WINDSOR secondary student Nicholas Walsh has been selected for the 2012 American High School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall.
According to a written statement, he will be a part of the Honors Orchestra as a trombone player. Walsh will join other performers from North America and select international schools for a special performance at the famed New York City venue. The series is intended to showcase accomplished individual high school performers on an international level by allowing them to study under master conductors and perform on the Carnegie Hall stage.
Walsh began piano lessons in Grade 2 and took up the trombone in Grade 5 in the Seymour Heights elementary band. He's currently in two bands and two choirs at Windsor and has been a member of the Housetop Quintet jazz ensemble for the last year and a half. He plays four instruments and sings. He performed the role of Mr. Mushnik in Windsor's production of the musical Little Shop of Horrors last year. Walsh is thrilled about the opportunity and grateful to all of the great music teachers he's had over the years, including Anne Frame, his piano teacher, Kostas Romeliotis, his Seymour Heights band teacher, Brad Muirhead, his trombone teacher, and Deep Cove Music's Tyler Pearson, his guitar teacher. Most of all, he is thankful to Risa McDonell and Adam Kozak, his music teachers at Windsor, who nominated him for the Honors Orchestra.
Finalists will come together for five days in New York City with the Feb. 12, 2012 performance open to the public.
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