KING-FM wants musical students
January 18, 2011
Classical KING-FM 98.1 has extended the deadline for its 2011 KING FM Ten Grands Young Artist Award to Feb. 1. To enter, students ages 6-18 I should send a YouTube video of themselves performing vocally, acoustically or instrumentally to the KING FM website, www.king.org.
Performances must be five minutes or shorter. Judges will select 20 semifinalists and the public will vote online, choosing 10 finalists and one grand prize winner, who will receive a $1,000 scholarship from KING-FM. Read more
Gold Stars
May 11, 2010
Girl Scout Troop 50614
Girls from Girl Scout Troop 50614 from Sunny Hills Elementary School served dinner to residents of Tent City 4 prior to their departure.
The girls served up barbecued pulled pork, baked potatoes and other homemade goodies. The girls also donated several staple items, like butter, cheese sticks and yogurt, and a special box of Girl Scout cookies.
Matt DeLuca and Carly Worden
Congratulations to Skyline High School’s Matt DeLuca and Carly Worden, both seniors, for making the Top Ten list in King FM and the Ten Grands’ Young Artist Awards.
Matt made the cut for his marimba performance and Carly made the cut for her accomplished piano playing and composition skills. The two will perform at the Ten Grands Benefit Concert at Benaroya Hall on May 21.
Maple Hills Elementary School student council
The school’s student council celebrated Earth Day by making puppets of endangered animals and performing a song called “Ghost Bat in a Gum Tree,” which was recorded to help students better understand environmental issues around the world and celebrate Earth Day.
Grand Ridge Elementary School
The school’s students raised $2,460 for Haitian disaster relief efforts by reading.
The fundraiser, Helping Haiti One Page at a Time, asked students to gather pledges they could collect after completing pages of reading, writing, math and science assignments. The school’s PTSA sponsored the fundraiser, created by fifth-grade teacher Jenise Clausen.
Students donated the check to the American Red Cross on March 2.
Gold Stars highlights accomplishments — big or small — by Issaquah students. Send a few sentences and the student’s name, age, grade, school, good deed and a photograph, if possible, to clusebrink@isspress.com.
Sammamish Symphony to headline Benaroya Hall
March 9, 2010
The Sammamish Symphony Orchestra is packing it up and leaving the plateau behind for the mainstage of Benaroya Hall for a special one-night performance March 14. Read more
Issaquah boy extends his range with Northwest Boychoir
May 26, 2009
Benjamin Richardson, wearing the shirt with a stripe across the front, rehearses “Big Rock Candy Mountain” with the Northwest Boychoir, directed by Joseph Crnko, right. By Warren Kagarise
Aspiring musicians yearn for a chance to play Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony or perform alongside Grammy-nominated vocalists.
Benjamin Richardson, 10, has accomplished all of the above.
A member of the prestigious Northwest Boychoir, Benjamin and his fellow pint-sized performers frequent concert halls and other venues across the Puget Sound region and throughout the state.
He also plays gigs closer to his Issaquah home: Benjamin and his mother perform at the Issaquah Farmers Market.
“You can put your emotion into music,” Benjamin said. “I enjoy knowing that I’m giving people joy.”
His mother, Rochelle Pearson, plays viola in the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra. Pearson also teaches viola and violin. Her pianist husband, Harry Richardson, is the music director at Seattle First Presbyterian Church, where the family also worships. Benjamin took to music at an early age. Read more
DECA club markets ‘grand’ concert to save music programs
March 23, 2009
Students in Issaquah High School’s DECA club are getting a real-world education in marketing by volunteering their services to a nonprofit organization aimed at saving music programs in schools. Read more
Off The Press
February 24, 2009
Ever seen a grown man giddy? Usually, it’s not a pretty sight. Well, luckily, no one was around to see my attack of giddiness Saturday.
I am a lapsed novice pianist, having taken 10 years of lessons growing up, but have only dabbled since. So, I was ecstatic to interview one of my favorite artists, David Lanz.
And it was the interview that almost wasn’t. Read more
