Let it Snow

Orillia Youth Concert

Presented by :

Bringing the Arts to Life

Arts Orillia is thrilled to bring Youth to the Orillia Opera House in partnership with teachers, Brassworks and with the support of The City of Orillia!

Thank you and Enjoy the Show!

Program

Es ist ein Reis Entsprungen

Let It Snow! - Performed by Brassworks with friends from 4th Street Jazz Project

Christmas Waltz - Performed by Brassworks

I Don’t Know How to Love Him - Solo performance by Christina Bosco

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Brassworks

Electricity from Billy Elliot - Audrey Buchanan

O Holy Night - Performed by Brassworks with soloist Christina Bosco

Somewhere in My Memory - Brassworks

- Intermission -

All Star Jazz Band

Under The Mistletooth

Easy Street

All Star Choir

Over the Rainbow

December Canon

River (Joni Mitchell)

Feliz Navidad (sing-a-long)

Feliz Navidad

Próspero año y felicidad

Feliz Navidad

Próspero año y felicidad

I wanna wish you a merry Christmas

From the bottom of my heart

Musicians

Orillia Brassworks

Brassworks brings a talented group of Orillia’s finest music experts together. The band is passionate about collaborating to perform jazz repertoire and brass ensemble music. Brassworks has performed at various venues in Orillia, Toronto, and New Jersey, and often features special guest soloists. The band places importance on providing opportunities for Orillia’s youth musicians.

Christina Bosco

Christina Bosco is an accomplished vocal soloist with a diverse repertoire spanning classical, contemporary, sacred, secular, jazz, and blues music. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Music Education from The University of Western Ontario, with specializations in both vocal and instrumental studies. She has been a feature soloist with the Orillia Concert Band, the Orillia Big Band, and Brassworks, among others. Currently, she is the Alto Section Lead at St. James Anglican Church in Orillia.

Christina has been the Arts Department Curriculum Leader and Music director at Twin Lakes Secondary School in Orillia, since 2003. During her time at Twin Lakes, she has music-directed such productions as Footloose (2011), Thunder Glee (2012), The Wiz (2014), Thunder Live (2015), Legally Blonde (2017), Thunder Rock (2018), Mamma Mia (2020), ThunderYears (2023) and Cinderella (2025).

In 2024, she was awarded the Orillia Regional Arts and History (ORAH) award for Excellence in Education.

Beyond her solo performance and work in education, Bosco has been involved with the Mariposa Arts Theatre production company for more than 25 years, both as a performer and as a Music Director. Notable productions for her include Cabaret (Sally Bowles) in 2003, Chicago (MD) in 2017, The Rocky Horror Show (MD) in 2022, and most recently Jesus Christ Superstar (MD) this past November.

Dylan Bell

In a word: multifaceted. Juno-nominated Dylan Bell is a vocalist, instrumentalist (piano, bass, guitar, Stick, percussion), composer/arranger, music director, producer/engineer, educator, and author. Dylan’s musical curiosity has kept him effortlessly crossing and blurring musical boundaries with Canada’s premier vocal ensembles Hampton Avenue, The Watch, FreePlay, and Retrocity. When he’s not singing, he freelances as a multi-instrumentalist. Behind the mixing board, Dylan has produced or engineered several award-winning albums, including a Juno co-nomination as Best Engineer for the Cadence album Twenty For One, the album Ferris Wheels with the world-renowned Swingles from the UK, and the The Nylons’ final Juno-nominated album, Skin Tight. When it comes to vocal arranging, Dylan wrote the book… literally. His major works “A Cappella Arranging” and followup book “A Cappella Arranging 2.0” (with Deke Sharon) were published to international acclaim. His choral compositions and arrangements are performed worldwide from Adelaide to Zurich. Visit Dylan at www.dylanbell.ca.

Alex Dean

Alex Dean has been part of Canada’s music scene for 40 years. He is well respected as a jazz musician, composer, educator and doubler and is equally at home playing in any style of music.

He has played and recorded with Gil Evans, Kenny Wheeler, Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass, Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Harry Connick Jr., Phil Nimmons, the Labarbera Brothers Big Band, Wide Mouth Mason, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Esprit Orchestra and the Brian Barlow

Big Band as well as leader of the Alex Dean Jazz Orchestra. While he played and recorded 10 records with the Boss Brass they were nominated for three Grammy awards and won one with singer Mel Tormè. Alex also recorded 3 records with The Robb McConnell Tentet, which was nominated once for a Grammy and won the Canadian Juno award. He is also the Saxophonist on the video game Cuphead thats soundtrack debuted at #1 on the Jazz Billboard charts in 2019.

Alex has 4 recordings under his own name, “Dreamsville”, “Both Feet”, “Kaitlyn’s Waltz” and “At this Point”. He also co-led the trio Dew East and recorded two albums with that group, one with Nick Brignola as guest artist.

Alex Plays Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet and Oboe and can be found in many Pit Orchestras of the shows that travel to and from Toronto. Alex was the Artistic director of the highly regarded Kincardine Summer Music Festival for 20 years affording him the opportunity to play and teach with Jerry Bergonzi, Bill Mays, Joe Labarbera, Pat Labarbera and Renee Rosnes.

Alex taught concurrently Saxophone, doubles and Improvisation as a Senior

Lecturer at The University of Toronto and Humber College from 1993-2012.

He accepted a Full Professorship at Humber College in 2012 and is currently

teaching at Humber College. He has had numerous articles published on

Saxophone technique and Improvisation. Alex’ recording “The Alex Dean Jazz Orchestra” was recorded in Dec 2017 and is still in process and will be released soon. Cornerstone records has just released Alex’s latest recording, D.E.W. East with Reg Schwager Live at the Montreal Bistro

Toronto: June 24, 2001.

Twin Lakes Secondary School

Sadie Thomas - tenor sax

William Chalmers - trumpet

Noah Simmons - trombone

Jacob Audia - drums

Choir Members:

Carmen Beck

Ruby Murray

Reece Sheppard

Aliah Sinclair

Tempy Van Voorst

Teacher - Christina Bosco - TLSS

Patrick Fogarty Catholic Secondary School

Aunnah Burnside- Alto Saxophone

Jebediah Jenkins- Trombone

Choir members:

Odessa Hooper

Kelsilda Kelsy-Braide

Christina Kozlowska

Kathryn Maltby

Lyla Stanton

Teacher - Jessica Kussen

Orillia Secondary School

Abbey Howard - trumpet

Jonathan Knicely - trumpet

Landon Bestard - trumpet

Kartik Chhabra - trombone

Travis Lalonde - trombone

Ben Basso - alto sax

Joseph Duff - tenor sax

McKayla Ruyter - baritone sax

Oliver Sawatzky - bass

OSS Choir:

Randy-Lynn Birch

Taylor Bolen

Maële Bouchard

Jenson Bringas

Kaeya Chhabra

Kartik Chhabra

Cheyanne Cichelly

Kit Cloney

Lilly Crawford

Clare Depiero

Ryan Diana

Rylie Gray

Leah Guller

Mason Hannaford-Fox

Noah Hewitt

Abbey Howard

Mackenzie Kay

Lexy Kennedy

Travis Lalonde

Sun Lockrey

Helena MacLeod

Katie McClintock

Sophie McKinnon

Kayla Moniz-Pedro

McKayla Ruyter

Hunter Sedore

Catherine Sherwood

Sothea Sum

Teacher - Laura Christie

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