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The Winter Orchestra Concert took place on Thursday, March 9, in Loyola Academy’s Leemputte Family Theater and featured the combined orchestra performing music composed by The Beatles, Camille Saint Saens, Tchaikovsky, and more.
Couldn’t make it to the performance? Click here to view a recording of the concert.
The program for the concert was as follows:
Beginning Guitars and Concert Choir Rainbow Connection by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher
Guitar Ensemble Day Tripper by The Beatles arr. Chip Anderson Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles arr. Sean McQuinn
Combined Orchestra A Beethoven Lullaby; Air on Ode to Joy by Brian Balmages Featuring: Beginning Strings, Symphony Orchestra, Honors Orchestra
Spring Breezes; Folk Songs from Taiwan arr. Richard Meyer Featuring: Symphony Orchestra, Honors Orchestra
Music from “Pride and Prejudice” by Dario Marianelli arr. John Moss Featuring: Symphony Orchestra, Honors Orchestra Piano Soloist: Abigail Lavaccare ’23
Themes from “The Moldau” by Bedrich Smatana Featuring: Symphony Orchestra, Honors Orchestra
Let All Things Now Living by D. Funderbunk Featuring: Honors Piano Trio Soloists: Danny Blanchard ’25 on piano, James Casey ’23 on violin, Sam Cho ’24 on cello
Concert #1 for Cello and String Orchestra, Op. 33 by Camille Saint Saens Featuring: Honors Orchestra Cello solo: Sam Cho ’24
Serenade for Strings; Finale by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky arr. Richard Meyer Featuring: Honors Orchestra
Congratulations to the following student-musicians:
Combined Orchestras:
Violin 1 James Casey, concertmaster Karolina Doroszkiewicz Bella Licudine Guadalupe Wildi Joan Geoly Emma Hernandez
Violin 2 Sofia Zlatkovic, principal second violin Mina Zikri Eleanor Goodrich Bria Licudine Molly FitzSimmons Kasani Guerra Emelia D’Anniballe Mahelate Tamrat Lena Barhoumeh* Ruth Duressa* Tran Pham*
Viola Giorgi D’Angelo, principal Julia Narkun Lilian Strumpf Liselle Curry* Andrea Paz*
Cello Sam Cho, principal cello Audrey Johnston David Reyes Daniel Malan Ika Fifita Tofunmi Ojikutu*
Bass Andrew Belmonte-Russo Billy Cardigan*
Piano Daniel Blanchard Francis Tamayo Abigail Lavaccare Jack McBrearty Anna Miller *Denotes Beginning Strings
Beginning Guitars Samrawit Aznato Jake Balata Grace Dickson Henry FitzSimmons Brandin Haynie Ethan Hogg Noah Isaac Maggie Lusk Sason Madariso Hannah Mastrofski Credo Mlope Naffy Okbamichael Melvin Poku Izzie Schario Sean Vanegas Ellie Vehovsky Michael York
Guitar Ensemble Paul Awdisho Michael Barnes Ben Greismeyer Ryan Horn Grace Leader John McGuire Zach Roth* Lucas Yordan* Elizabeth Xanos*
Concert Choir Carla Fernandez Caroline Gorman Rebecca Jalloway Credo Mlope Margaret Schomer Josie Sprang Maddy Starmann *Denotes additional musicians