2024 Orchestra Benefit Performance
6:00pm
401 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe (park in the PERA lot)
Funds raised from this benefit will be used for:
INSTRUMENTS: |
COACHES: |
REPAIR AND UPKEEP: |
The Orchestra strives to provide instruments to students who would like to join the orchestra. |
The Orchestra Director uses additional coaching staff to accommodate the wide range of student musical abilities from beginners to students playing at the highest levels and continuing in music studies after graduation. |
All instruments require repair and upkeep. We teach students the best ways to keep their instruments sounding their best. Some repairs and upkeep are beyond our limited budget. |


Dana Winograd, Cellist
Originally from Los Angeles, cellist Dana Winograd received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in performance from the Juilliard School in New York where she studied with Harvey Shapiro and Channing Robbins, as well as members of the Juilliard String Quartet for chamber music. After graduation, Dana led an active freelance career in New York City, including performances at Carnegie Hall with the American Composer’s Orchestra and the American Symphony, Broadway appearances (both in the pit and on stage) with Phantom of The Opera, Cats, Beauty and the Beast,and Once Upon a Mattress, as well as playing backup for Rod Stewart, Luther Vandross, Lyle Lovett, Manhattan Transfer, and Harry Connick Jr.
Since moving to Santa Fe in 1999, Dana has been a member of the New Mexico Symphony (now New Mexico Philharmonic), Santa Fe Pro Musica, and is principal cellist of the Santa Fe Symphony. She has appeared as soloist with the Santa Fe Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, the Plainfield Symphony in NJ and the Julius Grossman Orchestra in NY.

- Music Performance Assessment (MPA), a metric used by the New Mexico Music Educators Association, SMHS scored the highest rating (Superior) for the last three years.
- Orchestra students are participating in All-State Orchestra, District Honors Orchestra and Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association Programs.
- Post-graduation, recent orchestra students have gone on to study music education at UNM, play in a professional mariachi ensemble, and freelance professionally while attending college.