Butler, Kinnelon Students Honored For Outstanding Musical Talent

Students from Butler and Kinnelon were among those honored by the Mayo Performing Arts Center as a November Music Student Of The Month for being outstanding brass players.

Madison Malone, an eighth grader at Richard Butler School, and Mitchell Polevoy and Peter Davin, both seniors at Kinnelon High, were honored on stage before the Nov. 26 concert at Mayo PAC. All the students were nominated by their teachers and chosen by Mayo PAC's education department. At the end of the year, all honored students will be invited to perform in a recital.

Here is what Ryan Stroud had to say about Davin:

Peter has been in both North Jersey Area Band and Region 1 Band since his Freshman year in High School. His work ethic and dedication to playing his instrument is really second to none. He's constantly practicing and looking for ways to improve. His talent isn't limited to just the horn, either. He's a very good flute player and vocalists as well. Peter has always brought an exceptional attitude to the classroom every day, and his efforts in class are greatly appreciated by his teachers and peers. He will be missed when he moves on to college, but we know music will always hold an important part in his life!

Here is what Stroud had to say about Polevoy:

Mitchell has been in the North Jersey Area Band and Region I Band since his Freshman year. Mitch studies privately on trombone and is an excellent player who's been first chair since he came into Kinnelon High School. Mitch is also a multi-instrumentalist, excelling on keyboards and drums as well as having a keen ear for recording and composting his own music. Mitch is currently also enrolled in Kinnelon's AP Music Theory class, and we're lucky to witness his creativity and good sense of humor on a daily basis.

Here is what Lyn Lowndes had to say about Malone:

Madison is in the eighth grade at the Richard Butler School and has played the trumpet for the last for years in our concert band and been in the jazz band for the last two. Madison has grown as a musician, and has matured into a nice young adult.

FIRST ROW Madison Malone Grade 8, Richard Butler School; Butler; Josh Freiheiter Grade 8, Randolph Middle School; Randolph; Jacob Jennings Grade 8, John Hill School; Boonton; Nathan Lee Grade 7, Brooklawn Middle School; Parsippany; Sydney Pappas Grade 8, Black River Middle School; Chester; Emma McDonald Grade 12, Roxbury High School; Roxbury; SECOND ROW Daniel MillsGrade 12, Mendham High School; Mendham; Andrew Lie Grade 12, Parsippany High School; Parsippany; Ryan Parichuk Grade 8, Mount Olive Middle School; Chester; Alex Yip Grade 10, Morristown High School; Morristown; THIRD ROW Aaron Caso Grade 8, Rockaway Valley School; Boonton Township; Patrick Rooney Grade 8, Mountain View School; Mendham; Mitchell Polevoy Grade 12, Kinnelon High School; Kinnelon