Kent student participates in music festival program | School briefs

Kent's Trevor Cosby recently attended the Eastern Music Festival summer study program at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., a five-week competitive high school and college program training in orchestral, piano, conducting, guitar and choral performance.

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  • Friday, August 7, 2015 12:57pm
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Kent’s Trevor Cosby recently attended the Eastern Music Festival summer study program at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., a five-week competitive high school and college program training in orchestral, piano, conducting, guitar and choral performance.

Cosby was selected out of 550-plus applicants to receive one out of 181 positions in the EMF Young Artists Orchestras.

He joined fellow aspiring musicians in Greensboro to study under the guidance of private teachers and internationally recognized conductors Gerard Schwarz, Grant Cooper and Eric Garcia.

Cosby along with other talented students lived on campus for the extent of the program. The Young Artists Orchestra Series, for music students ages 14 to 23, provides a combination of classroom and performance experiences. The broad curriculum includes playing in one of two orchestras, individual lessons, master classes, and recitals.

Elsewhere

Sean Kallaher received a $2,000 Harold P. Curtis scholarship from the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture at Washington State University. The award is given to students with excellent academic performance in high school, including receiving advanced placement scholar with Honors. Kallaher, a 2015 Kentridge High School graduate, plans to graduate WSU in 2019 with a degree in computer science. He is the son of Mariann and Jay Kallaher of Renton. …

Kyle Satterstrom, a 2000 graduate of Kentridge High School, received a doctorate in engineering sciences from Harvard University in May. He did his dissertation research in a cell biology laboratory at Harvard Medical School. Satterstrom is doing a data science fellowship this summer and hopes to find a job where he can work in the development of personalized cancer medicine. He is married to Pat Hernandez and has a 2-year old son, Dani. …

The following students from Kent recently graduated from Whitworth University: Flannery Allen (bachelor of arts, mathematics, summa cum laude); Kira Miller (B.A., chemistry, summa cum laude, and bachelor of science, chemistry, summa cum laude); and Hannah Zeitler (B.A., mathematics, summa cum laude, and B.S., chemistry, summa cum laude). … Kent’s Hazen Johnson graduated summa cum laude from LeTourneau University (Longview, Texas) with a bachelor of science degree in computer science with a game development concentration


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