Every year, the Massachusetts Music Educators Association (MMEA) organizes
district festivals for students across the state. Berkshire School
belongs to the Western District of Massachusetts, consisting
of Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties. This
November, 29 Berkshire School students traveled to Westfield State
University to audition for a spot in the MMEA Western District Festival
chorus, band, and orchestra. Students must prepared a solo work,
sight-read selected music and perform scales. The competition is tough
as students compete against musicians from over 40 different schools
and organizations. Our students felt prepared to step up and show
the MMEA judges what we were capable of achieving. Berkshire School
had outstanding results this year, with the following students selected
to participate in various ensembles:
Orchestra:
Soo Jang Choi, violin
Dani Hill, cello
Kathleen Huang, violin
Concert Band:
Viktor Lee, clarinet
Chorus:
Katie Moffett, soprano
Juliet Shatkin, soprano
Caroline Carey, alto
Elizabeth Harris, alto
Emily Hubbard, alto
Georgia Johnston, alto
Maddy Maher, alto
Moritz Grosser, tenor
Jack Hughes, bass
Brad Keum, bass
Tim Kou, bass
Connor Morgan, tenor
Patricio Rodriguez, tenor
In January, these 17 students will travel to University of Massachusetts
to rehearse and perform at the Western District Festival. Students who
score high points at the District auditions have the opportunity to
travel to Shrewsbury at the end of January to audition for the All-State
Festival. Berkshire students who qualified for All-State auditions
include Kathleen Huang, Juliet Shatkin, Caroline Carey, Emily Hubbard, Georgia Johnston, Jack Hughes and Tim Kou.
Berkshire School is excited to have another honor bestowed on one of our students. Two-time All-State chorus member
Georgia Johnston
was recently selected to participate in the MENC All-Eastern Honors
Chorus to be held in April 2011 in Baltimore, MD. In order to be
selected for this ensemble, Georgia had to score high marks during her
All-State auditions. She is the first student from Berkshire School to have achieved this honor.
and all-boys prep school outside of Boston, for a 1-day mini-symposium on Student Biomedical Research. The goal was to foster collaboration, communication and community outreach with our students. AMSR students Liza Bernstein '13, Sissi Wang '13, Lars Robinson '13, Elsie Guevara '13, Ernest Yue '13, and Nate MacKenzie '14, gave short talks about their work in the new Bellas/Dixon Math and Science lecture hall. The talks were followed up by break-out sessions where Belmont Hill students described their research projects and students discussed commonalities between the projects and future goals.
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