Emily Silks. Courtesy photo
SENIOR RECITAL News:
Emily Silks will present her Senior Music Recital at 7 p.m. Wednesday June 5 in Kelly Hall at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church.
Silks will perform on marimba, piano, drum set, cajon, djembe and other assorted percussion instruments. The program will include music ranging from Bach to the Beatles.
She will perform alongside her teachers Joe Cox and Steve Iliff as well as friends Nate Hall and Kile Uhlenbrock. Her brother Andrew will join her on acoustic and electric guitar and her mother Valerie will play a piano duet with her. Silks will also be playing one of her original piano compositions.
A 2013 graduate of Los Alamos High School, Silks was honored to have been the recipient of the Los Alamos Community Winds Music-Filled Life Scholarship and the first place winner of the Deborah Beene Memorial Music Scholarship. In the fall, she will attend the University of Montana where she will be a music performance major as well as a student in the Davidson Honors College.
