Seventy-seven Allen ISD middle school string players earned seats in the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Region 25 All-Region orchestras after auditions on Oct. 24.
Students from Curtis, Ereckson and Ford middle schools competed against musicians from Lovejoy ISD, Plano ISD, Sherman ISD and Wylie ISD, according to Allen ISD. About 425 students auditioned for 206 spots. Each student performed prepared etudes and musical excerpts before a panel of judges.
Ereckson led the district with 47 selections. Curtis followed with 25, and Ford placed five.
The selected students will rehearse with a guest clinician and perform a free public concert on Nov. 7 at Lowery Freshman Center.
Curtis Middle School (25): Jieum Ahn, Diana Ajayi, Anish Barath, Arthur Bregman, Howie Chang, Mia Chen, Kailey Cheng, Curtis Ding, Eason Ding, Tristan Groten, Angela Kim, Audrey Kim, Olivia Mueller, Aiden Pepkin, Dylan Reusch, Dhanvi Sangram, Rayner Sugiato, Titus Sun, Henry Tan, Aahana Tomar, August Wang, Ivan Wang, Brian Weng, Anderson Xia and Simeon Yotov.
Ereckson Middle School (47): Riaan Baronia, Emma Blackwelder, Yoon Choi, Henry Church, Keshav Devanathan, Suri Fan, Gabriel Gao, Michael Ho, Preston Hsieh, Jeremy Hu, Sebastian Huynh, Ally Jin, Eunsung "Alex" Jo, Brian Kim, Ethan Kim, Ian Kim, Jiin "Zoe" Kim, Leon Kim, Yeji "Chloe" Kim, Anaisha Komanduri, Claire Lee, Eli Lee, Hayun Lee, Madi Lee, Lydia Marcin, Hanna Nguyen, Ayush Padarthi, Hyunjae "Aidan" Park, Seohu "Riley" Park, Sahasra Produtor, Rhea Rajan, Anika Sathish, Aaron Shao, Wesley Shen, Benjamin Slavin, Eshaan Sriram, Maxander "Max" Xing Yu Tan, Evan Verma, Claire Warner, Jane We, Chloe Xu, Chloe Xu, Echo Yang, Eric Yang, Dylan Zhang, Jeffrey Zheng and EliAnne "Ellie" Zhou.
Ford Middle School (5): Daniel Gwie, Adam Hooper, Nazeef Joarder, Aneesh Palit and Owen Xiao.
