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Show Clayton best in the nation granddaughter of Archer and Wanda Wan-da Clayton of Centerville and Violet Bryson of Bountiful. recital on the Temple Square Concert Con-cert Series. She was accompanied in this recital by both the Sounds of Silver flute choir from BYU and the Utah Youth Chamber Orchestra. She has won many awards in Utah State Fair competition and has won the Gold Medal Award in state solo and ensemble competition. April also plays the piano, cello and piccolo and is a frequent accompanist ac-companist for Bountiful High School choirs on piano and flute. April has been named a National Merit Finalist, a White House Presidential Scholar Semi-Finalist, and has received the Presidential Scholarship at the University of Utah and the Trustee's Scholarship at Brig ham Young. She has been offered scholarships scholar-ships at Oberlin College, Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Conservatory. April hopes to continue con-tinue her education with a double major in music and math. She is the daughter of Robert and Julia Clayton of Bountiful and the APRIL CLAYTON Flutist April Clayton, a senior at Bountiful High School, recently placed first in the nation in the high school woodwind soloists competition competi-tion sponsored by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). In order to compete at the national level, the soloist must win first place in the state competition, as well as first place in a divisional competition. April won the state competition last August, when it was held during dur-ing the Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. She then performed in Onuary in the divisional competition competi-tion against other state first place winners from California, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Having won first place in that competition, April went to Milwaukee on April 6, where she competed against other divisional winners. She was declared the national first place winner by faculty facul-ty members of Eastman Conservatory Conser-vatory who acted as judges this year. The competition requires that the contestant present 25 minutes of music from different historical periods. Each year there is a re- quired piece. The national winner plays the required re-quired piece in a concert for the MTNA convention, accompanied Oby an orchestra from the area in which the convention is held. April participated in this competition last year as well and won first place in state and division competitions and honorable mention (the second place award) in national competition competi-tion in Miami. Last year April was one of six finalists in the National Flute Association's worldwide high school soloists competition. She performed at the convention in Washington, D.C. in late August April performed last year as fuest soloist with the Jefferson ymphony in the Denver area as a result of having won the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Young Artists Festival in the instrumental division. On Jan. 17 she performed a solo |
