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Students from Richland County High School Participate in the 2022 ILMEA All-State Ensembles

11/27/2021

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Students from Richland County High School Participate in the 2021 ILMEA All-State Ensembles

Six students from Richland County High School shall participate in the 2022 Illinois Music Education Association (ILMEA) All-State Music Conference. ILMEA will host the event on January 26-29, 2022 in Peoria.

These students were selected from a rigorous audition process as the top student-musicians representing over 12,000 schools throughout Illinois. Of roughly 2,400 students that auditioned, only a fraction of students were selected to participate in the event. The six RCHS students selected to participate were  Rylan Craig (senior/choir), Austin Vaughn (senior/band), Victoria Zwilling (junior/orchestra), Jozalyn Houser (junior/band), Kyle Rennier (junior/band), & Emma Wells (sophomore/band)

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Rylan Craig was selected to participate in the 2022 All-State Choir. Rylan has also participated in the ILMEA District 5 Choir for five years from 2014-2021 at Eastern Illinois University. As of 2021 he is a member of the RCHS chapter of Tri-M National Honor Music Society. Rylan has performed with the RCHS Choir,  Marching Tigers (where he served as section leader his junior and senior year), Honors Wind Ensemble, and Symphonic Band.

Along with music, Rylan has also participated in 4 musicals and plays as a sound and lighting technician. He is also the current Executive Board President of the RCHS Student Council which he has participated in for four years. Rylan plans to attend college in the fall studying Architecture.

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Austin Vaughn is a Senior and has been a very active member of the RCHS Band, starting his freshman year. Austin played baritone with the Marching Tigers his freshman and sophomore years, and baritone saxophone for his junior and senior years. Austin also served as a Captain for the Marching Tigers his senior year.

Austin played bassoon (Sophomore-Senior years) for the Honors Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Bands, bassoon and tenor saxophone for Jazz Bands (Freshman and Senior years), and he has participated in the Orchestra Pit for The World According to Snoopy, where he played baritone saxophone and Elf: The Musical, where he played bassoon and baritone saxophone. Austin has played baritone, bassoon, alto saxophone, and baritone saxophone in the RCHS Pep bands.

Austin has also been a member of the RCHS Choir since his sophomore year. Austin has participated in the 2019, 2020, & 2021 ILMEA District Festivals, where he played 2nd bassoon (sophomore year) and 1st bassoon (senior year). He is an active member of Tri-M Chapter 8170 since his sophomore year and has served as Chapter Historian all three years. During Austin's senior year, he will participate as an All-State bassoonist in Peoria in January, 2022, where he will be in the All-State Band.


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Victoria Zwilling was selected to participate in the 2022 All-State Orchestra. She has also participated in the ILMEA District 5 Choir, Band, and Orchestra in the years 2015-2021 and the 2021 All-State Band. She was selected to participate in the 2021 EIU Honor Band as well. Victoria has received the 1st Superior rating five times for vocal and piano performances at the Illinois Grade School Music Association (IGSMA) Solo and Ensemble Contest and four times for piano and oboe performances at the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Solo and Ensemble Contest.

Victoria Zwilling has performed as an oboist with the Honors Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band at Richland County High School. Victoria is also a member of the Marching Tigers Front Ensemble. She serves as Vice President of the RCHS Chapter of Tri-M Music Honors Society. She represented RCHS at the Lincoln Trail Band Festival in 2020. Victoria is a junior this year and is looking forward to future musical opportunities.

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Jozalyn Houser was selected to participate in the 2022 All-State Band. Jozalyn participated in the 2018 and 2019 ILMEA District 5 Band. She is currently a member of the Honors Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Marching Tigers, Jazz Band, and the Orchestra Pit for this year’s musical production as a clarinetist at RCHS. She is also a member of the Tri-M National Honors Music Society, where she served as treasurer during her Sophomore and Junior years.

She is a four-time recipient of the 1st Superior rating at the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Solo & Ensemble Contest. She represented RCHS at the Lincoln Trail Band Festival in 2020. She has also been a high honors student every year in high school thus far. Jozalyn is a junior this year and is looking forward to future opportunities during her high school years.


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Kyle Rennier was selected to participate in the 2022 All-State Band. He is currently a member of Honors Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Marching Tigers, Jazz Band, and Orchestra Pit as an Alto Saxophonist at RCHS. He is also a member of Tri-M National Honor, and has been Secretary for his Sophomore and Junior year. He has received a 1st rating at IHSA Solo + Ensemble 4 times. He also represented RCHS at the Lincoln Trail Band Festival in 2020.

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Emma Wells was selected to participate in the 2022 All-State Band. She has also participated in the 2019 & 2021 ILMEA District 5 Band. Emma is currently a member of the Honors Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Marching Tigers, and Jazz Band as a Clarinetist at RCHS. She is also a new member of the Tri-M National Honor Music Society. This year she is also a part of the Orchestra Pit for the RCHS musical.

So far, Emma has been a high honors student for her first two years of high school. She is now a sophomore and is awaiting future opportunities during her high school career.

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ILMEA Parent/Guardian Concert Tickets

11/9/2021

 
PER THE DISTRICT 5 ILMEA PRESIDENT:

1. Each student will receive 2 tickets for the concert.

2.  The parents MUST have the ticket with them to enter the concert.  NO ONE will be allowed to enter without a ticket.
3.  Parents will need to pay at the table when they arrive and their ticket will be stamped so they can show it at the door.
4.  Please print out your tickets ONE TIME!  They are numbered. (This statement pertains to the directors only)
5.  Please ask parents to arrive to the concert NO MORE than a half hour before their concert.  We do not want people congregating in the buildings.   
6.  All apparel and plaques will be handled through QR code sent previously.
7.  When the program is ready, I will send out the QR code for the concerts before Saturday if you wish to send it to your directors.  The codes will be available around the buildings to scan.

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    The author of these posts is Christopher Jones, Director of Bands at Richland County High School.

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