South Portland High Jazz Band earns awards at Berklee festival

The South Portland High School Jazz Band received several awards March 2 at the 45th Annual High School Jazz Festival at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Under the direction of Craig Skeffington, the band placed first in the Class L4 Large Ensemble Division. Senior trombonist Chuck Key received a Judge’s Choice Award and sophomore Alex Quinn received one of the Outstanding Musicianship Awards in the Class L4 Large Ensemble competition.  The group travels March 15 to Houlton for the Maine High School Instrumental Jazz Festival.

Memorial Middle School Honor Roll

Grade six, high honors: Akash Bhatnagar, Vanessa Bodman, Kiley Callow, Brenna Fassett, Michael Feely, Maxwell Gailey, Meghan Gilbert, Nicholas Green, Dylan Houle, Emma Ivy, Abigail Jellison, Marie-Monique Kabongo, Aleksandar Kaurin, Scott Lewis, Ai Ling Li, Sofia Napolitano, Vanessa Needham, Sydney Sherburne, Sophia Venditti, Kathryn Whitmore, Kaylee Whitten.

Grade six, honors: Kaitlyn Adams, Hassen Adem, Bryce Andrews, Fabian Anzures-Flores, Julia Banks, Sydney Beecher, Austin Biggs, Samuel Boswell, Ian Brassard, Sejla Brkic, Tucker Brooks, Jerry Chann, Natalie Cliff, Cody Corbett, Jackson Crain, Sonja Dibra, Sophia DiPhillipo, Phelan Doyle, Isabella Edwards, Anthony Estevez, Kailyn Fitzgerald, Madigan Fitzgerald, Hayley Frank, Emily Gato, Benjamin Gaudreau, Brianna Gillette, Kaitlyn Green, Skye Gribbin, Thomas Guignard, Benjamin Hess, Gabrielle Higgins, Emily Hobbs, Marie-Jean Kabongo, Oskar Kelly, Gracie Kierstead, Kailynn King, Katelyn Laverdiere, Dilyse Lorello , Maureen Lorello, Hussein Ma’ow, Zoe Mazur, Bailey McDermott, Jalion McLean, Skylar Mitchell, Rachel Morin, Riley Mullen, Emma Murray, Terrapat Nakummun, Margaret Nason, Pascale Perocier, Max Rascher, Molly Reali, Benjamin Roberts , Alexandria Rowell, Devin Sampson, Elizabeth Sass, Shippen Savidge, Greyson Sciaraffa, Akhiya Shaik Mulla, Benjamin Sivik, Kevin Sola-Perez, Joshua Somerville, Benjamin Spaulding, Grace Steady, Solomon Stratton, Richard Tifft, Gracie Treadwell, Abby Trieu, Billy Vann, Molly Walker, Matthew Walsh, Emily Welsh, Carter Whitten, Johnette Williams.

Grade seven, high honors: Sara Axelrod, Parker Bracken, Emma Campbell, Margaret Clay, Zachary Dyer, Lauren Elsemore, Jason Halvorsen, Tyler Hansen, Riley Hasson, Joshua Hyssong, Eva Mazur, Noah McHugh, Tuyen Nguyen, Urja Patel, Madison Plummer, Aidan Schifano, Jason Sudikoff, Andrea Trieu, Alexis Watson, Sarah Weden.

Grade seven, honors: Abdulhafit Abdullahi, Alannah Barrasso, Carter Barthelman, Emily Bolduc, April Brown, Nolan Brown, Jared Church, Ashley Clark, Colby Conway, Trevor Crawford, Noah Cummings, Henry Cyr, Abigail Darling, Benjamin DiFiore, Cody Dudley, Nicholas Duffy, Ava Galarraga, Cameron Goldberg, Marley Goodwill, Aidan Jellison Wall, Evan Kaminski, Olivia Kierstead, Cameron Lusardi, Viktor Maksimov, Amino Ma’ow, Molly Mawhinney, Jenna Miller, Trey Miller, Kaylee Neat, Jacob Poole, Ivey Rand, Dominic Reali, Deirdre Ridge, Samantha Rogers, Caleb Rowland, Justyn Sears, Alyssa Slobodzian, Madison Smith, Grace Soucy, Daniel Souza, Brooke Sowerby, Julia Swim, Nicholas Varipatis, Maximilian Winson.

Grade eight, high honors: Stephanie Aceto, Jessica Angelova, Abigail Blyler, Zoe Brown, Sophia Cummings, Alicia Currie, Owen Doane, Thao-Vy Duong, Brady Fitzgerald, Matthew Foshay, Grace Goodwin, Lydia Henderson, Joshua Hess, Jin Huang, Ella Jocher, Sydney Kane, Calvin Laber-Smith, Taylor Landon, Paige Lemelin, Kiera Macwhinnie, Amber Mckenzie, Serena Mckenzie, Bradley Mileson, Callie O’Brien, Isabelle Perocier, Abby Richardson, Sophia Romano, Anthony Salafia, Phonsavahn Senesombath, Molly Skeffington, Timothy Small, Steven Smith, Gage Turkewitz, Jamie Welsh, Daniel Woodhouse, Gwyneth Zelmanow.

Grade eight, honors: Jacob Angell, Tyler Ariaba, Sydney Athearn, Jordan Bell, Grady Betters, Ruay Bol, Benjamin Donnangelo, Cheyenne Esposito, Toia Francis, Brandon Gagne, Ashley Gassett, Nicholas Gordon, Joseph Grant, Matthew Gray, Jason Hamilton, Liam Hayes , Hunter Johnson, Phoebe Letourneau, Aaron Littlefield, Erica Magnuson, Kamden Mallory, Logan McCarthy, Ross Myers, Taylor Nappi, Ana Neff-Jendrasko, Morgan Rand, Ariana Ruotolo, Jeremiah Sanville, Emilee Schools, Audrey Secord, Skye Snowwalker, Sadiki Stewart, Jessica Wibby, Ian Young.


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