PARSIPPANY — Joseph Wentworth is making his talent known, and he’s only an eighth grade student at Brooklawn Middle School.
Wentworth has been named with eleven others as the Mayo Performing Arts Center’s Music Students of the Month for April.
Wentworth was nominated by his teacher, Joseph Stella, who said: “Joseph is a great musician and wonderful band student. He is not only a talented trombonist in the Brooklawn Middle School 8th grade concert band and jazz band, but is a talented percussionist as well. This year he will be playing the drum set part for the BMS musical production of grease. outside of school, he was recently accepted by audition as the first chair trombonist for the North Jersey Junior Region Intermediate Band and Junior Region Orchestra. He has also been active in music during the summer months for several years attending the Mount Tabor summer music camp in Parsippany.”
The group of honorees was recognized onstage at the Performing Arts Center on April 7.