From March 2-4, the Long Island String Festival Association sponsored its annual Elementary Festival. After many hours of rehearsal with prominent conductors, Herricks’ students in grades 5-8 performed at Uniondale High School among Nassau County’s finest string musicians.

The musicians were from Center Street, Denton Avenue, Searingtown and Herricks Middle School.

From Center Street School had Eason Chiu, grade five, performed the cello.

From Denton Avenue Elementary School the following students performed: Amanda Cui, grade five, on cello, Albert Kuo, grade five, on cello, Andrew Simons, grade five, on violin.

From Searingtown Elementary School the following students performed: Justin Chen, grade five, on viola, Dhruv Gandhi, grade five, on bass, Enya Sakhrani, grade five, on viola, Ryan Yen, grade five, on cello.

From Herricks Middle School the following students performed: Peter Aliprandis, grade six, on violin, Katherine Cha, grade six, on cello, Kyra Chan, grade six, on violin, Preston Chan, grade six, on cello, Isabel Comerchero, grade six, on viola, Alex Ha, grade six, on cello, Chloe Kim, grade six, on violin, Fiona Kuo, grade six, on violin, Justin Lau, grade six, on violin, Ryan Lo, grade six, on cello, Kaylee Luo, grade six, on violin, Yvette Park, grade six, on cello, Catalin Wong, grade six, on violin, Kevin Zhu, grade six, on violin, Maria Defex, grade eight, on viola, Genesis Kang, grade eight, on violin, Hailey Ko, grade seven, on violin, Megan Kumar, grade seven, on bass, Jovana Lau, grade eight, on violin, Jeylin Lee, grade seven, on viola, Rachel Lee, grade eight, on violin, Esther Min, grade eight, on cello, Kailey Simons, grade seven, on violin, Katherine Yee, grade seven, on violin, Emma Yen, grade eight, on violin, Tina Zhao, grade eight, on violin.