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A Pratt High School band member will take a seat among the best of the best high school band students in Kansas.
Pratt High School band senior and clarinet player Adi Millen was selected as a member of the Kansas Music Educators Association State-Wide Honor Band and Choir.
Millen, who had previously been selected for the Southwest Kansas KMEA Honor Band in Dodge City in December 2011, performed a live audition, along with 124 other band members from across the state, for a place in the state KMEA band.
Millen’s audition was so good she was chosen to be among the best of the clarinets.
“Adi’s live audition score was high enough to earn her a spot at the top of the clarinet section in the Class 1A through 4A All-state Band,” said PHS Band Director Don Buhler.
Millen said the audition was kind of scary and it was a one shot tryout. However, her audition was third from last in the group so she had plenty of time to practice her piece and work on scales before the audition.
“I guess I did pretty good,” Millen said.
The KMEA State-Wide Honor Band and Choir will perform Feb. 23-25 in Wichita at Century II Concert Hall as part of the KMEA In-Service Workshop for 1200 music educators from across the state.
The Honor-Band director will be composer and band director Ralph Ford who retired from Troy University in 2011 after a 10-year appointment as director of bands, coordinator of winds and percussion and professor of music.
Ford is currently an exclusive composer, arranger and author for the Belwin division of Alfred Publishing Company in Los Angeles.
A Pratt High School band member will take a seat among the best of the best high school band students in Kansas.
Pratt High School band senior and clarinet player Adi Millen was selected as a member of the Kansas Music Educators Association State-Wide Honor Band and Choir.
Millen, who had previously been selected for the Southwest Kansas KMEA Honor Band in Dodge City in December 2011, performed a live audition, along with 124 other band members from across the state, for a place in the state KMEA band.
Millen’s audition was so good she was chosen to be among the best of the clarinets.
“Adi’s live audition score was high enough to earn her a spot at the top of the clarinet section in the Class 1A through 4A All-state Band,” said PHS Band Director Don Buhler.
Millen said the audition was kind of scary and it was a one shot tryout. However, her audition was third from last in the group so she had plenty of time to practice her piece and work on scales before the audition.
“I guess I did pretty good,” Millen said.
The KMEA State-Wide Honor Band and Choir will perform Feb. 23-25 in Wichita at Century II Concert Hall as part of the KMEA In-Service Workshop for 1200 music educators from across the state.
The Honor-Band director will be composer and band director Ralph Ford who retired from Troy University in 2011 after a 10-year appointment as director of bands, coordinator of winds and percussion and professor of music.
Ford is currently an exclusive composer, arranger and author for the Belwin division of Alfred Publishing Company in Los Angeles.
