The TC band program finished strong this year, with all the bands giving great end of the year performances. The high school band had a very interesting clinic with trumpeter Dave Tippett, marched in the Elmhurst Memorial Parade, and said goodbye to some of the best seniors our school has ever seen. The younger bands finished the year in strong fashion, and the eighth graders had their last taste of life in the middle school. The fifth and sixth grades proved to handle all the music I could throw at them, and in late May, we tried out the fourth graders on instruments for the fall. Thanks to all the parents, students, and teachers who made it happen. -Mr. Schoenbach

The annual TC Solo and Ensemble Contest went off without a hitch again this year. Judges Craig Sunken and Kara Bancks heard some of Timothy’s best and brightest musical talents. Winners in the solo division were Becky Visser on the clarinet and Ana DeJong on the oboe. Runners-up in the ensemble division were a jazz combo consisting of Dori Cranmer, Joe Meigs, Audie Smith, Becky Visser, Rachel Slager, Will Roelofs, and Mike Cappazoli, and a flute quartet featuring Marissa Hegel, Julia Pattison, Taylor Bryant, and Natalie Lee. Winners of the ensemble division are pictured below: They were a woodwind quintet that did an arrangement of “Scarborough Fair” with Chelsea Bardolph, Ana DeJong, Rebecca Gilmore, Will Roelofs, and Julie Schram, and a sax quartet that did a jazz piece called “Four Shades” with Audie Smith, Colin Middel, Nate Middel, and Marcus Wondergem.