Mountain Home school bands qualify to all-region competition

Thirty students from the Mountain Home Junior High and High School bands have qualified for the Arkansas School Band and Orchestra Association Region VI Honor Bands.

They were among 1,000 students from Northwest Arkansas who competed in a rigorous audition, performing prepared etudes, scales, and sight-reading new music after a 20-second study period.

The selected students participated in two days of rehearsals and concerts in Bentonville in July.

Betsy Barr on clarinet and French Horn player Ella Morris both qualified from Pinkston Middle School.

Among qualifying MHJH students were flute, oboe and bassoon players Ruby Hargett, Aliyah Major and Lynette Garrett. clarinet players Bedelia Clifton, Malaree Killingsworth, Amiee Yarnell-Fritzal and, on bass clarinet, Natalie Blount. Sax players included Vivian Tanner on tenor and Ricia Recktenwald on baritone. Grace Hawkins, Emily Ingle and Brody Rose on trumpet joined Jaylynn Hooks on french horn and Brody Snyder on trombone, in addition to bariton Jerimiah Hillstrom and percussionists Nathan Jones and Rowan Reasons.

MHHS students who also qualified include Matney Camp on flute, Emmerson Walls playing Oboe, bass clairnet player Lillyann Higley, Alan Juarez and Joseph Bellettiere on trumpet, Hannah Marler performing on tuba and percussionists Jack Coleman and Caiden Ksapar. Students who also have to opportunity to audition for the Arkansas All-State Honor Bands include Emerson Walls, Lillyann Higley, Alan Juarez, Evan Franklin, Hannah Marler and Caiden Kaspar.

Up next for the Mountain Home High School band is a concert on March 9 at Dunbar Auditorium, while the Pinkston seventh grade band and the Blue and Gold junior high bands are scheduled to perform on March 11. Both concerts are free and open to the public.

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