{"id":3951,"date":"2016-04-05T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2016-04-05T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T15:35:06","slug":"three-district-students-named-top-10-artists-of-the-year-finalists-in-instrumental-and-vocal-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3951","title":{"rendered":"Three district students named Top 10 &#8220;Artists of the Year&#8221; finalists in instrumental and vocal music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Esperanza High School senior Dorian Apitz, and Valencia High School seniors Alex Flavell and Kyle Gabriel for being selected by the <em>Orange County Register<\/em> as a Top 10 &#8220;Artist of the Year&#8221; finalist!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dorian Apitz<\/strong> (instrumental music)<br \/>\nEsperanza High School<br \/>\nInstrument: saxophone<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alexander Flavell<\/strong> (instrumental music)<br \/>\nValencia High School<br \/>\nInstrument: piano<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kyle Gabriel<\/strong> (vocal music)<br \/>\nValencia High School<br \/>\nVocal style: classical\/opera<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Initially, 51 students were nominated in instrumental music, and 60 students were nominated in vocal music. In profiling the artists, the newspaper included quotes from them that refer to their artistic aspirations and submitted works.<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental musicians include those who perform in classical groups (orchestras, concert bands and chamber groups), marching bands, jazz ensembles and combos, and contemporary groups (pop, rock, folk, etc.). Vocal musicians include those who perform in the styles of classical, jazz, Broadway, contemporary and pop\/rock.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/music-710522-school-high.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the article, and congratulate Dorian, Alex and Kyle when you see them. Go Aztecs and Tigers!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3952\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/oc-artist-esperanza-dorian-apitz.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3952\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3952\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3952\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/oc-artist-esperanza-dorian-apitz-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"2016 Artist of the Year Top 10, Instrumental Music: Dorian Apitz, Esperanza High School. \u00a9 LEONARD ORTIZ, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/oc-artist-esperanza-dorian-apitz-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/oc-artist-esperanza-dorian-apitz.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2016 Artist of the Year Top 10, Instrumental Music: Dorian Apitz, Esperanza High School.<br \/>\u00a9 LEONARD ORTIZ, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3954\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/oc-artist-valencia-kyle-gabriel.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3954\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3954\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3954\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/oc-artist-valencia-kyle-gabriel-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"2016 Artist of the Year Top 10, Vocal Music: Kyle Gabriel, Valencia High School. \u00a9 LEONARD ORTIZ, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/oc-artist-valencia-kyle-gabriel-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/oc-artist-valencia-kyle-gabriel.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2016 Artist of the Year Top 10, Vocal Music: Kyle Gabriel, Valencia High School.<br \/>\u00a9 LEONARD ORTIZ, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Esperanza High School senior Dorian Apitz, and Valencia High School seniors Alex Flavell and Kyle Gabriel for being selected by the Orange County&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177,15],"tags":[146,13],"class_list":["post-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","category-school-district","tag-esperanza-high-school","tag-valencia-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}