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Five student-musicians receive all-state recognition
Five Ransom Everglades students – Gillian Carvalho ’29, Sirja Joeveer ’25, Hudson Kaplan ’25, Alex Lombard ’29 and Vicki Pinilla ’25 – were selected to participate in the 2025 Florida Music Education Association Conference, one of the largest music education professional learning events in the United States. The students will travel to Tampa on January 8, 2025, to rehearse with musicians from all over the state, culminating in performances in various all-state honors band/orchestra ensembles on January 11.
Lombard will play the flute with the Middle School Honors Band and Carvalho will play the violin with the Middle School Honors Orchestra. Pinilla will play the flute and Joeveer, the violin, for the High School Honors Orchestra. Kaplan will play the trombone for the High School Honors Band.
The middle school band students train under Interim Director of Arts Cathi Leibinger; the upper school band students under Director of Instrumental Music Jon Hamm; and the strings students under performing arts teacher Scott O’Donnell.
Middle School
2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
Upper School
3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 460 8800
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.