Garden City Public Schools

The Garden City music department is proud to announce that 70 students were selected to participate in this year’s All-County Music Festival and 11 musicians took part in this year’s Parents, Educators and Kids (P.E.A.K.) Festival.

Band, chorus and orchestra students earned All-County recognition based on their 2025 NYSSMA solo performances and will represent Garden City Schools at the festival, held at the Tilles Center throughout January.

Congratulations to the following students on being named All-County musicians:

From Stewart and Stratford School: Aria Apostolides, Giuliana Botti, Oliver Clark, Olivia Ding, Aurora Curtin, Hailey Hendrickson, Isabella Johnson, Anna Lee, Valentina Marin, Dean Nick, Daniela Muzio, Ella Power, Nolan Smith, Kelvin Su, Logan Schmidt and Adaline Zhai; from Garden City Middle School: Sabrina Bilello, Aayan Kabir, Luke Ellis, Leah Follette, Gianluca Fusco, Jovana Marin, Owen Murphy, Erin Na, Emmett Owens, Caitlin O'Mullan, Grace Pospisil, Aiden Schmidt, Jack Viskovich, Ella Viskovich, Allison Wong, Avery Xiao and Oliver Wu; and from Garden City High School: Martina Cantalupo, Eton Lu, Audrey Pressoir, Alessandra Pinto, Madeline Power, Emily Pulver, Olivia Vendetti, Caroline Weber, Roger Wang, Elizabeth Vitale, Azra Zirhli, Alexandra Butvick, Beatrice Briganti, Rebecca Chau, Ava Chen, Sean Corrigan, Grace Corrigan, Caroline Ciullo, Hannah Cianciotto, Matteo DiLoreto, Clare Gardner, Grace Gibson, Fiona Gibson, Grace Immordino, Grace Kumpel, Leah Lotito, Ryan Ludwig, Maximilian Mariacher, Kaitlyn McDonald, Genevieve Mohan, Mariella Parlanti, Sarah Phinney, Susanna Phinney, Amelia Scianablo, Elsie Ross, Juliet Stampfel and Ryan Schmidt.

On Nov. 22, music teachers and students from Stewart and Stratford attended and performed at the annual NMEA P.E.A.K. Festival, designed for fourth grade students as an introduction to All-County. The event highlighted the importance of music education, allowed students to display their achievements and informed parents about classroom music goals.

Congratulations to the following students:

From Stewart: Lincoln Franzella, Layne DiMascio, Vivienne Jamal, Juliana Jamal, Angelina Shalhoub and Stella Stewart; and from Stratford: Skylar Ding, Penelope Gunther, Hazel Ngan, Frederick Wong and Luke Zychowicz.