Two members of the Armstrong Junior High School Band have been selected for the Mississippi American School Band Directors Association (MSASBDA) Honor Band. Dorian Plair, 8th grade trumpet player, and Minjeong Kim, 8th grade clarinet player, were chosen for the All State Band through a rigorous audition process. The two students will participate in the Middle School All State clinic later this month.
"These two outstanding students will represent Armstrong at Pearl River Community College," said Demario Jefferson, Armstrong Junior High Band Director and newly named SOCSD Director of Bands. "We are very proud to have these two students selected to the performing ensemble."
As part of their participation in the four-day All State clinic in May, Plair and Kim will have the opportunity to work with the top middle school musicians across the state and learn from a world-class clinician, Associate Director of Bands Cliff Croomes from the University of Texas at Austin. Out of more than 300 auditions submitted by middle school students across Mississippi, sixty students were selected as Honor Band participants.
The Armstrong Junior High School Band earned All Superior ratings from each judge in Concert Performance and Sight Reading at the Joe Barry Mullins Band Festival in April.