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Coppell High School Band students brought home a record 130 medals from the 2009 Texas UIL State Solo and Ensemble Contest.
More than 150 CHS band students competed in contest, which is known as one of the most difficult and largest solo contests in the United States. The contest was held May 30 at the University of Texas in Austin.
“Over the past 10 years the CHS Band has been fortunate to have more students each year attend the Texas State Solo Contest on solos than any other band, choir or orchestra program in Texas,” said Scott Mason, CISD director of instrumental music.
“Also over the past 10 years Coppell has earned more gold and silver medals than any other music program in Texas at the state contest,” he said.
This year, Coppell had a record 157 students attending that had qualified at the regional level where they had to perform a memorized solo from the hardest list of UIL solos.
Of these 157 students, 44 students earned a first division for their solo and a gold medal while 86 students received a second division and a silver medal.
“The students in our music programs in Coppell are extremely talented and dedicated students,” Mason said, adding that many begin working on their solos in July for the competitions in February and May of the following year.
“We are also fortunate to have an extremely talented and dedicated private lesson staff at both our high school and middle school programs.” he said.
In addition, six CHS students were named “Outstanding Soloists” for the contest. They include: Patrick Broadwell, alto saxophone; Grace Choe, flute; Max Ginnell, percussion; Shawn Izadi, bari saxophone; Shaan Patel, trombone and Paul Blazek, bass clarinet.
Other CHS students earning a first division gold medal at the contest are:
Flute: Catherine Cage, Lucy Huo, Kristi Von Handorf , Annie Liu, Shibi Riyaj, Angela Song.
Oboe: Shehan Jeyarajah.
English horn: Cat Esquivel.
Clarinet: Evelyn Coffman, Arnold Hechanova, Nathan Hudson, Ginnie Ko, Phoebe Walden, Roy Park.
Bass clarinet: Landon Grissett, Ali McCully.
Alto saxophone: Stephen Arifin, Tarek Elmougy, Tyler Williamson, Jonathon Zuniga.
Tenor saxophone: Eric Piontek.
French horn: Alex Avalos, Natalie Gale, Leah Gray, Haley Greenia, Mitchell McBrayer, Rebecca Neumann.
Trombone: Geoffrey Purcell.
Tuba: James Halpin.
Percussion: Aaron Fisher, Stephen Jacquess, Binna Kim, Tyler Murray, John Rusch, Krish Suresh, Blake Varnell, Kyle Willett.
Violin: Julianna Brassfield.
CHS students earning a second division silver medal are:
Flute: Hannah Allen, Neha Dubey, Morgan Harnois, Christine Kim, Sam Kim, Ava Lindstrom, Shin Loo,Allison Lyon, Isabel Olivas, Sarah Omar, Ashley Park, Lisa Richardson, Jennifer Song.
Piccolo: Morgan Mosely, Brenna Walden.
Oboe: Avery Griffiths, Vicky Kao, Sarah Pye, HelenaYou.
Clarinet: Hailey Armstrong, Danny Jung, Lauren Lyssy, Emily Miznazi, Chandi Patel, Shermin Punjwani, Kathryn Pye, Richard Song, Holly Tallon, Matt Walker, Lauren Walter, Jenny Wang, Alyssa Winn.
Alto clarinet: Catherine Lugo, Lauren Solano.
Alto saxophone: David Dreier, Matt Graybill, Ben Marshall, Allison Mays, Nicole McCully, Alex Park, Praveen Polamraju, C.J. Ukoha.
Tenor saxophone: Bronwyn Loebs.
Saxophone quartet: Erik Piontek, Praveen Polamraju, Tyler Williamson, Chad Worcester.
Trumpet: Tyler Cupp, Ashley Faragher, Adrian Galvan, Kyle Jaksa, William McKee, Nathan Rogers, Brandon White, Kyle Wilkinson.
French horn: Ethan Balsamo, Kylar Boyd, Conner Clark, Anna English, Jeanne Feng, Kit Howeth, Ashley San Miguel, Erich Seger, Connor Wilkinson, Dylan Yamada.
Trombone: Austin Cary, Violet Coker, Alex Hicks, Mari Nakamura, Charlie Ostrovich, Henry Trahan.
Euphonium: Jordan Hobgood, Alex Kersey, Jimmy Williams.
Tuba: Dalton Brooks, Parker Mason, Matt Pearce.
Percussion: Grayson Akerly, Matt Baucum, Caitlin Conner, Sam Fillingham, AJ Johnson, Sara Johnson, Laura Lisbona, Clayton Mulvihill, Leeza Nguyen, Jamie Reed, Evan Suttle, Chris Teel.
