North Penn Students Selected For All-National Honor Ensemble

LANSDALE, PA — A pair of North Penn students were recently selected as members of the 2017 All-National Honor Ensemble, the school district announced.

Allison Yang and Emma Moyer will perform as members of the All-National Honor Concert Band and All-National Honor Mixed Choir, respectively.

Their performance will take place at the 2017 National Association for Music Education National In-Service Conference, from Nov. 26 through 29 in Orlando. Here's what the district has to say about the achievement:

"The All-National Honor Ensembles performers represent collaboration and creativity in its highest musical form. The All-National Honor Ensembles consist of a concert band, symphony orchestra, mixed choir and jazz ensemble. Students were chosen through an audition process. The concert band and symphony orchestra will each have 155 and 152 instrumentalists respectively, the jazz ensemble 21 instrumentalists and the mixed choir 281 vocalists. Eligible students have qualified for their state-level honor ensemble program and competed against top students for a spot in these national honor ensembles."

The students are under the tutelage of NPHS Music Department Chair Matthew Klenk.

The National Association for Music Education is among the world’s largest arts education organizations.

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