By The Hawk Staff
Twelve Hanover High School musicians earned accolades at the MMEA Southeastern District auditions at King Philip High School in Wrentham on Nov. 22. These students will perform at the 2025-2026 Southeastern District Senior Festival at New Bedford High School on Jan. 9-10. Seven of the 12 were recommended for All-States.
Several students who auditioned had key roles in the HHS school musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which ran Nov. 20-22. This meant that they performed in the musical Thursday and Friday nights, auditioned for Districts during the day Saturday, and then performed closing night of the play on Saturday night.
For Orchestra, Henrik Consilvio and Shirley Mancini, both sophomores, were recognized for violin. Senior Aine Scanlan earned honors for oboe. In Concert Band, judges honored junior Maria-Rita Silva for flute, sophomore Rory Toyoshima for alto saxophone, junior Rory O’Connor for trumpet, and junior Ronan Blum for trombone. For Treble Chorus, juniors Avery Porro and Emma Louko were recognized as altos. Earning honors in Mixed Chorus were junior Sophie Frattasio as an alto, sophomore Anna Dillon as a soprano, and junior Sam Frattasio as a bass.
The seven students recommended for All-States were Consilvio, Mancini, Scanlan, Silva, Blum, Porro and Dillon. They will audition for those ensembles in January alongside the top music students from the five districts of Massachusetts. If accepted at that audition, they will perform with students from across the state at the MMEA All-State Festival in March.
The Massachusetts Music Educators Association is a statewide organization dedicated to supporting quality music programs and instruction
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This is amazing! its wonderful to see the recognition of so many talented auditionees.
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Congratulations to all students who had success this past weekend at MMEA Southeastern District auditions. Hanover has such talented musicians and it’s heartening to see them getting the proper recognition for their skill. I wish everyone luck with their audition results and hope that Hanover can represent at the All-State Festival in March!! Great job!
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Congrats to everyone who made it in! We have such a talented music department and it really shows the hard work and dedication people put in and everyone truly deserves this recognition.
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Great Job everyone!
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Congratulations everyone. All the hard work payed off. You guys are incredible. Good Luck on All States and the festival. You are all going to do wonderful. Fantastic work!
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So proud of everyone!! We have such a great music department and insanely talented people who make it up. I’m so proud of all of the work that everybody put in — putting on a play and auditioning for districts all in the same weekend is insane! Congrats to everyone, and good luck to those recommended for All-States! You got this!
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