Clarissa Hallmark Alto Saxophone

Clarissa Hallmark is a senior at Quincy High School.  Born in Raleigh, NC, on August 7, 1990, she attended Wake County Public Schools.  She has been studying saxophone since age 10, and had several solo performances during her high school experience there.  She learns under her father who is a saxophone teacher.  In the seventh grade Clarissa played alto and later soprano in the Radiance Saxophone Quartet, and in the tenth grade she started a saxophone quartet in her own school. Clarissa received The Most Outstanding Musician Award and The Music Achievement Award in her junior year.  In 2006 and 2007 she was principal alto saxophonist in the Honor Band at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Music Festival.  She has attended senior band camps at UNC-Greensboro and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.  She also participated in the Illinois Summer Youth Music Inaugural Saxophone Camp where she was one of four soloists chosen to perform in the final concert.   In June of 2007 Clarissa moved to Quincy and during the summer she played in the Quincy Park Band.  Clarissa plans to enter the School of Music at the University of Illinois in the fall of 2008.  She is the daughter of Lynette and Roger Hallmark.