RE strings concludes year with two concerts
Performing arts teacher Jessica Li directed a breathtaking Middle School String Orchestra Spring Concert on May 11, a week after leading the finale concert for the Upper School. The Middle School performance honored rising ninth-grade musicians, featured a memorable viola solo by Branden Cabrera '23, and introduced something new: a narrated story (courtesy of faculty member Cecilia Gonzalez) with string sound effects.
A week earlier, the Upper School string ensemble of Julia Buckner '20, Ashlyn Cowgill '19, Jean Pierre Decker '21, Alessia Gangone '21, Javier Garcon '21, Jordan Hoffman '21, Frank McPhillips '21, Maya Rego '21 and Justin Wong '21 concluded its 2017-18 season with an intimate concert at Rehearsal Hall. The event featured a viola solo by Cowgill to the second movement of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"; a cello duet by Buckner and Gangone to the chorus from "Judas Maccabaeus"; and Rego and Wong playing Bach's "Concerto for Two Violins in D Major."
The Middle School concert at Swenson Hall featured more than 50 students ranging from those in beginning orchestra to the the highly accomplished chamber ensemble. The chamber ensemble included Florida Music Educators Association All-State selection Ian Barnett '23 along with Cabrera, Emma G '23, Gabriel Mora '22, Max Vallone '22, Alexander Van Lidth '22, Clara Villalba '22, Mary Logan Woolsey '22 and Evelyn Yu '24. That group played five diverse pieces from Brahms' "Allegro Giocoso" to Soon Hee Newbold's "Perseus."
Li recognized and, in some cases, gleefully poked fun at, her spirited eighth-grade musicians, each of whom stepped to the microphone and offered a few words of thanks to Li. The rising high schoolers include: Aliyah Cohen '22, Phillip Craft '22, Santiago Duckenfield-Lopez '22, Mollie Forand '22, Chrissy Francis '22, Esther Gao '22, Lauren Heller '22, Joseph Moskovitz '22, Mihir Pabby '22, Noah Zaldivar '22 as well as Mora, Vallone, Van Lidth, Villalba and Woolsey.
Middle School String Orchestra Spring Concert Photo Gallery
The Middle School concert at Swenson Hall featured more than 50 students ranging from those in beginning orchestra to the the highly accomplished chamber ensemble. The chamber ensemble included Florida Music Educators Association All-State selection Ian Barnett '23 along with Cabrera, Emma G '23, Gabriel Mora '22, Max Vallone '22, Alexander Van Lidth '22, Clara Villalba '22, Mary Logan Woolsey '22 and Evelyn Yu '24. That group played five diverse pieces from Brahms' "Allegro Giocoso" to Soon Hee Newbold's "Perseus."
Li recognized and, in some cases, gleefully poked fun at, her spirited eighth-grade musicians, each of whom stepped to the microphone and offered a few words of thanks to Li. The rising high schoolers include: Aliyah Cohen '22, Phillip Craft '22, Santiago Duckenfield-Lopez '22, Mollie Forand '22, Chrissy Francis '22, Esther Gao '22, Lauren Heller '22, Joseph Moskovitz '22, Mihir Pabby '22, Noah Zaldivar '22 as well as Mora, Vallone, Van Lidth, Villalba and Woolsey.
Middle School String Orchestra Spring Concert Photo Gallery
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.