Lynn students to participate in music festival

LYNN – Three Lynn Public School music students have been accepted to participate in the 2008 Northeastern District Senior Festival.Lynn Classical students Dimitrios Pelekoudas and Deborah Pierre and Lynn English student Jason Diamond competed against 1,800 other students from across the state for 150 spots at the festival. They will now compete for a chair in the Allstate Chorus, which will perform at Boston Symphony Hall early next year.Through a partnership with the Handel and Hayden Society, both high schools were also selected to perform Mozart’s Mass in G with the H&H full period orchestra along with the Brockton High School Choir in Brockton on Feb. 14, 2008.Pierre has been awarded a vocal scholarship for the past five years at New England Conservatory due to the partnership of the Fine Arts Department, and is also an active member of the Lynn Schools String Ensemble.The three students are performing under the tutelage of Classical music teacher Michael Smith, English music teacher Lianne Goodwin and Supervisor of Fine Arts Joseph Picano.