The John P. Stevens High School band program, under the direction of Andy DeNicola and John Zazzali, has announced the names of its 15 students who were selected through audition to the 2005 New Jersey All-State Band. They are: Rebecca Wang, flute; Briana Tarby, oboe; Jennifer Choi, clarinet; Stephanie Tsai, Kristie Kuo and David Cheng, all alto clarinet; Andrew Nacht, contra-alto clarinet; Andrew Zhang, baritone saxophone; Caitlin Nichols, Natalie Adler and Tiffany Peng, all trumpet; David Nguyen, tuba; and Jeremy Engel, Heather Montemarano and Chung-Ying Wang, all percussion.
The band has also announced the names of its 36 students who were selected through audition to the 2005 Central Jersey Region Band. They are: Rebecca Wang and Christine Liang, both flute; Briana Tarby, Eleanor Doong and Edward Yang, all oboe; Rachel Kang, Jennifer Choi and Kristie Kuo, all clarinet; Stephanie Tsai, David Cheng, Phil Cho, Stephanie Ng and Jeremy Rothstein, all alto clarinet; Nadine Sabater and Max Tang, both bass clarinet; Andrew Nacht, contra-alto clarinet; Scott Yang, alto saxophone; Michael Pagnotta, tenor saxophone; Andrew Zhang and Brian Levine, both baritone saxophone; Caitlin Nichols, Natalie Adler, Tiffany Peng, Kevin Liu, Matthew Listo and Sameer Trivedi, all trumpet; Tristan Milder, baritone; David Nguyen, tuba; and Jeremy Engel, Heather Montemarano, Chung-Ying Wang, Matthew Miller, Steve Baum, Steve Mechetti, Shane Naidoo and Andre Madlangbayan, all percussion.