Six Irvine Students to Join All-National Honor Ensembles

Six Irvine Unified School District students have been selected as members of the prestigious National Association for Music Education’s 2015 All-National Honor Ensembles.  Performance categories include Honor Band, Mixed Choir, Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band.  Irvine will send six of the 30 California students to participate in this year’s concert.

Eliott Chung, University High School and Eric Li, Northwood High School will perform in the All-National Honor Concert Band.  Elysia Ouyang and Mina Rhee from University High School and Michael Suh and Andrew Yang from Northwood High School will perform in the All-National Honor Symphony Orchestra. The concert is October 28, 2015 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee and is part of the National In-Service Conference.  This is an exciting opportunity for our talented musicians to work with other young musicians and prestigious conductors from across the nation. For more information, visit http://www.nafme.org/programs/all-national-honor-ensembles/ and click on the video at the top of the webpage. Congratulations to our Irvine students and best wishes as they prepare for this exciting concert!