Congratulations!

Congratulations to my youngest who auditioned and made it into The Capitol Symphonic Youth Orchestra for 2021-22. She also auditioned for and was accepted into a String Sinfonietta in the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, but decided to decline that invitation and play in the full TCSYO instead. Both groups are highly competitive and she worked really hard for the auditions. We are proud of her. Being accepted into one of these groups was important this year as we pulled her out of the rapidly deteriorating public schools and put her into the Wittenberg Academy for High School. She'll receive a better education there, I believe - it is a classical education academy, and it also doesn't have all the extra nonsense the public schools seem so interested in these days. So since she won't be in the music program in school, she wanted to get into one of these orchestras. And she did! We're looking forward to a good year! :-)

If you'd like to listen to her play (from a little over a year ago - she's even better now!) here's a link to her playing a duet with her older sister. (Go to the 24:30 mark in the program for their duet - or listen to the whole recital!) This was part of here sister's senior recital for VCU which, sadly, had to go online. She was going to play it with her live on the VCU stage, but had to settle for the recording instead.