{"id":11208,"date":"2025-05-28T17:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=11208"},"modified":"2025-06-08T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:29:23","slug":"mphs-band-members-earn-uil-state-medals-solo-ensemble-contest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-band-members-earn-uil-state-medals-solo-ensemble-contest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS Band Members Earn UIL State Medals Solo &#038; Ensemble Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Thirty-three Mount Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band members earned 37 state gold medals at the UIL State Solo and Ensemble contest held in and around the Austin area on May 25-27, up from nine last year. Four students including Jayden Adame, Bryan Garcia, Alfredo Santillan, and Evelyn Whisenhunt earned medals with two different ensembles.<\/h3>\n<h3>The six MPHS ensembles earning UIL state gold medals, the highest rating given by the judges, include:<\/h3>\n<h3>Flute Trio \u201cClassic Fantasy\u201d Bryan Garcia (10), Alfredo Santillan (10), Evie Whisenhunt (9)<\/h3>\n<h3>Flute Choir \u201cAll Through the Night\u201d Bryan Garcia (10), Rosali Nino (11), Jennifer Pena (12), Alfredo Santillan (10), Amy Santillan (12), Evie Whisenhunt (9)<\/h3>\n<h3>Clarinet Choir \u201cDivertimento No. 1\u201d Ana&#8217;Liece Guerrero (10), Humberto Damian (11), Neftali Gonzalez (12), Odalys Mejia (10), Diana Ramirez (10), Kaylee Ramos (12), Christopher Sorto (12), Cindy Valle (10)<\/h3>\n<h3>Brass Sextet \u201cBartok for Brass\u201d Adriel Bagsic (10), Sebastian Contreras (10), Mario Hernandez (9), Issac Jetton (11), Axel Mata (10), Jesus Mata (9)<\/h3>\n<h3>Percussion Ensemble \u201cBlue Rondo \u00e0 la Turk\u201d Jayden Adame (9), Camauri Adams (11), Dalia Balderas (10), Pedro Castillo (10), Armando Molina (11), Aaron Waldrep (9), Francisco Zapata (11)<\/h3>\n<h3>Percussion Ensemble \u201cUFO Tofu\u201d Jamaree Armour (10), Jayden Adame (9), Ethan Carrillo (11), Natalie Hines (10), Edward Moya (11), Alejandro Rosiles (11), Luke Thurman (12)<\/h3>\n<h3>The Goin\u2019 Gold Band will now turn its attention to preparations for their 2025 halftime show, \u201cBeetlejuice\u201d. The 2024-2025 MPISD band program has been under the direction of Dr. Theodus Luckett III, Karen Luckett, AJ Garcia, Brian Bass, Chris Richard, and Sheri Sullivan.<\/h3>\n<h3>Photos:<\/h3>\n<h3>Flute Trio<\/h3>\n<h3>Flute Choir<\/h3>\n<h3>Clarinet Choir<\/h3>\n<h3>Brass Sextet<\/h3>\n<h3>Percussion Ensemble \u201cBlue Rondo \u00e0 la Turk\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>Percussion Ensemble \u201cUFO Tofu\u201d<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-three Mount Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band members earned 37 state gold medals at the UIL State Solo and Ensemble contest held in and around the Austin area on May 25-27, up from nine last year. Four students including Jayden Adame, Bryan Garcia, Alfredo Santillan, and Evelyn Whisenhunt earned medals with two different ensembles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}