Members of the Bronxville High School orchestra and band – who have been exploring different ways of addressing engaged citizenship and innovation as part of the Bronxville Promise – worked with duoJalal during a four-day residency, held at their high school from Jan. 9-14.

Theodore Liao, a Bronxville High School junior and accomplished musician, won third place in the Symphony of Westchester’s fifth annual Young Artist Concerto Competition. He has earned a spot in the showcase program, where he will perform the first movement of Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major. The concert will be held on Feb. 3 at 3 p.m. in Iona College’s Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium.

First- through third-graders at Bronxville Elementary School were treated to a special musical puppet show, called Addy and Uno, at their school auditorium on Jan. 7. The play, which is an Off-Broadway show, highlights different characters with disabilities and stresses the importance of inclusion.

Four Bronxville High School alumni – Andrew Babyak (Class of 2018), Will Cioffi (Class of 2017), Griffin Garbarini (Class of 2018) and Alex Swenson (Class of 2018) – spoke to members of the senior class during a panel discussion, held on Dec. 20 at the auditorium. 

Freshmen and sophomores, who have been conducting extensive historical research, recently worked with renowned performance coach Karen De Mauro to enhance their presentation skills and prepare for their upcoming schoolwide National History Day competition.

Bronxville High School students and educators have made the holidays a little brighter for veterans at the New York State Veterans’ Home at Montrose by generously donating more than 100 gifts to them. 

Members of the high school Habitat for Humanity Club – who are used to knocking down walls, moving construction materials and clearing rubble from actual homes – used icing, candy and graham crackers to help elementary school students build gingerbread houses during the annual Gingerbread House Making fundraiser on Dec. 17.

A group of talented Bronxville High School musicians, led by orchestra director Dr. Denise Lutter, spread holiday cheer and performed an arrangement of holiday classics for residents of the Wartburg nursing home on Dec. 7.

Bronxville High School juniors, who are exploring major turning points in the history of the United States, welcomed veterans Michael Fix and Vito Pinto to their school to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.