Category: Music

Spring Music Concert

(April 23, 2024) — Join us for our spring music concert featuring our 5th grade and junior high bands, as well as our 5th/6th and 7th/8th grade choirs. The concert will be on May 7, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. in the school gym.  All are welcome.

Our bands will perform fun songs like “Samba La Bamba,” “March of the Minutemen,” and “A Whole New World” from Disney’s Aladdin. We have 45 students participating in band this school year.

Students in choir will entertain us with “Keep the Beat” by Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Happy” by Pharrell Williams. They will finish with the beautiful “Easter Hallelujah” featuring solos by some of our 8th graders. There are 45 students in our choirs this year.

2024 IGSMA Contest

(March 15, 2024)  – Fourteen students from St. Philomena Grade School participated in the Illinois Grade School Music Association (IGSMA) District II Solo and Ensemble Contest Friday, March 8, 2024 at Illinois Central College. A total of 10 First Division ratings and 4 Second Division ratings were earned by the students. Of these totals, four vocal solos received First Division ratings. Six instrumental solos received First Division ratings and four received Second Division ratings.

The vocal students are coached by Kelly Moyer and the instrumental students are coached by Stephanie Kirk. A big thank you to Maria Hercik and Mary Rose Smith for accompanying the students.

The following is a list of the students who participated in solos:

Division I Vocal Solos – Jack Hapke, Ava Aaron, Marisa Ice, and Samuel Wake.

Division I Instrumental Solos – Thomas Couri, EveLyn Kennedy, Eliza Ross, Sigrid Schaub, Neila Kennedy, Diego Ramirez.

Division II Instrumental Solos – Louisa Anyanwu, Daniel Chovan, Liam Rowe, and Jackson Taylor.