BOTH the Symphony Orchestra and the Sinfonia Orchestra JUST won another competition, the prestigious AMERICAN PRIZE IN MUSIC. Read more here: http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2018/05/finalist-orchestras-2017-18.html

                          MASTERWORKS PERFORMANCE The SLHS Music Department will be presenting their biennial Masterwork Concert on Saturday, January 27th at 7:00pm in the SLHS PAC, featuring conductor Franz Krager. Our concert is called “The American Dream” which features music of American composers. World-renown composer John …..

The Seven Lakes Orchestra had 13 amazing young musicians make the final round of the Texas Music Educator’s Association’s All-State auditions. The following is a list of all students who have made it as well as their ranking for the entire state. Symphony Orchestra Violin: Roger Shui (14, FOUR-YEAR ALL-STATER), Jonathan Liu (20), Jun Kim (25), Rachel Kim …..

Our final performance featuring all of our groups will be held on Friday, May 19th in the Seven Lakes PAC. Our first performance will start at 6:00p-ish with the Symphony Orchestra will be recorded for the prestigious TMEA Honor Orchestra competition. This repertoire is a repeat of the same concert on May 8th. That 30-minute …..

Thank you to all of your students and parent chaperones for a fantastic spring trip! A special shout-out to our wonderful spring trip chaperones Lorena Alarcon, Oswaldo Garcia, Diane Liu, Thi Phan, Rich Suntken, Lynn Wang, and Jennifer Vasquez. We are so indebted to you for your time, patience, and assistance! Great job to all of our  …..

Congratulations to the Symphony Orchestra who earned straight ones from all six judges. This marks their twelfth consecutive Sweepstakes trophy! Proud of our stellar musicians!!

PRE-UIL CONCERT Our first UIL contest is March 1st, and our Symphony Orchestra will present their UIL Preview concert on Wednesday, February 22nd. We will be performing Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture,” Mahler’s stirring “Adagietto” from Symphony No. 5, and the last two movements from Prokfiev’s fiendish Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring pianists Andy and Kevin Yang. The concert begins at …..

UIL Solo and Ensemble Contest was held on Saturday, February 4th at Tompkins HS. Congratulations to the following students that earned Excellent and Superior ratings from their judges! Class Two Solos, Excellent Ratings Violin: Kassie Sun, Mingyue Wang   Class One Solos, Excellent Ratings Violin: Cyreil Cariazo, Alyssa Cheriyan, Gabriel Dewabrata, Srujana Dunnara, Sohum Purao, Vignesh Vasan, Shirley Wang, Haechan Yang, Chloe Yang, Jennings Ye, Katherine Zakarian, …..

Our amazing joint Fine Arts production of the Broadway musical, “Big Fish” will be presented February 2-4th. Based on the celebrated novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed Columbia Pictures film directed by Tim Burton, BIG FISH centers on Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman who lives life to its fullest… and then some! Edward’s incredible, larger-than-life stories …..

RECORD-BREAKING NUMBER OF ALL-STATE STUDENTS! The Seven Lakes Orchestras are proud to announce a record-breaking 15 students that have made the Texas Music Educators Association’s All-State Orchestras. These students will be working with world-renown conductors in San Antonio in February! Congratulations to all FIFTEEN 2017 ALL-STATERS!! Symphony Violin 3 Roger Shui 11 Helen Zhou* 13 Jonathan Liu 37 Kevin Gao *four year All-Stater   …..