An AYA student from Germany is making her mark at a high school in Kansas. Ella is a gifted clarinet player and earning high accolades for her skill. She shares her talent as part of the Rossville High School band.
Ella’s Local Coordinator Kelly wrote in to share details about this very special student—in a very special year at Rossville High School. She explains:
Ella is an outstanding clarinet player, and she has been receiving awards in her band competitions right and left! She earned a spot on the All-State Band and will play in the All State Band Concert next month. Recently, she captured another award and was honored as one of the outstanding musicians in the Payne Band at the Kansas State University Clinic.
Here is an excerpt from a letter from Garrett Jones, the Rossville High School Band & Choir Director on a great accomplishment for Ella—and Ava, a very talented classmate she is lucky to share the experience with:
I am very pleased to announce that Rossville had two musicians make the 1A-4A All-State band after live auditions last Saturday in Salina.
Ella T. and Ava S., both playing clarinet, will represent Rossville at the Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA) convention in Wichita. The convention begins Thursday, February 23rd and concludes with the All-State ensemble concerts on Saturday, February 25th at the Century II Convention Center.
This ensemble represents the best of the best from the 1A-4A musicians in the entire state, and these ladies have worked very hard to make it to this point. Please congratulate them the next time you see them in your classroom or in the hall, this is a very prestigious honor.
As far as the records show, Ella and Ava are the first Rossville students to make it to the All-State band since the spring of 1995! 22 years later, we are sending a couple of students back to Wichita to represent Rossville in the All-State Band.
Thanks Kelly, for sharing another great example of AYA students finding success and enjoying high school exchange in Kansas!
Learn more about Academic Year in America and how you can host a great student like Ella.
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