Congratulations to the Leadership of the 2009/10 Marching Panthers:

Section Leader 2008/09

Flute: Katelyn Grimes

Clarinet: Tavaris Woodson

Saxophone: Tommy Clemans

French Horn: Vaughn Richardson

Trumpet: Brian Richardson

Low Brass: Jack DeMoss

Tuba: Alex Rogers

Drum Captains: Aaron Todd and Jarrell Divers

Leadership Council

Manager Pareesa Khan
Historian Michelle Ferrell
Chief Librarian Katelyn Grimes
Chief Quartermaster (Uniforms) Alyssa Dimitri
Equipment Manager Devlin Williams
Field Manager Benjamin Holden
At Large Colin Mackey
Austin Quarles
Michael Western
Devin Haynes
Laura Guffrida

JUNE RACES at RIR - Fundraising:
Next up at RIR for the 2009 race season is the Indy cars - Friday June 26th and Saturday June 27th - we need adult volunteers to help run our concession stand in Commonwealth Tower. Please contact either Dana Hagen or Sharon Cook to sign up. Thanks for your continued support of the Marching Panthers.

Congratulations to our new Drum Majors for the 2009/10 school year:

Madeline Brissette and Stephanie Brand

Thank you to all of you that work so hard and tried out. I really appreciate the dedication that you show and know that each of you will be a valuable part of our success next year.

The May / June Newsletter is online. You can get it from the download page.

Congratulations to the Hermitage Bands and Marching Panthers on a successful spring tour. This past weekend the groups participated in the Smoky Mountain Music Festival in Gatlinburg, Tennessee where they had their best performances of the year and won the following awards:

Winter Guard 2nd Place

Concert Band 1st Place in 2nd band Division

Wind Ensemble 2nd Place in 4A Division

Marching Panthers 1st Place in Parade Competition

The following were presented Certificates of Excellence by the judges:
For Concert Band:
Madeline Brissette Euphonium
Sam Drake Trumpet
Brandy Hart Flute
And the French Horn Section

For Wind Ensemble:
Madeline Brissette Euphonium
Melissa Limbaugh Flute
Sarah Breitenberg Clarinet

Congratulations!

Congratulations to the Hermitage High School Bands. Both the Concert Band and the Wind Ensemble received straight supperiors at the District 1 Concert Festival. Well Done!

Congratulations to the following students on making All District Band:
Flute:
Melissa Limbaugh 5th chair Symphonic Band
Alex Rogers 11th chair Concert Band
Oboe:
Matt West 2nd chair Symphonic Band (State Eligible)
Bassoon:
Jordan Sarvay 2nd chair Symphonic Band (State Eligible)
Clarinet:
Kendall Plummer 7th chair Symphonic Band (State Eligible)
Sarah Breitenberg 9th chair Symphonic Band
Misen Luu 14th chair Symphonic Band
Katherine Sommers 13th chair Concert Band
Bass Clarinet:
Jennifer Ender 2nd chair Concert Band
Racheal Clark 3rd chair Concert Band
Contra Bass Clarinet:
Tavaris Woodson 1st chair Concert Band
Alto Saxophone:
Sanjay Vaswani 4th chair Symphonic Band
Trumpet:
Sam Drake 11th chair Concert Band
French Horn:
Vaughn Richardson 5th chair Concert Band
Trombone:
Jack Demoss 8th chair Concert Band
Euphonium:
Madeline Brissette 2nd chair Symphonic Band (state eligible)
Devlin Williams 4th chair Symphonic Band
Percussion:
Jarell Divers 4th chair Symphonic Band (state eligible)
Ebony Cooper 8th chair Symphonic Band
Devin Haynes 3rd chair Concert Band
Aaron Todd 7th chair Concert Band
Avery Holmes 8th chair Concert Band

All County Results to be posted on 12/16/08

Congratulations to The Marching Panthers, they participated in the Godwin Invitational and won the following awards:

3rd Place Drum Line
3rd Place Drum Majors
2nd Place Auxiliary
2nd Place Music
2nd Place Marching
2nd Place General Effect
2nd Place Class AAA

Well done and great finish to the season!

Support The Hermitage High School Band Boosters

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