FEBRUARY 2022

East Lansing Orchestra

Winter Update

ORCHESTRA NEWS
The 6th-12th grade orchestras are preparing for our Upcoming Dates
Electrify Your Strings Spotlight Tour featuring special 2/24: HS Senior Solo Concert
guest Mark Wood! Mr. Wood is a founding member of the 3/3: HS MSBOA Festival
Trans Siberian Orchestra and inventor of the 7 string 3/4: MS MSBOA Festival
viper violin. Mr. Wood will be working with our students 4/29: Mark Wood Concert
for two days and it will conclude with a special 5/26: HS Spring Concert
performance on Friday April 29th in the high school 6/1: MS Spring Concert
auditorium. The concert will feature music by Bruno
Mars, Michael Jackson, AD/DC, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Panic

and the Disco, Cream, Queen, and Arron Copland! This is

one you will not want to miss.

HIGH SCHOOL
The Symphonic and Encore Orchestras are preparing for HS Collage 39 Video
our Senior Solo Concert on February 24th at 7PM. We
have 14 seniors from orchestra, band , and choir who will Click here to check out the high
school's virtual Collage Concert
be featured in this concert.
video!

The Chamber Orchestra is preparing for the MSBOA

Orchestra Festival on March 3rd at 9:35am at Okemos Google Drive Folders

High School. They will be performing two selections for
a panel of expert judges and will have the opportunity to
work with a guest clinician on their pieces immediately
following their performance. This is a new format for the
festival this year, and we are excited to try it out!
Click the links below to access
folders with links to our full calendar
and other important orchestra
documents.
Family Resources- ELHS Orchestras
Family Resources - MMS Orchestras

MIDDLE SCHOOL Congratulations!

6th Grade The following HS orchestra members
earned a medal at this year’s MSBOA Solo
The 6th grade orchestras are continuing to and Ensemble festival on February 5th:

work on skill building as well as learning new

Elisabeth Beer
music for our EYS concert and Spring Vanessa Broughman
Constance Chen
Concerts. They have been working with Mr. Reiko Foreman
Paul Le while Mrs. Vanator is out on maternity Graham Flynn
Katie Flynn
leave Dana Hardy
Drake Howard
Vaughn Jarvi
7th & 8th Grade Guhyun Jeong
Jinyoung Jeong
The 7th and 8th grade orchestras are preparing Joshua Jonhson
Donald Keough
for the MSBOA Orchestra Festival. They will be
Shehzin Lodhi
performing two selections for a panel of expert Olivia Mann
Ben Martineau
judges and will have the opportunity to work Lainey O’Neal
with a guest clinician on their pieces Jayden Page
Mori Rothhorn
immediately following their performance. We Meera Schenker
Reese Skidmore
will be taking a bus over to our performance.
Corinne Williams-Hough
Students should wear their white orchestra Vivace Strings

shirt, blakc shoes, and black pants or long

MS SOLO & ENSEMBLE
black skirt. Here are the schedule times:

We are happy to announce that we will be

7th Grade Orchestra: 9:05am March 4th @
Okemos High School
8th Grade Orchestra: 11:05am March 4th @
Okemos High School
This is a new format for the festival this year,
and we are excited to try it out!
offering an in house solo and ensemble
festival for our 7th and 8th grade students.
This is a chance for them to perform in a
chamber music setting (solos, suits, trio,
quartets, quintets) and receive feedback
from an expert musician. There will be no
cost to participate in this optional event.
We are looking at holding the one day
event on May 7, 2022.
About Mr. Le
Covering for Mrs. Vanator's maternity leave, Mr. Le is working
with 6th & 7th grade orchestra as well as Ovation Strings.

Mr. Le grew up in Kentwood, Michigan and began playing Viola

in 6th grade through the Orchestra’s in Kentwood Public
Schools. He has served as a viola coach every summer for
Anything But Classical Orchestra at East Kentwood High
School. Mr. Le just finished his student teaching in Rockford
Public School’s Orchestra 6th-12th Grade program. He recently
graduated from Central Michigan University with a Bachelors
in Music Education.

“I am so glad to have the opportunity to be in East Lansing and

to teach the students here, even if only for a short period of
time! The students have displayed so much talent and are
capable of growing exponentially in music! They have given me
the gift of reaffirming every day the reasons why I wanted to
become a music teacher. Each day is a new adventure filled
with excitement and passionate music making!”

Meet Cooper Vanator

Mrs. Vanator & her husband welcomed their son,
Cooper on January 5th.

Welcome to the EL orchestra family, Cooper!