Seventy-one Allen ISD middle school orchestra students earned seats in one of the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Region 25 Middle School Orchestras following auditions held in October.
More than 490 students from across Region 25 competed for 206 total seats. Schools represented included Lovejoy ISD, Plano ISD, Sherman ISD, and Wylie ISD. The audition process required students to perform a set of prepared etudes and musical excerpts for a panel of judges.
Allen ISD Students Selected
Curtis Middle School: Jake Ahn, Afia Asante, Howie Chang, Anderson Cheng, Rachel Chiu, Eason Ding, Caden Dismukes, Tristan Groten, Alina Kanwar, Audrey Kim, Daniel Lin, Wesley Mega, Tung Nguyen, Noah Park, Aiden Pepkin, Ryelle Ramsey, Caitlyn Shi, Titus Sun, Henry Toy, James Tran, Tung Tran.
Ereckson Middle School: Amber Barries, Reema Bhogireddi, Henry Church, Keshav Devanathan, Katelyn Du, Sophia Duncan, Gabriel Gao, Jesse Han, Michael Ho, Kayla Hsieh, Jeremy Hu, Sebastian Huynh, Zoe Ishaque, Shine Jang, Ethan Jia, Ally Jin, Alex Jo, Brian Kim, Ethan Kim, Zoe Kim, Chloe Kim, Audrina Le, Claire Lee, Eli Lee, Madi Lee, Lydia Marcin, Ayush Padarthi, David Park, Sahasra Produtor, Adam Shaffer, Aaron Shao, Wesley Shen, Eshaan Sriram, Max Tan, Evan Verma, Adrian Wu, Chloe Xu, Echo Yang, Eric Yang, Emma Yang, William Zhao, Jeffrey Zheng.
Ford Middle School: Annabelle Castillo, Suri Fan, Preston Hsieh, Nazeef Joarder, Leon Kim, Anaisha Komanduri, Kayson Qin, Yuhan Zhu.
Congratulations to all 71 students on this outstanding accomplishment.