Students from across the Commonwealth submitted recorded auditions for the Kentucky Band Organization’s 2022 Middle School All-State Band, and nearly 20 musicians from Fayette County Public Schools made the cut. The statewide ensemble will perform at 5 p.m. Jan. 29 in Van Meter Hall at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. Congratulations to these honorees: 

Flute: Lexi Borck of SCAPA at Bluegrass

Oboe: Jasmine Chen of Beaumont 

Clarinet: Kargan Caswell and Acadia Meyers of SCAPA, and Sophie Gwag, Eleanor Sears, and Cindy Wang of Beaumont

Trumpet: Pol Marti and Jackson Raines of SCAPA 

French horn: James Weitkamp of SCAPA 

Trombone: Ollie Swank and Ashton Hogue of SCAPA 

Tuba: Sam Koenig and Nathan McKinney of SCAPA 

Mallet/timpani: Karver Caswell of SCAPA and Evan Singleton of Beaumont 

Source: Amanda Herceg, band director at Beaumont

(Posted Jan. 12, 2022)