Benet Academy Announces Department, Service Award Winners

from Benet Academy

 announced May 24 the 2012 seniors who received departmental or service awards.

Emma Stewart of was honored.

Emma Stewart, Fr. Jude Randall, OSB Outstanding Music Award

Fr. Jude, a 1951 graduate of St. Procopius Academy, a religion teacher at Benet from 1960 through 1973, and its president from 1992 until his retirement earlier this year, has been a strong and tireless supporter of the Benet Academy Music Department. From 1999 to 2001 he spearhead the “Completing the Picture” capital campaign, the focal point of which was the construction of St. Daniel Hall with its excellent music performance and practice facilities.

This year's recipient is Emma Stewart. Ms. Stewart is an instrumentalist who is a wonderful performer and amazing technician. She often conducts sectional rehearsals and under her guidance these rehearsals have been musically productive and efficient. She has proven herself to be an excellent musician and this excellence has carried over into all of the ensembles in which she has participated. Musically, she possesses the technical ability to master any challenging passage and the emotional capacity to perform music with an interpretation beyond her years. She is humble yet is able to produce a confident, mature sound no matter the difficulty of music she is performing.  She earned 3rd chair in the Illinois Music Educators Association State Honor Band, and she has earned the principal flute chair in the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra.