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Congratulations to the PHS Wind Ensemble on their selection to perform at the 2010 Ohio Music Education Association Professional Development Conference in Cincinnati on January 28-30! The Wind Ensemble was selected from over 120 applications and will perform a one-hour concert for state music educators and students. The performance will be held on Thursday, January 28, 4:00-5:00PM in the Duke Energy Center (Convention Center) Junior Ballroom CD. The ensemble was also selected to be a demonstration band for a clinic at 1:30PM on how to prepare a march for contest. Mr. Schleuter will be presenting a clinic titled "The Musical Language - A Sound Approach
for Better Musical Understanding" on Friday, January 29, at 12:15PM.
Congratulations to Luke Shultz - Flute, Jason Scott - Trumpet, and Ryan Williams - Percussion, on their acceptance into the Tri-State University Honor Band! Their performance will be held February 13, on the campus of Wright State University in the Creative Arts Center Schuster Hall, 3:00pm. The guest conductor is Eugene Migliaro Corporon from the University of North Texas.
Congratulations to Luke Shultz - Flute, Joe Lueck - Trombone, and Ryan Williams - Percussion, on their acceptance into the Ohio State University Honor Band! Their performance will be held in Weigel Hall, OSU campus, on January 17.
Congratulations to Luke Shultz - Flute and Ryan Williams - Percussion, on their acceptance into the OMEA All-State Band! Their performance will be held January 30, 2:15pm in the Grand Ballroom of the Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati. The guest conductor is Gary Green from the University of Miami, Florida.
Congratulations to the following members accepted to the District 1 Honor Band: Robert Kitson, Caroline Nelson, Leslie Russell, Vickie Smith - Clarinet; Sam Faulkner, Dan Pozniak, Jason Scott, Sean Connor (alternate) - Trumpet; Joe Lueck - Trombone; Ryan Williams - Percussion. The performance will be held Sunday, February 21, 7:00PM in the Stranahan Theater.
WOW! What a great weekend in Chicago!
On April 3-5, 2009, the Perrysburg Concert Band and Wind Ensemble traveled to Chicago, Illinois, to perform in the National Adjudicators Invitational. Each group performed three musical selections for three adjudicators: Tom Dvorak, director of bands at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Jim Warrick, director of jazz studies at New Trier High School, Winnetka, Illinois; and David Shaffer, composer and arranger from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Participating ensembles included eight bands, one string orchestra, two jazz bands and four choirs which traveled from Arlington, TN, Arlington, TX, Celina, TX, Hartford, WI, Manlius, NY, Oakdale, MN, Tulsa, OK, and Omaha, NE.
The Concert Band earned an Excellent rating and the Wind Ensemble earned a Superior rating. The adjudicators were very complimentary of the Wind Ensemble's performance, giving them the top score of the fifteen performing ensembles which awarded them the Grand Champion trophy. In addition, the Wind Ensemble percussionists received the judge’s award for outstanding percussion section of the festival and flautist Elizabeth Leimkuehler received one of four outstanding soloist citations given for the festival. Congratulations on this outstanding national honor!
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The criteria used in band placement, in order of importance, are:
1) Audition performance
2) Ratings and difficulty of music at Solo & Ensemble contest
3) Participation in one or more honor bands (special consideration given to All-State Ensemble members)
4) Private lessons
5) Attitude and behavior
6) Seniority (only if there are equally qualified candidates based on the other criteria above)
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