Seneca Valley Students Earn Honor Choir Designation

Sixteen students have been selected for the Westminster Honor Choir, which is made up of 80 singers from schools in Beaver, Butler, Lawrence and Mercer counties.

There also are two Seneca Valley alternates. Hear them for yourself at this year’s annual honor choir concert at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Westminster College in the auditorium. Tickets are $3.

Here’s who is singing from Seneca Valley:

Soprano I                                                                            

Hayley Hoss, Chair 3-Grade 9                                    

Abbie Kalnas, Chair 4-Grade 12                                                  

Ellie DiLeva, Alternate-Grade 11

Soprano II                                                                          

Elicia Gibson, Chair 4-Grade 12                                  

Beth Holl, Chair 3-Grade 11                                        

Kristin Carmella, Chair 5-Grade 11                          

Sara Buggy, Chair 6-Grade 12                                   

Alto I                                                                                    

Jamie Walters, Chair 4-Grade 11                             

Kacey Faix, Chair 7-Grade 11                                

Alto 2                                                                                   

Julianna Hritz, Chair 2-Grade 12                              

Tenor I

David Osorno, Chair 6-Grade 9

Tenor II

Nick Traverso, Chair 1-Grade 12

Josh Baktay, Chair 2-Grade 10

Lance Hahn, Chair 4-Grade 9

Charlie Schade, Alternate-Grade 12

Bass I    

Ben Paget- Chair 1 -Grade 12

Matt Sweikowski-Chair 2-Grade 12

Bass II

Kurt Branby-Chair 8- Grade 12

To qualify for the honor choir, students from 45 schools learned two selections. They also were required to be able to sing any section of each of those songs a cappella for the panel of three judges at the auditions. Students with the top 10 scores in each section qualified for the honor choir.