{"id":150887,"date":"2022-02-02T04:40:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T09:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=150887"},"modified":"2022-02-02T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T09:41:08","slug":"sroufe-to-perform-with-all-state-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/02\/02\/sroufe-to-perform-with-all-state-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Sroufe to perform with All-State Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent staff and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evan Sroufe, a senior percussionist at Van Wert High School, has been selected to perform in Cleveland on Friday, February 4, as a member of the 2022 Ohio Music Education Association\u2019s All-State Band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evan Stroufe has been selected as a member of the 2022 Ohio Music Education Association\u2019s All-State Band. Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Earning a spot in the OMEA All-State Band is a tremendous honor and Sroufe is only the ninth band student in the history of the school to experience it. He is also the only WBL student who was selected to participate in this year\u2019s band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert High School band director Bob Sloan approached Sroufe in the spring of 2021 and encouraged him to audition. Sroufe recorded five pieces and submitted them for consideration in May. Sloan received Sroufe\u2019s acceptance letter on August 31 and they have been working together with Dane Newlove, a private instructor, to prepare for the upcoming concert since the music arrived in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s crazy that I was able to do this,\u201d Sroufe said. \u201cI do band for fun, I work hard at it, but it\u2019s something I enjoy. To achieve something like this just seems crazy when I\u2019m having fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was hard to find a challenge for him,\u201d Sloan said. \u201cTina [Decker] and I would look at each other and she\u2019d just shake her head. Everything we tried to teach him, he picked it up so easily.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis band is the cream of the crop in the state of Ohio. You don\u2019t get there by just \u2018having fun\u2019. Hard work beats talent, but when talent works hard, then you have something that\u2019s really special.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The 2022 OMEA All-State Band is made up of 75 students from the state of Ohio, only nine of which are percussionists, and will be conducted by the U.S. Marine Band\u2019s Assistant Director, Major Ryan Nowlin. The band is slated to perform six pieces for the OMEA\u2019s annual conference at the Huntington Convention Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concert is a highlight of the educators\u2019 event, taking place in the Grand Ballroom on Friday night. There are five All-State groups performing: band, jazz, orchestra, choir, and a children\u2019s choir. The event is open to the public and Sloan predicts that numbers may be smaller than usual due to the pandemic, but a typical year may see over three thousand attendees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evan is the son of Rod and Tonya Sroufe. His father is a trained musician so much of Evan\u2019s life has been exposed to music, having grown up going to concerts and other music events. He has been playing the piano for 11 years. Evan is an active member of the VWHS marching band, concert band, pep band, District Honors Band, and participates solo and ensemble. He also plays in the St. Marys Community Band and has performed with several church bands throughout Van Wert. Evan is a member of St. Mark\u2019s Lutheran Church and a part of the production team at LifeHouse Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He actively participates in National Honor Society, Beta Club, and the spring musical at VWHS. He is an honor roll student, an Academic Award winner, Good Attitude Luncheon recipient, and was awarded Scholar Athlete and the Jim Howell award for the high school cross country team. Evan works at Sycamore of Van Wert and also coaches Bitty Ballers at the local YMCA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight others from VWHS have earned a place in the OMEA All-State Band prior to Sroufe: Jerry Thatcher (1992), Tayah Brown (2000), Jennifer Feasby (2005), Kristen Hoverman (2006), Leah Thompson (2007), Chase Carter (2009), Tim Hoverman (2009), and Daniel Thompson (2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent staff and submitted information Evan Sroufe, a senior percussionist at Van Wert High School, has been selected to perform in Cleveland on Friday, February 4, as a member of the 2022 Ohio Music Education Association\u2019s All-State Band. Earning a spot in the OMEA All-State Band is a tremendous honor and Sroufe is only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 18:50:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}