Alison Chace

Violin, Rock Hill High School, 2006

"The violin makes music because it sits

just above the heart.

But how can you connect the two

unless you feel the music?"
-

"The Sandy Bottom Orchestra"

1st teacher  Mr. Jacob Dakon

Sarah Cleaton

Viola, Marietta, GA. Walton High School, 2006.

"Just remember... it's music theory, not music law."

1st teacher   Mr. Chris Doemel

Jordan Galvarino

Dorman High School, 2008

Violoncello

“Always B-Sharp,
Never B-Flat,
And Always B-Natural.”
-Written on a plaque in my first orchestra teacher’s room

1st teacher Ms. Amy Strahm

Lauren Garber

Chattahoochee High School, 2008
Violin
"What is best in music is not to be found in the notes." Gustav Mahler

Hunter Harris

Greer High School, 2007

Viola

"The viola-a violin with a college education" William Primrose

1st teacher Ms. Sara Rose

Taniesha Hines

Bass, Woodbridge,VA.

Forest Park High School, 2006.

"Music is not obtained by how many notes are put in front of us, instead our character is revealed by how we

translate them."

1st teacher Mr. Larry Casey

Monica Johnston

Viola, West Columbia, SC.

Brookland-Cayce High School, 2006.

"I had become a violist full-fledged.

I had burned all my bridges.

I had walked the Damascus road,

seen the light, repented of past transgressions, and turned to the viola."~William Primrose.

Dalton Lugo

Viola, White Knoll H.S. (Lexington, SC)

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only be changed through music." ~Jimi Hendrix

First Teacher, Frida Ritter

Robert Marshall

Lassiter High School, 2008

Violoncello

"The art of interpretation is not

to play what is written." Pablo Casals

1st teacher  Mrs. Tromblee

Meredith Miller

Mauldin High School/Greenville Fine Arts Center 2007 

"A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence." 

-Leopold Stokowski

Mauldin High School/Greenville Fine Arts Center 2007 

"A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence." 

-Leopold Stokowski

Joanne Mosquera

William Floyd High School, 2008

Violoncello

"A painter paints pictures on canvas, but

musicians paint their pictures on

silence." Leopold Stokowski

1st teacher   Chris Shaughnessy

Rachel Myers

High School: W.T. Woodson
Hometown: Fairfax, VA

"Doing music is a way of finding out who you are"--Yo Yo Ma

1st Teacher: Alice Vierra

Elizabeth Riley

Cello, Lexington High School, 2007

“When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.” -Mstislav Rostropovich

1st teacher    Ms. Kristen Kirby

Christina Robin

Chelsea Schwoyer

Violin, Hartsville, SC.

Trinity Collegiate School, 2006.

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Auerbach

Clayton Watkins

Brooke Weaver

Cello, East Marion NY

Bayport-Blue Point H.S., 2006

"When you begin to see a pattern in the visual world around you, you begin to see music."