LHS students selected for All-State Choir, Orchestra

Eight Lennox High School students have been selected to participate in the 2026 South Dakota All-State Choir following auditions involving 23 Lennox students.

Those selected for the All-State Choir are Maddigan Van Sickle, Ariana Poppens, Olivia Homan, Alaina Klenner, Isaiah Sayler, Carter Beringer, Isaak Booker and Duncan Johnson. Students selected as alternates are Lily Kezar, Carly Adney, Triston Sturm and Leo Aesoph.

In addition to the choir selections, two LHS students were selected for the 2026 South Dakota All-State Orchestra. 

Emma Snyder and Wyatt Crichton (pictured at right) earned spots in the orchestra after more than 10 Lennox students auditioned.

The All-State Chorus and Orchestra Concert will be held Saturday, Oct. 31, at 7 p.m. Mountain Time at Summit Arena at The Monument in Rapid City. The concert will also be broadcast on South Dakota Public Broadcasting.

Morgan Luttig of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will serve as the All-State Chorus guest conductor. Jennifer Drake of Boise, Idaho, will conduct the All-State Orchestra.

The chorus program will include “Ascribe to the Lord” by Rosephanye Powell, “Jubilate Deo” by Peter Angelea, “Holding the Light” by B.E. Boykin, “I Shall Not Live in Vain” by Patrick Vu and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” The orchestra will perform “Danse Macabre” by Camille Saint-Saëns, “Pas de Deux” from “The Nutcracker” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and “Petite Suite de Concert” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The combined chorus and orchestra will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “I Dream a World” by Rosephanye Powell and “Confutatis & Lacrymosa” from Mozart’s “Requiem.”