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Castelli Presents Awards To Greeley Music Students

Students, teachers honored for recent appearances and performances in Albany.

Ninth-grade orchestra and band students at Horace Greeley High School were treated to a special event Friday when Assemblyman Robert Castelli stopped by to present them with Assembly Certificates of Merit for their performance in Albany during the New York State Music in Our Schools Month earlier this year.

Castelli stopped by the orchestra first and presented certificates to the students, as well as an award to H. Davis Knobloch, the orchestra director.

He then stopped by to the band, and while the students were technically in class, some of them took decided to play their instruments during the event, making for a very lively atmosphere.

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One by one, students came to receive their certificates, with Castelli offering handshakes. Band Director Raymond Lucia was also honored with an award.

When asked what it was like to get an award, Knobloch said that it was great and that it was an honor when he got a phone call saying that Castelli would come.

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Lucia was also glad to have him stop by.

"I think it's really, really nice of the assemblyman to come down, visit us, see the kids," he said. Lucia also said that Castelli had met with them when they were in Albany to perform.

"Oh it's tremendous, it makes me incredibly happy," Castelli said when asked what it was like to come and present the awards to the orchestra and band.

Below is the full list of students (provided by Lucia) who are part of the orchestra and band:

Ninth-Grade Orchestra

Violin I

Olivia Baker-Sullivan

Kathleen Chen

Darren Cheng

Nicole Lee Fella

Eileen Huang

Peter Kim

Angela Liu

Margaret Liu

Charles Markowitz

Eva Sibinga

Violin II

Maya Anand

Margot Barclay

Katherine Codino

Gabrielle May

Hannah Miller

Juliana Posen

Jiayi Peng

Luke Sorensen

Claire Sparks

Amy Wang

Bing Bing Xie

Viola

Maura Grant

Benjamin Lucas

Sammy Tugendhaft

Christine Yoon

Cello

Annabel Baker-Sullivan

Rebecca Fisher

Chris Koster

Sara McElheny

Jessica Odrich

Matthew Soule

Lily Wolfensohn

String Bass

Eugene Bisdikian

Brian Steiner

Band

Flute

Elisabeth Ashikari

Claire Cohen

Kathleen Duncalf

Julia Lin

Leah Katz

Aparna Nathan

Clarinet

Elizabeth Barry

Stefanie Barry

Cheehong Chia

Bass Clarinet

Nir Tomer

Oboe

Anne Hart

Alto Saxaphone

Madeline Clough

Benjamin Ehrlich

Risten Clarke

Joshua Kogan

Molly Olonoff

Walker Reiss

Jonathan Renzulli

Matthew Xie

Tenor Saxophone

Ariane Crummer

Patrick Shaia

Ian Sklar

Baritone Saxaphone

Tim Bloom

Trumpet

Armand Ghersin

Aaron Blacker

William Hansen

Brent Lobien

Alexandra Whittaker

Trombone

Josh Katz

David Duhamel

Tuba

Charlie Bloom

Percussion

Jackson Dammann

Neil Hershman

Nathaniel Rosenberg

Mathew Valenti

Timpani

Dan Borenstein

Mallets/Keyboard

Daniel Scharf


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