Glastonbury High School Student selected for All-National Honor Ensemble

As one of the most elite high school musicians in the nation, Mai Vestergaard, a senior of Glastonbury High School, was selected for the National Association for Music Education’s (NAFME) 2015 All-National Honor Symphony Orchestra which performed on October 28, during the 2015 NAfME National In-Service Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

Mai has been playing the violin since she was 4 years old and since then she has been active in the performing arts. At age 7, she joined the Colchester Civic Orchestra and at 12 she became a member of the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra as a violinist and violist. Now 17, she is currently the concertmistress of the GHS Chamber Orchestra, where she soloed the Mendelsohn’s Violin Concerto and Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 at the fall concert. This year she founded the Tri- M Music Honor Society at GHS to promote musicianship among the community. She was selected as the concertmistress for the 2015 CT All-State Music Festival Orchestra earlier this year. She was also chosen to participate in 2015 All-Eastern Honor Ensemble in Providence, RI and she received the highest adjudication score at New England Music Festival audition.
In addition to her music activities, she is a member of the GHS crew team and a math tutor at Smith Middle School. Also, she enjoys participating in Bikram Yoga and volunteering at Manchester Memorial Hospital.