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For the third time in four years – and the sixth time overall – Lemont High School’s Honors Symphonic Band has been selected to participate in the state’s premier band festival. Led by Ben Clemons, Lemont will perform at the 2025 University of Illinois SuperState Concert Band Festival on Saturday, May 10. The event will take place at Foellinger Great Hall in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The Illinois SuperState Concert Band Festival amounts to the state championship for concert bands. Lemont, which previously participated in this event in 2001, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2024, is scheduled to perform at 3:30 p.m. on May 10.
Bands from across the state applied to be part of this year’s event by submitting a performance tape over the winter. Lemont’s Honors Symphonic Band is one of just six Class 1A bands that has been invited to participate. It will be joined in Class 1A by bands from Marian Catholic High School, Morton High School, Normal West High School, Tinley Park High School, and Triad High School.
Lemont’s Honors Symphonic Band includes seniors Samuel Ahlberg, Gioia Antonaci Gomez, Lauren Ascolani, Nick Bielanski, Julianna Duran, Andrew Kincaid, Evan Lambe, Matthew Manalo, John O’Malley, Thomas O’Malley, Jameson Porritt, Andrew Rafacz, Leonardo Rafacz, Kaylee Sojka, Nicholas Splitt, Nora Thornber and Owen Zogby; juniors Eve Cosenza, Lily Crowther, Jacob DePirro, Carson Fischer, Kelsey Gottardo, Reagan McManus, Taliana O’Connor, Luke Rupert and Elizabeth Staubus; sophomores Emily Bawiec, Jacob Emini, Emmett Farrell, Gianna Gumina, Michael Kowalewicz, Edvin Morochin, Victor Rafacz and Eli Zogby; and freshmen Natalie Rupert, Lyla Smith and Olivia Sulkowski.