Student Spotlight

PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT

The Mater Dei String Ensemble Orchestra is one of our younger groups in the Instrumental Music program, yet continues to grow and develop every year. Under the direction of Mr Fernando Martinez, Director of Instrumental Music, and our String Instructor, Ms. Jinah Chung, these students learn the fundamentals of individual and group performance- all while having fun.

The String Ensemble participates in many concerts and performances throughout the year. The first half of our school year finds them in costumes as they perform Halloween pieces at the Instrumental Music concert Haunted Eve in October and in festive holiday dress for Christmas at the Corner in December. In the spring, our String Ensemble performs on stage at Chapman University’s Memorial Hall for La Primavera. They continue their musical growth as they prepare solo performances for the end of the semester and wrap up the school year playing at Mater Dei’s graduation ceremony.

I enjoy our classes most of all because we have lots of fun while learning and working on our music. I also enjoy strings because of the people that are involved with the program.

~ Daniel Rickmeyer, Sophomore I like playing in the MD Strings Ensemble Orchestra because it has a great teacher, nice kids, and this is what I really want to do, and I’m very comfortable in the class.

~ Sophie Conser, Freshman

Playing music with an amazing and funny group of people and learning from Ms. Chung makes orchestra fun. ~ Isabella Faccio, Junior