oCongratulations to the following students who auditioned for and were accepted into the 2018-2019 Senior District 12 Honors Orchestra, which will take place on January 11 & 12th at Wakefield High School:

1st Violin:
Cynthia Ma
Solomon Wang
Quinn Stone
Ella Park
 
2nd Violin:
Alicia Kang
David Song
Sasha Gessler
Andrew Leng
 
Viola:
Arianna Safire, 1st chair
Emma Lee, 2nd chair
Emilie Kim, 3rd chair
Elena Klenk
 
Cello:
Chanyoo Lee, 1st chair
Adam Nhan
Tuna Turk
Aaron Fan
 
Bass:
Christopher Raymond  

The Senior District XII Honors Orchestra will be performing the following works in their performance in January:
Voyage by John Corigliano
Egmont Overture by Beethoven, arranged by McCashin
American Sketches by Joshua Reznicow
Shenandoah arranged by Eric Morales
Plink, Plank, Plunk! by Leroy Anderson

Congratulations to the following students who auditioned for and were accepted into the 2018-2019 Northern Virginia Senior Regional Orchestra:

Violin:
Maxence Mouries, 1st violin
Eshan Parkash, 1st violin
Emma Guo, 2nd violin

Viola:
Charlie Tucker

Cello:
Steve Han

Bass:
Lucas Zurbuchen
Alex Haldane

Piccolo:
Stephanie Poore

Bb Clarinet:
Alexander Swers

French Horn:
Kevin Jiang
Varun Veluri

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 Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Marche Slav and Gustav Holst's Symphony No.1, Movement IV on Saturday, November 10th at West Potomac High School.

The MHSO is very proud of Steve Han, a sophomore member of the McLean High School Philharmonic Orchestra, who was chosen to perform in the National Association for Music Educator’s All-National Orchestra in Orlando, Florida over Thanksgiving break.

Steve started playing the cello at age 5 in Korea before moving to California. In California, he studied with Mr. Jonathan Koh for 5 years, who is a very popular and a great teacher in the bay area. Now, Steve studies privately with Mr. John Moran, a professor at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Steve participated in both the 2017 Northern Virginia Senior Regional Orchestra and the 2017 Virginia All-State Orchestra last school year, which led to the opportunity to audition for the All-Nationals level. Congratulations, Steve!