South Seneca Middle High School recently hosted this year's Seneca-Tompkins Music Educator Association's Winter All-County Choral Festival on January 19 and 20.
Over 200 students from six other districts, including Dryden, Groton, Ithaca, Lansing, Newfield, and Trumansburg, visited South Seneca. Students prepared choral works ahead of time. Over two days, students worked on this music with guest conductors that was presented in a concert on January 20.
Colleen Regan, Middle School Choral Director at West Hollow Middle School on Long Island, directed the Middle School Chorus, and Dr. Adam Potter, Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Music at Roberts Wesleyan University in Rochester, New York, directed the High School Chorus. Dr. Potter and Kyla Perry, 6-12 Choral Director at South Seneca, attended Houghton College together as undergraduates where they formed a friendship that still causes their musical paths to cross today.
As for South Seneca students, congratulations go to the South Seneca Middle High School Chorus students selected to attend: Kayleigh Banfield (Grade 9), Jacob Borst (Grade 11), Sylvia Brock (Grade 11), Brooke Butler (Grade 10), Hannah Drexler (Grade 10), Kenneth Halsey (Grade 11), Arminda Manns (Grade 10), Nolan Mitchell (Grade 12), Jacob O'Steen (Grade 12), Brooklyn Ovenshire (Grade 9), Abigail Sherry (Grade 12), Kara Siurano (Grade 12) were selected from the High School Chorus.
Chloe Cooper (Grade 7), Emery Erickson (Grade 7), Reese Holmberg (Grade 7), Brooke Jennings (Grade 8), Sophia Jennings (Grade 7), Quinn Kempf (Grade 8), Addison Kiser (Grade 8), Auburn Mitchell (Grade 8), Brady Neville (Grade 8), Victoria Scott (Grade 8), Vitalina Skrypnyk (Grade 8), and Emily Williamson (Grade 7) were selected from the Middle School Chorus to attend.
MS Students (pictured above): L to R Row 1 (Brooke Jennings, Brady Neville) Row 2 (Emily Williamson, Quinn Kempf, Auburn Mitchell) Row 3 (Sophia Jennings, Victoria Scott, Reese Holmberg) Row 4 (Chloe Cooper, Addison Kiser, Vitalina Skrypnyk, and Emery Erickson)
HS Students (pictured above): L to R Row 1 (Kayleigh Banfield, Hannah Drexler) Row 2 (Kara Siurano, Abigail Sherry) Row 3 (Brooklyn Ovenshire, Brooke Butler, Sylvia Brock) Row 4 (Kenneth Halsey, Jacob O'Steen, Nolan Mitchell) Not Pictured: Jacob Borst and Arminda Manns