Carlsbad High School & Aviara Oaks Middle School Marina Hall has been the Orchestra Director at Carlsbad High School and Aviara Oaks Middle School since 2007. She began playing violin in the second grade in the Carlsbad Strings Education Association program then began private instruction with Bridget Dolkas and Hernan Constantino. At CHS under Gunnar Biggs, she served as Concertmaster for 4 years while also performing with San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra and accompanied them on their European tour. In 2007, Miss Hall graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, participating in USC's Symphony and Chamber Orchestra. She Marina Hall played with special honorees Randy Conductor Newman, Bobby McFerrin, Robert Mann, and Burt Bacharach for Thornton Dickens Dinners. Miss Hall has also played with soloists Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman. She has also performed in Yamaha s NAMM Show, accompanying artists Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and Fire, John Legend, Isaac Slade, Sara Bareilles, Natalie Cole, Vince Gill, Michael McDonald, and John Ondrasik. While at USC she served as Program Coordinator for the Thornton Outreach Program, working with the Midori Center for Community Engagement and House of Blues Guitar Masters program. MIss Hall continues to play the violin for summer musicals at Vista s Moonlight Amphitheater. She has recently completed her Masters in Music Education Degree from USC.
About the Music Program
Carlsbad High School About 65 CHS students participate in two string orchestras. The Chamber Orchestra, comprised of perform four 9-12th, concerts per year at Cultural Arts CHS Center as well as Music in the Parks Festivals each spring. The CHS Orchestra attends Heritage Festivals, most notably performing in Carnegie Hall in 2009.
CARLSBAD HIGH SCHOOL Chamber Orchestra Cello Violin Emma Allen Rebecca Acquarelli Natalie Brdlik Gillian Allen Jordan Newman Sarah Cho Samuel Oakes Allyson Choi Joshua Seemann Pearse Early Andrew Tarman Jiana Huang Tyra Wu Ray Inoue Jessica Jenkins Bass Lucy Li Victoria Correll Sandra Shin Remy Smith Brock Stuessi Viola Jerome Watts Jerry Cheng Allison Fleischer Matthew Johnson Ben Loew Matthew Oertle
About the Music Program Aviara Oaks Middle School The string orchestra program at AOMS has about 100 students in three string orchestras. The Advanced Orchestra, comprised of 7th and 8th graders, performs four concerts per year at Carlsbad High School s Cultural Arts Center as well as one performance at Disneyland each April.
AVIARA OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL Advanced Orchestra Violin Bridget Babcock Sarah Coffey Ryan Coval Olivia Dang Kevin Huynh Andy Kao Nils Methot Tiffany Nguyen Bryant Phan Michelle She Erica Weng Lauren Zane Julia Zeng Viola Gillian Smith Lauren Weissenberger Cello Joon-ha Bae Phillipe Cagan William Dong William Geiler Jasper Lam Dustin Shin Bass Mason Lin Natali McCaslin Cole Saunders Danny Wood