Roberts sings to new levels
On June 27, Aron Roberts (’11) will be singing on one of the biggest musical stages in the country.
Roberts will perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City on June 27, 2010 in a youth choir with other high school kids from all over the country and Canada. The choir will be singing three classical songs, two musical pieces, one song from the Lion King, and one contemporary song.
Roberts was nominated by music teacher, Aimee Mell, and worked with his voice teacher Vicky Melton to make an audition tape. Roberts sang “The Turtle Dove” for his audition tape. Mell nominated Roberts because he is a natural talent who works really hard and has an innate understanding of music. Because Mell is unable to do extensive trips with her students, she is trying to find other ways for them to get these memorable experiences.
“I nominated him because he is an exceptional musician, and it’s every musician’s aspiration to sing in Carnegie Hall. It’s one of those defining experiences for a musician,” Mell said.
“This experience has really opened my eyes in terms of the choral world and all the opportunities that it holds,” Roberts said.
Roberts started singing in eighth grade when he joined his school choir. Roberts is also in the Tacoma Youth Choir who practices once a week and then has ten to fifteen performances per year. Roberts also gets voice lessons once a week. He started choir in eighth grade because he really liked the idea of all the different parts of the choir working together as one.
“Sometimes, I have a fire within me that I cannot express or get out in another way than singing,” Roberts said.
The performers will arrive in New York on June 23 and rehearse with the choir for five days and then perform on June 27. The performers will also get the opportunity to tour Juilliard School, the top performing arts school in the country and to watch either “The Lion King” or “The Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway.
“I think that the whole experience will be great because some artist wait their whole lives to perform at Carnegie Hall, and I get the chance to perform at 1s7,” Roberts said.
Roberts says that he definitely wants to continue performing after high school. He would also like to sing professionally, but he does not know if he will.
