2020 Junior Music Festival winners named
Vocal: Art Song winners, solos Back: Kate Branstetter- Senior; Mallory Stolhand-Senior; Gracie Orr-Senior; Addison Kyler-Junior; Kaden Swords, Senior (All Ponca City students) Front: Emmie Harnden- Elementary (Blackwell) and Jaelyn Stolhand-Elementary and Faith Ballinger, Junior (Ponca City) Winners Piano Solo Elementary and Junior: Front: Matthew Li,(Stillwater), Audrey Caughlin (Tonkawa), Albert Sheng (Stillwater), Abigail Hanlon (Lamont), Audrey Zhang (Stillwater), Savannah Rateliff (Ponca City) Back: Andrew Zhang (Stillwater), Abhimanyu Sukhdial (Stillwater); Gracie Orr (Ponca City). Vocal teachers with students involved in the Junior Festival include: Chad Anderson, Erin Broome, Suzi Lenhart (Ponca City), Eddie Dixon and Shannon Varner (Tonkawa) Orff I Ensemble 2020: Vocal Ensemble upper Elementary Winner Back: Lennon Shearer, Pragnya Gopisetti, Breiden Trenary, Frankie Diaz, Lance Busch Front: Annabell Shelton, Jaelyn Stolhand , Claire Davis and Jhansi Rapeti (all Ponca City except Breiden Trenary, Tonkawa). Orff III Ensemble 2020: Junior vocal Ensemble Winner Junior High Back: Kade Burkett, Zander Dobbs, Mallory Stolhand, Carly Reece, Taylee Slavin Emma Smith, Mariana Horinek (Newkirk) Elizabeth Coffman (Newkirk) Lynna Storm and , Abby Davis (Tonkawa) (all others Ponca City) Vocal: Music Theater winners, solos: Back Row: Addison Kyler-Junior, Mallory Kyler-Senior, Tryston McCarty-Junior Kaden Swords-Senior Kira Pendleton-Senior (Tonkawa), Abby Davis-Senior (Tonkawa), Mallory Stolhand-Musically Advanced Middle row: Abby Garrison , Emma Deming, Addyson Harmon (Tonkawa), Emmie Harnden (Blackwell)- Elementary, Taylee Slavin- Junior Front row: Jaelyn Stolhand-Primary, Mackenzie Kyler-Primary, Claire Davis-Elementary, Annabell Shelton-Elementary (Newkirk). All others not identified are from Ponca City Music Theater Duet winners: Back: Abby Davis & Kate Branstetter-Senior; Mallory Kyler & Landon Smykil, Taylee Slavin & Emma Smith, Elementary; Addie Kyler, Junior; Kira Pendleton & Mallory Stolhand, Musically Advanced Front: Faith Ballinger, Junior; Emma Deming & Emmie Harnden, Elementary Recorder: Jhansi Rapeti and Hitesh Neerudi-Recorder solo and duet (Ponca City) Teacher: Suzi Lenhart Piano teachers with students involved in the Junior Music festival: Angela Bunch (Ponca City), Sonja Hanon (Stillwater), Ruth Klufa (Tonkawa), Suzi Lenhart (Ponca City) and Claudia Mornhinweg (Stillwater). Winners Piano Solo Primary and Pre-Primary: Siddharth Palgunan (Stillwater); Frankie Diaz (Ponca City); Claire Davis (Ponca City) FIVE GENERATIONS recently gathered for a picture. Pitured are Louise Roy, mother, Adele L. Steeprock, daughter, Bianca N. Steeprock Behner, granddaughter, Brandon L. Steeprock Sr., great-grandson and Brandon L. Steeprock Jr., great-great grandson.
The National Federation of Music Clubs celebrated the 97th annual National Music Week the first full week of May, the 3rd through the 10th. This special week highlights the importance of music as an art and a harmonious force, giving rich experience in human life. Without art and music, our life is empty.
The Ponca City Federated Music Club, a part of the National Federation of Music Clubs and Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs is proud to recognize the Junior Music festival winners 2020.
These students would have performed for the PCF Music Club program on April 4 as well as participated in the Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs (OFMC) competition on Saturday, April 25 in Ada, OK at East Central University. However, due to the corona virus, both of these events were cancelled.
There were 121 entries in the Junior Music festival on Saturday, March 7 at the First United Methodist Church. Entries included piano solos, vocal solos and duets, recorder solos and duet, string solos and concertos and 3 vocal ensembles. Participants included students from Blackwell, Lamont, Newkirk, Ponca City, Stillwater and Tonkawa. The age range was 4 to 18.
The Ponca City Federated Music Club is a member of the Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs and the National Federation of Music Clubs.
If you are interested in joining Music Club or for more information, contact Mike Seals, 580-485-5098, president.