Following an intense competition, 125 Pearland and Dawson high school students secured spots in the all-region band during the Texas Music Educators Association Region 19 auditions on December 2.
Of these, 22 students from PHS and 43 from DHS also advanced to the area round of the TMEA all-state process.
“This truly is an amazing achievement for Pearland ISD and for the selected students,” Tom Bell, Pearland ISD Director of Fine Arts, said. “Instant gratification is absent from any project that takes a few months to complete, like this one. The students got to enjoy it and experience the satisfaction and reward of working on a long-term project that required discipline and dedication.”
The gains from participating in the all-region band auditions far exceed musical skills.
“Ultimately, the student must develop grit, perseverance and discipline to practice the music on their own. This not only makes every student that participates in the process, regardless of the outcome, a better musician but also develops habits that the students can then transfer to EVERY aspect of their academic and personal lives,” Bell said.
High school students who won spots in the area band include:
Dawson High School: Tatum Bradberry, Cade Brown, Jeslyn Chen, Ru Chen, Caroline Chow, Scott Cripps, Aidan Delligatti, Cooper Gounah, Evelyn Hansen, Nathan Hawks, Hantao Jin, Janna Jing, Daniel Jones, Robert Jones, Logan Kitchen, Nokina Komatsu, David Lang, Daniel Lee, Isaac Linerode, Joshua Linerode, Marc Lu, Kennedi Martin, Callie Meng, Ethan Montes, Chris Ndubueze, Philip Nguyen, Michael Pair, James Powers, Maya Sabharwal, Aidan Sadai, Miguel Salazar, Devin Saljuud, Arnab Sarkar, Aiden Sherrill, Konstantin Sinyak, Dylan Wagner, Laila Wagner, Chen Wang, Alan Yao, Melinda Yao, Amanda Yee, Amy Zhang and Ares Zhou.
Pearland High School: Luke Carp, Ashley Charbula, Ryan Coplen, Regina Debonte, John Devlin, Noah Dietrich, James Earle, Jackson Frerking, Bryce Haneiko, Anthony Macias, Karina Marquez, Brady McAdams, Ethan Padilla, Brady Pierce, Madalyn Shoemate, Rebeca Sorto, Grace Toney, Carden Tran, Tobey Tran, JJ Wheeler, Brooke Wilson and Carson Yacuk.
High school students who won spots in the all-region band include:
Dawson High School: Olivia Abbassi, Stirling Baum, Leo Carrigan, David Chen, Matthew Cripps, Alex Dai, Langdon Dai, Aubrey Daniels, Alexia Earles, Magdalena Gobran, Alex Gu, Isabelle Hildebrandt, Enyang Jiang, Emily Krobot, Ethan Puente, James She, Madhura Sriram, Evan Stringfellow, Stanley Sun, Andrew Swafford, Austin Tatuaca, DANIEL TRAN, Nathaniel Waguespack, Yichen Wang, Clayborn Wayne and Jerry Zhu.
Pearland High School: Obada Achkar, Connor Allen, Josh Anino, Noah Bonilla, Dylan Brasher, Carter Caballero, Morgan Chan, Linkin Coleman, Adan Contreras, Kylee Crites, Leslie Dicicco, Jason Fisher, Logynn Fletcher, Thomas Gore, Samuel Hancock, Mikayla Haneiko, Aiden Hughes, Shlomo Koremblum, Josh Koyo, Owen Mansfield, Alana Marroquin, Nathaniel Martinez, Ashlyn Matthews, Betty McClure, Colby Mo, Carsten Paasch, Genicah Perdon, Bradley Pittman, Joel Sanchez, Jordan Schrenk, Zachary Sonnier, Emma Tran and Mateo Trevino.
Ninth grade students who secured a spot in the freshman region band:
Dawson High School: Lydia Abraham, Ishaan Aggarwal, Emma Barsan, Luke Buchanan, Caroline Cummings, Connor Dunn, Evan Erskine, Paul Hansen, Joel Jacob, Yicheng He, Luke Laird, Heidy Li, Shine Liang, Jake Papasan, Sydney Phillips, Michael Powers, Emmerie Ricketts, Mia Sherrill, Alissa Shi, David Tamayo, Casado Vargas, Rush Williams and Kenrick Xia.
Pearland High School: Taylan Alviza, Saiyana Bhakta, Ethan Castillo, Gabriella Cosino, Kaden DeLeon, William Dennehy, Bruno Diaz-Reyes, Cameron Dunn, Jake Fletcher, Isabella Guthrie, Jaylen Guzman, Momo Huang, Deborah James, David Jimenez, Grace Kim, Ashlynn Langston, Ethan Larson, Samantha Macias, Sophia Nguyen, Theresa Nguyen, Graham Onhaizer, Harley Rhoads, Jennifer Ross, Hannah Siggins, Zachary Stavinoha, Canon Swenson, Gillian Toney and Jacob Voelkel.
