NH-S VIOLIN STUDENTS PROGRESS TO REGIONAL COMPETITION

Brett Wachtendorf, Kevin Li, Greg Chen, Nick Wehr and Jessica Bauer

Four New Hope-Solebury High School violin students will be competing in the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association’s Regional VI orchestra competition at West Chester East High School in March. They are advancing from the districts competition which was held at Quakertown High School on January 27th, 28th and 29th.
The students placed as follows: Greg Chen (sophomore) – Second place, Brett Wachtendorf (senior) – Sixth place, Jessica Bauer (sophomore) - Tenth place and Kevin Li (junior) - Twelfth place.
“We have never had this many students achieve this success in the same year at NH-S,” commented orchestra instructor, Nick Wehr. “We are extremely proud of them!”