Cecilian Music Club Presents 21st Annual Monster Concert

(pictured Judith
Meisels and Sophia Hu)

On January 20, 2019, the
Cecilian Music Club was proud to present our Twenty-First Annual
Monster Concert, an ensemble of baby grand pianos, with Therese
Whelan conducting. Repertoire ranged from Schubert's “Marche
Militaire” and Bach's “Gavotte” from the French Suite, to
Bernstein's “America” and Bill Readdy's “Buffalo Boogie.”

The students who
performed in this concert were: Aurora Aganon, Kaustubha Akella,
Christian Amyx, Mackenzie Amyx, Alisa Avetisyan, Davit Avetisyan,
Larisa Avetisyan, Akshat Awasthi, Anugraha Awasthi, Gabriele Balkius,
Gray Barnum, Louisa Barnum, Kendall Bennett, Ryan Bennett, Ayush
Bhagirath, Saumya Bhandarkar, Isabel Bigos, Mahika Calyanakoti,
Reghav Calyanakoti, Ritika Calyanakoti, William Casey, Cassandra
Cavanagh, Dana Chan, Eline Chen, Vivien Cheng, Sophia Cheung, Alyson
Chiang, Cameron Chin, Valerie Choong, Wesley Choong, Liz Columbo,
Jacquelyn Conforti, Tori Cundy, Sandra Cusack, Aliza Dachs, Dassi
Dachs, Sara Dachs, Darryn Dizon, Noah Duguma, Adelene Dundi, Elaine
Dundi, Maggie Earhart, Isabella Fedele, Maria Fedele, Dylan
Fitzgerald, Kieran Fitzgerald, Mia Fitzgerald,Nicholas French,
Alyanna Frias, Emily Gangi, Abbie Gresek, Emily Guo, Laurina Guo,
Ananya Gupta, Urvika Gupta, Christopher Hall, Justin Ham, Andrew
Herh, Grace Hewitt, Carlos Hontanosas, Maegan Hontanosas, Raeann
Hontanosas, Sophia Hu, Robert Ill, Christianna Ishak, Edward Ishak,
Gabriella Ishak, Josh Joji, Azra Joseph, Cynthia Kalaivan, Steven
Kapp, Shawn Karaty, Athena Komitas, Isha Korgaonkar, Yash Korgaonkar,
Chamber Lam, Ellie Lam, Lukas Latvys, Aiden Lawlor, Brendan Lawlor,
John Lebitsch, Rebecca Lehner, Kayla Leung, Benjamin Lin, Daniel Lin,
Jenna Lin, Kayleigh Lin, Cayla Lloyd, Stephen Lu, Tiffany Lu, Miranda
Lynch, Kamile Makselyte, Moira Malhotra, Hayden Marciszewski, Sabrina
Marciszewski, Dylan McGowan, Aria Mendoza, Ani Mouradian, Vahn
Mouradian Lauren Mundy, Keshav Nair, Cecilia Newman, Matthew Newman,
Edison Nie, Ethan Nie, Josiah Orsag, Phoebe Orsag, Tiffani Paglia,
Yalan Pang, Julia Papasso, Leo Passalaqua, Philip Passalaqua,
Daniella Perveev, Aldan Philipson, Lily Piccininni, Abishek Prakash,
Anirudh Prakash, Padma Prakash, Isabella Pruscino, Sophia Qiao,
Andrew Rabe, Karen Rabe, Trisha Raju, Caitlyn Respass, Anant Sabata,
Lauren Sabella, Darren Samson, Anthony Scalera, Giovanni Scaranni,
Lorenzo Scaranni, Emily Scarpa, Elizabeth Scarpa, Anika Seshan,
Catherine Shen, Christine Shen, Matthew Shen, Gavin Sheng, Sam
Silvestro, Aarya Sood, Vicki Sterling, Bethany Suliguin, Brianna
Suliguin, Cate Swansson, Clare Swansson, John Szumowski, Joann
Thomas, Samuel Thomas, Sophia Thomas, Maria Topuzyan, Liam Umbs,
Nicholle Weir-Shack, Autumn Whelan, Thomas Wong, Timothy Wong,
Natalie Wu, Rachel Yan, Benjamin Yao, Josephine Yao, Eva Yong, Kayla
Yong, Ryan Zhao, Xin Zheng, Kyson Zhou, Lilian Zhou, Aline Zhu, and
Jason Zhu.

Teachers who prepared
students for this concert and/or performed were: Colette Adams,
George Borisov, Jennifer Brush, Helen Bungert, Bing Bing Chang, Sarah
Chen, Yu Lien Chen, Dennis Cheng, Phemie Y. Chien, Bernice Cooperman,
Margaret S. Coston, Lisa Frost-Goodall, Richard Hendrickson, Irene
Kapp, Violeta Kundrotiene, Barbara Lerro, Elena Lin, Judith Meisels,
Karen Mulhall, Lucia Shen, Marina Strakovsky, Camille E. Thompson,
Heidi Valvano, Alan Wasserman, Therese Whelan, and An-li Young.

The Cecilian Music Club
was founded in 1883, by six women who pledged to practice an hour a
day or be fined 10 cents! It is composed of performers, teachers, and
music lovers dedicated to the study and performance of music. For
more information, or to be become a member, visit our website at
www.cecilianclub.org.