Pleasanton Students Qualify For All-State Ensembles

PLEASANTON, CA — More than 40 students from Pleasanton Unified School District have qualified for the 2022 California All-State Ensembles, an audition-only event that will be held at the California All-State Music Education Conference.

Students from across the state who qualified for the Ensembles will gather at the conference in Fresno from Thursday to Sunday to perform all-state concerts.

PUSD middle school students qualified for the Symphonic Band, Concert Band, String Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, and Choir. PUSD high schools students qualified for the Symphony Orchestra, String Orchestra, Symphonic Band, Concert Band, and Wind Symphony.

“This is a testament to the hard work that each of these musicians has put into
preparing a collegiate level audition for these honor groups,” Jonathan Grantham,
Amador Valley High School’s Director of Bands, said in a statement. “Along with the support of private teachers and parents, this is a hard earned honor for each young musician and one for
which the community can be very proud!”

The following students qualified:

Harvest Park Middle School

Samuel Barnes
Jayden Choi
Euisun Hong
Thomas Iordache
Edward Kazmierski
Mauryaditya Lankipalle
Dongjie Lei
Minseok Moon
Simran Shinkre
Celicia Thendean

Thomas Hart Middle School

Gabriel Eaton
Athithan Elamaran
Elijah Guan
Amelia Hom
Rena Jair
Ritvik Misra
Spencer Park
Autumn Schweizer
Yufei Shen
Leila Shukla-Parekh
Akshay Tata
William Wang

Pleasanton Middle School

Alisa Chen
Kailua Cheng
Klara Grant
Cindy Long
Andrew Mao
Claire Sumner
Katherine Yoo
David Zhou

Amador Valley High School

Camille Borris
Tanmayee Chalamalasetti
Andrew Chen
Kenneth Chen
Ethan Han
Huisun Hong
Aryaditya Lankipalle
Claire Lee
Isaac Light
Seoyeon Moon
Tho Nguyen
Vedanth Phanimukla
Eric Tandean
Nolan Smith
Leyuan Zhang

Foothill High School

Ryan Wu