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Seneca Valley Students Earn Honor Choir Designation
The singers will perform Saturday at Westminster College.
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:
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Soprano I
Hayley Hoss, Chair 3-Grade 9
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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.
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