The Winter Orchestra Concert took place on Thursday, March 3, in the Loyola Academy Chapel and featured the talents of our beginning guitars, guitar ensemble and the combined orchestra students performing music from Mozart, The Beatles, Vivaldi and the soundtrack from the movie La la Land.
The program for the concert was as follows:
Beginning Guitar Ensembles Let it Be, The Beatles
Bill Brandstrader '88, drumkit
Guitar Ensemble Bambou Calypso, Thierry Tisserand In the Clouds, Joey Hirsh
Combined Orchestras Caribbean Breeze (with Beginning Strings), Victor Lopez Abigail Lavaccare, piano Lilian Stumpf, program announcer
Concerto for 4 violins in E minor, mvt 1, Antonio Vivaldi arranged by Ralph Matesky Honors Orchestra only James O'Connor, piano Lexi Chigas, program announcer
Piano Concerto #21, 2nd movement, Andante, Wolfgang A. Mozart James O'Connor, piano solo Amanda Rajkovich, program announcer
The Planets; 'Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter,' Gustav Holst arranged by Carrie Ann Gruselle Anna Miller and Abigail Lavaccare, paino Abigail Lavaccare, program announcer
Baile de Lila, Chris Thomas Brenda Fernandez, guitar John McBrearty, piano Danny Blanchard, program announcer
Music from "La La Land," Justin Hurwitz arranged by Robert Longfield Daniel Blanchard, piano Bill Brandstrader '88, drumkit Ryan Susanto, program announcer
Performers
VIOLIN 1
Ryan Susanto - Concertmaster
Katie Bennett
James Casey
Amanda Rajkovich
Bella Licudine
Sofia Zlatkovic
*Molly Fitzsimmons
VIOLIN 2
Lexi Chigas - Principal
Jasmyne Montoya
Karolina Doroszkiewicz
Carolina Sperekas
Eleanor Goodrich
Emma Hernandez
Mahelate Tamrat
Emelia D’Anniballe
*Emanuel Mengiste
*Peter Joseph
*Samuel Curry
*Asmerome Tecabo
*Anika Lazic
VIOLA
Giorgi D’Angelo – Principal
Julia Narkun
*Lilian Stumpf
CELLO
Peter Scheidt - Principal
Sam Cho
David Reyes
Samantha Schnur
*Carter Tiv
BASS
*Andrew Belmonte-Russo
PIANO
James O’Connor
Abigail Lavaccare
Jack McBrearty
Anna Miller
Daniel Blanchard
*Beginning Strings
GUITAR ENSEMBLE
Paul Awdisho
Michael Byrnes
JP Desherow
Brenda Fernandez
Emmett Healy
Jamie McCabe
Zach Roth
Josh Vedder
BEGINNING GUITARS
Margaret Merck
Mary Wulu
Jane Calk
Max Garcia
Noah Tekhle
Grace Leader
Dominic LaTorraca
Ben Griesmeyer
Israel Starks
Liam Kilroy
Lilly Weber
John Cummins
Maeve Dooley
Thomas Szafraniec
Mark Gonzalez
Gabe Gyorgy
Joseph Kearney
Jack Parker
Ryan O'Neill
MarieClaire Fadonougbo
Jane Rushin
Scott Szafraniec
To watch a recording of the 2022 Winter Orchestra Concert, click here.