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
| Spring 2023 Members of the Civic Orchestra: |
| Violin I Timothy Edwards, Concertmaster Christopher D’avilar Beth Shorstein Jennifer John Ellen Judd Olivia Wright Ariel Lockley |
| Violin II Cathy Stevens Courtney Diaz Samantha Watts Stan Lovenworth Nadine Terk Cindy Zarsky |
| Viola Abigail Gruber Anne Nasrallah Daniel Zotti Caroline Olson Warren Donaldson Robert Donaldson |
| Cello Christiana Cooper Mariann Shae Ian Rivera Cassie Preminger Bette Richards John Gross Paula Davis |
| Bass Al Davis Paul Mihalik Matthew Thomas John Michel |
| Oboe Barrie Mosher David Avery |
| English Horn Barrie Mosher |
| Flute Antoinette Harrison Maggie Moczynski Patty Maddox |
| Piccolo/Flute Cynthia Powell |
| Clarinet Molly Sweet Robert Nobles William Roberts |
| Bassoon Lucinda Mosher Gabrielle Prieto Leslie Blumenfeld |
| Trumpet Bill Watson Julie Johnson Larry Velazquez-Abreu |
| Trombone Emma DuChemin Nelson Davila Abby Francis |
| French Horn Mostafa Alattar Alison McCarty Sally Newton Jeffrey Otey Michael Fletcher |
| Tuba Glen Turn |
| Percussion Pat Brown Luke Freeman Alec Anderson Randy Wright |
| Harp Nadezhda Shpak |
| Piano Scott Watkins |