Sixty-nine Allen ISD Middle School musicians were selected for the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Region 25 Orchestra after auditions held on October 26.
More than 480 students auditioned for 204 spots against schools from Lovejoy ISD, Plano ISD, Sherman ISD, and Wylie ISD. Allen ISD students selected to an All-Region Orchestra are:
Curtis Middle School: Isabella Calender, Sanjith Chandra, Howie Chang, Sydney Chang, Anderson Cheng, Caden Dismukes, Kaori Ingham, Claire Kim, Daniel Lin, Manas Madamraju, Helen Minn, Tung Nguyen, Caitlyn Shi, Olivia Song, Titus Sun, Keesha Thakkar, Thu Tran, and Sherman Wu.
Ereckson Middle School – Amber Barries, Jenesa Chaiyaphan, Sophie Chang, Sebastian Chen, Caroline Church, Katelyn Du, Sophia Duncan, Jesse Han, Sahara Hossain, Nathan Hsu, Sebastian Huynh, Joelle Hwang, Zoe Ishaque, Ella Jang, Shine Jang, Ryan Jiang, Daniel Jin, Branden Kim, Chloe Kim, Ian Kim, Anwesha Kulkarni, Avery Laurendine, Audrina Le, Eli Lee, Ian Lee, Leah Lee, Madi Lee, Emma Lin, Luchen Lin, Casey Lippert, Taylor Mai, Baylee Marcin, David Park, Alicia Qin, Vishnu Reddy, Yoav Sharivker, Wesley Shen, Abir Singh, Parker Szeto, Austin Tang, Claire Tie, Adrian Wu, Alice Wu, Emily Wu, Mason Xiao, Emma Yang, Eric Yang, William Zhao, and Emma Zhu.
Ford Middle School – Elizabeth Zamora and Yuhan Zhu.
Students competed for spots against schools from Lovejoy ISD, Plano ISD, Sherman ISD, and Wylie ISD. They played a series of prepared etudes and musical excerpts for a panel of judges.