Student Accomplishments
Congratulations to the following students for their musical accomplishments!
Congratulations to the following students on their success at the 2026 Solo and Ensemble Festival:
Jessie Jiang - Exemplary 1 rating
Daniel Tossey - Exemplary 1 rating
David Maloney - Exemplary 1 rating
Josie Wright - Exemplary 1 rating (Josie also earned the "Best of Day" certificate)
2026 Missouri All-State Orchestra
Jessie Jiang
Felix Zhang
Congratulations to Jessie and Felix! Jessie earned first chair in the entire state of Missouri and selected orchestra. This is the fourth year in a row that one of Kelly Austermann's students earned the principal position in the entire state of Missouri.
2026 Missouri All-State Band
Calvino Hammerman
2026 Illinois All-State Band
Daniel Tossey
2026 Illinois All-State Orchestra
David Maloney
2025 St. Louis All Suburban Honors Band
Calvino Hammerman
Felix Zhang
2025 East Central All District Honors Band
Jessie Jiang (1st chair)
2025 Illinois District 7 Honors Band
Daniel Tossey
David Maloney
Josie Wright
2025-2026 St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra
Caley Micun
Felix Zhang
Daniel Tossey
2025 Missouri All-State Orchestra
Congratulations for Felix Zhang for earning principal clarinet! He placed first in the entire state of Missouri and selected orchestra. This is the third year in a row that one of Kelly Austermann's students earned the principal position in the state of Missouri!
2025 Missouri All-State Band
Jessie Jiang
Calvino Hammerman (Honorable Mention)
2025 Illinois All-State Band
David Maloney
Daniel Tossey
2024 Illinois District 7 Honors Band
David Maloney
Daniel Tossey
Josie Wright
2024 St. Louis All-Suburban Honors Band
Calvino Hammerman
Jessie Jiang
Felix Zhang
Congratulations to the following students for earning positions in the Young Person's Symphonic Orchestra for the 2024-2025 year. They will be performing with the orchestra at Carnegie Hall in the Spring!
Calvino Hammerman
Daniel Tossey
Felix Zhang
Congratulations to Luan Nguyen for earning principal clarinet in the 2023-2024 Missouri All-State Orchestra. This is his second year in a row as principal clarinet!
2023-2024 Missouri All-State Band
Calvino Hammerman - 13th chair
Alaina Owens - Honorable Mention
2024 Illinois All-State Band
Daniel Tossey
David Maloney
2023 East Central All-District Honors Band
Luan Nguyen - 2nd chair
Alaina Owens - 10th chair
2023 St. Louis All-Suburban Honors Band
Calvino Hammerman - 4th chair
2023 Illinois District 7 Honors Band
Daniel Tossey - 2nd chair
David Maloney - 2nd chair orchestra
Congratulations to Luan Nguyen for earning a Gold Rating and the 2023 State Solo and Ensemble Festival!
Congratulations to the following students for their success at the 2023 Solo and Ensemble Festival:
Luan Nguyen - Exemplary 1 rating
David Maloney - Exemplary 1 rating
Alaina Owens - Outstanding 2 rating
Angie Han - Outstanding 2 rating
Nick Broy - Outstanding 2 rating
Congratulations to Luan Nguyen for ranking first out of all clarinets in the state of Missouri at the Missouri All-State Band auditions. He decided to be first chair clarinet in the 2022-2023 Missouri All-State Orchestra!
Congratulations to Luan Nguyen and Alaina Owens for making it into the 2022-2023 East Central All-District Honors Band! This will be Luan's second year in a row as 1st chair!
Congratulations to Calvino Hammerman for earning 1st chair clarinet in the 2022-2023 St. Louis All-Suburban Middle School Concert Band!
2022 State Solo and Ensemble Festival
Luan Nguyen - Gold rating
Tommy Stahl - Gold rating
Congratulations to Calvino Hammerman for earning an "examplary" 1-rating at the 2022 Middle School Solo and Ensemble Festival!
Congratulations to Luan Nguyen and Tommy Stahl for earning Examplary 1 ratings at the 2022 Solo and Ensemble Festival!
Congratulations to Luan Nguyen for earning 10th chair in the 2021-2022 Missouri All-State Band!
Congratulations to Luan Nguyen for earning 1st chair clarinet in the 2021-2022 East Central All-District Honors Band!
2021-2022 St. Louis All-Suburban Middle School Honors Band
Calvino Hammerman
Angie Kim
Congratulations to Alex Poole for earning a music scholarship at Missouri State University!
2021 State Solo and Ensemble Festival
Alex Poole - Gold
Sammi McNealy - Gold
Congratulations to Alex Poole and Sammi McNealy for placing in the 2020-2021 Honorable Mention Missouri-All-State Band!
Congratulations to Sammi McNealy for earning 4th chair clarinet in the 2020-2021 Northeast District Concert Band!
Congratulations to Alex Poole for earning 2nd chair clarinet in the 2020-2021 East Central All-District Concert Band!
Congratulations to Tara Schnelting for earning a music scholarship at Missouri State University!
Congratulations to George Harms for making it into the music program at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville!
2020 Solo and Ensemble Festival
Mitchell Harms - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Lauryn Wells - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Elisabeth Farrel - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Vasilya Kadymova - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Sammi McNealy - "Exemplary" 1 rating
George Harms - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Clarinet quartet (Adeja Smith, Mackenzie Kelley, Lauren Tremusini, and Nikki Prodes) - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Lauren Tremusini - "Outstanding" 2 rating
Chris Koogler - "Outstanding" 2 rating
Mia Peters - "Outstanding" 2 rating
Kailah Crawford - "Outstanding" 2 rating
Emily Goebel -"Satisfactory" 3 rating
Thomas Griswold - "Satisfactory" 3 rating
Congratulations to Nick Broy for earning a 1 - "exemplary" rating at his solo and ensemble festival!
Congratulations to Alex Poole and Tara Schnelting for earning 1st and 2nd chair clarinet in their conference band!
Congratulations to Alex Poole for earning 8th chair clarinet in the 2019-2020 Missouri All-State Band!
Congratulations to the following students for placing into the 2019-2020 Missouri All-State Honorable Mention Band:
Tara Schnelting
Sammi McNealy
Congratulations to Sammi McNealy for making it into the Northeast Missouri District Honors Band!
Congratulations to Nick Broy for making it into the Metro 8 Middle School Honors Band!
Congratulations to Alex Poole for earning 2nd chair clarinet in the East Central District Honors Band!
Congratulations to Tara Schnelting for earning 1st chair clarinet in the Central District Honors Band!
Congratulations to Nick Broy for earning 1st chair clarinet in Junior Winds!
Congratulations to George Harms for earning the principal clarinet position in the 2019 St. Charles County Youth Orchestra!
Congratulations to Meghan Brown for receiving a music scholarship to attend Mizzou in the fall of 2019!
2019 State Solo & Ensemble Festival
Meghan Brown - Gold
Sammi McNealy - Gold
Hazel Shipley - Gold
Amber Matronia - Gold
Elisabeth Farrel -Gold
Victor Stoddard - Gold
Tara Schnelting - Silver
Alex Poole - Silver
Melisa Grabic - Silver
George Harms - Silver
Mehlville High School Quartet (Victor Stoddard, Lauren Tremusini, Adeja Smith, Alyssa Bradley) - Silver
2019 Middle School Solo and Ensemble Festival
Sophie Herman - "Exemplary " 1 rating
Grace Dietrich - "Exemplary " 1 rating
Washington Middle School Trio (Chole Furman, Stefanie Wong, and Hannah Johnson) - "Exemplary " 1 rating
Yvonna Bond - "Outstanding" 2 rating
Washington Middle School Duet (Grace Brindley and Andrew Klein) - "Outstanding" 2 rating
Congratulations to Sammi McNealy for being selected to participate in the Saint Louis Wind Symphony Youth Ensemble!
2019 Solo and Ensemble Festival
Lauryn Wells - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Victor Stoddard - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Elisabeth Farrel - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Meghan Brown - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Sammi McNealy - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Hazel Shipley - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Melisa Grabic - "Exemplary" 1 rating
George Harms - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Alex Poole - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Mehlville High School Quartet (Victor Stoddard, Lauren Tremusini, Adeja Smith, Alyssa Bradley) - "Exemplary" 1 rating
Mia Peters - "Outstanding" 2 rating
Ben Noonan - "Outstanding" 2 rating
Lauren Tremusini - "Outstanding" 2 rating
Thomas Griswold - "Satisfactory" 3 rating
Matthew Chenot - "Satisfactory" 3 rating
2018 East Central District Honors Band
Meghan Brown
Sammi McNealy
Alex Poole
2018 St. Louis Metro District 8 Middle School Honors Band
Mitchell Harms
2018-2019 St. Louis All-Suburban Middle School Honors Band
Sophie Herman
Grace Dietrich
Emma Farrel
Congratulations to the following seniors for receiving university music scholarships:
Anna Manzelli - Truman State University
Emily Foy - Lindenwood University
Erich Eastman - Missouri State University
2018 State Solo and Ensemble Festival
Silver - Victor Stoddard
Silver - Anna Manzelli
Silver - Hazel Shipley
Sivler - Lara Wibbenmeyer
Silver - Fox High School Clarinet Quartet (Hazel Shipley, Cece Bloethner, Lilly Cole, Lara Wibbenmeyer)
2018 High School Solo and Ensemble Festival
1-rating "exemplary" - Victor Stoddard
1-rating "exemplary" - Anna Manzelli
1-rating "exemplary" - Lara Wibbenmeyer
1-rating "exemplary" - Hazel Shipley
1-rating "exemplary" - Fox High School Clarinet Quartet (Hazel Shipley, Cece Bloethner, Lilly Cole, Lara Wibbenmeyer)
2-rating "outstanding" - Alex Poole
2-rating "outstanding" - Lauren Tremusini
2-rating "outstanding" - Elisabeth Farrel
2-rating "outstanding" - Thomas Griswold
2-rating "outstanding" - Emily Foy
2-rating "outstanding" - Parkway West High School Clarinet Quartet (Emily Foy, Thomas Griswold, Hailey, Madalynn Pasture)
2-rating "outstanding" - Fox High School Clarinet Quartet (George Harms, Kylie Wheeler, Joe Applebaum, Melisa Grabic)
2018 Middle School Solo and Ensemble Festival
1-rating "exemplary" - Binta Fall
2-rating "outstanding" - Yvonna Bond
2-rating "outstanding" - Sophie Herman
2-rating "outstanding" - Mia Peters
2017 East Central District Honors Band
Anna Manzelli
Hazel Shipley
Melisa Grabic
George Harms
Alex Poole
2017-2018 St. Louis All-Suburban Middle School Honors Band
Emilee Goebel
Amber Depke
2017 State Solo and Ensemble Festival
1-rating “exemplary” – Evie Ince
1-rating “exemplary” – Elisabeth Farrel
2-rating “outstanding” – Melisa Grabic
2-rating “outstanding” – Hazel Shipley
2-rating “outstanding” – Anna Manzelli
2-rating “outstanding” – Fox Clarinet Quartet – Joe Applebaum, CeCe Bloethner, Kylie Wheeler, and Amber White
Congratulations to the following seniors for receiving university music scholarships:
Adam Salman - McKendree University
Nathaniel Brand – University of Kentucky-Lexington
Sarah Schryver – Concordia University
Middle School Solo and Ensemble 2017
1-rating “superior” – Lauren Tremusini
1-rating “superior” – Kayla Jones
1-rating “superior” – clarinet duet (Buerkle Middle) – Binta Fall and Emily Vassolo
1-rating “superior” – clarinet duet (Buerkle Middle) – Lauren Tremusini and Makenzie Kelley
1-rating “superior” – clarinet duet (Buerkle Middle) – Kayla Jones and Estefania Flores
2-rating “excellent” – Kailah Crawford
2-rating “excellent” – Logan Mitchell
2-rating “excellent” – clarinet quartet (Buerkle Middle) – Johnathan Vazquez, Christopher Koogler, Jackson Fendler, and Logan Mitchell
2-rating “excellent” – clarinet/flute duet (Washington Middle School) – Paige Heitmann and Mia Peters
2-rating “excellent” – woodwind trio (Washington Middle School) – Liah Kahn, Mia Peters, and Brendan Johnson
High School Solo and Ensemble 2017
1-rating "superior" - Evie Ince
1-rating “superior” – Elisabeth Farrel
1-rating “superior” – Anna Manzelli
1-rating “superior” – Melisa Grabic
1-rating “superior” – Hazel Shipley
1-rating “superior” – Fox Clarinet Quartet – Cece Bloethner, Joe Applebaum, Kylee Wheeler, and Amber White
2-rating “excellent” – Sarah Schryver
2-rating “excellent” – Victor Stoddard
2-rating “excellent” – Adam Salman
2-rating “excellent” - Matthew Chenot
2-rating “excellent” – George Harms
2-rating “excellent” – Lara Wibbenmeyer
2-rating “excellent” – Emily Foy
2-rating “excellent” – Allison Worth
2-rating “excellent” – Lauryn Wells
2-rating “excellent” – Parkway West Clarinet Trio – Emily Foy, Kaitlin Taylor, and Allison Worth
2-rating “excellent” – Mehlville High School Clarinet Quartet – Adam Salman, Victor Stoddard, Elisabeth Farrel, and Nathaniel Brand
2-rating “excellent” – Mehlville High School Mixed Woodwind Quartet – Adam Salman, Alex Koelz, William Ho, and Selma Skokic
2016 East Central District Honors Band
Hazel Shipley
Melissa Grabic
2016-2017 St. Louis All-Suburban Middle School Honors Band
Estefania Flores
Kayla Jones
Lauren Tremusini
Kailah Crawford
Logan Mitchell
2016 - Congratulations to Katie Stotler for receiving a marching band scholarship to Southeast Missouri State University!
2016 State Solo and Ensemble Festival
1-rating "superior" - Crystal Luo
1-rating "superior" - Brittany Huck
2-rating "excellent" - Fox High School clarinet trio- Brittany Huck, Joey Brown, and Joe Applebaum
2-rating "excellent" - Mehlville High School Clarinet Quartet - Katie McCaffrey, Katie Williams, Adam Salman, and Victor Stoddard
2016 Solo and Ensemble Festival
High School
1-rating "superior" - Mehlville High School Clarinet Quartet - Katie McCaffrey, Katie Williams, Adam Salman, and Victor Stoddard
1-rating "superior" - Parkway West High School Clarinet Quartet - Crystal Luo, Julie Whitten, Emily Foy, Allison Worth
1-rating "superior" - Crystal Luo
1-rating "superior" - Fox High School Clarinet Trio - Brittany Huck, Joe Applebaum, and Joey Brown
1-rating "superior" - Brittany Huck
2-rating "excellent" - Adam Salman
2-rating "excellent" - Mehlville Woodwind Trio - Katie McCaffrey, Katie Stotler, and Eden Lamb
2016 Solo and Ensemble Festival
Middle School
1-rating "superior" - Elisabeth Farrel
1-rating "superior" -Amina Mujakovic
1-rating "superior" - Lauren Tremusini
1-rating "superior" - Estefania Flores
1-rating "superior" - Kayla Jones
1-rating "superior" - Buerkle Middle School Clarinet Trio - Nikki Prodes, Mackenzie Kelley, and Lauren Tremusini
1-rating "superior" - Buerkle Middle School Clarinet Trio - Estefania Flores, Kayla Jones, and Amila Sefic
1-rating "superior" Buerkle Middle School Flute/Clarinet Duet - Elisabeth Farrel and Maya Tunstall
1-rating "superior" - Washington Middle School Flute/Clarinet Duet - Rachelle Hall and Valerie
1-rating "superior" - Washington Middle School Woodwind Trio - Auston, Brendan, and Morgan
1-rating "superior" - Isabel Lopez
1-rating "superior" - Skylar Winkle
1-rating "superior" - Carissa Hurd
2-rating "excellent" - Kailah Crawford
2-rating "excellent" - Nikki Prodes
2-rating "excellent" - Buerkle Middle School Woodwind Trio - Kailah Crawford, Kate Faulkner, and Lilly Tremusini
2-rating "excellent" - Washington Middle School Flute/Clarinet Duet - Isabel Lopez and Marisa
2-rating "excellent" - Washington Middle School Flute/Clarinet Duet - Skylar Winkle and Mackenzie Pople
2015-2016 St. Louis All-Suburban High School Honors Band
Crystal Luo
2015 East Central District Honors Band
Brittany Huck
2015-2016 St. Louis All-Suburban Middle School Honors Band
Amina Mujakovic
Elisabeth Farrel
Lauren Tremusini
Mackenzie Kelley
Nikki Prodes
Kayla Jones
2015 Solo and Ensemble Festival
1-rating "Superior" - Elisabeth Farrel
1-rating "Superior" - Buerkle Middle School Clarinet Duet - Elisabeth Farrel and Mia Hill
2-rating "Excellent - Victor Stoddard
2-rating "Excellent - Mia Hill