2025-2026
🎉Congratulations to WTHS Senior Melody & VHHS Senior Francesca!🎉
Both students have been selected to participate in the
ILMEA District 7 Festival.
This ‘25 - ‘26 concert season please enjoy a live orchestra performance with me at Symphony847, The Lake County Symphony or Milwaukee’s Festival City Symphony .
Please enjoy this performance of
The Turtle Dove
written by Gwyneth Walker for oboe and strings.
Symphony847 YouTube channel.
Each year students audition for the ILMEA festival and All State Bands.
Students are encouraged to play along side experienced performers. In this photo is Andy Nisipeanu. He went on to med school after performing in the All State band in 2020.
We perform in ensembles and solo for our local Senior living community as well as friends and family.
At our ‘23 recital, Kelsi performed the Hindemith Oboe Sonata mvt. 1; Melody performed the Haydn Oboe Concerto mvt. 1; Ava performed the Nielsen Fantasy Pieces mvt. 1; Francesca performed the Mozart Oboe Concerto mvt. 1 and I performed Inside the Box, Outside the Box by Alyssa Morris. Our fabulous accompanist was Juliane Strelau Koscinski. She was also my HS oboe teacher!
At our ‘24 recital we performed Hedwig’s Theme from Harry Potter by John Williams in an arrangement by M. Sierov for oboe ensemble and piano. Juliane Strelau Koscinski was our accompanist. Other pieces performed were the Oboe Concerto by Grandval, the Saint-Saëns sonata, and Six Studies in English Folksong by RV Williams, Parable of a Stormy Sea by Alyssa Morris, Minuet in G by JS Bach and etudes by AMR Barret. It was a very enjoyable experience for all. So well prepared!👏
Performing in the Lake County Symphony was Senior Kelsi Mulley, along with her first oboe teacher Sarah Farster and myself.
Performers at our summer recital 2025: (Right to left) Francesca Gaus Ehning, Lucas Wertman, Alex Brink, Ava Hoxsie, Kari Caldwell, Kelsi Mulley, Melody Cheong, Julie Koscinski (our accompanist)
Our 2025 Recital Program. The theme was Brokenvention - combining the old with the new.