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
| 2022 Members of the Civic Orchestra (Alphabetically by instrument): |
| Violin I Christopher D’avilar, Concertmaster Bill Brown John Chen Jenny Edwards Jennifer John Kathryn Noche Olivia Wright |
| Violin II Kara Hooker Lisa Blizzard Michelle Hayes Stan Lovenworth Cathy Stevens Nadine Terk Cindy Zarsky |
| Viola Leah Kosiek Robert Donaldson Warren Donaldson CJ Wenninger Daniel Zotti |
| Cello Jennifer Barrett Mariann Shae Kristina Schaberg |
| Bass Al Davis |
| Oboe David Avery Antoinette Harrison |
| Flute Jonikka Gaines Maggie Moczynski |
| Piccolo/Flute Cynthia Powell |
| Clarinet Molly Sweet Kimberly Barnhart |
| Bassoon Gabrielle Prieto Paul Tromba |
| Trumpet Ace Martin Larry Velasquez-Abreu Bill Watson |
| Trombone Cheryl Knight Ana Simmons Erik Blomgren |
| French Horn Mostafa Alattar Carine Cerny Alison McCarty Sally Newton Jeffrey Otey |
| Tuba Judge McWhorter |
| Percussion Pat Brown Luke Freeman Kyla Sebens Randy Wright |
| Harp Nadezhda Shpak |
| Piano Scott Watson |