The Crisp County School System is excited to share outstanding news for one of it's Crisp County High School students.
10th-grade Contrabass Clarinet student, Ja'Kiyah Jones, has earned a coveted spot in the Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA) All-State Honor Band. This is one of the highest honors a high school musician can receive.
What makes this accomplishment so remarkable is that Ja'Kiyah is the first contrabass clarinetist in the history of the CCHS band program to achieve this honor.
According to Band Director Dominique Lane, it's been nearly a decade since a student from CCHS has earned this all-state recognition.
"Out of the entire state of Georgia, only two students were selected on the contrabass clarinet, and Ja’Kiyah is one of them! To earn this honor, she demonstrated elite musicianship by mastering required scales, performing both lyrical and technical etudes, and successfully sight-reading music she had never seen before—all under pressure during the audition process," Lane said. "We are beyond proud of Ja’Kiyah."
Ja'Kiyah will represent CCHS and the school district at the GMEA All-State Honor Band event, March 5–7, at the Classic Center in Athens, GA.
Congratulations!