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HIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND
The Highland Park High School band program is committed to fostering the growth of its students as
musicians and as people, achieving the highest standard of performance excellence, and supporting
the spirit and tradition of the school and community. The program offers three curricular band classes,
two curricular jazz classes, and a percussion ensemble class each year, along with numerous co-cur-
ricular ensembles. The capstone ensemble, the HPHS Wind Symphony, has performed at Symphony
Center and the Illinois Music Education All-State Conference, as well as at festivals in Spain, Italy, Chi-
na, Japan, and the Czech Republic. The HPHS Marching Band is an all-volunteer ensemble comprising
dedicated members across grades 9 through 12; tonight’s performers represent a portion of the entire
band. The band rehearses entirely outside of the school day throughout the late summer and fall, and
it performs at all home football games and various school and community events throughout the year.
Lindsey Aaronson
Dana Bell
Margaret Brennan
Teaghan Brennan
Catherine Chen
Matthew Doherty
Natalie Dorman
Eli Elder
Thomas Freeman
Avra Friedman
Cassie Goldstein
Julian Greenwell
Kevin Haller
Mark Heymann
Will Hochman
Zechariah Huddleston
Joseph Kelley
Andrew Kerpel
Stephanie Lee
Eleanor Lerrick
Matt Lezotte
James Lovell
Nicholas Maldonado
Georgia Martinez
Graham McGregor
Brendan McMahon
Ethan Mogilner
Sara Mouscher
Kathryn Nelson
Hannah Nussbaum
Samuel Perlman
Max Redenius
Cristina Rosheger
Lucy Rubin
Peter Rubin
Xander Sahin
Chloe Schneider
Cecil Sigele
Doug Smith
Ricardo Soto
Nicolas Stetkevych
Per Wagenius
Liam Walker
Noah Weisbard
Jacob Weisbard
Steven Wren
JOSHUA CHODOROFF,
director
Joshua Chodoroff is currently in his 18th year of teaching. He was appointed
Director of Bands at Highland Park High School in 2014, the same year he
was named a semi-finalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award, honoring
him as one of the top 25 music educators in the country. He has also received
the Chicagoland Outstanding Music Educator Award and the Citation of Ex-
cellence from the National Band Association. Chodoroff serves on the Illinois
Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance committee and is a mem-
ber of Phi Beta Mu. He has presented clinics on the subjects of music advocacy, music literacy, and mu-
sic analysis. Prior to joining the HPHS faculty, Chodoroff taught at Waubonsie Valley High School in
Aurora, IL. Under his direction, the WVHS Wind Ensemble performed multiple times at the Universi-
ty of Illinois Superstate Band Festival and at the 2008 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. He has also
led successful band tours to Spain, France, Italy, Hawaii, Florida, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.
JOSEPHINE LEE,
president and artistic
director
As its president and
artistic director, Jose-
phine Lee has estab-
lished Chicago Chil-
dren’s Choir as one of
Chicago’s premier cultural institutions, leading
the choir at performances for such dignitaries as
former president and first lady Barack and Mi-
chelle Obama at the 2017 Presidential Farewell
Address, as well as the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyat-
so at his 2011 message in Chicago and Chicago
mayor Rahm Emanuel at his 2011 inauguration.
Her recent projects include the co-creation of
the original world musical
Sita Ram
with David
Kersnar of Lookingglass Theatre; an original pi-
ano composition,
The Good Goodbyes,
commis-
sioned by Frank Chaves and River North Dance
Chicago; the development and world premiere
of
Long Way Home
, a fully staged theatrical
work with the Q Brothers; and an original suite
for piano and cello,
Ascension
, commissioned by
Ballet Chicago.
JUDY HANSON,
associate artistic director
As associate artistic
director of Chicago
Children’s Choir, Judy
Hanson collaborates on
the artistic vision for
the organization and
guides the conducting staff in serving its 4,800
children singers. She is co-director and main
choreographer for the Voice of Chicago ensem-
ble, with which she earned a Jeff Award nomi-
nation in for choreographing
Sita Ram
. Hanson
also applies her 30 years’ experience working
with middle-school singers as the conduc-
tor of DiMension, a choir for young men with
changing voices. A nationally known clinician,
adjudicator, and conductor, Hanson has pre-
sented sessions and workshops and conducted
Honors Choirs for ACDA chapters, universities,
and many other organizations throughout the
US. She also judges national show choir com-
petitions and has been on staff at Show Choir
Camps of America for 24 years.
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