Tyler Kinsky
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Westborough – Tyler Kinsky, a senior at Westborough High School (WHS), was recently selected to join the “best of the best” for the National Association for Music Education 2020 All-National Honor Ensembles (ANHE).
Held virtually for the first time ever on Jan. 7-9, the All-National Honor Ensembles event included several rehearsals with the 2020 ANHE Conductors and workshops with renowned clinicians. Each ensemble will create a final, recorded performance that will be premiered online during the National Association for Music Education’s Music In Our Schools Month® in March 2021.
Kinsky was selected as one of only 18 students nationally to be part of the ANHE Jazz Ensemble, and is participating playing jazz trombone. After graduating from WHS, he plans to pursue a degree in Jazz Performance and Music Education.
The All-National Honor Ensembles performers represent collaboration and creativity in its highest musical form. The All-National Honor Ensembles consist of a concert band, symphony orchestra, mixed choir, jazz ensemble, guitar ensemble, and modern band (now in its second year). Students were chosen through an audition process. The concert band and symphony orchestra each have 120 instrumentalists, the mixed choir contains 241 vocalists, the jazz ensemble has 18 instrumentalists, the guitar ensemble has 45 instrumentalists, and there are 13 performers in the modern band.
Names, schools, and states, as well as music directors, of the 552 2020 All-National Honor Ensemble students are available on the ANHE website.
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