Twenty-three students from District 202 elementary and middle schools will attend the 2025 Illinois Music Education Association Junior All-State Conference in Peoria later this month.
The conference is from January 29 to February 1, 2025.
Seventh and eighth-grade students will rehearse on Friday, January 31, while fifth and sixth-grade students will rehearse on Saturday, February 1.
All ages will perform at the Peoria Civic Center on Saturday afternoon. This is the first year District 202 middle school students will attend the state conference.
The one-day junior and elementary chorus events are in conjunction with the Illinois Music Education Association’s state conference and all-state student programs for high school students.
The following students will participate:
Sixth Grade
Drauden Point Middle School
Holden Garcia
Ira Jones Middle School
Kate Erwin
Hailey Schultz
Aiden Wright
Kyle Eckstein
Sarah Springer
Seventh and eighth grade
Heritage Grove Middle School
Mason Nasrallah, eighth grade, soprano
Lucy Petrovic, eighth grade, soprano
John F. Kennedy Middle School
Javian Gutierrez, eighth grade, baritone
Brennan Lord, seventh grade, baritone
Richard Ira Jones Middle School
Weston Countrymen, eighth grade, baritone
Noelia Cepeda-Tapia, seventh grade, soprano
Amirah Ogunsegun, eighth grade, alto
These fifth graders will perform in the elementary All-State Chorus at the conference on February 1.
Meadow View Elementary School
Oliver Garcia
Sofia Rosales
Sarah Schmidt
Isabelle Kopka
Ariana Orozco
Jack Schultz
Liberty Elementary School
Kaden Bertrand
Taylor English
Eleanor “Nora” Grotto
Rylynne Westra