12 SCHOOLS PARTICIPATE IN SCHUYLKILL COUNTY CHORUS FESTIVAL IN TAMAQUA

The Schuylkill County Chorus held their chorus festival concert this morning (Saturday, February 21, 2015) at the Tamaqua Area School District Auditorium. The concert concluded the four day chorus festival. The Tamaqua Area Music Department hosted this year’s festival.
Guest conductor was David Lantz III. Host conductor was John D. Buglio.
Due to weather, the time of the concert was moved up to a 9 AM start.
Page down further to view TamaquaArea.com video and photos of the concert.
The Schuylkill County Chorus is comprised of students from grades 8 thru 12 from twelve participating high schools throughout Schuylkill County. Students were selected to participate in the four-day chorus festival in October of 2014 by competitive vocal audition at Pottsville High School. This year’s chorus was under the direction of David Lantz III, a noted composer, educator, and choral director at East Stroudsburg North High School.
Today’s concert included choral music selections from classical to jazz and pop. The chorus sang ” Two Mozart Masterworks”, “Hosanna to the Son of David”, “‘Tis The Last Rose of Summer”, “Stephen Foster Madrigals”, “Earth Song”, “Climbing Over Rocky Mountain”, “Hey There, Lonely Girl”, “My Romance”, “A City Called Heaven ”, “Closer to the Flame”, and “Kuimba!”.
Accompanists were Patrick McMullen and Kieffer Quandel.
Participating schools and directors were Blue Mountain (BM) – Lauren Clauser; Mahanoy Area (MA) – Allison Kline; Marian Catholic (MC) – Michael Brimmer; Minersville Area (M) – Mary Nell Starner; North Schuylkill (NS) – Brandy Kline; Pine Grove (PG) – Rebecca Pugh; Pottsville Area (PA) – Kim Rismiller; Schuylkill Haven (SH) – Kaitlyn Biggs; Shenandoah Valley (SV) – Wally Choplick; Tamaqua Area (TA) – John D. Buglio; Tri-Valley (TV) – Heather Hall; and Williams Valley (WV) – Edward Wilson.

Concert vocalists were:
Soprano 1:
Faith Befano – (MC), Megan Berdanier (PA), Caitlin Chiaretti (TV), Bryel Frasch (NS), Allie Gerber (TA), Aimee Hull (TA), Sarah Jones (TA), Pepper Joulwan (BM), Sara Leibel (PA), Allison Mika (WV), Julia Rismiller (PA), Kayla Rodick (MC), Tori Sallaway (MA), Olivia Schugardt (MC), Devon Sinkovich (PA), Lexi Sterner (BM), Hannah Studlack (M), and Brooke Unger (WV).
Soprano 2:
Meghan Artley (SV), Hannah Betz (TA), Abigail Billig (TA), Kylee Blozousky (NS), Nicole Bouchette (PG), Molly Carnish (MC), Kylee Clark (TV), Kaylee Clauser (BM), Madelyn Dolinsky (TA), Bethany Hollenbush (PA), Alexa Hromyak (TA), Gabrielle Quandel (TV), Rose Reid (MC), Emily Sugrue (NS), Ashley Teter (NS), and Alexa Wolfgang (TV).
Alto 1:
Kylee Agnello – (M), Rebecca Andruchek (M), Cera Blunk (SH), Cassidy Brown (M), Micaela Crochunis (PG), Morgan Flick (PG), Skylar Gunning (TV), Arianna Kessler (NS), Lauren Tidmore (BM), Rebecca Parker (PG), Kayleigh Raczka (M), Faith Roberts (TA), and Sydney Sims (WV).
Alto 2:
Madison Ansbach (MA), Brook Antalosky (NS), Kalista Bracey (M), Gabrielle Brown (PG), Amanda Champion (MC), Rachel Gibson (WV), Taylor Horvat (MC), Beth Kistler (TA), Kate Kramer (M), Taylor Lindenmuth (NS), Kathryn McCarthy (MA), Rachel Meier (MC), Olivia Morrison (TA), Michaela Noftz (TA), Rachael Reiner (WV), Madison Rhode (PG), Alysa Schappell (TA), Zoe Snyder (TA), Katelyn Sprenkle (TA), DeAnna Stevenson (PA), and Lauren Vickery (NS).
Tenors:
Don Keith Allen Jr. (PA), Nathan Bastanzi (TA), Cullen Dixon (NS), Seth Harkins (MC), Mitchell Hornberger (NS), David Kunkel (TA), Michael Logothetides (PA), Adam Moyer (BM), Kieffer Quandel (TV), Jacob Shoener (P), Chris Swantek (SV), and Liam Wolfe (NS).
Basses:
Nathan Bates (SH), Chris Daynorowicz (TA), Andrew Delpais (TA), Joshua Donley (M), Jimmy Garraway (NS), Patrick Gownley (NS), Jacob Gursky (TA), George Hegedus (TA), Kieler Hoffman (WV), Jared Kehler (TV), Daniel Lee (TA), James McKinley (MC), Patrick McMullen (TA), Josh Peckman (BM), Matthew Reed (MA), Rocco Roguskie (SV), Tyler Shadle (WV), Edward Sheaffer (M), Jalen Tran (BM) and Karl Usuka (BM).