TCWOB Traverse City West Orchestra Boosters

TC WMS orchestra students are doing some impressive work on the 2026 Practice-a-Thon! Please consider supporting them in their practicing with a pledge or flat donation! Traverse City Music Boosters https://app.99pledges.com/fund/wmsorchestra?home_v2=true

17 West Orchestra students participated in MSBOA State Solo & Ensemble in Cadillac on Saturday, March 16. All 17 students earned medals at this prestigious event!

”Excellent” Second Division Rating:

Solos:

Jonah Arbuckle, cello
Alex Narolskyy, violin

”Superior” First Division Rating:

Solos:

Bronwyn Shullick, violin
Marella Mast, violin
Austin Duggar, violin

Ensembles:

Violin and Viola Duet
Isabella Cook and Emily West

String Trio
Austin Duggar, Alex Narolskyy, and Jonah Arbuckle

Violin and Viola Quartet
Bronwyn Shullick, Isabella Cook, Emily West, and Amelia Verschaeve

Violin Chamber Ensemble
Christian Leachman, Estelle Young, Ley Tretler, Olivia Reding, Katie Lamphere, Autumn Cram, Ellie Howard, Makayla Smiddy, and Adeline Walters

West Senior High orchestra students participated Saturday at MSBOA’s District 2 Solo and Ensemble Festival held at Kingsley HS. The WSH Orchestras had 28 events participate, which included 47 different orchestra students. Of those 28 events, 12 earned second division ratings, and 16 earned first division or “superior” ratings and have qualified for the State Solo and Ensemble Festival to be held in March.

SECOND DIVISION “EXCELLENT” RATINGS

Soloists:
Liam Wierzba - Cello Solo
Carson Ball - Viola Solo
Riley Tretler - Violin Solo
Emma Rittenhouse - Cello Solo
Autumn Cram - Violin Solo
Olivia Reding - Violin Solo

Ensembles:

Viola and Cello Duet
Shadow Forton and Ash Gagnon

Cello Duet
Tessa Newman and Emma Rittenhouse

Violin and Bass Duet
Addie Walters and Kylin Goulding

Violin Duet
Ruth-Elena Hamann and Mina Cotner (CHS)

Violin, Viola, and Cello Trio
Sarah Budd, Lizzie Vollbrecht, and Caleb Butler

Cello Chamber Ensemble
Emma Rittenhouse, Liam Wierzba, Caleigh Morrison, Tessa Newman, Henry Olson, Eden Burke, Jackson Davis, Ethan Butler, and Caleb Butler

FIRST DIVISION “SUPERIOR” RATINGS
(Qualify for State Solo & Ensemble Festival in March)

SOLOISTS:
Alex Narolskyy - Violin Solo
Marella Mast - Violin Solo
Sarah Budd - Violin Solo
Jonah Arbuckle - Cello Solo
Austin Duggar - Violin Solo
Anh Nguyen - Viola Solo
Alexis Beeler - Violin Solo
Bronwyn Shullick - Violin Solo

ENSEMBLES:

Harp and Cello Duet
Annika Bushbaker and Brynn Lingaur

Violin and Viola Duet
Isabella Cook and Emily West

Cello and Clarinet Duet
Harmony Crumley and Libby Couturier

Violin, Viola, and Cello Trio
Bronwyn Shullick, Savannah Thrasher, and Caleigh Morrison

String Trio
Austin Duggar, Alex Narolskyy, and Jonah Arbuckle

Violin and Viola Quartet
Bronwyn Shullick, Isabella Cook, Amelia Verschaeve, and Emily West

Violin Chamber Ensemble
Christian Leachman, Marie Whall, Riley Tretler, Autumn Cram, Addie Walters, Katie Lamphere, Olivia Reding, Makayla Smiddy, and Ellie Howard

String Chamber Ensemble
Marella Mast, Anh Nguyen, Devin Hoang, Piper Dee, Brynn Lingaur, Reilly Dunlap, Marie Whall, Austin Duggar, and Alexis Beeler

With the Moxie Strings!

Welcome to our Halloween Hootenanny this Thursday, October 26th, 6:30 pm at Lars Hockstad!

Congrats to the TC West Orchestra students who performed in the Benzie Area Symphony Orchestra concert today! Students in the audience also got to meet Tina Chang Qu and hear the gorgeous violin concerto by Max Bruch! Go West! 💚💛💚💛

Congrats to the largest class of 6th grade orchestra students WMS has ever seen!

Our 6th grade orchestra spring concert was exhilarating! 😉✨🎶✨

Last chance to donate to our WMS orchestra students' Practice-a-Thon! These kids have been completing challenges left and right to raise money for our program. We are in need of new school instruments, strings, and equipment in our classroom for next year. Please consider pitching in to help them out!

2023 Practice-a-Thon The Traverse City West Middle School orchestra program has more than doubled in the past five years. Due to this exciting rapid growth, we find ourselves in need of more funding to meet the needs of the over 200 students now in our program.Through this Practice-a-Thon, our middle school students are...