15 students perform in regional honors band festival

Fifteen Fox Chapel Area School District students performed with the 2024 Allegheny Valley honors bands Jan. 4 and 5.

The Allegheny Valley Honors Band Festival included 208 musicians in seventh through 12th grades from the Avonworth, Fox Chapel Area, Hampton, North Allegheny, Northgate, North Hills, Pine-Richland, Riverview and Shaler Area school districts.

One hundred students were selected for the senior-high band, and 108 were picked for the junior-high band.

The Fox Chapel Area students who performed were senior Elijah Herzer (bass clarinet); juniors Malik Choset (trumpet), Marina Dunham (bassoon) and Patton Johnson (percussion); sophomores Elliott Broyles (trombone), Jack Murray-Krezan (percussion) and Joshua Shah (flute); freshmen Rachel Kim (clarinet) and Dashel Wilson (bass clarinet); eighth graders Annabel Berkowitz (bassoon), Steven Hu (tenor saxophone) and Claire Lesnik (trumpet); and seventh graders Rebecca Dorneich (flute), Zoey Liu (flute) and Zhiqing Hou (flute).

The festival was held at Hampton High School and culminated with a public concert Jan. 5. The conductors were Drs. Zach Cheever and Jason Worzbyt from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.