GCS Students Selected for N.C. Honors Chorus

Contact: Laurie Hogan (336) 370-8307
Created: 10/14/2009 11:05:31 AM

Nine Guilford County Schools (GCS) high school students and 11 middle school students will participate in the 2009 N.C. Honors choruses. The students were chosen from the state’s best middle and high school vocalists through a selective audition process.

By participating in the choruses, the GCS students will have the opportunity to sing with talented students from across the state and learn from nationally acclaimed choral conductors.

Annually, more than 1,000 students audition for about 160 spaces in each chorus. Students sing their vocal part of the audition piece before a judge and sight-read a piece of music they have never seen. Only about the top 15 percent of auditioned singers are selected for the prestigious choirs.

This year’s performances will take place on Nov. 8 at the Stephens Center at the N.C. School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.

GCS students selected for the High School Honors Chorus are Curtis Moore-Tate from Grimsley High; Austin Leybourne, Caroline Hudson and Valerie Puhala from Northwest High; Simone Price from Southeast High; Jana Hennis, Adrian Fullerwinder and Taylor Blackwell from Southern High; and Claire Pegram from Weaver Academy.

GCS students selected for the Middle School Honors Chorus are Ilinca Scalco and Brandon Stetina from Jamestown Middle; Karina Sizemore and Baajah Mohammed from Penn-Griffin School for the Arts; and Rebecca Evans, Christina Beasley, Hailey Hines, Izell Jenkins, Caitlyn Delgado, Perry Plaine and Bruce Isley from Southeast Middle.

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