Brookfield High School Student Selected to WestConn Regional, Competing For All State Slot

Each year the Connecticut Music Educators’ Association selects the very best high school musician’s across the State of Connecticut to participate in their Regional Festival Concerts. Auditions for thousands of Connecticut high school musicians were held in November, with only a few hundred being finally selected. Local Brookfield High School freshman Alexandra Fitzgerald was chosen by the Connecticut Educators’ Selection Committee as a highly-seated First Violin for the Western Connecticut Regional Festival Orchestra. She will be participating in a few days of rehearsals and events for all the musicians this coming weekend.

The final concert for the Western Connecticut Regional Festival Orchestra is on Saturday evening, January 17th, 2015, at Trumbull High School. Alexandra was one of only two band/orchestra students selected for this honor from Brookfield High School.

Alexandra has been playing violin since her fourth birthday. In addition to being an Honor Student at Brookfield High School, she currently is a student at the prestigious Mannes School of Music in New York City, where she has been studying violin, music theory, chamber music, and orchestral music for more than three years.

She studied violin for a few years under Stephen Clapp, dean of the world-renowned Juilliard School of Music (until his unfortunate passing almost two years ago). Locally, Alexandra has also recently been offered a First Violin chair in the Danbury Symphony Orchestra and she has played in many local orchestras and chamber groups over the years.

In February of 2015, Alexandra will be auditioning for the Connecticut All State Orchestra for 2015.