Parsippany Middle School Student Honored For Performing Arts Prowess

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Joseph Wentworth is making his talent known, and he’s only an eighth grade student.

The Brooklawn Middle School student has been named with 11 others as the Mayo Performing Arts Center’s Music Students Of The Month for April.

Wentworth was nominated by his teacher, Joseph Stella, who said:

Joseph is a great musician and wonderful band student. He is not only a talented trombonist in the Brooklawn Middle School 8th grade concert band and jazz band, but is a talented percussionist as well. This year he will be playing the drum set part for the BMS musical production of Grease. Outside of school, he was recently accepted by audition as the 1st chair trombonist for the North Jersey Junior Region Intermediate Band and Junior Region Orchestra. He has also been active in music during the summer months for several years attending the Mount Tabor Summer Music Camp in Parsippany.

The group of honorees was recognized onstage at the performing arts center in Morristown on April 7.

Pictured: Front row, from left: Noelia Carrasco, Grade 7, Copeland Middle School, Rockaway; Zachary Catron, Grade 12, West Morris Mendham High School, Mendham; Lucas Harvey, Grade 7, Mount Olive Middle School, Budd Lake; Sheryl Peng, Grade 7, Mount Arlington Public School, Mount Arlington; Mary Prachthauser, Grade 11, Morristown High School, Morristown. Back row: Karel Raska, Grade 12, Morristown High School, Morristown; Drew Sabo, Grade 12, Kinnelon High School, Kinnelon; Joseph Wentworth Grade 8, Brooklawn Middle School, Parsippany; Jacqueline & Josephine Wu, Grade 8, Randolph Middle School, Randolph. Not pictured: Taylor Hine, Elisabeth Sauerman. Photo Courtesy Mayo PAC.