Students throughout Lampeter-Strasburg School District have received recognition for their musical achievements.

At Lampeter-Strasburg High School, nine students advanced to the eight-county Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) District 7 Choral Festival. They will join others from Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, and York counties for the festival at Solanco High School on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 13 and 14, 2023. The festival will be guest conducted by Robert Bigley from Lancaster Bible College and will conclude with a public concert at 5 p.m. Tickets will be available to purchase at the door. The students selected for District Chorus are Lana Dyer, Tanner Emmerling, Aiden Flory, Pearce Flory, Josh Heisey, Katherine Helm, Kole Lawrence, Ellie Rhinier, and Noah Sanderson.

The district winners were among a dozen Lampeter-Strasburg High School students who successfully auditioned for this year's Lancaster-Lebanon Music Educators Association (LLMEA) County Chorus; these winners included James Appelgrijn, Jeimy Elvira-Paredes, and Maria Glick. The 2022-23 LLMEA County Chorus Festival will be co-hosted by Lancaster Mennonite School and Conestoga Valley High School on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. The festival will be guest conducted by Edryn Coleman and will conclude with a public concert at 5:30 p.m. in the High Fine Arts Center at Lancaster Mennonite High School, 2176 Lincoln Highway East. There is a cash fee for tickets, which will be sold in the lobby starting at 4:30 p.m.

Nine Martin Meylin Middle School students successfully auditioned for spots in the LLMEA County Orchestra and participated in the corresponding festival on Nov. 19 at Palmyra Area Middle School. The festival ended with a public concert. The participants from Martin Meylin were violinists Jaden Huynh, Dasia Kenyon, Annie Kirumba, Norah Steffy, Kyle Wagner, and Katie Zeager; violist Cameron Straley; and cellists Lyla Girdharry and Anya Sheffer.

The Hans Herr Elementary School Fifth-Grade Band has been invited to perform at the PMEA's upcoming All-State Conference. The band will travel to the Kalahari Resort in the Poconos to perform at the conference, which will run from Wednesday to Saturday, April 19 to 22, 2023. Heather Ceresini, who has led Hans Herr's band program since 2014, submitted a recording of the band's performance for consideration from PMEA and then learned that the band has been chosen for this opportunity. All fifth-grade band students have been invited to attend the conference. A send-off concert for family and friends is planned for earlier in the year.