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 (Alphabetically by instrument): |
| Violin I Christopher D’avilar, Concertmaster Bill Brown Angie Bussone John Chen Jenny Edwards Beth Shorstein Olivia Wright |
| Violin II Kara Hooker Lisa Blizzard Stan Lovenworth Syanne Potts Cathy Stevens Nadine Terk Cindy Zarsky |
| Viola Abigail Gruber Mariana Boswell Robert Donaldson Warren Donaldson Leah Kosiek Daniel Zotti |
| Cello Jennifer Barrett Cassie Preminger Bette Richards Kristina Schaberg Mariann Shae Sydney Sloan |
| Bass Al Davis Matthew Thomas |
| Oboe David Avery Barrie Mosher |
| Flute Antoinette Harrison Patty Maddox Maggie Moczynski |
| Piccolo/Flute Cynthia Powell |
| Clarinet Molly Sweet Kimberly Barnhart |
| Bassoon Lucinda Mosher Gabrielle Prieto |
| Trumpet Ace Martin Larry Velasquez-Abreu Bill Watson |
| Trombone Rob Hagen Jill Sherrod |
| French Horn Mostafa Alattar Carine Cerny Alison McCarty Sally Newton Jeffrey Otey |
| Tuba Greg Turn |
| Percussion Pat Brown Luke Freeman Kyla Sebens Randy Wright |
| Harp Nadezhda Shpak |
| Piano Scott Watson |