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Fairfield Sends 39 Students to Play in Annual String Orchestra Music Festival
The festival culminates in an orchestra concert on Saturday, March 2, at Western Connecticut State University. The concert begins at 3 p.m.
Thirty-nine Fairfield students will play in the 39th Annual Fairfield County String Teachers Association's String Orchestra Music Festival Weekend, which culminates in a public concert on Saturday.
Three string orchestras -- totaling over 170 middle and junior high school students from 15 towns in the region -- will play in a "stimulating musical opportunity," according to a release from the association.
The concert will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Ives Concert Hall at Western Connecticut State University's Midtown Campus in Danbury. General admission for the program is $7.
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Guest conductors work with students ranging from 6th grade to 9th grade to arrange performances for the event.
Members of the Fairfield County String Teachers Associations hope that the festival will provide student musicians with the motivation to advance their musical studies, according to the release.
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Fairfield's own Gary Capoziello is the festival's featured soloist. He has received degrees in violin performance from SUNY Purchase and New England Conversatory of Music. He is currently working on a doctoral degree and serves as a teaching assistant to Katie Lansdale at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford.
The 39 participating Fairfield students are:
6th & 7th Grade Orchestra:
- Vincent Bartiromo
- Jack Chelstowski
- Ankitha Damisetty
- Nikitha Damisetty
- Francisco Guillen
- Hannah Lee
- Jack Llewellyn
- Molly Reynolds
- Dorrian Stangel
- Connor Ohannes Sullivan
- Madison Wechcler
8th & 9th Grade Orchestra:
- Lindsay Belkin
- Jes Bollman
- Andrew Collins
- Shivani Doshi
- Anna Fedoryk
- Emma Gleysteen
- Niko Gupta
- Ana Hardiman
- Kelly Hunter
- Morgan Lee
- Edward Li
- Gina Lupo
- Fiona McElroy
- Kaylie Minogue
- David Nam
- Dylan O’Brien
- Patricia O’Meara
- Addison Pedro,
- Maggie Restrepo
- Maya Singh
- Sean Sullivan
- Karen Zapata
Honors Orchestra:
- Ben Crosby
- Margaux Meilhac
- Henna Mohamed
- Andrew Paik
- Sasha Starovoitov
- Jack Whitten
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