January 11, 2020
On Saturday January 11, band and choir students across the state of Texas participated in the final round of auditions to earn a seat in one of the elite Texas All-State music ensembles. These 20 talented musicians, listed below, joined 40 Plano ISD high school musicians previously selected for all-state ensembles, via recorded audition in November 2019, for a total of 60 Plano ISD students selected as participants in all-state ensembles. The 60 all-state musicians represent all three senior high schools, as well as Clark, Jasper, Shepton and Vines High Schools.
All-State Musicians
Mixed Choir
- Pooja Bode, Plano West Senior High
- Tanav Chachad, Jasper High School
- Sigrid Edstrom, Plano West Senior High
- Ben Kern, Plano Senior High
- Emily Kondrat, Plano Senior High
- David Roitberg, Plano West Senior High
Treble Choir
- Daniela Diano, Plano West Senior High
- Macaela Gross, Plano Senior High
- Abigail Roth, Jasper High School
- Parker Smith, Plano Senior High
- Shriya Telakalapalli, Plano West Senior High
- Nika Weiss, Plano West Senior High
Concert Band
- Aaron Lee, Clark High School
- James Li, Plano West Senior High
- Weston Lu, Plano Senior High
- David Park, Plano Senior High
- Kane Wang, Jasper High School
- Samuel Wang, Plano Senior High
- Oscar Wei, Plano West Senior High
- Alec Yoon, Plano West Senior High
Plano Senior High School all-state musicians: top row: Ben Kern, mixed choir; Emily Kondrat, mixed choir; Parker Smith, treble choir; and Macaela Gross, treble choir; Front Row: Samuel Wang, concert band; Weston Lu, concert band; David Park, concert band; Andrew Hu, philharmonic orchestra; Ethan Wu, philharmonic orchestra; and Dongji Yang, symphony orchestra.
