Blog Posts

North Georgia Honor Orchestra

9/19/2021

Four of our students participated in the North Georgia Honor Orchestra at Kennesaw State University Bailey School of Music last night, and it was thrilling! Check out the pictures below. After so many months of social distancing and online engagement, seeing an orchestra of this magnitude and this level of musicianship was truly incredible!

Sharing Student Accomplishments

9/5/2021

4 of our orchestra students will be representing Roswell High School at North Georgia Honor Orchestra! Congratulations to Olivia Getz ('23, Bass), Liam Cozonac ('24, Bass), Erik Dukes ('22, Bass), and Zoë Nixon ('22, Cello). Participation in honor orchestras require more than just musical talent - these students are developing leadership skills and community commitment as well.

Bass player Liam Cozonac ('24) has been accepted into the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, the most prestigious youth orchestra in the state of Georgia. It's a high commitment level with some exciting performance opportunities. He'll receive coaching from top professionals in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and he'll be performing alongside Atlanta's top high school musical talent.

We're so proud of what our students are doing at Roswell High School! With more auditions to come this year, we'll be showcasing even more students. Stay tuned!

Orchestra loves its seniors!

8/28/2021

Roswell High School Orchestra has so many seniors this year, and we're so excited to share this this year with all of them! We have plans for an incredible year, and we couldn't do it without these amazing seniors setting a great example for their younger peers. A big shout-out to all of our musicians in the class of 2022!

Ready to volunteer?

8/24/2021

The first 2021-2022 parent meeting was a success! Thank you to everyone who attended! If you were unable to join us for the meeting, don't worry - an email is coming soon with all the details you'll need for a great year in orchestra.
We have a full year ahead of us with lots of opportunities for parents to volunteer. In order to gain approval to volunteer in the school system, Fulton County requires each adult to go through a registration process. You can find and complete that process here, and your registration as a volunteer is active for two years. After you register, please reach out to our Booster Club volunteer coordinator, Rachel Wilson, to let her know you're official! Rachel can be reached at rachelw65 (at) gmail.com.

Welcome back!

8/8/2021

I am so excited to welcome all the students back tomorrow at RHS! This will be my 25th year of teaching (9 years at CMS/RNES and 16 years at RHS!) We have SO many exciting events happening this year. We will be hosting LGPE in February for District V GMEA, the Chamber Orchestra was accepted to perform at the ASTA (American String Teachers Association) National Orchestra Festival in Atlanta, and we were invited to perform for Disney's 50th Anniversary in March of 2022. We have an amazing class of seniors graduating and lots to celebrate this year. I am looking forward to all of it!

I have sent the performance schedule for the year via email. It can also be found on the events page on this website. Please add dates to your calendars as soon as possible.

School instrument rentals are open to 9th graders first, and then other families. The process is payment through OSP on the RHS website. This is currently up and running. Once the rental fee is completed I will fill out the rental form for the instrument. All violins and violas should bring a lock (no key locks please) to lock up their individual instrument in the new lockers the county installed this summer!
I look forward to a wonderful year!

Thanks, Ms. White-Farnell