• Region’s top band students coming to °èapp County for all-district clinic

    Again this year, °èapp is hosting the South Central All-District Band Clinic at Stuart W. Cramer High School on January 24-25.  

    The top band students from across the Charlotte region will spend time Friday and Saturday preparing music for the concert, which will be held on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. as the culminating activity of the two-day clinic.  The concert is open to the public.

    °èapp has 23 students among the outstanding musicians who are participating in the all-district band program.  The students will be led by nationally-recognized clinicians, who are considered among the best in the field of music education. 

    The following middle school and high school students from °èapp were selected for the 2025 all-district band clinic:

    • Iyanna Brianne Flores, clarinet - W.C. Friday Middle School
    • Ishaaq Murphy, trumpet - W.C. Friday Middle School
    • Peilla Nsimundele, clarinet - Belmont Middle School
    • Camila Vargas-Parra, bass clarinet - W.C. Friday Middle School
    • Erick Rodriguez-Hernandez, contrabass clarinet - W.C. Friday Middle School
    • Danika Risner, horn - Cramerton Middle School
    • Cassidy Allen, baritone - Bessemer City Middle School
    • Mackenzie Hart, oboe - East °èapp High School
    • Annabelle Radford, bassoon - Forestview High School
    • Ayden Kisby-Jones, clarinet - Highland School of Technology
    • Abram Comer, trombone - Forestview High School
    • Cyrus Baltimore, tuba - East °èapp High School
    • Ruby Ruiz-Vargas, clarinet - North °èapp High School
    • Anakin Booth, tenor saxophone - South Point High School
    • Zeke Tucker, trumpet - East °èapp High School
    • Copeland Smith, trumpet - Stuart W. Cramer High School
    • Ethan Snell, trumpet - Forestview High School
    • Ford Poag, trumpet - Forestview High School
    • Molly Dillon, trumpet - Stuart W. Cramer High School
    • Miles Funderburk, horn - Ashbrook High School
    • Caiden McDaniel, horn - Forestview High School
    • Alex Cornwell, percussion - Highland School of Technology
    • Akela Taylor, percussion - Highland School of Technology

    Rebecca Clemens, of Margaret B. Pollard Middle School in Chapel Hill, will conduct the middle school concert band, and Ruth Petersen, a retired band director from Cornelius, will lead the middle school symphonic band.

    Carol Brittain Chambers, a composer and owner of Aspenwood Music, LLC in San Antonio, Texas, will conduct the high school band for grades 9-10. Dr. Robert Ambrose, director of bands and professor of music at Georgia State University, will conduct the high school band for grades 11-12.

PHOTOS: All District Band Students