Chris Clark, an eighth-grader at TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas, played percussion with the San Antonio Wind Ensemble at an April 2 concert at Palo Alto Community College, where TMI instrumental-music instructor Roderick Leonard was a guest conductor for one of the pieces.

The ensemble is a program of the Academy of Fine Arts at St. Phillip’s College that gives performance opportunities to young wind and percussion instrumentalists in grades 8-12 from 13 school districts and 50 high schools in the Bexar County area.