Helena Hu is a student at Marshall Fundamental Secondary School. She is a part of her school's Honors Chamber Choir and participates in a choir outside of school. Her first introduction to music was the piano, as she still enjoys playing it today. Music has been a large part of Helena's life and she hopes to cherish it forever. Helena is excited and thrilled to be sharing her composed songs!

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Kassidy Knight grew up in Southern California playing the violin and singing constantly. She began composing songs as at age eleven. During the pandemic, Kassidy focused on playing the guitar and writing music while attending an independent study program at home. For her senior year, Kassidy joined the Pasadena Waldorf High School. Being immersed in music and world culture was an awakening for Kassidy who performed at the school’s March variety show with an original song called “Ivory Chess Piece.” Next, she wrote and, along with her classmates, performed an instrumental titled “Careful Hands” at the school’s spring concert. Tonight Kassidy presents her original work “The Devil Waits for Me” along with an arrangement of “Elk Herds.” Kassidy will attend Bryn Mawr College this fall with plans to major in music and psychology.

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Maya Proulx has been performing since studying piano and viola at four years old. She sang with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus and with the All Saints Children’s Choir as she trained vocally in classical and jazz styles. Proulx attends high school at California School of the Arts – Duarte. A versatile artist, Proulx studied creative writing, picked up classical guitar sophomore year and now plays in the CSArts jazz band as both guitarist and lead singer. She was recently named a 2024 YoungArts winner with distinction in VOICE, JAZZ the highest honor of the organization.

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Marcus Thiessen is in tenth grade at Pasadena High School. He has played bass for two years and violin for seven years. Marcus has composed music for orchestra, and this is his first time writing for choir.

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Ian To, a freshman moving on sophomore in high school, exists as a performer and composer of the performing arts. A musician at heart he loves, is to perform and send music to everyone that may, though small or large it may be. He has spent many years of his life studying the art of music, moving through section and section to learn the little intricacies of each, and has landed to the understanding of the works of music, and sets to prove the point of music as an expression available to any in the house or streets.