Six Millburn High Students Will Perform With National Honor Ensembles at the Grand Ole Opry

Six Millburn High School student musicians have been selected as members of the 2014 All National Honor Ensembles. They will join more than 600 of the top performing high school student musicians in the United States to perform at a gala concert on Oct. 29 at the historic Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

The All-National Honor Ensembles, part of the National Association for Music Education, consists of a concert band, symphony orchestra, mixed chorus, and jazz ensemble.

The Millburn students and their ensembles are:


Louis Danowsky - Jazz Ensemble

Ambika Chetal, Olivia Estes, Arielle Kasnetz, Leonard Santos - Mixed Choir


Ellim Kim - Concert Band

The concert band and symphony orchestra will each have approximately 150 instrumentalists, the jazz ensemble will have 20 instrumentalists, and the mixed chorus will have approximately 350 vocalists. Eligible students have qualified for their state-level honor ensemble program and competed against top students for a spot in these national honor ensembles.

Students will spend several days working with and then performing under the batons of four of the most renowned conductors in the country: Mark Camphouse, Professor of Music, Conductor, Wind Symphony, George Mason University; Gerard Schwarz, Music Director, All-Star Orchestra, Music Director, Eastern Music Festival Conductor Laureate, Seattle Symphony; Edith Copley, Regents’ Professor, Director of Choral Studies, Northern Arizona University and Robert Baca, Professor of Music, Director of Jazz Studies, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire.

More information about the All National Honor Ensembles may be found here.

Information courtesy of Nancy Dries, Communications Coordinator