Seattle Lutheran HS student wins state music competition

State championships aren’t just about sports and academics – there are the arts, too! Congratulations to Seattle Lutheran High School senior Mitchell Siburg, an SLHS Jazz Band member who won first place in the guitar category at the recent 2009 Washington State Solo and Ensemble Contest (full list of statewide winners here), sponsored by the Washington Music Educators Association, held on the campus of Central Washington University. To get to the statewide competition, he had to win the regionals here in Seattle; Bil Hood at SLHS says Mitchell “performed a modern composition in the classical genre titled ‘Sadaude,’ by Roland Dyens, an unaccompanied work in three movements. … Mitchell will attend Buffalo University in New York next year, majoring in music, and hopes to enter a career in performing arts.” (School/student news? editor@westseattleblog.com any time!)

Jon May 5, 2009 (10:41 am)

Way to go, Mitchell. And good for Seattle Lutheran. On that note (pun intended):

As one of the few native Buffalonians in West Seattle (I can’t be the only one?), I would like to respectfully add that the official name of the school Mitchell will be attending is the University at Buffalo. It’s called that because it is part of the State University of New York system. Each school in the system is technically known as the State University of New York at” whatever. Short version is SUNY Buffalo.

Just sayin’!

WSMom May 5, 2009 (11:06 am)

After listening to him play at my daughters fundraiser last February, I’m not surprised he won the State competition! Congratulations Mitchell! Very well deserved! Good luck at SUNY Buffalo!

Suzanne May 5, 2009 (1:00 pm)

Congratulations Mitchell- what an honor! And have fun in Buffalo.

Jon, thanks for the correction since I was thinking the same thing. You are not the only native Buffalonian in West Seattle – although technically, I’m from Tonawanda.