Hear a Highlander Strings Holiday Treat
Our annual selection of seasonal tunes wouldn’t be complete without a performance from the Highlander Strings orchestra, which will perform its annual holiday concert on Dec. 8.
The selections for conductor Peggy Tucker and her student musicians will include music from “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the “Hallelujah” chorus from Handel’s Messiah, and just about everything in between. The concert will start at 7 p.m. in the HPHS auditorium, and it’s free and open to the public.
It also will be great chance to recognize those HPHS orchestra members who were chosen for the Texas Music Educators Association all-region orchestras during auditions in October in Grand Prairie. Participants are chosen by a panel of judges, with honors orchestra being the top placement. Find a complete list after the jump.
HPHS all-region honors orchestra qualifiers include:
Violin 1: Angela Wu, Richard Luo, Xiaohan Gao, Robert Luo, Sara Kway, Adelle Crofford, Darong Qi, and Allison Schultz
Violin 2: Alex Pan, Scottie Wells, and Michael Tran
Viola: Hunter Batjer, George Du, Michael Zhan, Matteo Cordray, and Kieran Burns
Cello: Justin Liang, Jessie Wang, Ashley Batjer, Ben Gruber, William Cerny, and Henry Wang
Bass: Jarrett Murray
HPHS all-region symphonic orchestra qualifiers include:
Violin 1: Marisa Tiscareno, Ava Miranda, Jeffrey Jehng, and Raymond Zou
Violin 2: Matthew Lee and Parker Lake
Viola: Peter Davies, Jeffrey Copland, and Mariyam Siddiqui
Bass: Ben Genender
