This past weekend was a percussion festival sponsored by Oakland University, held at Rochester Adams High School. The event sponsor reached out and asked our percussion ensembles to perform based on their performances earlier this year at MSBOA State Solo and Ensemble. We had three events perform that included 10 students from our programs, representing IA, LHS, and MHS.
The students did a tremendous job and were professionals all day long. They experienced performances by other high school and university groups, a workshop, master class, and much more. This wasn't a competition, was a completely added on event to their already busy lives, and they were simply amazing!
In the words of the sponsoring director, " Thank you for coming out our way to attend! All of your students sounded incredible, I was really blown away. They all had such great questions as well, you really have something incredible happening in your percussion department."
Students involved were:
Gabe Verrino - IA West
Paige Philipp - MHS
Quinn Taylor - MHS
Madi Ayala - LHS
Cadence Husted - LHS
Lila Mahler - LHS
Savannah Miller - LHS
Kipp Mowers - LHS
Rainah Petersen - LHS
Devon Roskam - LHS