Several Troy Middle School Students Selected For State Band

Photo: Several Troy Middle School band members were selected for the elite All-Illinois Junior Band, including, from left, Kimberly Garcia (alternate), Angela Conde, Myles Shackelford, Caden Baudek, Austin Brown, Derrick Neal and Cheyenne Moser.

Six band students at Troy Middle School, a Troy Community School District 30-C school, were selected as members of the prestigious All-Illinois Junior Band this year, and one was selected as an alternate.

Selected were TMS eighth grade students Austin Brown (horn), Angela Conde (percussion), Cheyenne Moser (clarinet), Derrick Neal (trombone, 1st Chair) and Myles Shackelford (percussion, second year member). TMS seventh grade student Caden Baudek (bassoon) was also selected.

Eighth grader Kimberly Garcia (bass clarinet) was named as an alternate.

TMS band directors are William Goetz and Jen Carlton.

Goetz said students from all over the state submitted recorded auditions, and only the best were selected.

The All-Illinois Junior Band was founded to create a premier musical experience for the state’s finest middle school band students. Its goals are to provide an opportunity for the students to perform excellent literature with a mature ensemble and distinguished conductor and to inspire them to continue their musical studies.

The students in the All-Illinois Junior Band will perform together on February 8 and 9, 2019, at the University of Illinois Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The guest conductor will be Dr. Elizabeth B. Peterson, Associate Director of Bands and Clinical Professor of Music at the University of Illinois.