01/31/25 Fine Arts Department News

HPHS Fine Arts would like to congratulate its ten STATE CHAMPION All-State musicians! From Band, Lucy Zeng, Ian Hyde, Reuben Obel, Sam Stobaugh, Carson Critcher, and Luke Bowden; from Choir, Caroline Davidson and Jaron Pierce; from Orchestra, Alec James Fang and Raymond Wu. These students competed against over 70,000 other students from Texas at the District, Region, and Area levels, and their achievement of All State means that they are in the top 2.6% of musicians in the state! These students will travel to San Antonio in February to participate in the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Clinic and Convention, where they will perform in concerts directed by nationally recognized conductors for thousands of audience members. TMEA is the nation’s largest music educator's convention, with over 30,000 attendees and hundreds of clinics, expo booths, and performances. Be sure to congratulate these students on this incredible achievement!

A big congrats to all the artists who showed at the Blue Print gallery this past week!

High School Band 101 was a great experience for our 8th graders. They had so much fun hanging out with and playing with the high school students!

Middle School band 101 was a huge success! We had 120 6-8th graders together and they sounded AMAZING!

Preschool artists explored different stations in art class, experimenting with various textures. They learned new art techniques while practicing vocabulary to describe the unique textures in their creations.

Mrs. Conklin’s student teacher, Ms. Beard, taught 4th grade students a Rondo piece with xylophones, metallophones, and unpitched instruments. Ms. Beard also taught Kindergarten a folk dance with partners.

UP Panthers are busy making music! 4th graders learn from each other by working in pairs on recorder, 1st graders practice writing higher and lower pitches with simple notation, and younger grades lead movement exploration with instruments.