Congratulations to the following orchestra students for placing into this year’s Virginia All-State Orchestra!

Eshan Parkash (violin)
Maxence Mouries (violin)

Ella David (viola)
Elena Klenk (viola)

Steve Han (cello)
Justin Winn (cello)
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Lucas Zurbuchen (bass)

Students auditioned amongst hundreds of highly skilled student musicians at James Madison University this past weekend and will perform in a special concert in April with students from around the state at the Dominion Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond, Virginia.

Congratulations to the following students who auditioned for and were accepted into the 2019-2020 Senior District 12 Honors Orchestra, which will take place on January 10 & 11th at Langley High School:

1st Violin:
Caleb Wang, 3rd chair
Alexander Bills
 
2nd Violin:
Emma Guo, 2nd chair
Michelle Kim
Sasha Gessler
 
Viola:
Daphnie Lu
 
Cello:
Jacob Daniels, 1st chair
Christina Wu
Alex Xu
Malcolm Rodgers
Benjamin Woods
 
Bass:
Christopher Raymond
J.T. Raymond

Sweet tooth? Then a pie or cheesecake is just the thing you need! A portion of each pie/cookie sale goes to help the orchestra on their spring trip and the German exchange program, as well as help bring in guest artists. Sales will go now through October 13th. Please see full details on how to order by CLICKING HERE.

We are pleased to announce that the McLean High School Philharmonic Orchestra has accepted an honorable invitation to perform at the 2019 Virginia Music Educators Association Conference at The Homestead in Hot Springs, VA this upcoming November. This performance is one of the highest honors that a public school music program can receive in the state of Virginia. Applications for this process were “blind,” and consisted of submitting two anonymous recordings – one from this school year and one last school year – that were listened to by a committee of professionals and chosen solely on their musical and technical excellence. Only two high school and two middle school orchestras from the entire state are chosen to perform at the conference!

The orchestra is excited for this special opportunity to share their passions and present what we love to music educators from around the state as a continuing representation of Fairfax County Public School outstanding music programs. We will put on a 60 minute concert that will be open to the public, but mainly attended by other music educators form around the state (elementary to college level teachers from the disciplines of band, chorus, orchestra, guitar, and general music).

The McLean Philharmonic's performance will take place at 1:45PM on Thursday, November 21, 2019 in the Mount Vernon/Stratford rooms at the Omni Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, VA.

Congratulations to the following students who auditioned for and were accepted into the 2019-2020 Northern Virginia Senior Regional Orchestra:

Violin:
Maxence Mouries, 1st violin
Bridget Ge, 1st violin
Eshan Parkash, 2nd violin
David Song, 2nd violin
Ella Park, 2nd violin

Viola:
Elena Klenk
Eleanor David

Cello:
Steve Han
Adele Park
Justin Winn
Adam Nhan

Bass:
Lucas Zurbuchen

Trumpet:
Joshua Levy

Bass Clarinet:
Sarah Levy

McLean High School is extremely proud to have had so many talent students accepted into this prestigious orchestra! The above students auditioned alongside students from Fairfax County, Arlington County, Alexandria City, Falls Church City, private and home schools and have been chosen to perform Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances and Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino on Saturday, November 9th at Fairfax High School.