East student to solo with GBYO

Di Loreto

The Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra, under the direction of Gerard Floriano, will perform at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10 at Montante Cultural Center at Canisius College, Main and Eastwood streets in Buffalo.

Tickets will be available at the door. Adults are $10 and seniors and students are $5.

The Orchestra will feature two GBYO senior concerto winners Angelo Di Loreto, of East Amherst, on xylophone Di Loreto is a senior at Williamsville East High School and Mary Edge of Elma performing on the violin.

Di Loreto has participated in ECMEA All-County Band and Jazz Band, Area All-State and was an alternate for timpani and jazz piano for Conference All-State. He attends the Eastman School of Music's pre-college division. He will graduate from that program with honors.

Area students performing with the GBYO are:

Alexandra Gilewicz, Emily Greetham, Thomas Pera, Sam Suggs, Emily Weinheimer, Hayden Denesha and Katherine Russell, of Amherst; Patrick Allison, Samuel Ang, Jonathan Ang, Mark Chee, Angelo DiLoreto, Yanxi Du, Hannah Huang, Joe Isom, Jinjoo Kang, Josh Newman, Karen Park, Derek Voigt and Audrey Yu of East Amherst; Katie Berquist, Natalie Gong, Holly Spohn and Daniel Ziemann of Getzville; Maggie Wydysh and Martha Wydysh of Snyder; Sandra Berdick, Nadine Cohen, Alexas Esposito, Jiyoon Kim, Ariella Korn, Christina Kuvshinoff, Dan Lamancuso, Alex Lamparelli, Allison Lyttle, Kathryn Saturnino, Sara Scofidio, Kyle Torres-Hiyoshi, Jilene VanOpdorp, Samuel Wie, Benjamin Wie and Hilary Wittmer of Williamsville.