DOVER — Dover High School Senior Matthew Lombardi was honored as Mayo Performing Arts Center’s January 2024 Music Students of the Month – Outstanding Percussionists — before the Thursday, January 18 performance by Drumline Live.
Other students from Chatham, Randolph, Kinnelon, Mendham, Florham Park, Morristown, Parsippany, and Roxbury, were also honored.
Students were nominated by their teachers and were chosen by the Theatre’s Education Department based on their commitment to excellence in the performing arts. The students were honored on stage before the concert.
The Theatre will honor a group of students every month throughout the season and invites area teachers to nominate students for this honor.
The 2023-2024 Music Student of the Month program is supported by The Walter F. and Alice Gorham Foundation, Inc.
Matthew Lombardi a senior at Dover High School was nominated by Dan Vasquez.
Matty is an excellent student and dedicated percussionist. He has started writing his own percussion cadences and organized extra practices for the drummers to learn them. The Drumline this year created a new piece of music just to play for the pep rally. The section works harder than anyone else in the band and Matty is such a huge part of that. He inspires others around him to do better and I think he deserves to be acknowledged for his dedication and commitment.
Other students honored were
Carly Albanese, Grade 12, Chatham High School; Ari Charm, Grade 7, Randolph Middle School; Stephen Padilla, Grade 12, Roxbury High School; Abhay Prajapati, Grade 8, Brooklawn Middle School; Parsippany; Rohan Largman, Grade 7, Mountain View Middle School; Mendham; Sean Lee; Grade 8, Ridgedale Middle School; Florham Park; Aidan Orbeta, Grade 12, Morristown High School; Deric Yoon, Grade 11, Parsippany High School; Carly Albanese, Grade 12, Chatham High School; and Luca Anello-Fiorin, Grade 9, Kinnelon High School.
Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2023-2024 season is made possible, in part, by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as support received from the F.M. Kirby Foundation, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation and numerous corporations, foundations, and individuals. Mayo Performing Arts Center was named 2016 Outstanding Historic Theatre by the League of Historic American Theatres and is ranked in the top 50 mid-sized performing arts centers by Pollstar Magazine.
