Floyd and Roanoke County Music Students
Study in Poland

Five students from The Roanoke Youth Symphony Orchestra
spent 19 days in Opole, Poland this summer studying
and performing with students and faculty of
The Frederick Chopin School of Music.

The music students, who represented both Floyd
and Roanoke Counties are:

Hannah Brooke and Elizabeth Parmer, violinists (both alumni of The Floyd Music School); flutist Megan Pasquarell; trumpeter Seth Allen; and trombonist, Daniel Valois. The RYSO musicians, along with students from Opole, Poland and Potsdam, Germany, attended a music camp in Glucholazy, Poland where they received intensive preparation for solo and ensemble performing as well as a final concert in Wroclaw at The Opole Symphony Hall. Staying in the homes of Polish music students/families and touring several Polish cities and sites, including Auschwitz, Wroclaw, and the king's castle in Krakow were listed as some of the students' "favorites" upon their return home. 

The Roanoke Valley sister Cities Opole Committee sponsored
similar experiences in 2006 and 2010 when Opole students
visited and performed in the Roanoke Valley.

Elizabeth Parmer, Hannah Brooke, Chaperone Liz Lochbrunner (Roanoke Symphony Orchestra Education Director),
Seth Allen, Daniel Valois, Megan Pasquarell