The Albert Lea High School music department announced eighth-grade student Cydney Pathammavong has been selected to the American Choral Directors Association Minnesota Honor Choir, according to a press release.

After more than 2,000 total auditions, Pathammavong will join seventh- and eighth-grade soprano and alto singers from across the state to perform in a concert at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi as part of ACDA-MN’s annual Fall conference. The concert is open to the public.

The conductor of the choir will be Kari Lace of Jackson Middle School in Champlin. ACDA-MN, in which Albert Lea’s Diane Heaney serves as president-elect, is the state chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, a professional development association for choral directors across the United States.

At Albert Lea High School, Pathammavong sings in Celebr8, the school’s eighth-grade choir, under the direction of Nathan Lange.

Selection to ACDA-MN Honor Choir is the highest honor a student singer can receive in the state of Minnesota, the release states.