Participants

About: 

The Hickory Ridge High School Choral Ensemble is a collaborative group comprised of students from three ensembles from within the HRHS Choral Department. Hickory Ridge High School is located in Harrisburg, North Carolina, and we are home of the Ragin’ Bulls! HRHS has a tradition of excellence in the fine arts, specifically choral music. Students have competed and received Superior ratings at state and national festivals for over a decade.

Fun Fact: 

This will be the first international trip for the HRHS Choral Ensemble, but we are very excited to spend this first out-of-the-country trip in beautiful Rome!

Social Media

Website: www.cabarrus.k12.nc.us

Instagram: @hrhschorus

About:

Since its inception in the Fall of 2009, the Lambert Chorus Program has worked as a part of the Lambert Performing Arts Department to present high-quality choral performances. Under the direction of Mr. Ryan Wason, the Choruses have consistently received Superior ratings at Georgia state festivals. The Choruses actively collaborate with the Lambert Orchestras and Bands, including the Southeastern United States premiere of R. Daniel Holt’s “A Celtic Mass” in 2017.

Fun Fact:

In 2015, the Choruses were invited to participate in the London International Choral Festival and are excited to perform as a part of the Rome New Year’s Day Festivities.

Social Media

Facebook: @LambertChorus

About:

Lambert High School is proud that it is the first orchestra programme to be established in Forsyth County, Georgia. The Chamber Orchestra was established in 2011 and under the direction of Julie Rosseter and Elizabeth Alvarez, it has distinguished itself by its commitment to excellence, creative collaboration, and community service. The LHS Chamber Orchestra performed to great acclaim at the 2016 Magnolia Chamber Music Festival and later won the Grand Prize at the Feis Na Tara Music Competition.

Fun Fact:

In 2017, the orchestra played the Southeastern premiere of The Celtic Mass by Rick Holt. Most recently the orchestra was invited to perform with world-renowned composer and pianist, Malek Jandali, for the 2018 Pianos for Peace Festival.

Social Media

Website: www.lamberthsband.com

Twitter: @LambertHSBand

Facebook: @LambertHSBand

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This will be the 23rd European performance of the Big Easy Jazz Ambassadors. Originally called the Big Easy Jazz Ensemble, they first performed in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and were such a big hit with the Dutch that they returned to Maastricht for the next two years.

A junior version of the Big Easy Jazz Ensemble, made up of high school students, marched in the Millennium Parade in Paris on January 1st 2000. The newly renamed, Big Easy Jazz Ambassadors, with a mix of adult professional, semi-professional and amateur musicians all hailing from the cradle of Jazz, New Orleans, has performed in London, Edinburgh, Venice, Rome, Frascati, Paris, Chantilly, Madrid, Prague and Budapest.

This group of individual musicians all play at different venues during the year and come together once a year for their annual European tour. They are always accompanied by their ‘Second-Liners’ who are performers that do not play music but dress in traditional New Orleans colours, dance and throw beads to the crowd, Mardi Gras Style!

Fun Fact: 

This year the group has transported an amazing 300lbs, nearly 200kgs, of authentic Mardi Gras beads for the parade. Yell “Throw me something, mister”, and you could be walking away festooned with them.