Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Music for All has selected several FCPS students for its 2011 honor ensembles, which will perform this month during a national music festival in Indianapolis.

The Honor Orchestra of America includes seven students from Lafayette High School’s SCAPA program: Nicholas Blackburn, Darcy Cassidy, Benjamin Healy, Jonathan Karp, Julia Mead, Heeju Son and Jacob Yates.

The Honor Band of America includes Lafayette’s Meredith Burns and J. Clay Gonzalez, as well as Yuki Inoue from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School.

The orchestra students will perform at 7 p.m. March 18-19 at Hilbert Circle Theatre along with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the band students will perform at 8 p.m. March 19 at Clowes Memorial Hall on the campus of Butler University, conducted by Richard Clary of the Florida State University Wind Orchestra.

Music for All is one of the nation’s largest and most influential organizations in support of active music-making. Its programs include 25-plus annual events, including the Music for All National Festival, the Music for All Summer Symposium, the Bands of America Grand National marching band championships and regional marching band championships across the country. Learn more at www.musicforall.org/.  

For more information, contact Kristin Conrad at (317) 524-6218.