Several Lynchburg City Schools 7th- through 9th-graders have been selected to the Southwest Junior Regional Advanced and Intermediate Orchestras following auditions in January. They will perform with other top strings students in the state at Sherando High School near Winchester on March 21-22.
The following LCS students were selected to participate:
Advanced Orchestra
E. C. Glass: Tom Baker, Virginia Corsini, Regan Kinder, Madeline Phillips, Caleb Slaughter, Sydney Walker
Heritage High: Andrew Patterson (assistant principal viola), Jacob Sandvig (assistant principal bass)
Dunbar: Melinda Hastings, Kyle Mendez, Alexander Shen
Linkhorne Middle: Chloe Seng, Amanda Yi
Sandusky Middle: Grace Chun, Ashley Kim
Intermediate Orchestra
Heritage High: Julia Finley, Arizona Wright
Dunbar: George Burruss (principal bass), Hans Flores, Lucy Jablonski, Abbey Kirkwood, Victoria McCoy, Youbin Roh
Linkhorne Middle: Ethan Fisher, Sara Greene, Margaret Lloyd, Reagan McDaniel, Kathryn O'Connell, Lea Sharpe, Dylan Wright
Sandusky Middle: Eric Bang, Terrell Hill, Olyvia Murphy, Manan Shah, Gwyneth Terry
Note: principal means seat No. 1 and leader of the section; assistant to the principal means seat No. 2