Founded in 2016, the Civic Orchestra of Jacksonville is a 501(C)3 not-for-profit community orchestra. We are sixty-plus avid musicians— professionals, skilled amateurs, and talented students aged 18 to 88. We’re of Jacksonville, but we’re from all over the First Coast! Some of us live in JAX neighborhoods such as Mandarin, Southside, Northside Downtown and Riverside. Others come from Orange Park, Doctors Inlet, Penney Farms, Ponte Vedra, Fleming Island, the Beaches, St Augustine and even Waycross, Georgia. We’re diverse—ethnically and vocationally. Among us you’ll find schoolteachers, engineers, stay-at-home parents, academics, pastors, computer technicians, graphic designers, artists, first-responders, weavers, nurses, members of the military, accountants, consultants, physicists, and physicians.
Civic Orchestra Members Resources
| Fall 2022 Members of the Civic Orchestra: |
| Violin I Christopher D’avilar, Concertmaster Beth Shorstein Bill Brown Yushan Li Angie Bussone Kelly Swanson |
| Violin II Aaron Vaughn King Olivia Wright Johnathan Lindsay Stan Lovenworth Nadine Terk Cindy Zarsky |
| Viola Leah Kosiek Anne Nasrallah Daniel Zotti Mariana Boswell Caroline Golson Christian Cherubini |
| Cello Sydney Sloan Mariann Shae Ian Rivera Cassie Preminger Bette Richards Marco Melendez Jennifer Barrett |
| Bass Al Davis Matthew Thomas |
| Oboe Barrie Mosher Tyler Chaney Henry Dubose David Avery |
| English Horn Barrie Mosher |
| Flute Antoinette Harrison Patty Maddox |
| Piccolo/Flute Cynthia Powell |
| Clarinet Molly Sweet Kimberly Barnhart William Roberts Bass Clarinet Robert Nobles |
| Bassoon Lucinda Mosher Gabrielle Prieto |
| Trumpet Bill Watson Larry Velazquez-Abreu Katie Montgomery |
| Trombone David Fletcher Jared Fletcher Ana Simmons |
| French Horn Mostafa Alattar Alison McCarty Sally Newton Jeffrey Otey Michael Fletcher |
| Tuba Glen Turn |
| Percussion Pat Brown Luke Freeman Mathew Hickox Randy Wright |
| Harp Nadezhda Shpak |
| Piano Scott Watkins |