CelloLEAP Studio

12/30/2025

Happy International Cello Day!

07/26/2025

🎶 Big News for Young Musicians! 🎶
We’re launching the Oak Ridge Youth Orchestra, a brand-new regional orchestra for students in 5th–12th grade who are ready to take their playing to the next level! Open to students in Oak Ridge and surrounding areas, the Oak Ridge Youth Orchestra is all about growing together through music!
Come join us!

🎻 Audition-based
🎼 Professional coaching & sectionals
🌟 Community performances
📍 Rehearsals in Oak Ridge
Whether you're a student, parent, or music educator, we want YOU to be part of this exciting new chapter!

📌 Learn more & apply today: orcma.org/oak-ridge-youth-symphony

📲 Tag a young musician who should join us!

Thank you, Tennessee Arts Commission, for making opportunities like this available through the TN Specialty Plates Funding.

Tennesseans for the Arts TN Specialty Plates

06/01/2025

🎶 Voices in Motion: Youth Choir Camp 🎶
Presented by the ORCMA Youth Choir & Our Youth Choral Director Gigi Naeve

📅 July 14–18, 2025
🕣 8:30 AM – 12:00 NOON
📍 First Baptist Church of Oak Ridge

✨ Calling all young singers in Grades 3–8! Whether you are brand new to choir or already love to sing, ORCMA's Voices in Motion is the place to grow your voice, make new friends, and experience the joy of music in a fun, supportive environment.

🎵 What’s in store:
🎶 Learn new choral music
🗣️ Improve your vocal technique
🎤 Sing in daily ensemble rehearsals and prepare for a live concert!

🎉 Final Concert & Pizza Party:
📅 Friday, July 18 at 12:30 PM
📍 First Baptist Church of Oak Ridge
Family & friends are invited to cheer on our young performers!

💵 Suggested Registration Donation: $25 per student
(Scholarships available – no one is turned away!)

🎟️ Register today – space is limited!
👉 https://www.orcma.org/summer-choir-camp

A heartfelt thank you to the Tennessee Arts Commission for supporting our mission to expand music education in Oak Ridge and beyond! 💛🎶

Tennessee Arts Commission

09/11/2024

TRILLIUM is celebrating 10 years of sharing music!
Join us for our next concert. It is modeled on Tapas: ten plus one favorites selected from our entire ten years. It opens with a love song (without words) by Mendelssohn, an elegiac trio by Arensky, one of the Dumky trios by Dvorak, and the rollicking Gypsy Rondo by Haydn. After a short break, Sowash’s riotous Galop piles on joke after joke, contrasting with dark Tangos by Piazzolla, and ending with the folk-like and smoky-lounge Cafe Music of Paul Schoenfield.
This concert happens on Saturday, September 28, in the Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall of the Clayton Center at 7:30 pm. The event is free.

08/03/2024

My student, Christopher, nominated me. I am honored to have received this!

03/24/2024

Some more great moments with dear people at the SAA/ASTA conference in Louisville. My heart is full!

03/20/2024

Can’t wait to see so many friends in Louisville at the SAA/ASTA conference!
Underway shortly!

01/06/2024

11/14/2023

Post-concert in the lobby. Very round of my Co-principal Yourh Orchestra student, Alex!