
University of Nebraska - Kearney (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
KEARNEY – Students from 95 high schools in Nebraska will participate in the annual Honor Band and Choral Clinic hosted by the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s Department of Music, Theatre and Dance.
The Jan. 29 event includes 606 high school music students who will work with UNK faculty and guest instructors before performing two public concerts at UNK’s Health and Sports Center. The 5:30 p.m. performance will feature the UNK Wind Ensemble along with the festival and honor bands. The 7 p.m. concert will showcase the UNK Choraleers along with the treble, festival and honor choirs.
Tickets, which include admission to both concerts, are $3 and go on sale at 4:45 p.m. that day at the Health and Sports Center. Participants and preschool children are admitted at no cost.
Clinicians/conductors for the event are:
- Honor Band – Richard Mayne, University of Northern Colorado professor emeritus
- Festival Band – Duane Bierman, UNK professor of music and director of bands
- Honor Choir – Jessie LaBrie, Grand Island Senior High School choir director
- Treble Choir – Clayton Moyer, Kearney High School choir director
- Festival Choir – Christian Yost, Hastings High School choir director
The UNK Honor Band and Choral Clinic includes high school sophomores, juniors and seniors selected through auditions.
This year’s participants include:
SCHOOL / CITY NAME
Adams Central Morgan Stoeger
Ainsworth Colby Beegle
Ainsworth Grace Goodwin
Ainsworth Jordan Beatty
Ainsworth Madison Phares
Ainsworth William Biltoft
Alliance Alexander Montgomery
Alliance Angel Trejo
Alliance Ayvrie Waldron
Alliance Benjamin Cassatt-Reina
Alliance Brexten Kimmel
Alliance Carlee Romero
Alliance Charlotte Schmidt
Alliance Daulton Mangas
Alliance Kaiden Krebs
Alliance Landyn Branstiter
Alliance Maira Richey
Alliance Matthew Moomey
Alliance Matthias Benzel
Alliance Mia Salazar
Alliance Morgan LeMunyan
Alliance Talan Postell
Alliance Timothy Kade Richey
Anselmo-Merna Aaron Bartak
Anselmo-Merna Sadie Stewart
Anselmo-Merna Shayleigh Coleman
Arapahoe-Holbrook Annaka Wasenius
Arapahoe-Holbrook Carrick McCorkle
Arapahoe-Holbrook Haiden Garey
Arapahoe-Holbrook Hunter Jorschumb
Arapahoe-Holbrook Kristin Holcomb
Arapahoe-Holbrook Lael Rathbun
Arapahoe-Holbrook Lauren Moore
Arapahoe-Holbrook McKenzie Ewoldt
Arapahoe-Holbrook Rylee Kerr
Arapahoe-Holbrook Titus Goshert
Arcadia Colin Rice
Arthur County Addison Bures
Arthur County Rylie Jageler
Ashland-Greenwood Elizabeth Williams
Ashland-Greenwood Jackson Nielson
Ashland-Greenwood Michael Risney
Axtell Hannah Maples
Axtell Maxine Fickenscher
Axtell Trinitie Benson
Bayard Jessica Kappen
Bayard Shayleigh West
Bayard Taylor Petersen
Bayard Isabelle Maag
Beatrice Ryan Rempel
Beatrice Sean Carrera
Bishop Neumann Isabelle Zelazny
Bishop Neumann Anna Gokie
Bishop Neumann Hallie Masek
Bishop Neumann Stephen Quinn
Bishop Neumann Trinity Youngblood
Blue Hill Angel Runyan
Blue Hill Aubrey Wharton
Blue Hill Libby Macklin
Blue Hill Michael Magill
Boone Central Edwin Guillermo Naranjo Aranda
Boone Central Emma Lordemann
Boone Central Hadley Gulbrandson
Boone Central Jaimie Zwiener
Boone Central Lacie Miller
Boone Central Madison Gompert
Boone Central Makayla McGill
Boone Central Myranda Nelson
Boone Central Philip Carnley
Boone Central Quinn Bittner
Boone Central Riley Lordemann
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