VIKING MUSICIAN GOES TO GERMANY 

Anna Gsell, daughter of Carol and Tim Gsell, is one of nearly 50 student musicians in the Homewood-Flossmoor High School Vikings Orchestra and Symphonia Orchestra traveling and performing in Germany this spring break. Anna plays clarinet with the orchestra.

The orchestra, under the direction of teacher B.J. Engrav, will perform in Potsdam, Brandenburg in the Berlin region and Pegau, a city in the Leipzig district. They will have workshops and exchange opportunities in Leipzig.  Students left on the seven-day trip on March 23. 

The H-F Orchestra trip is sponsored by the Homewood-Flossmoor Fine and Performing Arts Council (HFFPAC), an independent organization to support local youth music programs, and HF Orchestra Parents United in Service, a volunteer organization dedicated to supporting the H-F High School orchestra program. Carol Gsell, who was a volunteer with the St. Joseph Winter Picnic committee, volunteered with the H-F group raising funds for the students’ trip at the January auction event at the high school.  Tim Gsell serves as a church usher and is a member of the Knights of Columbus.