News from Lee HS

Solo & Ensemble Festival

More than 45 Lee Band students participated in Solo & Ensemble Festival on April 21 at Holmes Middle School.  Students listed below earned Superior or Excellent ratins from the judges.  Congratulations to all students!

 

EXCELLENT RATING

SOLO:

Clarinet:  Michael Garcia

Snare Drum:  Wesley Falk

 

ENSEMBLE:

Flute/Clarinet Duet:  Megan Burroughs, Jocelyn Dizon

Clarinet Duet:  Jocelyn Dizon, Kadija Ismail

Tuba/Bass Clarinet Duet:  Roberto Flores-Fuentes, Richard Delgado

Clarinet Trio:  Kevin Chan, Dhanzel Mangona, Michael Garcia

Woodwind Quartet:  Jariq Bevel, Richard Delgado, Blaine Ashton, Daniel Tran

Percussion Ensemble:  Nicholas Asasouk, Nicco Cox, Neil Cruz, Wesley Falk, Wesley Mok, Alex Nguyen, Dillon Nguyen, Denise Puryear, Kevin Quispe, Damarys Vela Abad, Tim Salino, Jonathan Tilahun, Matthew Wilson

  

SUPERIOR RATING

SOLO:

Euphonium:  Michael Garcia

Marimba:  Wesley Falk

Tenor Saxophone:  Blaine Ashton

Trombone:  Thomas Granados

 

ENSEMBLE:

Trumpet/Clarinet Duet:  Fabricio Rua Sanchez, Dhanzel Mangona

Flute/Clarinet Trio:  Milagros Chumpitaz, Carol Pham, Adriana Andia

Flute Quintet:  Milagros Chumpitaz, Angela Nguyen, Carol Pham, Lillian Tran, Megan Burroughs

Brass Sextet:  Fabricio Rua-Sanchez (conductor – CAS project), Eduardo Hernandez, John Le, Benjamin Wang, Thomas Granados, Daniel Morris, Roberto Flores-Fuentes

Brass Choir:  Fabricio Rua-Sanchez, Eduardo Hernandez, John Le, Scott Hobbs, Dina Sherzad, Khulan Otgonbayer, Benjamin Wang, Thomas Granados, Theodore Waddington, Daniel Morris, Roberto Flores-Fuentes

Clarinet Choir:  Kevin Chan, Dhanzel Mangona, Michael Garcia, Nadia Hernandez, Adriana Andia, Jocelyn Dizon, Kadija Ismail, Daniel Tran, Zhanming Yu, Richard Delgado


SPRING CONCERT

The Lee Band will perform their spring concert on Thursday, May 10, at 7:00 p.m. in the Lee auditorium.  The concert is free and open to the public.  Performances include Concert Band, Percussion Ensemble, and Wind Ensemble, as well as chamber ensembles.  This year’s Senior Soloist, Kevin Chan, will perform with the Wind Ensemble alongside his clarinet instructor, Master Sergeant Tracey Paddock, a member of the US Marine Band.  This is a unique opportunity for our students!

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Clarinetist Master Sergeant Tracey Paddock joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in November 1998. Master Sgt. Paddock began her musical instruction at age eight. Upon graduating in 1989 from West Potomac High School in Alexandria, she attended Indiana University in Bloomington, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in music in 1992. As a Fulbright Scholar, she earned her master’s in music from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1994. She completed a doctorate in music performance from Florida State University in Tallahassee in 2011. Master Sgt. Paddock has studied clarinet with Wayne Titerence, formerly with the Air Force Band; James Campbell of Indiana University; the Royal Academy’s Keith Puddy and Angela Malsbury; and Frank Kowalsky of Florida State.

 Master Sergeant Tracey Paddock


Attendance Calls During AP, IB and Online SOL Testing

During AP, IB and SOL testing at high schools from Wednesday, May 2, 2018 through Friday, June 8, 2018 the morning attendance telephone calls, texts and e-mails to home for reporting a student’s absence will not occur. This temporary suspension reflects the fact that students are often in designated testing sites within the school during the normal attendance-taking time. The evening attendance telephone calls and e-mails will still remain in place.