Fostering Lifelong Learning - Episcopal Academy

Arts
Students
Attend Big
Timber Arts
Roundup In
Montana
A
group of 10 juniors and
seniors traveled to Big
Timber, MT this fall to
participate in the Big Timber Arts Roundup,
an annual celebration of the arts that joins student artists with professional artists.
The program participants included 30 students from Pennsylvania and 20 students
from Montana working with professional writers, artists, photographers, and actors
from the greater Montana artistic community.
Students “camped out” at the Hobble Diamond Ranch under the supervision of
teachers from the participating high schools. Over three days, the students participated
in writing, art, photography, and drama workshop activities and they enjoyed
ranch activities and learned more about the region from local ranchers and historians.
On Friday night, The Shakespeare in the Schools Company performed “Othello.”
On Saturday night, writers Paul Zarzyski performed his cowboy poetry and
Liza Ward read from her novel Outside Valentine. On the final afternoon of the
roundup, the students presented what they had created – photography, art, scenes
from Shakespeare, and creative writing. All of the evening events were open to residents
of Big Timber.
Lower School Students Selected
For Pennsylvania Honors Choir
Five Lower School students will
participate in the American
Choral Directors Association
and Pennsylvania Music Educators
Association Elementary/Middle
School Honor Choir in Hershey, PA on
April 18 and 19. They are: (front row)
Lindsay Nathanson (5th grade) and
Katherine Hong (5th grade) and (back
row) John Ruth (4th grade), Cassandra
Kaufhold (4th grade), and William Patterson
(4th grade).
The choir is made up of 120 singers
in grades four, five, and six from across
Pennsylvania. Students will spend Friday
rehearsing with renowned conductor
Robyn Lana, the Founder and Managing Artistic Director and Conductor of the Cincinnati
Children’s Choir, and then will perform a concert for parents and guests at
10:00 a.m. on Saturday the 19th at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center.
Front row: Faculty member
Kate Sullivan, junior Jasmine Pope, junior Olivia
Mullen, senior Kelly Zug, junior Anna Strong, and
senior Amy Stone. Back row: senior Matthew Coote,
senior Madeline Saggiomo, junior Andrew Espe,
senior EJ Spofford, junior Sarah Coote, and Sheryl
Forste-Grupp, Chair of the Upper School English
Department.
District 11
String Fest
Participants
Middle School students Pat
Espe ’14 and Brendan De-
Voue ’14 participated in the
District 11 String Fest this
past November. This was the first time
Episcopal Academy participated in the
festival. The two students were selected
by strings instructor Katherine Wilber
and participated with 150 other selected
musicians from the area. The boys (who
are both cellists) were required to prepare
six additional pieces for the festival.
After a full day of rehearsing as a group,
the festival concluded with a concert for
the public.
Pictured with Katherine Wilber are Pat Espe and
Brendan DeVoue.
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