Analiese Helms will perform a senior recital, accompanied by Judie Meulink, at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Black Box Theatre at the Warsaw Community High School Performing Arts Center. The public is invited. Several genres of music will be performed. Helms is completing her senior year at WCHS, where she is concertmaster of the advanced orchestra, sings with the Select Chorale and is very active in the theater department. She was Aunt Em last year in “The Wizard of Oz” and Sister Berthe this year in “The Sound of Music.” Helms has been selected from auditions to perform with the Indiana All-State Orchestra for the past three years and this year was principal second violin, according to a provided press release. Last Saturday, she performed her final concert with the Symphony of the Lakes before going to Taylor University to study music education. Currently, Helms is a member of the Fort Wayne Youth Symphony, playing her violin. Its final performance will be May 15 in the amphitheater at Franke Park, Fort Wayne. The concert is free and begins at 3 p.m. There are seven young people from Warsaw that perform with the Fort Wayne Youth Symphony, the release states. Helms will sing a solo from “The Lord of the Rings” and David Zoschnick from Warsaw will play a concerto on his oboe. Helms has competed in Indiana State Schools Music Association solo and ensemble contests for the past four years, earning gold ratings at regional and state levels for flute, violin and viola. This year, she led a string trio in receiving the first gold for a string ensemble for WCHS. The WCHS Orchestra program is only four years old. She began the first all-string band to compete in the Battle of the Bands at the high school three years ago. This year, the band Obliviarus Totalum was the winner. Helms has been part of the MasterWorks Festival for the past three years. Helms is active in the community by playing her instruments at local nursing homes and in her church. She enjoys showing llamas through 4 H and singing. She loves making a “joyful noise unto the Lord,” according to the release.
