Winter LGPE Camp Schedule January 20-21, 2017

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Winter LGPE Camp Schedule January 20-21, 2017

Friday 1/20 5:00-9:00pm

  • 5:00-5:20pm – Check-In (Music Lobby outside chorus room) $35 Registration Fee(This fee is included for LHSOA Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze Donors)
  • 5:30pm All Orchestra Students Meet in the Concert Hall for Start of Camp
  • 6:00-9:00pm Rehearsals with Ensemble Clinicians

Saturday 1/21 8:30am-5:00pm

  • 8:30am-1:30pm – Rehearsals/Sectionals
  • 1:30 – 2:15pm Lunch in Cafeteria (Bring sack lunch & your own water bottle) – 2:20 – 5:00pm – Rehearsals/Sectionals
  • 5:00pm – Lassiter Orchestra Movie Night in the Orchestra Room

Ensemble Spaces

  • Chamber I – Concert Hall
  • Chamber II – Band Room
  • Sinfonia I – Orchestra Room
  • Sinfonia II – Chorus Room

Sectional Spaces

  • Violins – Ensemble Space
  • Viola – Lobby of Concert Hall
  • Cello – Back Ensemble Room (Mirrors)
  • Bass – Back Orchestra Room

Clinicians- Chamber I: Georgia

  • Chamber I: Georgia Ekonomou, Emory Junior Chamber Orchestra
  • Chamber II: Sara Payne, Roswell High School
  • Sinfonia I: John Thayer, Sprayberry High School
  • Sinfonia II: TBD

– Viola: Anne Stevens – Cello: Harrison Cook – Bass: Tina Caterino

About the Clinicians

  • Georgia Ekonomou has been a String Educator/Conductor in Georgia for 38 years. Her teaching career began in the Fulton County Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. After teaching in the public schools for a number of years, she became the Director of Orchestras at the Lovett School in Atlanta. From 1990-2003, Ekonomou served as assistant conductor of the “Georgia Tech Orchestra”, “Emory Symphony Orchestra” and the “Georgia University Orchestra”.A violinist, she performs with the Atlanta Opera Orchestra, and has performed with the Woman’s Jazz Orchestra of Los Angeles, the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, the Emory Chamber Players and other ensembles in the Atlanta area. In 1991, she was awarded Lovett’s Woodward Award for excellence in teaching. She presently conducts the Atlanta Junior Chamber Orchestra, the preparatory orchestra of the Emory Symphony Youth Orchestra.
  • Sara Payne graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans with a Bachelor’s in Music Education and is in her twentieth year as an Orchestra Director with Fulton County Schools. In the 2014-2015 school year, Mrs. Payne was awarded the Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction Award from the National Society of High School Scholars. She has also been recognized by MIT as being especially influential in student development. Mrs. Payne maintains a private teaching studio of violin and viola students and is an active member of the Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra.
  • John Thayer is a graduate of Florida State University and is currently the Director of Orchestras at Sprayberry High School. Mr. Thayer studied violin with Beth Newdome and Corrine Stillwell, and remains active as an orchestral player. Prior to coming to Georgia, Mr. Thayer was an active performer with the Mobile Symphony, the Lancaster Festival Orchestra and the Tallahassee Symphony, where he was associate concertmaster.
  • Anne Stevens, Viola Section Coach (Simpson Orchestra Director)
  • Harrison Cook, Cello Section Coach (Simpson Assistant Orchestra Director)
  • Tina Caterino, Bass Section Coach (Freelance Musician)