Robbinsdale students selected for honor choirs

Robbinsdale Area Schools (Rdale) has had 14 students selected for American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota (ACDA-MN) honor choirs.

Each school year, ACDA-MN organizes seven special honor choirs to provide enriched singing opportunities for students in grades four through 10. More than 2,000 students complete the audition process and around 900 are selected.

Grade 4-5-6 Honor Choirs

The grade 4-5-6 honor choirs will perform at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, March 29, at St. Michael/Albertville High School. One of the guest conductors is Patti Arntz, a recent Rdale retiree who taught elementary music in the district for 30 years and directed the Robbinsdale All-District Elementary Honors Choir for 15 years.

Rdale student selected:

• Dahlia Kissinger, Robbinsdale Middle School sixth grader

Grade 7-8 Honor Choirs

The grade 7-8 honor choirs will perform at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 5, at St. Michael/Albertville High School.

Rdale students selected:

• Emma Baer, Plymouth Middle School eighth grader
• Ryan Gardner, Robbinsdale Middle School eighth grader
• Natalie Rowdon, Sandburg Middle School eighth grader

Grade 9-10 Honor Choirs

Rdale students selected:

• Alexander Browne, Armstrong High School tenth grader
• Isabel Clifton, Armstrong High School ninth grader
• Wyatt Dean, Cooper High School tenth grader
• Lily Dropps, Armstrong High School tenth grader
• Miles Goodson, Armstrong High School tenth grader
• Madeline Halupnick, Cooper High School ninth grader
• Ariannis Hermann, Armstrong High School tenth grader
• Zinnia Jonson, Armstrong High School tenth grader
• Abigail Marquis, Armstrong High School ninth grader
• Maximilian Wojtak, Armstrong High School tenth grader

The grade 9-10 honors choirs performed on Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Minneapolis Convention Center.