The Mundelein High School instrumental music department will hold its Eighth Grade All-Star Event Thursday, Jan. 12. Area middle school band students will spend the afternoon with MHS band directors Jerald Shelato and Andrew Sturgeon engaging in a music performance clinic. The event will conclude with combined performances with the middle and high school bands. The free concert will begin at 7 p.m. in the MHS Auditorium.
“The evening is a fun way to see and hear the great music that is happening at Mundelein High School as well as at the area middle schools,” Sturgeon explained.
The concert will also feature John Harshey, West Oak Middle School band director, who will retire at the close of the school year. He will conduct one of the combined pieces.
In addition to Shelato, Sturgeon and Harshey, the other band directors include Brent Burger, Fremont Middle School; Patrick Cantagallo, Hawthorn Middle School North; Charles Naffier, Hawthorn Middle School South; Moulee Gupta, Carl Sandburg Middle School; and Rob Slater, area parochial schools.