Parkway 2006-07 Fine Arts Awards and Recognitions

DANCE

"2006-2007 Outstanding Achievement in Arts Education" award, cosponsored by the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network and the Missouri Alliance for Arts Education presented to Lorilee Richardson for Parkway dance program .

MUSIC

"2006-2007 SLSMEA Merit Award Winner" - Ed Simon, Orchestra Director, Parkway School District

Parkway Teachers of the Year from FA Department:

Paula Seim, art teacher, McKelvey Elementary

Gayle Elzinga, drama teacher, Central Middle

DRAMA

South High:

Margaret Howard was elected State President of ITS (Mo-Thespians)

State One Acts qualified for state competition - MSHSAA

awarded 6th in our section at State

West High:

Selected for 2006-2007 Missouri Fine Arts Academy:

Kimberly McClay
Alex Klier

BAND

 The 2006-2007 John Baker Memorial Band Scholarship Recipients

Central High:

Dan Steiner, $250 for Jazz Camp

Jeremy Fischbein, $250 for Jazz Camp

North High:

Ben Morgerman, $500.

Grade 11, Bass

North Texas Summer Camp

South High:

Matt Lyons, $500.

Grade 9, Guitar

Summer Jazz Camp.

West High:

Ross Halley, $500.

Trumpet - Summer Music Camp

Central Middle:

Karli Grazman, $125.

Summer Jazz Camp (or private lessons)

Northeast Middle:

Kristi Lee Neuberger, $125.

Grade 7  (Flute)  private study over the summer

South Middle:

Blair Heumann, $125.

Grade 7, percussion - McKendree Midwestern Percussion Camp

Southwest Middle:

Kathryn Bradley, $125.

Grade 8, Bass - Summer Music Camp

West Middle:

Katherine Young, $125.

Grade 6, French Horn - private study over the summer

 

South High Band

Mozingo Music Marching Percussion Competition - Drum Line, 2nd place in class

Blue Springs Golden Regiment Invitational Competitions:

      2nd place in the Indoor Color Guard

      2nd place for the Indoor Drumline

      9th place out of 27 bands in Field Show

Washington Marching - 6th place in Class B

SLSMEA Band Festival - Honor 1 Rating

North High Band

Washington Marching Festival - 5th place in Class B

District Solo and Ensemble - 68 students
12 - I Rating

13 - II Rating

20 students participating in the S and E Festival at State Level (compared to 1 student in 2006)

State Solo and Ensemble - 20 students

4 - I Rating

6 - II Rating

Chicago Heritage Band Festival:

Symphonic Band- Honor Gold Rating
Outstanding Band Overall

Concert Band- Honor Silver Rating

 

Central High Band

St. Louis All-Suburban Bands:

Meghan Linn-flute
Tianya Li-clarinet
Hannah Lee-clarinet
Andrew George-clarinet
Hannah Lee- bass clarinet
Hang Gao- alto saxophone
Ben Aziz- trumpet
Max Holter- trombone

John Frischer- All-Suburban Jazz Band - bass
Max Holter- All-Suburban Jazz Band -trombone

District Solo and Ensemble - Rating I

Dong, Lingyu, Trombone

Robinson, Page, Clarinet

Lee, Hannah, Bass Clarinet

Gao, Hang, Saxophone

Choi, Hannah, Flute

Kang, Sandra, Flute

Lee, Hannah Clarinet

George, Andrew, Clarinet

George Clarenet  Trio,

Hannah Lee,  Piano

District Solo and Ensemble - Rating II
Shaked Halperin, Snare Drum
Andrew Zang, Clarinet Solo
Hannah Johnson, Sandra Kang, Hannah Choi Flute Trio
Trumpet Trio Ben Aziz, Michael Knight, Will Hack
Ben Aziz, Trumpet Solo
Tony Zang, Clarinet Solo
Jason Liang, Clarinet Solo

Hannah Li Piano
Yeh Jeong, Piano

State Solo and Ensemble - Rating I

Lee, Hannah, Bass Clarinet

Robinson, Page, Clarinet

Kang, Sandra, Flute

Mozingo Music Marching Percussion Competition - Drum Line, 1st place in class

Lafayette Contest of Champions - Best Music, Best Colorguard, Best Percussion, 1st Place in Class A and made Finals

Washington Marching Festival - 6th place in Class B

Washington MB Festival - 2nd Place Color Guard
Univ. of Mo. Marching Band Contest - 3rd Place Color Guard

2006-2007 All State Band:

  Tianya Li, Clarinet, Central High

  Rowan Karvas, Clarinet, West High

  Andrew George, Clarinet, Central High

  Hannah Lee, Clarinet, Central High

  Ryan Meinkoth, 1st Alternate, Tenor Saxophone, South High

  Chris Richmond, Honorable Mention, Clarinet, South High

 

South High Choirs

10 students selected for the All-Suburban Honor Choir
The students have to identify key signatures, sight-read a single line of music, sight-read four part music and perform a solo.
Soprano
   Lindsey Ring
   Allison Dismore
   Lauren Massey
   Maggie Rowland*
   Nehle Jungekrueger*
Alto
   Laura Unverfehrt
  Wendy Jennings *
  Angela Belding *
Bass
  Greg Bohling *
  Danny Beene*
* indicates that of all the students auditioning, they scored in the top 20 for their voice part and will be eligible to audition for the Missouri All-State Choir.

MSHSAA Large Ensemble Contest:
Concert Choir - Honor I Rating
Chamber Singers - Honor I Rating
Male Chorus - 2nd
Women's Chorus - Honor I Rating

District Solo and Ensemble:  12 - 1st ratings

State Solo/Ensemble:  6 -1st ratings

MSHSAA State Solo/Ensemble Festival. We received six Superior ratings.
   Leah Gastman - Solo - Superior
   Wendy Jennings - Solo -Superior
   Julie Hembree - Solo -Superior
   Maggie Rowland - Solo -Superior
   Leah Gastman, Wendy Jennings, Angela Belding - Trio -Superior
   Greg Bohling, Greg Brenton, Leah Gastman, Richard Gibson, Wendy Jennings, Nehle Jungekrueger, Jonathan Meany, and       

  Lindsey Ring - Mixed Double Quartet -Superior

World's of Fun Choral Competition Ratings:
Male Chorus - Excellent
Female Chorus - Superior
Concert Choir - Superior
Chamber Singers - Superior
Chamber Singers received 1st place in the Open Category

Lindbergh Show Choir Competition
2nd place 5A / 3rd Runner-up in finals
Best Group Vocals

Nevada Show Choir Competition
Best Female Soloist @ Leah Gastman

Central High School Choirs

SLSMEA Choir Festival - Honor I Rating - Mixed Choir #1, Mixed Choir #2

SLSMEA Choir Festival - Honor I Rating - Chamber Choir

North High Vocal

District Solo and Ensemble #1 Ratings:

  Jamie Anderson,  Vocal

  Garland, Eric, Vocal

  Johnson Double Vocal QT

District Solo and Ensemble #2 Ratings:
  Jenny Cahill
  Peter Jaques
  Melissa Alper
  Jacob Gioccotto
  Adrian Nelinson
  Meghan Gilbertson
  Jenna Frieson
  Rodney Payne
  Maria Chapman
  Justine Ward
  Caroline Camup
  Karen Daunov
  Samantha Otto

State  Solo and Ensemble  #1 Ratings  

  Jamie Anderson, Vocal

 

North High School  Choirs

SLSMEA Choir Festival - Honor I Rating - Mixed Choir #1, Mixed Choir #2

SLSMEA Choir Festival - Honor I Rating - Women's Chorus

SLSMEA Choir Festival - Honor I Rating - Men's Chorus

20 students selected to All-Suburban Choir
13 placed in the top 20 of their section

20 vocal events received 1 rating at District Solo/Small Ensemble Festival, 15 of those received 1 rating at State Music Festival

Missouri Music Educator's Conference Performance - North High Vocal Jazz Ensemble

2006- 2007 All State Choir:

Sopranos
   Nehle Jungekrueger, Parkway South
   Lindsa Keller, Parkway North
   alternate - Vanessa Catalanotto, Parkway North

Altos
   Melissa Alper, Parkway Central
   Wendy Jennings, Parkway South

Tenors
   Jared Nepute, Parkway West
   alternate - Trenton Hull, Parkway North

Basses
   Brian Gericke, Parkway West
   Jason Wong, Parkway West

Middle School Choir

Northeast Middle School Choirs

SLSMEA Choir Festival - Honor I Rating - Concert Choir

SLSMEA Choir Festival - Honor I Rating - Junior Choir

SLSMEA Choir Festival - Honor I Rating - Treble Choir

South Middle School Choirs

SLSMEA Choir Festival - Honor I Rating

Southwest Middle School Choirs

SLSMEA Choir Festival - Honor I Rating

Music in the Parks Worlds of Fun 2007: 1st place overall junior high/middle school choir

Madison Elmore, soprano and Daniel Myers, tenor---MCDA 2007 summer all-state honor choir

West Middle School Choirs

SLSMEA Choir Festival - Honor I Rating -7th Grade Choirs

Solo Ensemble - 3 Ensembles entered - All received Honor Rating I
7 Soloists - 4 Received Honor Rating I
3 Soloists - II's

Nine Students selected for MCDA Honor Choirs - Jeff City
5/6 Choir: Rebecca Bouchard, Shannon Adlabi, Kathryn Hunter, Zoe Gnaedinger,
7/8 Choir: Emmy Barbour, Kat Cardinale, Kara Johnson, Mickey Rowen, Brendon Sheppard.

Elementary Vocal

Highcroft Ridge Elementary

Aidan McCarter - 2nd place winner, Elementary Song Division, "Creating Original Music Project Competition" - University of Missouri -Columbia School of Music

 

ORCHESTRA

North High Orchestra

  Monica Godbee -- U City Symphony scholarship winner -- selected as soloist with orchestra
   Michelle Godbee -- Competition winner performed entire Tchaikowsky Violin Concerto with "Town and Country" Symphony

  SLSMEA Festival Honor I Rating

2006-2007 All State Orchestra

First Violins

  Raymond Chen, Central High

  Michele Godbee, North High

  Lawrence Lin, Central High

  Michael MacGregor, Central High

Second Violins

  Connie Chen, Central High

  Joy He, Central High

  Albert Zheng, North High

Viola

  Rebecca Vieker, South High

  Madison Pietrowski, Alt. 1, West High

  Max Geissler, Central High

  Novica Godbee, North High

  Zachary Adams, Alt. 2, Central High

Bass

  Robert Jackson, South High

  Ben Mogerman, North High

  Elliott Perko, West High

  Nicholas Rupel, Alt 2, Central High

Central High Orchestra

St Louis Youth Symphony
   Raymond Chen, Violin
   Joy He, Violin
   Ryan Wang, Violin
   Max Geissler, Cello

Webster U. Young People’s Symphonic Orchestra
   Connie Chen Violin
   Jeffrey Huang, Violin
   Zachary Adams, Cello

Webster U. Young People’s Concert Orchestra
   Jason Chen, Violin
   John Lee, Violin
   Rachel Park, Violin
   Christal Wang, Violin

Webster U. Pre-College Music Program
   Andrew George, Clarinet
   Max Geissler, Cello

District Solo and Ensemble -  #1 Ratings

  Raymond, Chen, Violin

  John Lee, Violin

  Jessi Scully, Viola

  Manjunath, Adarsh, Viola

  Geissler, Max.Cello

  Huang, Jeffrey, Violin

  Wang, Christal, Violin

  Lin, Lawrence, Violin

  Wang, Christal, Violin

  Macgregor, Michael, Violin

  Qin, Elizabeth, Violin

  Chen, Connie, Violin

 He, Joy, Violin

 Robison, Suzanne, Violin

 Qin , Elizabeth, Violin

 Adams, Zach, Cello

 Elizabeth Qin and Ching Ting Huang, StringDuet

District Solo & Ensemble #2 Ratings

State  Solo and Ensemble  #1 Ratings  

  Raymond, Chen, Violin

  Geissler, Max.Cello

  Wang, Christal, Violin

  Wang, Christal, Violin

  Macgregor, Michael, Violin

  Chen, Connie, Violin

 He, Joy, Violin

All Suburban Orchestra

Alternates
John Frischer, Bass
Adarsh Manjunath, Viola

  

West High

SLSMEA Orchestra Festival - Honor I Rating

 

MIDDLE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA

Central Middle Orchestra

All-Suburban

8th Grade:
  Hope Hua
  Anisha Gururaj
  Charles Qin

6th Grade:
  Rimi Chakraborty
  Deanna Patelis
  Edwin Dong

Honors Orchestra - SLSMEA Music Festival Honor I Rating

Missouri Music Educator's Conference Performance - Parkway Central Honor Orchesra

Northeast Middle School Orchestra
SLSMEA Orchestra Festival - Honor I Rating - 7th grade Junior Orchestra

SLSMEA Orchestra Festival - Honor I Rating - 8th grade Concert Orchestra

Phillip Sinayuk, Stephanie Zhang, Nathan Emmons and Sarah Baughman - Honor "1" rating on their Mozart Quartet

Manisha Reddy, Stephanie Zhang and Nathan Emmons - Honor #1 rating on their violin and viola solos.

All participating Northeast students got #1 ratings this year!

The 8th grade Concert Orchestra took first place in the Middle School/Junior High Orchestra competition at Worlds of Fun

South Middle School Orchestra

SLSMEA Orchestra Festival - Honor I Rating

Southwest Middle School Orchestra

SLSMEA Orchestra Festival - Honor I Rating

Middle Grades Solo and Small ensemble Festival - Top 5 schools in number of Honor I Ratings

Parkway Central Middle School - 24

Senior High Solo and Small Ensemble Festival - Top 5 schools in number of Honor I Ratings

Parkway North high School - 40

Chamber Orchestra SLSMEA Orchestra Festival Honor 1 Rating

All Suburban Orchestra:

Kathryn Bradley
Emily Chen
Katie Hoener
Josh Yang

6th grade:

Mary McCain
Kamer Thomas

 

 

VISUAL ARTS

South High School Visual Arts

Lindenwood University's "Young Artists and their Teachers 2006" Exhibition

Natalie Kuehn won Best in Show for her self-portrait. I believe this is the first best in show winner in the history of the school.

Other award and scholarship winners are as follows:
  Alora Stover-1st place in mixed media
  Qing Yang- 1st place in drawing
  Caitlin Croft -1st place in sculpture
  Alex Roewe - 2nd place in ceramics
  Eunice Theodor- Honorable Mention in digital photography

Other students who have artwork in the show are:

Luke Andrea, Gloria Kim, Garrett Smith, Hannah Lapicki, Zach Adams, Christy Combs, Monica Maneyre, Wesley Peterson, Suzy Wargel, Clayton Ulmer, Jing Xue, Carly Meyer, Amanda Strauss, and Jessica Higginbotham.

Melissa LaChance - St. Louis Community College Art Exhibition 2007 won a Special Recognition Award.

Tom Matthews - Honorable Mention - Olivette Photo Show

The following South students had their artwork accepted into Krueger Pottery's 5th Annual High School Ceramic Art Exhibition:    

  Ryan Ketsenburg

  Alora Stover

  Caitlin Croft

  Ben Vasquez

  Bob Buser

  Andrew Cistola

 

Central High School Visual Arts

Brittany Velasquez  -  4th place and work selected to be displayed in “Influences” competition.

Arianna Oh  -  Memory Project Portrait displayed at KNEW Gallery, Washington, D.C. and in traveling show

                                                                        

Allie Wiess and Adam Didier accepted to Missouri Fine Arts Academy

High School Show at St. Louis Community College, Florissant Valley

Edo Rosenblith, Honorable Mention

Brittany Velasquez, 3rd place

Le'ad Rosenblith, "Best in Show"

Additions to Central High Visual Art Awards 2006-07

Young Artists Showcase

Honorable Mention:
Ariana Oh
LeÕad Rosenblith

Work Accepted:
Brittany Velasquez
Dawson Foster
Alyce Connelly
Steffeni Bunsick
Adam Didier
Abby Bennett
Sonia Kim
Louis Lee
Edo Rosenblith
Beverly Pagone
Eliana Turner
Sam Tilson
Courtney Silverstein
Erin Weaver
Allie Weiss

West County Chamber of Commerce Banner Contest for Manchester Corridor
Lovanzia Allen - 1st Place, $200. prize
Alison Copens - Runner Up $50.
Melissa Brown - Runner Up $5

 

North High School Visual Arts

Marion Pooke, '01, Visual Art Award in Painting (135 submissions of impressively high caliber work)

Honorable Mention Awards and a $500. scholarship to:

"Too Much Saki" by Stephanie Chen
"Cast Off" by Becca Fels

Amanda Packman - Honarable Mention in division 2 for photograph in 6th annual St. Louis Holocaust Museum Learning Center Art and Writing Contest.  Her artwork will hang at the museum and will later be presented at the St. Louis Galleria.

Honarable Mention in 22nd annual Olivette Photography Competition:

Maggie Evans, Rachel Platt, Suzie Cochran

Ten Parkway North Students had their artwork submitted to the Annual High School Art Exhibition at SIU Edwardsville.

North had six out of the 70 works juried into the Show from high schools within a 100 mile radius of the SIU campus.

The students accepted were:

  Rebecca Fels

  McKinna Allen

  Riley Deel

  Tara Montgomery

  Jessica Brewer

  Tiya Tiyasirichokcha

At the opening on March 13th, Rebecca Fels won $100 for her painting "Knit One, Purl One"

Tara Montgomery won $50 for her photograph. Congratulations!

Twenty-Nine North students had work entered into the "Young Artists" Showcase 2007- at the St. Louis Artists' Guild.

13 Students had work juried into the show. Those students were:

  Rebecca Fels

  Shalla Yudelevich

  McKinna Allen

  Riley Deel

  Cary Gray

  Luiza Buscariollo

  Sarah Klearman

  Emily Lyle

  Kristen Sedovic

  Brett Errant

  Emily Gregor

  Amanda Winters

  Jenny Seibert

We are proud to announce that Luiza Buscariollo won $100 dollars for her drawing . Congratulations!

 

West High

West High artists have received recognitions!!

The following students exhibited at the St. Louis Artist Guild from March 18th - May 5:

1. Seth Elliott
2. Billie Liao
3. Iavora Vlaytcheva
4. Louis Zhang
5. Margaret Hardy
7. Kelly Cole
8. Jacqueline Walters
9. Kristen Trecker
10. Amanda Carpenter
11. Kaitlyn Yang
12. Jamie Woltjen
13. Morgen Depenthal
14. Lisa Bradley
15. Kelling Kendall
16. Michael Jolly
17. Becky Lanman
18. Ramona Datzeva

Louis Zhang won the $100 "Connie Hume for Young Artist Memorial Award"

Ramona Datzeva won the $100 "Nanda de Silva Memorial Prize for Young Artist III"

Students who participated at the SIU -E High School Exhibition:

1. Kaitlyn Yang
2. Kevin Hsiao
3. Dean Roper
4. Kristen Trecker
5. Allison Kraus
6. Alison Vaccaro
7. Margaret Hardy

Allison Kraus and Margaret Hardy were $100 winners

Margaret Hardy is also a first place winner in the Gateway Chapter of the Links Poster Contest. She is advancing to the next level.

In addition, Margaret won $1000 at the Greater Art Association of St. Louis, Queeny Park Exhibit and she is a first place winner in the Federal Jr. Duck Stamp Contest for her age group.

The following students are participating at Krueger Pottery's annual High School Ceramic Art Exhibition:

1. Morgen Depenthal
2. Dean Roper
3. Jen Humphrey
4. Ramona Datzeva
5. Amanda Jakle
6. Hunter Golay
7. Alex Richards

Billie Liao won 3rd place in the Congressional Art Competition and Margaret Hardy

Billie Liao awarded Honorable Mention in the Pasta House Co. High School Art Competition. She won $100 and the West High Art Dept. was also awarded $100.

Middle School Visual Arts

Northeast Middle Visual Art Awards

MORA * Missouri Recycling Association Poster Contest
All winners were invited to receive their awards in Jefferson City, Capital Rotunda
6th Grade

   First Place - Eddie Rogers
   Second Place - Gabrielle Droesch
7th Grade
   First Place - Nicole Brawley
8th Grade
   First Place - Ashlea Hallman
   Honorable Mention -Emily Calloway

Lion's Clubs Peace Poster Contest
Representing the St. Louis area:

First Place - Breanne McCarthy
Second Place - Daniel Frumhoff
Honorable Mention - Allie Ladd

The Gateway Chapter of The Links, Inc
Project Walking Fete: Make Health A Habit poster contest
A reception was held at the Contemporary Art Museum honoring the winners and all entries were on display.
6th Grade
   First Place - Pennie Lin
   Second Place - Matt Gipson
   Third Place - Jacob Sandweiss
8th Grade
   Second Place - Daniel Frumhoff

2007 ATSSA Highway Workzone Poster Contest
"American Traffic Safety Services Association, Life Behind the Cones and Barrels"
4 in 6 grade Category
   First Place - Maggie Roderick
   Second Place - Cecilia Bell
First, second and third place winners will receive cash prizes of $100, $50 and $25 respectively, with a matching award    presented to the schools. The winners were selected based on their drawing's creativity, inclusion of work zone elements and understanding of a work zone. All the state winners are automatically submitted to the national contest.

South Middle Visual Arts Awards

Two 6th grade students came in 3rd place each for their category out of 3- 3rd place spots

The winners were:

  Nick Jones ( 6th grade)3rd place - $2,000.

  Morgan Klein (6th grade) : 3rd place - $2,000.

4 students received honorable mention out of a possible 16 for the state of Missouri

All drawings will tour all 50 states for the next year at waterfowl festivals, wildlife museums, and galleries.

Kelly Wilkins - 6th grade -honorable mention
Tori Schutz -7th grade - honorable mention
Mathew Stanford - 8th grade - honorable mention
Veronica Adrian - 8th grade - honorable mention

This year there were 1378 entries. So my students did very well! I'm very proud of them.

West Middle

Poster Contest "Promoting Walking":

Students: Sara Zambrana , 1st place 8th gr.

Abby Richards, 3rd place, 8th gr.

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