cannot guarantee their safety.  We perform at 3:00 pm in Piqua, have a clinic directly after our performance and awards are at 5 pm.  If we are not invited back to finals, we will leave after we gather our things and be home between 8 and 8:30 pm.  If we make finals, we will perform again and stay through evening awards at 10:30 pm.  Good luck!  Have fun!