Essex High School senior band student Hailey Messier was selected as one of Vermont's 2025 Presidential Scholars in the Arts. Students are chosen for demonstrating artistic excellence and a commitment to the arts.
Hailey will be featured as a senior soloist on piano with the Vermont Youth Orchestra in a performance at the Double E Performance Center on Sunday, February 2, 2025.
Additionally, at the December auditions for the New England Music Festival, adjudicators were tasked with nominating only one truly outstanding student performance from all the auditions they heard. Hailey Messier received this honor and was chosen to perform in the festival's solo concert: on Friday, March 14th in Middletown, CT. https://www.nemfa.org/