News & Annoucements

Congratulations to students accepted into the 2025 Virginia All-State Orchestra!

3/7/2025

Congratulations to the following orchestra students for placing into this year’s Virginia All-State Orchestra!

Violin
Sophia Wang

Viola
Guillermo Javierre Carmona
Livia Nhan

Cello
Chloe Jeong

Students auditioned amongst hundreds of highly skilled student musicians and will participate in a special performance alongside student musicians from around the state this April in Richmond, Virginia!

2025 German Exchange Trip

2/5/2025

Last week (January 24 through February 2, 2025), the McLean Philharmonic Orchestra traveled to Detmold, Germany to participate in their annual exchange program with the Grabbe Gymnasium. While in Germany, students played side-by-side rehearsals with the Detmold Youth Orchestra daily, while also sightseeing and learning about German history and culture. Students were welcomed to Detmold by visits by both the Mayor of Detmold and Prince of Lippe, both of which educated students on the region’s rich history of music. The small city of Detmold is most well-known for it’s world-reowned Conservatory for Music, featuring a state of the art wave field synthesis system, where students learn about the power of acoustics. The trip came to its peek with a side-by-side concert featuring the American and German orchestras performing Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony,” Grieg’s “Sigurd Jorsalfar Suite,” Polar Express, and more. The trip ended with a day trip to Cologne as well as a day trip to Amsterdam before returning home.

McLean HS Students Accepted into the 2024-2025 Senior District 12 Honors Orchestra

11/21/2024

We want to extend a large congratulations to the following students who auditioned for and were accepted into the Senior District 12 Honors Orchestra, which will take place on January 10 & 11th at Marshall High School:

1st VIOLIN
David Ahn
Emily Moon
Richard Deng
Elise-Sabel Amde-Delattre
Anna Mashaie

2nd VIOLIN
Mason Luczycki
Sarah Tao
Alexander Ham

ALTERNATE VIOLINS
Olivia Lee
Anna Wang

VIOLA
Sean Chee
Olivia Nguyen

CELLO
James David
Jacob Xu

Thank you to all of the students who put in the hard work and time to audition.

Students Accepted into the 2024 Northern Virginia Senior Regional Orchestra

10/4/2024

Congratulations are in order to the following students who auditioned for and were accepted into the 2024 Northern Virginia Senior Regional Orchestra! The students listed below auditioned alongside students from Fairfax County, Arlington County, Alexandria City, private and home schools and have been chosen to perform in a full symphony under the direction of Dietrich Parades on November 9th at Hayfield SS. McLean High School is extremely proud to have had so many talented students accepted into this prestigious orchestra!

VIOLIN:
Sophia Wang
Jackson Winn
Alice Kim

VIOLA:
Guillermo Javierre Carmona
Livia Nhan

CELLO:
Chloe Jeong
Caleb Han

HARP:
Goldie Woods

BASSOON:
Muyang Zhang

PERCUSSION:
Fintan Murphy

McLean HS Violinist Ryan Chun takes 1st Place in U.S. Army Young Artists Competition, Goldie Woods Receives Honorable Mention

4/17/2024

Ryun Chun, violin

Ms. Smith and the MHSO are so extremely proud of violinist Ryan Chun, who recently won 🥇 1st place in the Strings Division of the 2024 U.S. Army Orchestra Young Artist Competition with his ravishing performance of the 3rd movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto! Having won the competition, he will be performing in a concert on May 17, 2024 at Schlesinger Concert Hall featuring Young Artist competition winners and side-by-side with the Army Orchestra.

We are also excited to mention that harpist Goldie Woods received an Honorable Mention and will also be performing on May 17th.

The concert is free to the public and we hope to see you there!

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Congratulations to students accepted into the 2025 Virginia All-State Orchestra!

2025 German Exchange Trip

McLean HS Students Accepted into the 2024-2025 Senior District 12 Honors Orchestra

Students Accepted into the 2024 Northern Virginia Senior Regional Orchestra

McLean HS Violinist Ryan Chun takes 1st Place in U.S. Army Young Artists Competition, Goldie Woods Receives Honorable Mention

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