Whiz Kid: Junior Harry Mulligan a Musician and Composer

Name: Harry Mulligan - 11th grade

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Whiz Kid's Accomplishment: Mulligan began playing the oboe in fourth grade and since then has participated in NYSSMA and SCMEA every year since. He began playing the saxophone just before middle school and has been in the Jazz Band since then while also playing in the pit band the last two years. Mulligan performed an original jazz piece in the variety show last year and is preparing another for this year.

In eighth grade he composed a piece for a woodwind quartet that was entered in the NYSSMA "Search for Young Composers" competition and was performed at the middle school spring concert; but he wasn't done writing music there. In ninth grade he composed a piece for the string orchestra, also entered in the NYSSMA competition and performed at last year's concert at the high school and this year he has composed a piece for the symphonic band. That piece will be entered in the NYSSMA competition and performed at the spring concert.

Key to Awesomeness: The past two summers he spent two weeks at the New York Music Festival at the SUNY Oneonta campus and last year he was awarded the SCMEA scholarship for the New York Music Festival and also participated in  NYSCAME concert this year. He will be competing at the All State level this year as well as the NYSSMA "Search for Young Composers" competition. Mulligan also teaches private lessons in oboe and saxophone and plays the oboe in the youth choir at In June he will be performing at Lincoln Center in New York as part of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra as an oboist.

Mulligan's "awesomeness" doesn't just stop at music. He has been on the high honor roll for most of high school and is a member of the National Honor Society and cross-country, winter track and spring track teams.