Photo courtesy of GCHS Vocal Department Facebook page

Four Greene County High School choir students qualified for a prestigious event.

This past Saturday was the auditions for the Iowa High School Music Association All-State Festival. Vocal Director David Heupel tells Raccoon Valley Radio the students that qualified included Gavin VanderLinden, Olivia Hoyt, Ava Schilling and Rasmus Villebro. VanderLinden, Hoyt and Schilling qualified for their second consecutive year. Heupel talks about how this year the audition song selections were more of a challenge, especially one of the tunes from North India.

“Right off the bat it seemed like it was just going to be a bear and it has all different time signatures happening over and over, and it really goes fast. Once they got a handle on the language, and is had a feel to it, it’s become one of the easier ones. There’s one where each part has its own separate run that happened (it’s) building and building, and they have to know when they come in and they’ve got to know when their notes are happening. So just more challenges that take a little more time to get down and conquer.”     

The All-State Festival will take place on the campus of Iowa State University from November 17th-19th.