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CONNECTED APART
Spring 2021
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SPRING 2021 VIRTUAL PERFORMANCES
CYSO virtual spring performances will go live on
Saturday, June 12, 2021 at 5:00 pm CST. The suggested
CYSO is investing in the future of music and the
ticket donation is $40 (equivalent to $10 per ticket for a
next generation of leaders. W e provide music family of four) to access all spring performance videos.
education to nearly 800 young musicians ages Visit cyso.org/concerts to purchase your tickets.
6-18 through full and string orchestras, jazz,
steelpan, chamber music, masterclasses, music While virtual events aren't a replacement for an in-person
composition and in-school programs. Students concert, they do allow loved ones to tune in from across
learn from some of Chicago’s most respected the globe! We encourage you to invite family and friends
professional musicians, perform in the world’s to attend the spring virtual concerts with us by sharing
great concert halls, and gain skills necessary for
the link to cyso.org/concerts.
a successful future.
CYSO Community Engagement Programs As always, tuition only covers about 40% of the cost of
support music training and access for more CYSO's programs and your ticket donation helps support
than 8,500 young people each year. We work the team of engineers who captured these very special
with youth in diverse Chicago neighborhoods spring concerts both live at the Studebaker Theater and
through after-school ensembles, sectionals, Orchestra Hall, and remotely from homes across Chicago.
and our Ambassadors Program, which brings
Please give what you can to support CYSO's legacy of
student musicians into CPS elementary schools
high-quality music instruction.
to perform interactive concerts. CYSO orches-
tras also present free community and education
concerts throughout the season.
CYSO alumni go on to play in the world’s fin-
est orchestras and ensembles, and are also
found working as doctors, lawyers, teachers, VISIT
community leaders, and business profession-
als. Whether or not a graduate continues their
music studies after their time in CYSO, young
people leave with increased self-confidence, a
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
BRILLIANCE AWAITS.
PREPARATION FOR A MUSICAL LIFE 9 Music Director's Letter
Bachelor of Music 11 Executive Director's Letter
Double degree: Bachelor of Music & Bachelor of Arts
12 Board, Faculty, and Staff
Bachelor of Arts
NEW! Bachelor of Musical Arts in Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation 15 Artistic Staff Bios
GO.LAWRENCE.EDU/CHIYOUTH
24 Overture Strings Program & Roster
25 Preparatory Strings Program & Roster
26 Debut Orchestra Programs & Rosters
28 Concert Orchestra Programs & Rosters
30 Accelerando Strings Program & Roster
31 Jazz Orchestra Program & Roster
33 Philharmonic Orchestra Program & Roster
TABLE OF CONTENTS
34 Symphony Orchestra Programs & Rosters
41 Steel Orchestras Programs & Rosters
42 Making CYSO's Virtual Performances
45 Education Concerts Go Virtual
CHICAGO IS OUR 46
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2021 CYSO Awards
CYSO Students Accepted to NYO
CLASSROOM 52 CYSO Promises & Requests
Rigorous, hands-on learning in a world-
class city. Study with experienced faculty
55 Virtual Masterclasses
in a tight-knit community. Enjoy studying
in a fully renovated state-of-the-art music 56 Private Teachers
facility, Hanson Hall.
58 Schools and Teachers
62 Contributors
Undergraduate Auditions: For more information, contact:
February 13, 2021 | February 27, 2021 Erin Matonte
Assistant Director of Music, Art,
Graduate Auditions: and Theatre Recruitment
February 13, 2021 773-244-4583
Graduate programs offered in vocal ematonte@northpark.edu
performance and collaborative piano
(vocal coaching) www.northpark.edu/music
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MUSIC DIRECTOR'S LETTER
“No one is loved like musicians…really loved,
because musicians give them the ability to express
their emotions and their memories. There’s no other
form that does that.” - Fran Lebowitz
Dear friends,
Welcome to the spring performances of our 74th
season! It has been a difficult year, but CYSO has
emerged stronger than ever. While our large ensem-
bles have been remote since March 2020, we are
finally back to playing music mostly in person and
along with our students, we are elated!
To call this journey challenging would be an understatement, but we have learned
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so much along the way and found some silver linings too. To keep music in our lives,
CYSO embraced a digital transformation last spring and throughout this season.
Tools such as Zoom and Google Meet have been nothing short of miraculous in their
ability to bring us together from anywhere in the world in almost-real-time. The
“virtual orchestra” spread across the world this year as a new way for remote
ensemble members to play together and engage an even wider audience. These
videos stack sometimes hundreds of individual performances into a single presen-
tation. Once a frontier and now commonplace, CYSO has now produced dozens of
them, maintaining our status as an industry leader in youth musical performance even
in a fully-remote environment.
While the mission of CYSO is to support each musician in their journeys for excellence,
music-making at CYSO is at its core about community and collaboration. Our primary
tools for the teaching of ensemble music are, as they have always been, the in-person
rehearsal and concert. Music is a temporal art—it happens in time. We must breathe
together in order to play together; we must listen to each other in order to respond to
each other. It is the real sharing of time together as musicians and with an audience
that makes music such a magical art. While we aren't able to share live music with live
audiences quite yet, we cannot wait to share recordings with you where we are finally
playing music together.
As we embark on our 75th anniversary season we look forward to our continued
evolution, but we are also grateful as ever for the extraordinary art of making music,
CYSO’S MISSION IS TO together!
Warm regards,
INSPIRE AND CULTIVATE
PERSONAL EXCELLENCE
Allen Tinkham
THROUGH MUSIC Music Director
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S LETTER
Dear friends,
What a year it has been! We are feeling such joy to
have many of our young musicians back in the Fine
Arts Building, collaborating in real time with their
friends sitting next to them and colleagues at home
on Zoom. We are grateful to the many scientists and
public servants who made our safe return possible,
and relishing with renewed delight the excitement of
making live music together.
We started the year with our outdoor kickoffs at
Maggie Daley Park, celebrated our gala with performances at Union Station and
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the Field Museum, and we’ll close out our 2020-2021 season with free public
performances of all our ensembles at Chicago’s historic Navy Pier.
This season's final concerts will feature virtual performance videos which were
produced by an expert team of engineers and thoughtfully shepherded by our
amazing artistic and operations team. These videos combine live recordings captured
at some of our favorite Chicago venues with audio and video recorded remotely by
students participating from home. Whether at Orchestra Hall or in the living room of
our homes, we've found a way to make music during a difficult year and I’m so proud
of all we’ve accomplished together.
I would like to thank all of our CYSO students for their resilience and dedication.
Thank you to our staff and faculty for their tireless energy reimagining what a youth
orchestra can and should be. And thank you to the donors old and new who invested
in us this year and made our work possible. We are heading into the next season with
strength and new ideas and we will take what we have learned with us as we explore
new heights in our upcoming 75th anniversary season!
With gratitude,
Susan Lape
Executive Director
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BOARD, FACULTY, AND STAFF
BOARD OF DIRECTORS FACULTY
CHAIR DIRECTORS Jimmy Samartzis CHAMBER MUSIC COMPOSITION SEMINAR CYSO@CPS COACHES
Ross Bricker Richard Blessen John Sandwick Donald DeRoche INSTRUCTORS Richard Brasseale
Susan Bohman Stephen L. Schwartz Istvan Loga Ben Hjertmann Christine Fliginger
OFFICERS
Valerie Calloway Brittany L. Viola Terrance Malone Gray Eric Malmquist Colin Marusek
Saurab Bhargava
James M. Franklin Alex Monroe Noé Mina
Pam Conroy PARENT PARTNERS ENSEMBLE-IN-RESIDENCE
Lionel Go Scott Tegge Gaby Vargas
Chris Hensley REPRESENTATIVE Gaudete Brass Quintet
Sophie McCarthy Gaby Vargas Theresa Zick
Kelly Howe Pamella Der
Yasuko Metcalf Paul Zafer
Angela O’Banion
Bryan Miller BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Henry E. Turner, Jr. SECTIONAL COACHES
Delano O’Banion J. Laurence Costin
Shawn O'Leary Fred Margulies Andy Anderson Fritz Foss Chuck Perish
Jennifer Myerberg Emanuele Andrizzi Tom Garling Kit Polen
ARTISTIC STAFF Scott Bakshis John Gaudette Marlene Rosenberg
Jim Barbick Emma Gerstein James Ross
BOARD, FACULTY, AND STAFF
Allen Tinkham Pharez Whitted Steven Gooden Greg Barrett Simon Gomez-Gallego Christopher Scanlon
Music Director Director of Jazz Orchestra Symphony Orchestra** Bill Baxtresser Steven Gooden Bruno Silva
Terrance Malone Gray & Debut Orchestra Assistant Greg Beyer Terrance Malone Gray
Michael Mascari Andrew Smith
Associate Conductor Conductor Geof Bradfield Dana Green
Concert Orchestra Conductor Hanna Sterba
Benjamin Firer Mark Brandfonbrener Rebecca Gu Magdalena Sustere
Daniella Valdez Dana Green Philharmonic Orchestra Oto Carrillo Caitlin Hickey Scott Tegge
Director of String Ensembles Debut Orchestra Conductor
Assistant Conductor** William Cernota Kuang-Hao Huang Chloe Thominet
Donald DeRoche Anne Huynh McTighe Chantel Charis Akshat Jain Allen Tinkham
Director of Chamber Music Laura Yawney Tim Coffman Richard Johnson
Assistant Director of String Melissa Trier Kirk
Concert Orchestra Teaching Julia Coronelli
Scott McConnell Ensembles Ellie Kirk Daniella Valdez
Assistant**
Director of Steel Orchestras Tony Devroye Danny Lai Marie Wang
Kyle Dickson Kelly Langenberg Susan Warner
Caitlin Edwards Cheng Huo Lee Ben Wahlund
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Tim Fawkes Blaise Magniere William Welter
Susan Lape Kevin Gupana Colin Marusek Emily Fagan John MacFarlane Pharez Whitted
Executive Director Development Coordinator, Operations Assistant Abraham Feder Tim McGovern Lynn Williams
Events and Communications Igor Fedetov Scott Metlicka Heather Wittles
Martha Nolin Meredith Shaner Luke Fieweger Jeremy Moeller Ming Huan Xu
Director of Finance Bridget Duffy Grant Writer
Ben Firer Rebecca Oliverio Laura Yawney
Development Coordinator,
Madalyne Tregellas Maxwell Audrey Shadle John Floeter Volkan Orhon Cynthia Yeh
Individual Giving
Director of Operations Temporary Marketing George Fludas Rebecca Oppenheim
Karen Mari & Administrative Assistant
Abbey Hambright
Community and Family
Director of Marketing
Engagement Coordinator
Kaytie Faries
Operations Manager
Nicolas Chona
Operations Assistant **20/21 season appointment
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ALLEN TINKHAM | Music Director
Learn Allen Tinkham is increasingly recognized as one of the most inspiring
and exciting conductors and teachers of his generation. He is hailed
from a dedicated by the Chicago Tribune as both a conductor and teacher, described
residential faculty as working “wonders” conducting with “uncanny control” and as
one of Chicago’s most important “educators, mentors and inspira-
tional guides in the training of tomorrow’s orchestral professionals.”
As the Music Director of CYSO, Tinkham oversees artistic program-
ming and faculty and leads the Symphony Orchestra each season
including appearances at Orchestra Hall in Symphony Center and
Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park. Tinkham led the orchestra in its Carnegie Hall debut, first live
broadcast, first recording release, and six international tours on four continents.
Since Tinkham joined CYSO, programs have tripled and the budget has doubled. CYSO’s Symphony
Belong Orchestra is regularly broadcast by WFMT and has received numerous Illinois Council of Orchestras
Youth Orchestra of the Year and Programming of the Year awards. The orchestra is internationally ac-
claimed as “one of the country’s most famous youth outfits” (Muso Magazine). John von Rhein of the
to a fiercely
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Chicago Tribune said of their recent performance of Varèse’s Amériques, the first ever by an Ameri-
supportive community can youth orchestra, “The performance would have done credit to an adult professional orchestra.”
As an advocate and champion of contemporary music, Tinkham has won nine American Society
of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) National Awards for Adventurous Programming of
Contemporary Music. Tinkham is also the Music Director of the Chicago Composers Orchestra,
Chicago’s only professional orchestra performing exclusively the works of living composers.
In high demand as a guest conductor and educator, Tinkham has conducted summer festivals
and NAfME All-State Orchestras throughout the U.S. including the All-Eastern and All-Northwest
Orchestras. He was the Assistant Conductor for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s holiday concerts
for six seasons, and he has guest conducted the Colorado Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and the
Discover Members of Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Tinkham attended the Eastman School of Music, University of Michigan School of Music, and Ameri-
your own path can Academy of Conducting of the Aspen Music Festival. He was invited to the 14th International
Nicolai Malko Competition and the 4th International Conductors Competition Sir Georg Solti and is a
laureate of the League of American Orchestras Bruno Walter Conductor Preview.
Tinkham began his career as Apprentice Conductor at the Oregon Symphony and before the end of
his apprenticeship was appointed Music Director of CYSO—the youngest to win the post in its history.
Eastman Experience
TERRANCE MALONE GRAY | Associate Conductor
The Terrance Malone Gray’s career as a violinist and conductor has
garnered national and international recognition. Born in Wisconsin,
he began studying violin with Elizabeth Grabow Mueller at the
For application information visit esm.rochester.edu/admissions age of eight. Mr. Gray went on to study with Marc Zinger and
Victor Aitay at DePaul University and later, with Ruben Gonzalez.
He served as concertmaster of the DePaul University Orchestra and
as concertmaster of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Mr. Gray later
became a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Chicago
Sinfonietta as well as embarking on the study of conducting.
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After college, Mr. Gray became Music Director of the South Side Family Chamber Orchestra, and prin- DONALD DEROCHE | Director of Chamber Music
cipal conductor of CYSO’s Concert Orchestra, which led to engagements at the Grant Park Music
Dr. Donald DeRoche was the director of bands and Chair of
Festival in Chicago as well as the Rocky Ridge Music Festival in Colorado. In 1999 he became principal
Performance Studies at DePaul University in Chicago between 1979
conductor of the Illinois Chamber Symphony, and Music Director/Conductor and Professor of Violin at
until 2008. Beginning in 2007 and continuing until today, he has
Kalamazoo College in Michigan. In 2010 Mr. Gray had his premiere performance conducting Chicago
been the Director of the chamber music program for the Chicago
Sinfonietta at Orchestra Hall and spent the year as cover conductor for the Joffrey Ballet under Scott
Youth Symphony Orchestras. Dr. DeRoche earned degrees in music
Speck. Later that same year Mr. Gray was named Illinois Council of Orchestras' Conductor of the Year.
education and performance at the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D.
Mr. Gray has performed as a member of the American Arts Trio, the Tower Ensemble, and the EDU in music education at Northwestern University. For three years he
String Quartet, and with jazz greats Edward Wilkerson, Mwata Bowden, Ari Brown, and Orbert was clarinetist with the U.S. Army Band in Washington, D.C., and he
Davis. He has performed at Vienna's Musikverein and Kozerthaus, Leipzig's Gewandhaus, Geneva's spent two seasons as principal clarinetist with the Victoria (Canada)
Tonnehalle, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, and toured Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Symphony Orchestra. He appeared as guest artist at the Alaska
China and Japan. Festival of Music, and soloist with the Czech, Arcturus and
Vancouver string quartets. On his return to the U.S. he spent six years directing the band program at
In addition to his role at CYSO, Mr. Gray is Music Director of the Rita Simo Youth Orchestra, member
Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois. For six years he served as conductor of the Palatine
of the first violin section of the world acclaimed Chicago Sinfonietta, member of the St. Neri Chamber
Concert Band, an adult amateur ensemble.
Players, as well as chamber music performer, coach and sought after clinician.
Dr. DeRoche conducted the DePaul Wind Ensemble in Austria, Russia, Estonia, Poland, Ireland, and
Hungary, and has been guest conductor with professional and conservatory wind orchestras in
DANIELLA VALDEZ | Director of String Ensembles Estonia. His wind ensemble can be heard on ten recordings on the EMI, Albany Records, and
Daniella Valdez is the conductor of CYSO’s Preparatory Strings and Reference Recordings labels. The recording project includes a variety of 20th century works and
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Accelerando Strings ensembles. She trained at Texas Tech University pieces for solo instrument and winds. Soloists in the series include Donald Peck, Mary Stolper,
and Northwestern University School of Music, where she received Robert Morgan, William Buchman, Lewis Kirk, Larry Combs, John Yeh, Julie DeRoche, John Hagstrom,
her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees respectively. A native of Charles Vernon, Rami Solomonow, Christopher Costanza, and Floyd Cooley.
Texas, she began studying violin at the age of ten. She went on to
study in intensive string pedagogy programs with Dr. Cynthia Scully
at Texas Tech University and Dr. James Kjelland and Stacia Spencer SCOTT McCONNELL | Director of Steel Orchestras
at Northwestern University.
Scott McConnell is an active percussion and steelpan performer and
In 2011 Ms. Valdez joined the faculty staff at Maine West High School educator. He can be found working with a number of steel ensemble
as the Director of Orchestras. In this capacity she conducts one full programs in the Chicagoland area in addition to CYSO including
orchestra, two string ensembles and teaches guitar classes. Prior to her appointment at Maine West Oak Park's William Hatch Elementary and as a faculty member
High School, she was an orchestra director at Elm Place Middle School in Highland Park, Illinois. at Birch Creek Music Performance Center. As a member of these
organizations Mr. McConnell teaches, arranges, and performs on
Her career as an educator and violinist has led to developing strong and successful orchestra
both steelpan and percussion.
programs. An accomplished orchestra director, she has led ensembles to receive superior ratings
in the Illinois Grade Music Association Organizational Contest and participated as a Lab Orchestra Mr. McConnell's diverse and eclectic interest in learning many
at The Midwest Clinic. Her students are also participants of the Illinois Music Educators Association styles of music has led him to a portfolio career that includes
Honor Orchestra Festivals and the Illinois Grade School Music Association Solo and Ensemble Festival. performances with the Illinois Festival Orchestra, the Harper
During her time in Texas, her orchestras received excellent ratings in the University Interscholastic College Orchestra, South East Steel Orchestra, Starlift Steel Orchestra, and the Carpe Diem String
League Orchestra Concert and Sight Reading Contest. Her students also participated in the Region X Quartet. As an advocate and representative of the steelpan, Scott co-founded Pastiche Steel
All-Region Middle School Honor Orchestra Contest affiliated with the Texas Music Educators Associa- Ensemble, a professional steelband that focuses on sharing the power and versatility of the steel-
tion. Ms. Valdez is an active judge and clinician for solo and ensemble festivals. In addition to being an pan through new collaborations and mediums. Pastiche created the Virtual Steelband, a project
orchestra director, she has a private studio in violin and viola. that brings pannists from around the world together virtually to premiere new steelband music. As a
committee member of the Virtual Steelband, Mr. McConnell helped bring to life Bella Vista and Pan
Ms. Valdez has performed with several ensembles in Texas and in surrounding areas of Chicago
Kingdom, two new steelband compositions.
including the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, the Abilene Symphony Orchestra, the Shreveport
Symphony Orchestra, the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Evanston Symphony Mr. McConnell earned both undergraduate and masters degrees in percussion and steel pan perfor-
Orchestra. Also an accomplished commercial player, she has performed on stage with Chuck mance from Northern Illinois University, studying with world-renowned pedagogues Cliff Alexis, Greg
Mangione, Marvin Hamlish, Toni Tennille, and John Pizzarelli. Beyer, Robert Chappell, and Liam Teague. Upon completion of his masters degrees, Mr. McConnell
continued his study with Liam Teague, completing a performer’s certificate in steelpan studies. In May
16 172014, Mr. McConnell completed a second masters degree in recording media technology, studying DANA GREEN | Debut Orchestra Conductor
with Grammy-winning recording engineer Dan Nichols. During this time, he worked as the graduate Dana Green is a violinist, educator and conductor. With the support
assistant and served as the mastering engineer for the NIU Steelband’s latest CD, Dangerous. of his parents, Dana began studying the violin when he was five
years old with Steve Bjella. In the course of his education as a musi-
cian, he went on to study with Brian Groner, Laura Miller, Hilel Kagan
PHAREZ WHITTED | Director of Jazz Orchestra and Theresa Fream.
Practically everyone in the house played an instrument and that
Dana graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from
raw talent surely wouldn’t be wasted on Pharez Whitted. At nine he
DePaul University in 2004 and went on to earn his Masters in
found a trumpet in the closet and asked his brother to show him how
Music with a specialization in Music Education from Northern Illinois
to play a C major scale, and it was all over—he was hooked. It wasn’t
University and more recently studied rehearsal techniques at Indiana University under the tutelage
just that his father (Thomas Whitted Sr.) played drums with Freddie
of Dr. Cliff Colnot. Since graduating, he has logged thousands of hours on the podiums of Vernon
Hubbard and Wes Montgomery, or that his mother (Virtue Whitted)
Hills High School, Naperville North High School, Mill Street and Naper Elementary Schools, the West
sang and played bass. It was the deeply rooted love he had for the
Suburban Youth Orchestra and Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras.
music and his close ties with it.
At Naperville North, Mr. Green grew the program from 46 to 154 students while simultaneously tripling
Originally from Indianapolis, Whitted attended DePauw University
the orchestras at both Naper and Mill Street Elementary Schools. Mr. Green created three extra-curric-
and Indiana University. He has appeared on television on The Bill-
ular ensembles at the high school involving over 130 string players. Dana has led ensembles to place
board Music Awards and The Arsenio Hall Show. He was an artist on Motown's jazz lable and has
first in national music competitions in Seattle, San Francisco, Boston and New York. Orchestras under
worked with artists including George Duke, Elvin Jones, Slide Hampton, Branford Marsalis, Wynton
Mr. Green’s baton from both Naperville and Vernon Hills have been selected as featured performers at
Marsalis, David Baker, Ramsey Lewis, Lou Rawls, Bobby Broom, John Mellencamp and El Debarge. He
the Illinois Music Educators Conference. For 10 years, Mr. Green served as one of the directors of the
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also had two albums on the jazz top 10 (2010's Transient Journey and 2012's For the People).
West Suburban Youth Orchestra. While in that role, he worked with students in grades 4 through 11 on
In addition to his work as a musician, Whitted is a producer, composer, arranger and educator. He symphonic literature. Mr. Green continues to serve as a chamber coach for the OPUS Chamber Music
has taught Jazz Trumpet, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz History and has directed jazz ensembles at various Program, where he works with student ensembles on string quartet performance practice.
universities and high schools throughout the country. He served as Professor of Music at Chicago
Dana is a highly sought-after music educator and serves regularly as contest adjudicator and festival
State University and is on the faculty of Ravinia’s prestigious Jazz Scholar Program.
guest conductor. His energetic and inspiring style have served to engage students and communities
throughout the Midwest. In addition to his role at CYSO, Mr. Green is currently the Director of Orches-
tras at Vernon Hills High School where he continues to spread the joy of music.
MICHAEL MASCARI | Concert Orchestra Conductor
A National Board Certified Educator, Michael Mascari has served
as the Director of Orchestras at Whitney M. Young Magnet High ANNE HUYNH McTIGHE | Assistant Director of String Ensembles
School in the City of Chicago since 2006. He is honored to have
been selected as the 2019 state of Illinois nominee for the National Born in Boston, Ms. Huynh McTighe began playing violin at the
Federation of High Schools Music Educator of the Year. age of three and joined her first orchestra in second grade. Lat-
er, she joined a youth orchestra program at The Rivers School
Mr. Mascari’s Whitney M. Young Chamber Orchestra has achieved Conservatory, eventually serving as concertmaster of the Rivers
international acclaim with performances in 2018 at the presti- Youth Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Huynh McTighe toured Europe
gious Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Confer- twice as a student with American Music Abroad and four times as a
ence (the first invitation for a Chicago Public School orchestra), in director. She has had the opportunity to play and conduct concerts
2016 at Carnegie Hall, and, more locally, at the 2012 Illinois Music at Schönbrunn Palace and the Normandy American Cemetery on
Educators’ Association All-State Conference. the Fourth of July. Ms. Huynh McTighe is a member of the Evanston
Mr. Mascari holds a Master of Arts degree in Music Education from Eastern Illinois University and a Symphony Orchestra and has collaborated and performed with the
Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His teachers Sisai Ensemble, a Chicago-based Andean music group. Ms. Huynh
and mentors include Allen Tinkham, Louis Bergonzi, Frank Lestina, Deborah Confredo, Jack Ranney, McTighe has also studied Baroque bow making with a faculty member of the North Bennett Street
Kathleen Horvath, Fred Stolzfus, John Heath, Bill Jastrow, and Michael Rogers. School in Boston.
On a Sunday morning, Mr. Mascari can be found at Church of Our Saviour in Lincoln Park where he Ms. Huynh McTighe received a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University’s Bienen
serves, along with his wife, Cate, as the music minister for the church’s contemporary service. He is School of Music and was a member of the university's Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra.
the proud father of two CYSO musicians, Ariana and Leith. While at Northwestern, she studied in Vienna and taught music and English in a local school where
18 19she introduced her students to stop-motion animation, using it to explore the connection between BENJAMIN FIRER | Philharmonic Orchestra Assistant Conductor
music, stories, and emotions. During college she was also a Music Mentor to teens at the Cook County
Juvenile Detention Center where she taught music composition using GarageBand and conducted Benjamin Firer is thrilled to join the artistic staff at Chicago Youth
research on the program’s effectiveness for Dr. Maud Hickey. Symphony Orchestras for the 2020-2021 season. An award-winning
conductor, Firer is active throughout the Chicago area. Currently, as
Ms. Huynh McTighe is the Orchestra Director at Highcrest Middle School where she begins fifth grade Director of Orchestra and Opera at Northern Illinois University, he
students on violin, viola, cello, and bass and conducts the Beginning Orchestra, Hawk Orchestra, directs the NIU Philharmonic, Opera Theatre, and teaches courses
and Wire Choir. Ms. Huynh McTighe has worked at Willowbrook and Wescott Elementary School, in music theory, orchestration and orchestral literature. At NIU, Firer
The People’s Music School, and The Rivers School Conservatory Summer Music Program, leading helped design a new Master’s in Conducting degree program and
orchestras, coaching chamber groups, and providing private instruction. built a thriving graduate orchestral conducting studio. Along with his
Ms. Huynh McTighe joined the CYSO family in 2013, working with Director of String Orchestras duties at NIU, Firer is Music Director of the Metropolitan Youth Sym-
Daniella Valdez as the Preparatory Strings Assistant Conductor. She was appointed as conductor of phony Orchestra and on faculty as conductor with the Northeastern
Overture Strings Orchestra when it was established in 2014. Illinois University and the Chicago Chamber Music Festival.
Passionate about inspiring the next generation of musicians, Firer led the Dubuque Symphony
Youth Orchestra during their 50th anniversary season, culminating in a side-by-side concert with the
STEVEN GOODEN | Symphony Orchestra & Debut Orchestra acclaimed Minneapolis Youth Symphony. A committed educator, he was engaged as a teaching artist
Assistant Conductor through the Yale University Music in Schools Initiative, providing instruction at the John C. Daniels
Magnet School while serving as Music Director of the Yale-Saybrook College Orchestra. Prior to his
Steven Gooden’s attraction to the clarinet was, admittedly, driven by current appointment, Firer held posts as Interim Associate Director of Orchestras at the Pennsylvania
non-musical ambitions. He selected the clarinet with no knowledge State University, Summer Philharmonic Conductor at the Merit School of Music, Director of Orchestras
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of what one looked or sounded like, but with the hopes of “sitting at Juniata College, and Music Director of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Orchestras.
next to a particular cute girl who played clarinet.” While this love
interest may not have blossomed, Mr. Gooden’s career as a clarinet- Firer holds a Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting from Northwestern University and a Master’s Degree
ist and musical artist certainly did. from Yale University. As an orchestral musician he has recorded for the Naxos and Albany labels.
At CYSO, Mr. Gooden works closely with Debut Orchestra as well as
woodwind players in Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra,
and chamber music. In addition, he conducts in the Merit School LAURA YAWNEY | Concert Orchestra Teaching Assistant
of Music’s Tuition-Free Conservatory, Instrumental and Vocal Music, Originally from Maryland, Laura Yawney holds a Master’s degree
and Merit Music in Communities programs. He is also band director at Proviso Math and Science in Oboe Performance from Temple University and a Bachelor of
Academy in Forest Park and maintains a robust studio of private clarinet students. Music degree from the University of Delaware where she was also a
Presser Scholar.
An accomplished performer in his own right, Mr. Gooden is the clarinetist and co-artistic director
of the Second City Winds, formerly the principal clarinetist for the North Shore Concert Band, and During her undergraduate studies, Laura was a featured soloist
periodically performs solo recitals. He has been featured on numerous Honors Recitals and concerto with the Newark Symphony Orchestra and the University of Dela-
performances under the batons of Mallory Thompson, Pamela Holt, Michael Palmer and Kenneth ware Symphony Orchestra. In Philadelphia, Laura performed with
Beard. Mr. Gooden has performed with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Lakeshore Symphony ensembles such as the Reading Symphony Orchestra, the Bay
Orchestra, Evanston Symphony Orchestra. He is an avid chamber performer in Chicago and around Atlantic Symphony, Symphony in C, Endless Mountain Music
the country. Mr. Gooden has been recognized with honors in a number of competitions, and Festival, and Reláche, a chamber ensemble specializing in new
performed on the album American Manuscripts with the Georgia State University Wind Ensemble. music. An avid chamber musician, Laura was a member of the state-recognized Nota Bene Winds and
the Con Pepe Trio at the University of Delaware as well as the New School Quintet, the premier wind
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Gooden earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education at Georgia State
quintet at Temple University.
University and earned a Masters of Music, with honors, in Clarinet Performance and Literature from
Northwestern University, where he studied with Steven Cohen. Her primary teachers are Peter Smith, Jeffrey O’Donnell, and Barbara Girdler. Laura spent recent
summers studying at Eastern Music Festival and the Chautauqua Institute, and she is currently a
In his free time, Steven is a car enthusiast who enjoys motorcycle racing, wrenching on cars and bikes,
fellow with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Laura is also a co-founder of Classical Musicians’ Round-
and traveling with his wife, Jaclyn.
table, an organization that advocates for mental health support in the classical music community.
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SINCE 1966 800.221.3796 231.894.1966OVERTURE STRINGS PROGRAM PREPARATORY STRINGS PROGRAM
Anne Huynh McTighe, conductor Daniella Valdez, conductor
Anne Huynh McTighe, Assistant Director of String Ensembles
Traditional Feng Yang Song
arr. Bob Phillips Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911) Theme from Symphony No. 1, Mvt. 3
arr. Brad Pfeil
Kathryn Griesinger (b. 1979) Subterranean
Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907) The Hall of the Mountain King from
Arr. Deborah Baker Monday Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
VIOLIN Elena LaFaver CELLO
Joseph J. Phillips Dorian Dance
OVERTURE STRINGS
Milosz Bobek Tessa Mele Danush Heck
Jonah Butler Abigail O'Connor Daniel Lim
Kristina Carson James Peña Imani Qureshi
Laureen Demir Akshara Rajan Lily Shah VIOLIN Mikhail Khoubaeva-Hummel VIOLA
Libbi Gastwirth Zofia Szymanska Emilia Szymanska Drake Wunderlich Samuel Kosanovich Leila Blomeier
STRING &
Evelyn Hu Collin Taylor Jonah Yeh Concertmaster Eva Koshy Principal
Brielle Jones Agnes Wei Breece Immergluck Annabelle Lan Ruby Mikulski
Layla Wells Assistant Principal Jaslyn Lee Assistant principal
ORCHESTRAS
Jinglian Wu Arijus Keblinskas Bella Li Charis Betson
PREPARATORY
Leah Yim Principal Second Violin Charlie Long Victor Betson
Kayleigh Lim Leo Ma
CELLO
Assistant Principal Second Aleksandr Mackavich
Irene Kim
Violin Sukie McIntosh
Principal
Chloe Athanasiou Kanayo Obiaya
ROSTERS
Jordan Dowell
Leo Athanasiou Emma Ochoa
Assistant principal
STRINGS PROGRAM
Lila Ballard Andrew Older
Julian Grisius
Alexander Blander Alexander Ouyang
Jake Lee
James Capshaw Olivia Reynolds
Lesly Rivera
Gavin Chiam Bonnie Rickman
Kevin Soto
Prisara Chumsangsri Marcus Roh
Olivia Stolarczyk
Cyrus Di Lincoln Routier
Benjamin Streiffer
Peter Gray Nikhil Sengupta
Noah Yeh
Sadie Guralnick Ari Shah
Aidan Howe Ethan Stulberg
Victor Huang Katherine Tong
Avery Ja Maya Wells
Darius Jones Emma Weng
Timothy Kern Mia Yim
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24 25DEBUT ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
Dana Green, conductor Dana Green, conductor
Steven Gooden, Debut Orchestra Assistant Conductor Steven Gooden, Debut Orchestra Assistant Conductor
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) Danse Macabre Norman Leyden (1917 - 2014) Serenade for String Orchestra
arr. Merle J. Isaac I. Prelude
III. Nocturne
IV. Cakewalk
VIOLIN Eugenie Schuster FLUTE TRUMPET VIOLIN VIOLA
Kayla He Aidan Villasenor Siwon Park John Crandall Carmella Abramczyk Audrey Keller
Concertmaster Patricia Washington Principal Principal Yeimi Alday Katherine Polomsky
Emma Strong Evangeline Wang Aarush Palli Chethan Nickerson Ashton Boncimino David Roche
Principal Second Shaelyn Wu Caden Tam Mac Olson Ari Daniels Dominic Tous
Violin Tinson Xu Christian Tsikhun Yegyun Park Sloan D'Souza
DEBUT ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
CELLO
Neena Agrawal Angela Zhang Stephanie Zajczenko Annie Fan
OBOE Rebecca Kriho
Gabriel Alava Tali Gastwirth
VIOLA Meiling Sun TROMBONE Evangelyn Lee
Itzel Bustos Adelaide Gray
Insha Butail William Blomeier Principal Hagyun Park Ava Hirschl Uma Morris
Abigail Chu Principal Morgan Coolidge Principal Caitlyn Howe Saroya Ornelas Pagnucci
Ethan Chu Erika Andreshak Giovani Ibarra Henry Lobash Anya Keblinskas Noah Salmi
Momoko Hashimoto Maggie Bai Corinna Irvin Jeanne Keller Laila Valenti
TUBA
Jorgensen Katherine Bai Caleb McCloud Wendi Wei
CLARINET Pierre Ngoy
Lev Khoubaeva- Claire Li Lydia Popova
Narin Kim Theodore Smith
Hummel Dziugas Meiliulis Karol Szymanski
Principal
Sava Kosanovich TIMPANI Yuta Ueki
CELLO Christopher Chung
Madeleine Kim Colin Fousek Natalie Zhu
Katharine Davin Lee
Vincent Lan Christensen Matthew Warren PERCUSSION
Trevor Lavicky Principal Ivan Correa
Alexander Li BASSOON
Lilia Abramczyk Bennett Gonzalez
Finnegan McGuinness Ethan Weingust
Abigail AuYeung Suraj Pilla
Owen Myers Principal
Dashiell Farbrother Avon Wright
Shune Okada Vivian Hirschl FRENCH HORN
Samantha O'Leary Benjamin Houston Rhonaleen Rona
Sylvia Pine Bogdan Jones Principal
Ilana Rossi Andrius Marchertas
Dmytro Saldan Kristianne Villasenor
Katherine
Schaufenbuel
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Unless otherwise noted, all names listed in alphabetical order
26 27CONCERT ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
Michael Mascari, conductor Michael Mascari, conductor
Laura Yawney, Concert Orchestra Teaching Assistant Laura Yawney, Concert Orchestra Teaching Assistant
José Pablo Moncayo (1912 - 1958) Tres piezas para orquestra William Grant Still (1895-1978) Symphony No. 1 “Afro-American”
III. Danza III. Animato
VIOLIN VIOLA CLARINET VIOLIN VIOLA CLARINET
Jesse Chen Ellen Campbell Julia Gugulski Elizabeth Allen-Gabin Baron Balfour Jessica An
Beck Edwards Jackson La Vallee Dylan Rhodes Smaya Anand Luna Clancy Evan Liu
Abby Ellis Callia Murray Derek Zhang Bowen Cheng Lucy Liu
Clara Frantzen Natalie Vlcek BASSOON
Nikki Chopra Elliot Schaffrath
Jaime Garcia-Añoveros BASSOON Paige Hoffman
Olivia Detmer Brayden Wu
CELLO Zoltan Moran Anna Slodyczka
Ume Hashimoto Jorgensen Elah Dresden
CONCERT
STRING ORCHESTRAS
Samantha Irwin Violet Berg CELLO
FRENCH HORN Alice Fan FRENCH HORN
Maxime Khanna Carnig Hsia Nishant Carr
Ameya Deo Paloma Furst Chavira Logan Carlson
Elliot King James Pan Kai Dizon
Catherine Yan Wells Gjerlow Ayden Hunt
Hannah Kotek David Reyes Clara Dodge
Laney Kang
ORCHESTRA ROSTERS
Sinziana Lazar Angelika Wang TRUMPET Millan Mallipeddi TRUMPET
Josephine Kim
Zhihanna Liu BASS Charles Desnoyers William Trone Lilie Shlyak
Matthew Kim
Julia Perekhozhuk Sindhu Tiwari Nicholas Lorenzen Ethan Van Ha Aran Viswanath
Merrill Lee
Koen Powell FLUTE TROMBONE Jakub Myers BASS TROMBONE
Yuuki Sato Jessica Hu Lucian O'Leary Kacie Cortes
PROGRAM
David Pausan Sean Millman
Amber Shi Noelle Klima Nathan Rusu Jungwoo Park William Letterman
Joyce Wang Venisha Saxena Ella Petersen BASS
Crystal Yeo PERCUSSION Yildis Rihter FLUTE TROMBONE
Grace Zeng OBOE Campbell Drane Halime Shero Jimmy Chiu Derrick Hozey
Roy Son Ryan Schoenstedt Darren Song Hanna Choi
TUBA
Vera Song OBOE Abhiram Jayaprakash
Austen Wu Brielle Dukovac
Sonali Marion
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To purchase tickets, visit cyso.org/concerts Unless otherwise noted, all names listed in alphabetical order
28 29ACCELERANDO STRINGS PROGRAM JAZZ ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
Daniella Valdez, conductor Pharez Whitted, conductor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) Serenade for Strings in C Major, Tom Garling (b. 1965) Big Mac Daddy
Op. 48
III. Elegie Tom Garling (b. 1965) And Another Thing
IV. Finale (Tema russo)
ALTO SAXOPHONE TRUMPET PIANO
VIOLIN Stephen Luo CELLO Joaquin Ancheta Geoffrey Feinstein Devin Shaw
ACCELERANDO
Greta Hong Nicole Moravec Joseph Leckie JR Benson Avery Hoerman Brandon Harper
Concertmaster Amaya Munoz Principal Payton Bryk Liam Nelson
Julia Wodzien Dubravko Rodriguez Madelenne Arredondo Yavna Sakthi Philip Pistone GUITAR
Principal Second Violin Claire Stroger Emily Boyas Carlos Sims Joel Fisher
Maya Atassi Saira Torres Mimi Rector TENOR Faizi Tofighi
STRING
Eva Baker Kai Werlinsky Julia Soto SAXOPHONE BASS
Frances Boerman-Cornell Kailey White Samuel Calhoon
STRINGS
Sarah Craft TROMBONE
Evan Campbell Stephen Harper Riichiro Fujiki Claudia Easterwood
ORCHESTRAS
Dilan Garg VIOLA Leonardo Milano Henry Lobash Thomas Gotsch
Will Heneghan Anthony Galvez Danny Sanders Timothy Wilcox
& JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Joshua Ho Principal Eric Song Benjamin Zierdt DRUMS
Sanjana Kuchibhotla Emmanuel Betson Oscar Evely
Ella Kwon Logan Zerfass BARITONE BASS TROMBONE Brandon Harper
SAXOPHONE Brandon Chlebicki
ROSTERS PROGRAM
Wesley Hennessey
Unless otherwise noted, all names listed in alphabetical order
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30 31PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
START A Terrance Malone Gray, conductor
Benjamin Firer, Philharmonic Orchestra Assistant Conductor
MOVEMENT. Modest Mussorgsky (1831 - 1881)
arr. Maurice Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition
I. Promenade
IX. Baba Yaga
X. Great Gate of Kiev
VIOLIN Christopher Zhou Evelyn Henriquez Jonah Stemen
Aki Santibanez Tristan Zhu Madison Kraus Amanda Vicens
Concertmaster Leo Zupko Naomi Loos Róisín Walsh
Amanda Schuler Patrick O'Connell
VIOLA TRUMPET
Principal Second Saul Rivera
Wanrou Sun Bennett King
PHILHARMONIC
Violin
Principal FLUTE Principal
Eldon Bradfield
Stacey Apellido Nina Toubol
STRING ORCHESTRAS
Christian Choi
Noah Briones
Zayn Beg Principal Jet Conway
Francesca
Charles Cundiff Grace Choi Jeth Maglasang
Di Domenico
Julien Derroitte Claire Kim
Ella Dodge TROMBONE
Kai Lee Rodrigo Soto
Oscar Gershfeld Grant Heinberg
Yanchen Liu
ORCHESTRA
Rocco Greco OBOE Principal
Ivy Loentz
Minseo Jung Jack Thompson Alec Fiden
Alexis Park
Sterling Kennedy Principal Maxwell Lanham
MUSIC AND THE ENTERPRISING SPIRIT Nathaniel Reese Scott
Alexander Kim Katie Lee
Miya Yoon BASS
ROSTERS
Julia Kim Arun Marion
SMU Meadows music students start their own ensembles and companies, Sophia Zheng TROMBONE
PROGRAM
Prathisha Krishnan
perform on and off campus, win commissions for new works and more, CLARINET Ryan Cerauli
Nicole Kwasny CELLO
Mateusz Zubrzycki
all under the guidance of faculty members who are symphony principals, Sunny Lee Xavier Perry TUBA
Principal
authors, international concert artists, composers, recording artists and Asya Lengel Principal Reese Pavlik
Owen Ginnett
Jaiden Lulla Olivia Boe Principal
researchers. At SMU Meadows – named as a top entrepreneurial school by
Nandini Maiti Grant Brown BASSOON Castin York
Forbes – many students double major, study abroad and make a difference Ariana Mattos Cruz Justin Chang Stauffer Gavin
HARP
in the world. Find out more at smu.edu/music. Theodore Pigott Christine Chen Kempf-Kutemeier
Kristy Tamvakis
Eden Raviv Ocean Fang Principal
B.A. in Music / B.M. in Performance / B.M. in Composition Principal
Helen Qian Ma'ayan Kertcher Sammy Carstens
Jessica Chen
B.M. in Music Therapy / B.M. in Music Education / Multiple graduate degrees Vaishnavi Sharma Yaseen Qureshi Himani Kamineni
Dingjia Shen Serena Reyes Gavin Murray PIANO
Bea Sjostrom Caleb Sim Mukund Rajesh Joshua Mhoon
Noelle Streuber-Eden Eli Trokenheim Taki Salameh PERCUSSION
Maja Todorovic Shirley Xiong
FRENCH HORN Shivam Kak
Joshua Villanoy
BASS Sophia Calvo Principal
Emily Wang
Southern Methodist University (SMU) will not discriminate in any employment practice, education program, education activity, or admissions on the basis of
Jeffrey Broms Principal Abigail Morrissey
race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status. SMU’s commitment to equal opportunity includes nondiscrimi-
Yi Wu
nation on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. The Executive Director for Access and Equity/Title IX1 Coordinator is designated Principal Abigail Getty Paari Thanikachalam
to handle inquiries regarding the nondiscrimination policies, including the prohibition of sex discrimination under Title IX. The Executive Director/Title IX Coor- Aiden Yu
dinator may be reached at the Perkins Administration Building, Room 204, 6425 Boaz Lane, Dallas, TX 75205, 214-768-3601, accessequity@smu.edu. Inquiries Ryan Wilkov
regarding the application of Title IX may also be directed to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education.
33SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
Allen Tinkham, conductor FLUTE BASS CLARINET BASS TROMBONE
Steven Gooden, Symphony Orchestra Assistant Conductor Anika Veda + Louis Auxenfans Rafael Noriega Jr.
Emma Westerfield +
John Williams (1932) Superman March from Superman The Paula Mollendorff BASSOON TUBA
Groseth Principal Flute Jack Morby + Daniel Oczko +
Chair* Ryan Zych + Avery Osborne +
VIOLIN Olivia Molina CELLO Adithya Taire Principal Principal
Henry Auxenfans + Csilla Moran John Brow + Rosie Wang Shae Atkins
Bianca Ciubancan + Vivek Parashar Brandon Cheng + Eric Bahena Figueroa PERCUSSION
Sydney Wei + Henry Park Elijah Park + PICCOLO Jacob Chang*
Joshua Wolford + Eron Ristich Emma Scofield + Iris Xie FRENCH HORN The Gordon B. Peters
The Lauren J. Conroy, '16 Amarin Sharma The Lucie Ticho, '16 Maeve O'Hara + Endowed Principal
Concertmaster Chair* Alyssa Shih Principal Cello Chair* OBOE Danica Tuohy + Timpani Chair*
Ophir Dahari + Enya Sun Carter Baker Adriana Koch + Principal Brandon Harper
SYMPHONY
Athena Deng + Henry Xie Ronald Chen Celia Chambers + Emi Brady Nathaniel Mathew
STRING ORCHESTRAS
William Tong + Eva Yang James Dowell IV The James and Marcia Darlyne Hidalgo Kyra McComb
Amelia Zheng + Sarena Yang Simon Han Franklin Principal Oboe Benjamin Hommowun Meher Sethi
The Dorothy Robinson Althena Yu Aviana Holst Chair* Gabrielle Michael
Kramer Principal Second Elizabeth Yu Matthew Jordan Zachary Allen Elena Miller
ORCHESTRAROSTERS
Harp
Violin Chair* Emily Kaspari Daniel Kozintsev Liam Weber Nancy Zhou +
Fiona Abney-McPeek VIOLA Rachel Kim Andrew Pahadi Nina Scheyer +
Jonathan Alday Kimberly LaFranzo + Jane Lin TRUMPET Pearl Shing-Roth +
Gloria Baek Kene Obiaya + Jonathan Miller CLARINET Connor Williamson Rowan Zdziarski-West +
Dean Barrow Derek Song + Peter Pu Louis Auxenfans + Principal The Joyce and John
PROGRAM
Dhivya Chari Jesse Wei + Alejandro Quiles Ethan Montgomery + Nando Cordeiro Schladweiler Principal
Dov Chen Principal August Schwob The Richard J. Kemper Maxwell DeForest Harp Chair*
Ricky Chen Barry Carta Daniel Shin Endowed Principal Clarinet Elise Ehlert
Edward Christensen Shiqi Cheng Chair* Dhruv Vaze PIANO
Aidan Sinclair Daniels Kavishka Fernando Bass Sarah Craft Mark Zhu
Gabriella Di Domenico Thomas Johnson Nicholas Boettcher + Dane Engman TROMBONE
Shreya Dudeja Bryce Kayser Enzo Nigro + Melissa Everson Jonathan Ngoy
Isabel Evans Vivian Kok Principal William Foye Principal
David He Ariana Mascari Samuel Calhoon Deaglan Sullivan
Suminne Hong Austin Moy Claudia Easterwood
Lisa Kazami Taytum Newell Tess Kassinger
Kaylee Kim Ania Ocasio Sean Lu
Nathan Li Tessa Olson Hayden Park
Eugene Lodkin Olivia Roti Jackson Pekny + Co-Principal
Leith Mascari Hannah Thill * Named Chairs. Call Bridget Duffy at 312-939-2207 x290
for information on naming opportunities
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34 35SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
Allen Tinkham, conductor Allen Tinkham, conductor
Steven Gooden, Symphony Orchestra Assistant Conductor Steven Gooden, Symphony Orchestra Assistant Conductor
Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911) Symphony No. 4, Mvmt 1 Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945) Music for Strings, Percussion and
Celesta, Mvmt 2
Marcus Norris (b. 1991) My Idols are Dead
VIOLIN BASS BASSOON
Gloria Baek Claudia Easterwood Taki Salameh
Concertmaster Principal
FRENCH HORN VIOLIN VIOLA HARP
Dean Barrow Samuel Calhoon
Associate Concertmaster Tess Kassinger Danica Touhy Sydney Wei Bryce Kayser Nancy Zhou
Edward Christensen Principal Concertmaster Principal First Viola Principal
Principal Second Violin FLUTE Gabrielle Michael Bianca Ciubancan Ariana Mascari Pearl Shing-Roth
SYMPHONY
Amarin Sharma Iris Xie Associate Concertmaster Principal Second Viola
STRING ORCHESTRAS
Associate Principal TRUMPET Ophir Dahari Barry Carta PIANO
Second Violin OBOE Connor Williamson Principal Second Violin Thomas Johnson Mark Zhu
Jonathan Alday Adriana Koch Lisa Kazami Kimberly LaFranzo
Henry Auxenfans Principal HARP Associate Principal Second CELESTA
ORCHESTRAROSTERS
Sarena Yang Zachary Allen Rowan Zdziarski-West Violin CELLO Mark Zhu
Amelia Zheng Principal Josh Wolford Brandon Cheng
CLARINET Nina Scheyer Principal Third Violin Principal First Cello PERCUSSION
VIOLA Ethan Montgomery Ricky Chen Emma Scofield Kyra McComb
Kimberly LaFranzo Principal PERCUSSION Principal Fourth Violin Principal Second Cello Principal
PROGRAM
Principal Dane Engman Jacob Chang AidanSinclair Daniels Ronald Chen Jacob Chang
Austin Moy Brandon Harper Athena Deng James Dowell Brandon Harper
Olivia Roti E-FLAT CLARINET Kyra McComb Shreya Dudeja Aviana Holst Meher Sethi
Derek Song Ethan Montgomery Meher Sethi Isabel Evans Matthew Jordan
Kaylee Kim
CELLO BASS CLARINET Leith Mascari BASS
John Brow Louis Auxenfans Nicholas Boettcher
Principal Principal First Bass
Carter Baker Hayden Park
Brandon Cheng Principal Second Bass
Emily Kaspari
Virtual performances will debut at 5:00 pm CST on Saturday, June 12, 2021.
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36 37SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
Allen Tinkham, conductor Allen Tinkham, conductor
Steven Gooden, Symphony Orchestra Assistant Conductor Scott Tegge, CYSO Brass Coach
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Coriolan Overture Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) Funeral March from
arr. King Die Götterdämmerung
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Don Giovanni Overture
Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) Fanfare for the Common Man
VIOLIN BASS CONTRABASSOON
Henry Auxenfans Sean Lu Ryan Zych FRENCH HORN TRUMPET BARITONE TUBA
Concertmaster Principal Maeve O'Hara Connor Williamson Daniel Oczko
Eugene Lodkin Enzo Nigro FRENCH HORN Danica Tuohy Principal
Associate Concertmaster Jackson Pekny Liam Weber Principal Maxwell DeForest TUBA
SYMPHONY
Joshua Wolford Principal Emi Brady Elise Ehlert Daniel Oczko
STRING ORCHESTRAS
Principal Second Violin FLUTE Elena Miller Darlyne Hidalgo Dhruv Vaze Avery Osborne
Csilla Moran Anika Veda Benjamin Hommowun
Associate Principal Principal TRUMPET Gabrielle Michael TROMBONE PERCUSSION
Second Violin Emma Westerfield Maxwell DeForest Elena Miller Jonathan Ngoy Jacob Chang
ORCHESTRAROSTERS
Alyssa Shih Principal Liam Weber Principal Brandon Harper
Henry Xie OBOE Elise Ehlert Deaglan Sullivan Kyra McComb
Zachary Allen Dhruv Vaze
VIOLA Principal BASS TROMBONE
Kene Obiaya Celia Chambers TIMPANI Rafael Noriega Jr.
PROGRAM
Principal Meher Sethi
Tessa Olson CLARINET
Associate Principal Louis Auxenfans
Taytum Newell Principal
Hannah Thill Melissa Everson
William Foye
CELLO
BASSOON
Elijah Park
Jack Morby
Principal
Principal
August Schwob
Taki Salameh
Associate Principal
Alejandro Quiles
Daniel Shin
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To purchase tickets, visit cyso.org/concerts
38 39At Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, we cultivate
STEEL ORCHESTRAS PROGRAM
the mastery of musical performance, combining a conservatory
experience with the educational opportunities of a leading research
university. Our illustrious faculty of artist-teachers dedicate
themselves to the special talents and skills of each individual student. Scott McConnell, conductor
Dean of the Shepherd School of Music
Robert Yekovich
Faculty
GROOVE STEEL ORCHESTRA
VIOLIN OBOE HARP VOCAL COACHING
Paul Kantor Robert Atherholt Paula Page Bethany Self Paul G. Ross Make a Move
Cho-Liang Lin Karen Roethlisberger Verm
Kathleen Winkler CLARINET PIANO
Richie Hawley Brian Connelly CONDUCTING
VIOLA
James Dunham BASSOON
Jeanne Kierman Fischer
Sohyoung Park
Thomas Jaber
Larry Rachleff
Jose Alvarez Steven Correa Nina Miraz
Ivo-Jan van der Werff Benjamin Kamins Jon Kimura Parker Maria Alvarez Jake Long James Peña
Robert Roux COMPOSITION AND THEORY
CELLO HORN Virginia Weckstrom Karim Al-Zand Archer Balfour Stella Ludwig
Norman Fischer William VerMeulen Damien Blättler
Desmond Hoebig ORGAN Anthony Brandt
Brinton Averil Smith TRUMPET Ken Cowan Shih-Hui Chen
Barbara Butler Arthur Gottschalk
DOUBLE BASS Charlie Geyer VOICE Pierre Jalbert
Paul Ellison Stephen King Richard Lavenda
Timothy Pitts TROMBONE Robin Rice Kurt Stallmann
Allen Barnhill Nova Thomas JUNIOR STEEL ORCHESTRA
FLUTE MUSICOLOGY
STRING
STEEL ORCHESTRAS
Leone Buyse TUBA OPERA STUDIES Gregory Barnett
David Kirk Debra Dickinson
Susan Lorette Dunn
David Ferris Maurice White (b. 1941), Wayne Vaughn Let's Groove Tonight
Alexandra Kieffer
PERCUSSION Miah Im Peter Loewen arr. Yuko Asada
Matthew Strauss Ana María Martínez, Danielle Ward-Griffin
Artist-in-Residence
ORCHESTRASPROGRAM
The Shepherd School of Music • Rice University, Houston, TX • music.rice.edu
Pablo Arredondo Alinnah Glassiognon Adrian Tam
Lila Ballard Benjamin Houston Caden Tam
Victor Betson Gael Rodriguez
Ivan Correa Kevin Soto
Join us
ROSTERS
for our 2 week
Music Academy
2021 Symphony KAISO STEEL ORCHESTRA
June 27 - July 10
Len “Boogsie” Sharpe (b. 1953) Birthday Party
• Study under a faculty of arr. Shelly Irvine and Steve Popernack
world-class professional
musicians. Jonathan Alday Adam Kipp Nora Meraz
• 2:1 Student:Faculty ratio Fara Cage Arushi Krishnan Anna Slodyczka
for a mentoring, formative Samantha Irwin Prathisha Krishnan Taig Singh
environment.
• Live the life of a
professional musician.
Learn more at
birchcreek.org/academy
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A tradition of musical excellence
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