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Belmont Public Schools
Department of Fine & Performing Arts
BELMONT HIGH SCHOOL
W I N T E R CO N C E RT
Women’s Chorus – Chamber Singers – Combined Chorus
Chamber Orchestra – Concert Orchestra
Symphonic Band – Wind Ensemble – Symphonic Winds
Arto Asadoorian, Paul Ketchen, Sean Landers, & Margot Reavey – directors
Belmont High School Auditorium
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
7:00 pm
PROGRAM
Combined Chorus
Sean Landers, director
Christopher Carson, pianist
“Gloria” from Heiligmesse…………………………………………………………………….……….Joseph Haydn
The Awakening…………………………………………………………………………………………Joseph M. Martin
Elijah Rock…………………………………………………………………………..……Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan
Chamber Orchestra
Margot Reavey, director
“Allegretto” from Palladio………………………………………………………………………….………Karl Jenkins
Wind Ensemble
Arto Asadoorian, director
Chester, Overture for Band……………………………………………………………………William Schumann
Kristen Richard, conductor (Masters Degree candidate, Music Education; Boston University)
A Simple Song, from Mass.…………………………………Leonard Bernstein, arr. Michael Sweeney
Japanese Tune………………………………………………………………………………………..….Soichi Konagaya
Etenra Ku; The Genroku Flower Festival Dance; Sakura; Yagi Bushi
Combined Women’s Chorus
Sean Landers, director
Christopher Carson, pianist
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot………….………………………………..………Spiritual, arr. Ashley F. Nelson
Shenandoah………………………………………………………….…American Folk Song, arr. Mary Goetze
Exsultate Justi…………………………………………………….…………………….Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
Concert Orchestra
Margot Reavey, director
Concerto in D…………………………………………………….……George Philip Telemann, arr. K. Labrie
Transcribed from Concerto for Four Violins, No. 2
Stille Nacht………………………………………………………………………….…Franz Gruber, arr. E. Morales
American Sketches……………………………………………………………………..……………..Joshua Reznicow
Chamber Singers
Sean Landers, director
The Dark Eyed Sailor………………………………………………………..………....Ralph Vaughan Williams
Good Night, Dear Heart…………..…………………………………….…..……………………..………Dan Forrest
Go Down, Moses………………………………………………………………Spiritual, arr. Clifton J. Noble, Jr.
Symphonic Band
Paul Ketchen, director
Washington Post March…………………………………………………………….…………....John Philip Sousa
Greensleeves…………………………………………………………….…..…………Traditional, arr. Alfred Reed
Joy Revisited………………………………………………………………………………….…………………Frank Ticheli
Symphonic Winds
Paul Ketchen, director
Overture to Candide…………………………………………………………………………..……Leonard Bernstein
Sleigh Ride…………………………………………………………………………………………..………Leroy Anderson
CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Margot Reavey, director
+ Chamber Orchestra member, *2014-15 Senior District participant
VIOLIN 1
+Elisa Bello
*+Jack Decouolos,
concertmaster
Emma Gharibian
Joseph Hraiz
Edgar Kazarian
+Annierose Klingbeil
+Maggie Liu
+Sarah Osborn
Jun Hyeok Park
Greta Propp
Calvin Reinhardt-Ertman
+Paul Rhee
TaeYoung Son
Jean-Michel Thompson
+Amanda Wan
Helena Wetzel
Daniel Vernick
+Kevin Zhang
VIOLIN 2
Lou Lou Baghdady
Alix Balsan
Alexandra Beecroft
Stephanie Delva
+Alexandra Dionne
Barbara Joseph
Madeline Jenkins
Mikael Killian
Jeong Kim
Sungmin Kim
+*Daniel Lay, principal
Gabrielle Mazzoni
Mel Nagashima
Amelia Rasmusen
Giulianna Ruiz-Shah
Sonal Singh
+Andrei Tong
+*Stephanie Zhang
Xushuo Zhang
VIOLA
+* Erin Cantor
*Jessica Chen
+Su Jing Chen
+*Solomon Mankin,
principal
+Honney Thomas
Joseph Viale
BASS
+*Elizabeth Knight
Andrew Mazzone
*Sarah Montoya
+*Mary Yeh, principal
Joseph Wenzel
WIND ENSEMBLE
CELLO
Lucy Battle
Aidan Cadogan
Andrew Duda
+*Julia Fontana
Sebastian Freeze
Caleb Harris
Rachel Jansen
Julia Kermond
+James Kitch
Tokio Kobayashi
Rachel Laing
Owen Loveluck
Ava Madden
+*Yeonjae Park, principal
Sophia Petrella
Elisabeth Silletto
+*Dong min Sung
+Jiwon Yoon
Arto Asadoorian, director
*2014-15 Senior District participant
FLUTE
*Eunice Lee
Bonnie Jin
Gillian Tahajian
Elaine Miao
Elana Chen-Jones
Samantha Kelts
Momoko Tokuo
*Hannah Read
SAXOPHONE
*Yilei Bai
*Haig Hovsepian
Benton Jones
Isabelle Rich
Desmond Rodriguez
*Rowan Wolf
OBOE
Constantine Decoulos
*Andrew Eurdolian
Luke Gallagher
TRUMPET
*Benjamin Ackerson
*Sami Belkadi
*Riley Grant
*Calvin Perkins
*Edward Searls
Alexander Sun
*Jasper Wolf
TROMBONE
*Eli Martin
*Sa-Sa Gutterman
*Jack Stone
*Rafi Wagner
CLARINET
Josie Cooper
*Chloe Derba
MaryKate Egan
*Kiara Holm
*Stephen Lucas
Matthew Wilk
FRENCH HORN
Kyra Armstrong
*Eleanor Carlile
*Eliza Jones
Sophie Klimasmith
*Hannah Messenger
*Nicholas Osborn
EUPHONIUM
Lucas Jenkins
*Helena Kim
BASS CLARINET
Molly Goldberg
BASSOON
*Olivia Cronin
*Anupama Dinesh
PERCUSSION
Kevin Bennett
*Max Davidowitz
Daniel Holt
*Ryan Keeth
Thomas Slap
TUBA
Jack Carbeck
Elizabeth Levy
SYMPHONIC BAND
Paul Ketchen, director
* 2014-15 Senior District Participant
FLUTE
Abigail D’Angelo
Meredith Eagar
Lydia Fick
Isabella Ghiozzi
Christine Hraiz
Meredith Hughes
Linda Lee
Ainslee McMullin
Maya Nagashima
Jennifer Nardone
Ann Pan
Ana-Maria Poole
Lisbeth Quinin
Shabnam Rafieizadeh
Erica Sorenson
Yinou Shi
Sarah Tymm
CLARINET
Leena Abdelghany
Nina Ellard
Fiona Grant
Nate Green
Brian Huang
Andrew Park
Nanako Tokuo
**Andy Zhang
OBOE
Naomi Arsenault
Olivia Bible
Nicholas Jones
Liora Gut
ALTO SAXOPHONE
Tobias Green
Thomas Moyles
Max Serrano
Matthew Thompson
Arthur Tzouvelis
BASS CLARINET
Emma Taylor
Feruz Nurhussien
BASSOON
Charlotte Alexin
Sophia Epstein
Helena Wetzel
TENOR SAXOPHONE
Jessica Rosenstein
Charles Yeh
BARITONE
SAXOPHONE
Ilan Barnoon
FRENCH HORN
Brian Alper
Leah Brahms
Grace Curtis
Elizabeth Lazenby
Linnea Metelmann
Audrey Tucker
TROMBONE
Samantha Casey
Brendan Walsh
**Tina Wang
EUPHONIUM
Won Young Jang
Mateo Saint-Ourens
CHAMBER SINGERS
TRUMPET
Alex Aleksandrov
Peter Berens
Antanig Boynerian
Philip Carvalho
Will Cheney
Eleanor Dash
Hyuk-Je Kwon
Ben Lazenby
Luke Peterson
Walker Thomas
Evan Wagner
TUBA
Sarah Nelson
Daniel Sokol
PERCUSSION
Nicolas Albano
Adelie Leabman
Joseph O’Leary
Maxwell Scenna
Sean Landers, Director
* 2014-15 Senior District Participant
SOPRANO
Caroline Burns
*Tenny Gregorian
Sophie Guzikowski
Tess Hayner
Isabella Jaen Maisonet
Annie Kaplan
Madison Kelts
Meggie MacAulay
Maerose Pepe
Grace Ramsey
Ritika Saxena
Lea Grace Swinson
ALTO
*Kate Amrein
Zoe Chase
*Jocelyn Cubstead
Hannah Haines
Katie LaRussa
Isabelle Luongo
*Anna Makar-Limanov
Solvay Metelmann
*Zoe Miner
Georgia Parsons
Nicole Thoma
Rachel Wang
TENOR
*Lucas Cmok Kehoe
Benjy Cunningham
Victor Dankens
Nick Hardy
*David Johnson
Owen Madden
*Noah Miller-Medzon
*Neal Mulani
*Edward Stafford
Swapnil Thapa
BASS
Alex Berets
*Devon Carter
*David Dignan
Peter Durkin
*Noah Johnston
*David Korn
Wilder Manion
*Guy Parsons
Luke Polcari
*Bryan Scordino
*Thomas Zembowicz
FRESHMAN WOMEN’S CHORUS
Sean Landers, Director
* 2014-15 Senior District Participant
SOPRANOS
Lilikoi Bronson
Jacqueline Bussin
Margaret Cameron
Miriam Cubstead
Julia Cunningham
Lillian Devitt
Caitlin Fowler
*Mary Galstian
Seneca Hart
Alice Hashemi
Navya Jain
Sophie Lefebvre
Christina Noonan
Elena Parsons
Natalie Peterson
Olivia Pierce
Tess Stromberg
Georgia Sundahl
Ana Turner
Victoria Zarkadas
ALTOS
Anelise Allen
Alexia Assimakopoulos
Belle Carbeck
Emily-Claire Duffy
Eliza Filler
Autumn Galindo
Margaret Higgins
*Eva Hill
Liza Hote
Allison Hughes
Amelia Ickes
MEN’S CHORALE
Gayane Kaligian
Taylor MacEwen
Isabelle Maniscalco
Natalie Marcus-Bauer
Rebecca Salame
Rebecca Schwartz
Mahima Sindhu
Mary Tolan
Shira Vilvosky
Sean Landers, Director
* 2014-15 Senior District Participant
TENOR
John Adetoye
Joshua Alasso
Thomas Ballard
James Boyle
*Benjamin Crocker
William Domeniconi
Shodai Inose
Brian Kleckner
Nicholas Krom
Nicolai Kruglov
BASS
*Oliver Leeb
Owen Luo
Raffi Manjikian
Kevin Martin
James Pollock
Tyler Reynolds
*Michael Rodriguez
Joshua Ryan
Zachary Steward
*Samuel Bastille
Antony Bulat
Albert Chen
*Eli Dearden
Adam Deese
Jeremy Evans
William Findlay
George Fitzgerald
Bradley Harvey
Caleb Henman
WOMEN’S CHORALE
Luke Hopkins
William Lozano
James McNamara
Alec Morin
Sebastian Newell
Brian O’Neil
*Connor Quinn
Samuel Rogers
Dillon Sheehan
Sean Landers, Director
* 2014-15 Senior District Participant
SOPRANO
Allison Arsenault
Melissa BazakasChamberlain
Kristina Carvalho
Ava Colasin
Mila Hristova
Cheyenne Isaac
Miranda Landeata
Katherine Mabbott
Toricah Nakigudde
Quincy Webb
ALTO
Emily Cummings
Lucinda Dearden
Maija Kubasek
Samrina Lamichane
Eden Mequanent
Alexandra Moran
Natalie Salame
Suryanka Thapa
Molly Thomas
Ashley Townshend
Naomi Tuber
Samari Winklaar
Belmont Public Schools
Department of Fine & Performing Arts
Mission Statement
The mission of the Belmont Public Schools Department of Fine and Performing Arts is to educate all students
in a supportive, nurturing and challenging environment by providing them with the skills, knowledge and
opportunities for expression in art, music, drama and dance that enable them to participate actively as
consumers and makers of the arts in a diverse global community.
The Belmont Public Schools Department of Fine and Performing Arts has been recognized
nationally for its dedication to excellence in the area of arts education. The Belmont High
School performing ensembles you will hear this evening are regarded as some of the most
outstanding student ensembles in New England. Fifty-nine of the students performing this
evening have been selected to perform in the Massachusetts Music Educators Northeast
District band, chorus, orchestra and jazz ensemble, earning them a place among the most
exceptional high school musicians in the state.
The music students and performing ensembles at Belmont High School are the most publicly
visible component of our Music Department, receiving a great deal of praise and recognition
throughout the community. However, the foundation for the success of the high school music
program begins at each elementary school with a comprehensive General Music curriculum
and the beginning of our instrumental music program. The work continues at Chenery
Middle School, where students perform in some of the finest middle school ensembles in the
region. It is the work of the talented and dedicated teachers at the elementary and middle
school levels that make it possible for our high school program to flourish.
Belmont Public Schools K-12 Music Faculty
Vickie Livermore Katherine Hayashi
Craig McMahan Rosanne Mili Nathaniel Haywood
John McLellan
Laura Messina
Christine Moser
Sharon Phipps
Morgan Scagliotti-Driban
CMS Music
CMS Bands & Elementary Instrumental Music
Elementary Strings
CMS Chorus
CMS Bands & Elementary Instrumental Music
Elementary Strings
BHS Bands, Director of Fine & Performing Arts
BHS Bands, Music Electives & Elementary Brass
BHS Chorus
BHS & CMS Orchestras
Arto Asadoorian
Paul Ketchen
Sean Landers
Margot Reavey
K-4 Music, Burbank
K-4 Music, Winn Brook & Pre-K Music, Wellington
K-4 Music, Wellington
K-4 Music, Butler
The opportunity for our students and teachers to make music on such a high level is
dependent upon the support of several individuals and institutions in our community.
Their commitment to support arts education in our schools is vital to the overall success
of our programs.
Above all others, credit for the success of our programs goes to the students themselves –
for the hours upon hours of practice and rehearsal time they log, and for their dedication
over many years to their love of music. Support from their parents – embodied by our
booster organization, Parents of Music Students (POMS) – is vital not only to the musical
achievement of each individual student, but to the overall success of the music program.
For more information on how to become active in POMS, please visit
www.belmontPOMS.weebly.com.
Special thanks for their support of tonight’s program:
John Phelan, Superintendent of Schools
Janice Darias, Assistant Superintendent
Members of the Belmont School Committee
Daniel Richards, Belmont High School Principal
Sherri Turner and John Muldoon, Assistant Principals
Noreen Duggan, Department of Fine and Performing Arts Secretary
The BHS Custodial Staff
Members of the BHS Chapter of Tri-M, music honor society
Follow the Belmont Public School Dept. of Fine & Performing Arts on Twitter,
@BelmontFPA