{"id":15051,"date":"2015-02-17T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=15051"},"modified":"2015-02-17T11:07:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:07:41","slug":"four-hs-students-win-vocal-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=15051","title":{"rendered":"Four HS students win vocal competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_105102\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Akki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105102\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1051023\" alt=\"Akki\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Akki.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abu Akki<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Four local high school seniors won Chester County Choral Society\u2019s 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Excellence in Vocal Performance Competition, held on Saturday, February 7, at the Church of the Good Samaritan in Paoli.<\/p>\n<p>Tenor Abu Akki from Unionville High School earned the first place award of $1000. \u201cAbu has a beautiful, distinctive voice,\u201d his voice teacher, Alan Wagner says. \u00a0Beginning with the Kennett Symphony Children\u2019s Chorus, Abu has sung with premier choruses at the local, state and national level. Abu will be featured as Tony in <i>West Side Story<\/i> at UHS in March.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Avellino, soprano, from Collegium Charter School in Exton received the second place, $500 prize. \u201cMy dream is to perform in operas, concerts, and eventually, on Broadway,\u201d says Jordan.\u00a0 She studies with Cal Brackin, who commends her \u201cmusicianship and motivation.\u201d\u00a0 Jordan is the lead in <i>Cinderella<\/i>! this spring at Collegium Center Stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoy singing anywhere\u201d says Sam Duffey, baritone, co-winner of the $250 third prize. A senior at Westtown, Sam has been featured in choral and theater groups, and currently stars in <i>Pippin<\/i>. An excellent, all-round student,\u201d his vocal teacher, Sara Jane Duffey writes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105102\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Maxwell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105102\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1051024 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Maxwell\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Maxwell.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marisa Maxwell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Marisa Maxwell from Kennett High School, also placed third, earning a $250 prize. She is considered a \u201ctop soprano at KHS,\u201d her teacher, Patti Mancuso, says.\u00a0 Marisa particularly enjoys musical theatre, and is featured as Laurey in KHS\u2019s <i>Oklahoma!<\/i> this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The Vocal Competition recognizes, promotes and rewards the achievement of young singers.\u00a0 Since 2010, the Honorable Charles B. Smith has been a competition co-sponsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four local high school seniors won Chester County Choral Society\u2019s 23rd Excellence in Vocal Performance Competition, held on Saturday, February 7, at the Church of the Good Samaritan in Paoli. Tenor Abu Akki from Unionville High School earned the first place award of $1000. \u201cAbu has a beautiful, distinctive voice,\u201d his voice teacher, Alan Wagner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[5878,79,381,5877],"class_list":["post-15051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-chester-county-choral-society","tag-kennett-high-school","tag-unionville-high-school","tag-vocal-competition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}