LHS Chosen For Illinois SuperState Concert Band Festival

LEMONT, IL — For the second time in three years, Lemont High School’s Honors Symphonic Band has been selected to participate in the state’s premier band festival. Led by Matt Doherty, Lemont will perform at the 2019 University of Illinois SuperState Concert Band Festival on Friday, May 3. The event will take place at Foellinger Great Hall in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

The school said the Illinois SuperState Concert Band Festival amounts to the state championship for concert bands. Lemont, which previously participated in this event in 2001 and 2017, is scheduled to perform at 5:45 p.m. on May 3.

More than 95 bands applied to be part of this year’s event by submitting a performance tape over the winter, according to the school. Lemont’s Honors Symphonic Band is one of just six Class 2A bands that has been invited to participate. It will be joined in Class 2A by bands from Champaign Central High School, Geneseo High School, Highland High School, Metamora High School and Tinley Park High School.

Lemont’s Honors Symphonic Band includes seniors Brett Abbott, Charlene Balisalisa, Nathan Drafke, Alyssa Grandsard, Joseph Gumina, Grace Horky, Jennifer Jeon, Julianne McClatchy, Shefali Mehta, Richard Moravecek, Trayton Morlock and Joseph Spinelli; juniors Charlotte Albrecht, Cassandra Hamilton, Emily Maher, Vincent Pintozzi, Luke Selle, Taylor Shimkus, Annika Swientek and Megan Zhou; sophomores Megan Bechtlofft, Nathaniel Bielanski, Laina Chavarria, Dominic Grandsard, Noor Khankan, Margaret Knutte, John Krueger, Arena Marciante, Ethan Ragasa, Noah Smith, Emma Stout, Rosalie Truback, Emma Van Howe, Krista Waynick, Ellie Woytek and Naomi Wunderlich; and freshmen AnneMarie Bacon, Kaley Cronin, Cullen Dewalls, Jeremy Gumina, Zoe Howe, Daniel Jazowski, Aleksa Kirkus, Molly Thornber and Kaitlyn Tuvilleja.