Haverling music students heading to All-County

BATH - The Steuben County Music Teachers Association will celebrate March as "Music in Our Schools Month" by sponsoring two county music festivals in March, one at Haverling High School on March 7 and 8 and the other at Corning West High School on March 28 and 29.

Haverling Middle School students will represent the district at both festivals.

The Haverling Festival features students from the All County Sixth Grade Band and the All County Junior High Chorus. Sixth grade musicians participating are flute players Emily Gugliotta, Sarah Wright, Cienna Tomb, and Taylor Tompkins; oboist Ariana Manikas; clarinet players Katherine VanAmburg, Megan Preston, and Lindsay Robbins; Ali Sprague bass clarinet; alto saxophone players Garrett Strong, Peter Skelly, Brittany Orlowske; baritone saxophone player, Brittany Clark; trumpet player Logan Hobbs; trombone players Samatha Taggart and Evan McDowell; tuba player Bailey Colomaio; and percussionist Matt Hauryski.

Nikki Cole teaches the sixth grade instrumentalists.

Representing Haverling in the All County Junior High Chorus are singers Ainslee Litz, J ocie Lindmark, Jessica Fizzano, Brianna Rossman, Alex Hauryski, Aaron Preston, Kyle Clark, Tyler Easterbrook, and Tommy Lieb.

The chorus students are instructed by Cheryl Muller.

The Corning West Festival will host the sixth grade chorus and the junior high band. Haverling sixth grade chorus students are instructed by Neil Bryson and the 7th and 8th grade band instrumentalists are instructed by John Cole and Richard Rohrbach. Haverling's sixth grade students participating in the festival chorus are Bailey Colomaio, Mitchell Fuller, Emily Gugliotta, Matt Hauryski, Billie Jo Kester, Evan McDowell, Amber Northup, Melany Preston, Lindsay Robbins, Alexandra Schlechter, Shayne Stonier, Rikki Strauss, Samantha Taggart, Sarah Wright.

Band members selected for this festival are flute players Jaimie Kollmorgan and Jessie Martin; clarinetists Jocie Lindmark, Ally Muller, Brian Schuster, Maria Kaniewski, and Danielle Neu; bass clarinet Maranda Rumsey; alto saxophone Matt Vonderlin; tenor saxophones Drew Snavely and Jake Schlink; baritone saxophone John Murray; cornet Zach Brown; F horn player Kerstin Burns; trombone player Madeleine Flick; and percussionists Austin Colomaio and Austin Clark.

Students have already started working on the music for these festivals with their music teachers as they are expected to arrive at the festival with the music learned. Each festival consists of over eight hours of intensive rehearsals over two days' time with a prominent guest conductor culminating in a 3:00 pm Saturday public performance at each site.