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YOSA musicians number more than 1,800 and come from more than 158 schools in 21 school districts.

YOSA musicians are ethnically diverse — 53% Hispanic, 33% Caucasian, 3% AfricanAmerican, 8% Asian-American. More than one-third of YOSA musicians receive tuition assistance; more than 65% receive free programs through community partnerships.

The Orchestras

More than 450 musicians are arranged into 8 orchestras with weekly rehearsals and 10 concerts annually.

Musicians with one to two years of playing experience begin in YOSA Prelude Strings. As their music skills progress and improve, they may graduate into Capriccio Strings, Sinfonietta Strings, and Concertino Strings. YOSA Flute Choir, Symphony, and Symphonic Winds offer opportunities for string, woodwind, brass, and percussion musicians.

The most experienced young musicians in the region perform with the YOSA Philharmonic, playing professional-level repertoire in premier venues here and abroad, collaborating regularly with internationally renowned soloists and composers.

The YOSA Philharmonic has represented San Antonio on 10 international tours, most recently London in 2012 and Québec in 2014.

Summer Symphony Camp

In July each summer, more than 200 students convene for a two-week day camp hosted at Saint Mary’s Hall with some of San Antonio’s finest music teachers and professional musicians as faculty. YOSA has been offering summer camp since 1985; the program has expanded to include woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

YOSA MÁS:Music at School

YOSA is committed to working with public and private schools throughout greater San Antonio. Some school partnerships involve classroom and school visits by YOSA faculty and staff. YOSA’s most comprehensive school partnerships are with the Roosevelt High School Compact in NEISD and the Edgewood Fine Arts Academy in EISD. The seven schools of the Roosevelt Compact, a project involving NEISD’s Roosevelt High School and the two middle schools and four elementary schools that feed Roosevelt High, is funded by Rackspace. This school partnership includes extensive interaction between YOSA staff, teachers, and young musicians.

The Edgewood Independent School District partnership includes an after-school program at two elementary schools, and additional teaching resources at the middle school orchestra with plans to expand to high school.

Our History

YOSA is a successor to the city’s first community-wide youth orchestra, which was created

by SAISD in 1949.

In recent years, YOSA has expanded its reach from 483 musicians in 2008 to more than 1,800 in 2014.

YOSA is a resident company of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

The mission of Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, the premier orchestral experience for youth citywide, is to enhance education, enrich the community, and transform lives by pursuing excellence in classical music in a stimulating, nurturing, and fun environment that is equally accessible to all youth.

Take a break from the outside world! Please turn off your cell phones, pagers, and all other audible electronic devices before the concert begins. Children of all ages are welcome at all YOSA concerts. We suggest that you sit near an exit so you can discreetly exit the auditorium in the event that your child is unable to maintain a sub-whisper level volume. Thank you.

Cover Photo: Sean Nelson, YOSA Class of 2014

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Letter from the Board Chair Welcome to YOSA’s 2014/15 season.

This year will be full of exciting performances, including our inaugural season at the new Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. Since 1949, YOSA has provided San Antonio youth with the opportunity to transform their lives through music. Today our board, staff and community continue to strive to provide a path for all young musicians to access this premier orchestral experience.

The last few years have seen tremendous growth in the number of students YOSA serves. More than 1,800 young musicians from 158 public and private schools across 21 different school districts participate in YOSA programs. YOSA serves a growing number of home schooled musicians and have seen our ethnic diversity evolve to match that of the city. I appreciate the hard work of the staff, faculty, and my fellow board members in making this happen, and thank all of our parents and donors who have supported this effort.

This year, YOSA is proud to announce two new orchestras. The YOSA Concertino Strings under the direction of San Antonio Symphony’s principal cellist, Kenneth Freudigman, serves as the most advanced allstring orchestra in YOSA. Dr. John Zarco, Associate Director of Bands at UTSA, conducts the YOSA Symphonic Winds, offering more opportunities for woodwind, brass, and percussion musicians.

YOSA continues its musical partnerships with Edgewood Independent School District and the seven schools of the Roosevelt Cluster. Under the umbrella of YOSA MÁS:Music At School, these programs offer resources to school music programs at no cost to the students or school districts.

YOSA changes kids’ lives through music. This is possible because of the support of our donors. Each October, YOSA holds an event called Stop! And Feel the Music that combines food, fun, and the YOSA Pop-up Orchestra. On April 11, 2015, YOSA will hold the 4th annual Beethoven 5k/10k. This year, the fun run/walk will take place at Mission County Park.

Please support these young musicians by investing in their future. It is as easy as attending these events and being part of the fun!

Best wishes, John Frederick Ph.D. YOSA Board of Directors 8

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YOSA Gold Series 1 Sunday, October 26, 2014 7 p.m.

The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts H-E-B Performance Hall “A New Birth of Freedom” Philharmonic Troy Peters, Music Director Ricardo Chavira, narrator Arturo Márquez

Conga del Fuego Nuevo

Aaron Copland

Lincoln Portrait

Ricardo Chavira, narrator INTERMISSION Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

Moderato Allegretto Largo Allegro non troppo

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PROGAM NOTES

by Troy Peters

Márquez: Conga del Fuego Nuevo Mexican composer Arturo Márquez (born 1950) has always drawn on a wide variety of influences. His father was a mariachi and many of his relatives were folk musicians. On the other hand, he grew up in a Los Angeles suburb, where he got to know classical music and American rock and pop. His charming Conga del Fuego Nuevo (“New Fire Conga”), composed in 2009 and championed by Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, has quickly entered the international orchestral repertoire.

Copland: Lincoln Portrait In January 1943, just a month after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, conductor Andre Kostelanetz asked three composers to write orchestral portraits of great Americans to buoy the spirits of his wartime audience. Aaron Copland (1900-1990) immediately set to work on a piece about Walt Whitman, but Kostelanetz urged him to switch to a statesman— especially since Jerome Kern, one of the other composers, had chosen another literary figure, Mark Twain, as the subject of his piece.

Copland reluctantly abandoned the Whitman idea, turning instead to Abraham Lincoln. In selecting the narrator’s text from letters and speeches of Lincoln, Copland said he “avoided the temptation to use only well-known passages, permitting myself the luxury of quoting only once from a world-famous speech.” The orchestra opens the piece with what Copland calls “the mysterious sense of fatality that surrounds Lincoln’s personality.” A quicker middle section evokes the mood of the times, with much of the music based on Stephen Foster’s “Camptown Races,” a popular tune in Lincoln’s day. Finally, the orchestra provides a majestic frame for the great president’s words. Lincoln Portrait went on to become one of Copland’s most popular works; meanwhile, the other two works Kostelanetz commissioned, Kern’s Portrait for Orchestra of Mark Twain and Virgil Thomson’s Mayor LaGuardia Waltzes, have slipped into quiet obscurity.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) wrote his Fifth Symphony at a major crossroads in his life. Early in his career, he was one of the most popular Soviet composers, a patriotic artist who also stretched his audience with elements of the adventurous musical language he shared with modernists like Stravinsky and Hindemith. With Stalin’s rise in the 1930s, however, the political elite became more culturally conservative. On January 28, 1936, Shostakovich awoke to find his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk—a biting satire that had been playing to full houses for two years— attacked in the Communist newspaper Pravda as “chaos instead of music.” Overnight, Shostakovich was a musical and political outcast.

Later that year, Shostakovich’s massive, Mahlerian Fourth Symphony was in rehearsal; fearing that its dark irony might add fuel to the fire, Shostakovich withdrew the piece (hiding it away for another 25 years) and disappeared from public life for more than a year. When he reemerged, in November 1937, he paired his Fifth Symphony’s premiere with the publication of an article entitled “A Soviet Artist’s Creative Response to Just Criticism.” The symphony’s heroic narrative and more accessible musical language elicited more than half an hour of applause from the audience at the triumphant premiere. The people had spoken, and Communist officials grudgingly welcomed Shostakovich back into the Soviet mainstream.

The first movement opens with stark, dramatic counterpoint in the strings.

The music explores a few more hopeful themes before working itself into a gradually accelerating whirlwind of rage. It ends in a tranquil soundscape, with a hint of foreboding. The second movement, reminiscent of the symphonic scherzos of Mahler, is a clumsy, satirical waltz. The tragic third movement is so full of emotion that it elicited weeping at the work’s premiere.

After a defiant, thrilling opening, the finale reaches a powerful central climax that gives way to quiet, wistful music. Then comes the blazing brass and timpani of the symphony’s stirring conclusion. To some listeners, this music is pure victory; to others, it feels forced and insincere. Was Shostakovich delivering the triumphant finale political leaders expected of him, or was he ironically mocking those same leaders? Musicologists and commentators have disagreed for many years, but the symphony is a riveting musical journey either way.

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TROY PETERS, Music Director

Troy Peters has been Music Director of YOSA (Youth Orchestras of San Antonio) since 2009. He has guest conducted many orchestras, including the Oregon Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and Vermont Mozart Festival. He was previously Music Director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra and Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, and conducted college orchestras at Texas State University and Middlebury College. He has also gained international attention for his orchestral collaborations with rock musicians, including Blind Pilot, Jon Anderson (of the band Yes), and Trey Anastasio (of the band Phish), with whom he worked on two albums on Elektra Records.

Peters conducted the world premiere recording of Daron Hagen’s Masquerade with violinist Jaime Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson, and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, on Bridge Records. Among the other soloists with whom he has collaborated are Midori, Edgar Meyer, Christopher O’Riley, and Richard Stoltzman. His work has been the subject of national media attention from CBS Sunday Morning, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, Symphony, and The New Yorker.

Awarded a Vermont Arts Council Citation of Merit in 2009, he has also been honored with eight ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music and has conducted more than three-dozen world premieres. A popular lecturer, he has presented pre-concert talks for the Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and San Antonio Symphony.

Peters is also active as a composer, where his honors include the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from Meet the Composer and the Rockefeller Foundation. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Pennsylvania, where his primary compositional mentors were Ned Rorem and George Crumb. Born in 1969 in Greenock, Scotland (of American parents), Peters grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and lives in San Antonio with his wife and two children.

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YOSA City Series 1 Sunday, November 2, 2014 3 p.m.

Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium Capriccio Strings

Jonathan Raveneau, conductor Richard Meyer

Bach Country Fiddles

Soon Hee Newbold

Dragon Dances

Sinfonietta Strings Lisa McCutchan, conductor W. A. Mozart

Overture to Cosi fan tutte, K. 588

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

“Procession of the Nobles” from Mlada

Antonín Dvorák (arr. Deborah Baker Monday)

Finale from Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”

(arr. Todd Parrish)

(arr. Deborah Baker Monday)

Symphonic Winds

John Zarco, conductor Karl King

The Victor March

Percy Grainger

Shepherd’s Hey

Chris Pilsner

Dum Spiro Spero

John Mackey

Undertow

Gustav Holst

First Suite in E-flat, Op. 28, No. 1

(arr. Gene Milford)

(ed. R. Mark Rogers)

(ed. Colin Matthews) Chaconne Intermezzo March

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PROGRAM NOTES

compiled by Troy Peters & John Zarco Richard Meyer is not only a widely performed composer of music for young string players, but also teaches middle school orchestra in the Los Angeles suburb of Temple City. His Bach Country Fiddles cleverly builds a country fiddle dance on melodic fragments from music by Johann Sebastian Bach, including Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and the famous Minuet in G. Born in Korea in 1974, Soon Hee Newbold grew up in Maryland and has a thriving career as a violinist, conductor, and even actress. She is best known, however, as a composer of orchestral works for students. Inspired

by Asian folk music, she wrote Dragon Dances in 2003.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 1790 opera Cosi fan tutte (“All Women Act That Way”) was his third and final collaboration with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, following earlier successes with The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. The comic tale follows two young men, each trying to prove his fiancée is the most devoted and faithful. The overture sets the tone with a slow introduction that foreshadows the opera’s climax, giving way to effervescent fast music.

Mlada began life in 1872, a melding of opera and ballet with music by four different Russian composers. That version never reached the stage, but one of the composers, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, loved the colorful story and wrote his own version in 1890. Most of Mlada is forgotten, but the “Procession of the Nobles” has been an orchestral favorite for more than a century. The music kicks off with a rousing fanfare, followed by a noble tune, perfect for a ceremonial procession.

The “New World” Symphony was a product of Antonín Dvorák’s 18921895 sojourn in the United States. He left behind his native Bohemia to direct a music conservatory in New York, but homesickness eventually drove him back to Prague. Dvorák thought American composers should draw on the music of African-Americans and Native Americans to forge a new national style, and the “New World” Symphony was his attempt to show us how it should be done.

The Victor was one of six marches included in Karl King’s 1910 Artarmo Band Book, which also contained six waltzes and one each of an overture, gallop, serenade, and schottische. King, not yet 19 years old, would go on to write nearly 200 marches, including several beloved circus marches. The arrangement by Gene Milford being performed today is scored for modern concert band while retaining all of the original harmonic and melodic content.

Shepherd’s Hey is one of dozens of pieces in Australian composer Percy Grainger’s largest body of work, collectively known as “British Folk-Music Settings.” Grainger wrote, “In agricultural districts in various parts of England, teams of ‘Morris Men,’ decked out with jingling bells and other finery, can still be seen dancing to Shepherd’s Hey and other traditional dance tunes played on the fiddle or on the pipe and tabor (a sort of drum and fife).”

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Composer Chris Pilsner writes, “Dum Spiro Spero takes its title from a Latin phrase meaning ‘While I breathe, I hope.’ When I read that phrase for the first time, I was taken back by the incredible amount of power it held and immediately knew it would be the basis for a new piece. When I started writing, my goal was to write something as deeply emotional and human as the title was…. From the lush opening, the gentle singing, and ultimately the triumphal climax, the human quality to the music is what I think gives Dum Spiro Spero a powerful sense of grace and splendor.”

One of America’s most frequently performed living composers, John Mackey is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Undertow, premiered by Austin’s Hill Country Middle School Band in May 2008, contains characteristic elements of Mackey’s writing, including biting dissonance within a tonal context, frequent use of mixed meter, heavy percussion effects and a pervasive ostinato. The metric pattern for the piece is an alternation of 7/8 and 4/4 meters, which provides an agitated “out-ofstep” pulsation throughout.

Gustav Holst’s First Suite in E-flat is a cornerstone of the wind band repertoire. Holst introduced a new style of idiomatic band writing that was specific to the medium and, according to Richard Franko Goldman, delivered the “first available and universally recognized original band work of the century.” The opening Chaconne repeats a ground bass, reminiscent of those written by Henry Purcell or William Byrd, sixteen times as varying instrumental textures and variations of the theme are layered within it. The Intermezzo is light and brisk, featuring soloistic passages for the cornet, oboe, and clarinet. The final March introduces two contrasting themes, ending with both themes intertwined as the band crescendos to a rousing conclusion.

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RICARDO CHAVIRA, Guest Artist

A native of South Texas, Ricardo Antonio Chavira was born in Austin and raised in San Antonio, where he graduated from Robert E. Lee High School, now the Performing Arts School, and Incarnate Word College.

Chavira received his MFA from the highly regarded UC-San Diego’s Professional Actor Training Program in 2000, and moved to Los Angeles shortly thereafter.

Since that time, he has worked consistently in all areas of the entertainment industry – film, television and theatre. His film credits include “Piranha 3D,” “The Alamo” and several independent films. In addition to his long-running role on “Desperate Housewives,” his television credits include “Welcome to the Family,” a series regular role on “The Grubbs,” recurring roles on “Six Feet Under,” and “The Division,” and guest starring roles on “Monk,” “Joan of Arcadia,” “Kingpin,” “24,” “George Lopez Show” and “JAG,” as well as “NYPD Blue” and two other Steven Bochco series, “Philly” and “City of Angels.” He also co-starred in the A&E film, “Kings of South Beach.”

He is a well known advocate in the fight against Breast Cancer, a cause that became highly personal to him at the age of 15, when he lost his own mother to breast and ovarian cancer. He has worked closely with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the Cancer Support Community to raise awareness of the effects of the disease and importance of finding a cure. His greatest achievement and honor, however, were the births of his son, Tomas Antonio, in 2003, and daughter, Belen Elysabeth, in 2008.

One of Chavira’s favorite pieces of classical music is Claude Debussy’s “La Mer.”

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YOSA City Series 1 Sunday, November 2, 2014 7 p.m.

Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium Concertino Strings

Kenneth Freudigman, conductor George Frideric Handel

Concerto grosso in G major, Op. 6, No. 1, HWV 319

Jean Sibelius

Andante Festivo, Op. 117a

Karl Jenkins

“Allegretto” from Palladio

A tempo giusto Allegro Adagio Allegro Allegro

Flute Choir

Martha Long, conductor Thomas Weelkes

Madrigal: Strike It Up, Tabor

Thomas Morley

Madrigal: Though Philomela Lost Her Love

Jennifer Higdon

Amazing Grace

Thomas Weelkes

Madrigals

(arr. Jonathan G. Bayley) (arr. Jonathan G. Bayley)

(arr. Jonathan G. Bayley) Since Robin Hood As Deadly Serpents Lurking The Nightingale

Symphony

Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga

Overture to Los Esclavos Felices

Edward Elgar Chanson de Nuit, Op. 15, No. 1 Chanson de Matin, Op. 15, No. 2 Béla Bartók

Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 68

Jocul cu bâta (Stick Dance) Brâul (Sash Dance) Pe loc (In One Spot) Buciumeana (Horn Dance)

Poarga Româneasca (Romanian Polka) Mâruntel (Fast Dance) Mâruntel (Fast Dance)

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PROGRAM NOTES

compiled by Troy Peters George Frideric Handel was only 25 years old when his music attracted the attention of the Elector of Hanover, who hired him as his court composer.

When the Elector became King George I of England in 1714, Handel followed him to London. He rose to great fame there, with tremendous successes like Messiah and Water Music. One of the most popular forms of the time was the concerto grosso, marked by the contrast between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and the entire orchestra (the ripieno). In 1739, Handel composed a dozen concerti grossi, published as Opus 6, strongly influenced by those of his Italian friend, Arcangelo Corelli.

In the first of the set, we see a master of the Baroque style at the top of his form, writing music of tremendous elegance, energy, and grace.

Jean Sibelius originally wrote his Andante Festivo for string quartet in 1922, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Säynätsalo Plywood Mill, near his home in Finland. For this rather prosaic occasion, he crafted a surprisingly noble and solemn chorale. Seventeen years later, when the elderly Sibelius agreed to provide Finland’s contribution to an international radio broadcast for the opening of the New York World’s Fair, he reworked the string quartet into a lush work for string orchestra and timpani. Sibelius himself conducted the radio broadcast on New Year’s Day 1939: his final public performance and his only recording as a conductor. The Andante Festivo was played at the composer’s funeral in 1957, and is still sometimes heard in Finland to mark solemn occasions.

Welsh composer Karl Jenkins’s varied career included a long stint in the influential progressive rock band Soft Machine and many years composing music for television commercials. In 1995, he transformed a theme originally written for a DeBeers diamond commercial into the first movement of Palladio, a string orchestra tribute to the 16th-century Italian architect, Andrea Palladio. “Two of Palladio’s hallmarks,” the composer wrote, “are mathematical harmony and architectural elements borrowed from classical antiquity, a philosophy which I feel reflects my own approach to composition.”

Thomas Weelkes was a major figure in English music at the beginning of the 17th century. Like many of his contemporaries, he split his attention between church music and madrigals (short secular songs for unaccompanied singers, usually in three or four parts). Weelkes was close friends with one of the greatest English madrigalists, Thomas Morley, and wrote several madrigals in Morley’s memory after his 1602 death.

Canadian flutist Jonathan G. Bayley has arranged favorite madrigals by Weelkes and Morley for flute ensemble.

Noted American composer Jennifer Higdon, recipient of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music, has written a great deal of music for her own instrument, the flute. Her arrangement of the anonymous hymn-tune, Amazing Grace, was originally written for chorus, as the final movement of her 1998 choral work, Southern Grace. Higdon quickly transcribed the choral music into versions for string quartet and for flute ensemble.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Juan Crisostomo Arriaga has sometimes been called “the Spanish Mozart,” because of the impressive musical output of his teenage years.

He finished his opera, Los Esclavos Felices (“The Happy Slaves”), when he was only 14 years old, and the charming overture is full of youthful energy, sometimes reminiscent of Rossini. Sadly, we will never know what he might have achieved in his musical maturity; he died of tuberculosis when he was only 19.

Like many composers of his generation, Edward Elgar sometimes wrote “salon music”: short pieces with sentimental melodies, well suited to social gatherings or dining. In 1897, he wrote one such piece for violin and piano, which he called Evensong; since his publisher knew that French titles tended to sell better, however, they renamed it Chanson de Nuit. Two years later, Elgar submitted a companion piece, Chanson de Matin, and arranged both tunes for small orchestra. Both pieces are charming, and Chanson de Matin enjoyed a decade or so of international popularity in the wake of Elgar’s 1899 success with his “Enigma” Variations.

In his late twenties, Béla Bartók began to travel the Hungarian countryside with his friend and fellow composer Zoltán Kodály, collecting Eastern European folk tunes. When the outbreak of World War I restricted their travels, Bartók began to compose and publish new works based on the hundreds of melodies they had collected. One of the most popular of these is his set of Romanian Folk Dances, written for piano in 1915. These seven dances, which vary greatly in character and tempo, are played without a break, the last three forming a finale of increasing energy and excitement. Bartók arranged them for small orchestra in 1917.

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YOSA CONDUCTOR BIOS

Kenneth Freudigman, YOSA Symphony & YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor Kenneth Freudigman is the co-founder and artistic director of Camerata San Antonio, principal cello of the San Antonio Symphony, adjunct professor of cello at the University of Texas at San Antonio, former Education Director of the Cactus Pear Music Festival, and a highly respected cello pedagogue. Ken began his work as YOSA Symphony conductor in 2012.

Dr. John Zarco, YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor John Zarco is the Associate Director of Bands at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he conducts the UTSA Symphonic Band and Chamber Winds, in addition to assisting with the UTSA “Spirit of San Antonio” Marching Band. His responsibilities also include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting, wind literature, and music education.

Martha Long, YOSA Flute Choir Conductor Martha Long joined the San Antonio Symphony as principal flute in October 2012. Martha received her Bachelor’s degree from the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where she studied with Jim Walker, and continued her studies at the New England Conservatory as a student of Elizabeth Rowe. She was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 2010 and 2011 and returned in 2012 as a New Fromm Player, focusing on the performance of new compositions. Martha has also performed with the Colorado, Fort Collins (CO), New World, and North Carolina Symphonies. Martha began her work with YOSA Flute Choir in 2013.

Lisa McCutchan, YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor Lisa McCutchan aspired to become an orchestra director since seventh grade. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and a Master’s Degee in Music Education from Penn State University in 1984. Her orchestras have consistently won sweepstakes in UIL Concert/Sight Reading Competitions since 1986. Lisa currently teaches at O’Connor High School in the NISD school District. Lisa has served on several state boards. She is Past President of TODA and Past Vice President of TMEA. Lisa began working with YOSA in 2000.

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Jonathan Raveneau, YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor Jonathan Raveneau is a versatile and eclectic musician with specialties ranging from classical to jazz in both instrumental and vocal genres. Jonathan joined YOSA as conductor in 2010. Jonathan also conducts the Cavatina Orchestra for the Hill Country Youth Orchestras.

Jacobi Caldwell, YOSA Prelude Strings Conductor Jocobi Caldwell, Conductor of YOSA Prelude Strings, earned her bachelor of Music, String Emphasis, from the University of South Carolina. She studied conducting with David Rudge and participated in the USC Conductor’s Institute. She worked with the South Carolina Phiharmonic Youth Orchestra and the USC String Project. Following that, she taught in public schools, then spent years performing commercially. One of the highlights of her journey was moving to Texas and working with the Hill Country Youth Orchestra. She has gone on to teach at Kerrville ISD and Alamo Heights ISD winning UIL Sweepstakes at every competition. She is currently teaching in Boerne ISD.

Eugene Dowdy, Resident Conductor Eugene Dowdy is an associate professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio where he is Director of Orchestral Studies, conductor of the UTSA Orchestra and Lyric Theatre, and head of instrumental conducting.

Dr. Dowdy conducted YOSA’s Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1992 and was Interim Philharmonic Conductor in 2000. He researched and wrote YOSA’s history for his doctoral essay at the University of Iowa in 1995. He also serves as associate conductor for the Symphony of the Hills (Kerrville), and is the founding director of the UTSA String Project. He is a past president of TODA and TexASTA.

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Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

VIOLIN

Victoria Klaunig

Wesley Tiong

Winston Churchill High School

Mika Kochheiser

Corry Tu

Benita Lee

Isaac Villaroya

Dora Cheng concertmaster

Victoria Acuña assistant concertmaster

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Emily Averyt principal second violin Saint Mary’s Hall

Sebastian Alderete John Jay High School

Anne Archer

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Jessie Atkins

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Abigail Boyer

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Elisa Bravo

University of Texas at San Antonio

Alex Brehm

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Daniel Brun

San Antonio College

Ryan Cao

Health Careers High School

Miranda Cole

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Alyse Gonzalez

John Marshall High School

Luis Gutierrez Fonseca

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Joseph Guzek

Ronald Reagan High School

Arianna Jefferson

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Brian Kang

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

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Home School

Burbank High School

Alamo Heights High School

Lydia Matteson

Incarnate Word High School

Daniel Meloni

William H. Taft High School

David Menchaca

Antonian College Preparatory

Sandra Moon

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Daniel Nix

Health Careers High School

John Marshall High School

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

Peiyang Wang

Basis Charter School

Emily Ye

Keystone School

Taegyun Yoon

Thomas C. Clark High School

VIOLA

Christopher Gokelman principal

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

St. Anthony Catholic High School

Deborah Olivier

John Marshall High School

Cristian Aguirre

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Bailey Boyen

Isabelle Pacheco

Juliet DeNapoli

Dominik Peña

David Irizarry

Topiltzin Perez

Rachel Jones

Kathleen Ran

Alyssa Peña

John Marshall High School

John Marshall High School

Home School

Health Careers High School

Emilienne Riopel

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Wilmer Rodriguez Judson High School

Sophia Sanchez Saint Mary’s Hall

Harrison Schumann

San Antonio Christian Schools

Claire Thornton

John Marshall High School

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Home School

Home School

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Andrew Piña

Thomas C. Clark High School

Emma Reynolds

Winston Churchill High School

Isaac Schutz

STEM Academy -- Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Academy

Kevin Valdez

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

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Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

Jesus Zendejo

Albert Coleman

Natalie Morales

CELLO

Alejandro Juul

Hampton Rattan

Alexandra Krick

Alamo Heights High School

BASSOON

Kyle Krieger

Tivy High School

Douglas MacArthur High School

Isabel Tweraser principal

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Andrew Arkhipov

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Julianna Bray

Northwest Vista College

Parker Candland Home School

Federico Chavez-Torres Health Careers High School

Emily Dunn

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Gwendolyn Hollida

Thomas C. Clark High School

Saint Mary’s Hall

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Hannah McCullough Tivy High School

Christopher Osborn

University of Texas at San Antonio

Michael Sagor

William J. Brennan High School

Niklas Siebert

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

HARP

Minji Kim

Home School

Health Careers High School

Prisca Lafuente

Earl Warren High School

Mary Nerio

Seton Home Study

Tricia Park

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Marc Rodriguez

Samuel V. Champion High School

Gabriela Sanchez

Dr. Bernard Harris Middle School

Astrid Topletz

Ronald Reagan High School

Victoria Valdez

Grace Christian School

BASS

Quynten Grove principal

Abigail Taylor

FLUTE

Alaina Blue

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Nnamdi Odita-Honnah Louis D. Brandeis High School

Paula Wilson

Judson High School

OBOE

Kailey Lopez

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Reagan Merrill

James Madison High School

Michael Tijerina

Smithson Valley High School

Byron P. Steele II High School

Nicholas Fitch Kaan Kumru

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

Andy Thomas

Smithson Valley High School

Elaina Walzel

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

HORN

Eric Bassett

Ronald Reagan High School

Benjamin Hanysz

Robert E. Lee High School

Derek Timmons

Medina Valley High School

Kevin Yang

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

TRUMPET

Dylan Frazier

Judson High School

Jonathan Fritzlen

Ronald Reagan High School

Bradley Kent

Ronald Reagan High School

TROMBONE Nat Hsu

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

CLARINET

Nicholas Moppin

Jenna Gaulden

Canyon High School

Winston Churchill High School

Byron P. Steele II High School

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

BASS TROMBONE

PERCUSSION

Robert E. Lee High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Antonio Morales

Gabriela Barrera Jacob Bissell

TUBA

Ricardo Gandarilla

North East School of the Arts (Le e H.S.)

Scott Rogers

Judson High School

Dominic Walsh

Central Catholic High School

Judson High School

Keve Bordas Keystone School

Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor Audria Fogarty-Ramirez

David Saucedo

Anne Gao

Abigail Slaughter

Victoria Villarreal assistant concertmaster

Hannah Garcia

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Enoch Szeto

Samuel Clemens High School

Abigail Dickson principal second violin

Erica Gonzalez

VIOLIN

Dylan Fernandez de lara concertmaster Frank Tejeda Middle School

Home School

Gabriel Akessler

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Daniel Arkhipov

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Chandler Baker

Central Catholic High School

Matthew Christman

Business Careers High School

Aaliyah Crawford

James Madison High School

Giselle De La Torre Pinedo Health Careers High School

Olivia Deahl Home School

Deja Dorrough

Ronald Reagan High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Douglas MacArthur High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Laura Tapley Home School

VIOLA

Victoria Juarez

Judson Early College Academy

Home School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Natalie Meissler Home School

Savanna Moore

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

McKenna Mosely

Jalie-Ann Cummings principal Imaya Farrell

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Jodei Pasasadaba

Ronald Reagan High School

Natalie Perez

William P. Hobby Middle School

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Nicole Perez

Michelle Richardson

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Ana Hernandez Quiros Ronald Reagan High School

Avery Robinson

Karen Wagner High School

Zoe Espinoza-Kochheiser

Abiud Rodriguez

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Our Lady of Perpetual Help School

Rebekah Jones

STEM Academy -- Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Academy

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Earl Warren High School

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Joshua Rodriguez Judson High School

Kiana Williamson

James Madison High School

CELLO

Jacob Resendez principal

Winston Churchill High School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor Millie Camp

BASS

Nathalie Vela

Sophie Deahl

Ronald Reagan High School

CLARINET

Samuel Becvar

Canyon Lake High School

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Home School

Maximilian Klaunig

Samuel V. Champion High School

Catherine Kline

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Erik Martilla

Alamo Heights High School

Michael Djabarov principal

Alamo Heights High School

Adrian Iniguez

Travis Early College High School

Anaelli Rodriguez

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

HARP

Nicholas Slaughter

St. Anthony Catholic High School

Samuel Clemens High School

Isuru Somawardana Keystone School

Jillian Verner

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Dustin Gonzales Mandy Whitaker

George West High School

BASSOON

Emmali Ouderkirk

Byron P. Steele II High School

Austin Perry

Katelyn Petersen

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Karen Wagner High School

Rhiannon Villarreal

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

HORN

Aidan Alcocer

FLUTE

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Zia Kim

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Kierstin Wilkins

Caleb Keller

Harlandale High School

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

PERCUSSION

Providence High School

OBOE

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

David Zamarripa

First Baptist Academy of Universal City

Elisabeth Wang

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Joshua Roper

Symphonic Winds

Dr. John Zarco, Conductor

FLUTE

OBOE

Louis D. Brandeis High School

William H. Taft High School

Christina Cardenas

Sara Morales

Eunice Chung

Bailey Nicolson

Gail Fernandes

Jasmine Perez

Rebekah Taylor Home School

CLARINET

Ashley Ventrella

Health Careers High School

Smithson Valley Middle School

Judson Early College Academy

William J. Brennan High School

Ty Gonzales-Graves

Walter Krueger Middle School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Blanka Bordas

Pearl Fernandes

Simon Gonzales

John Paul Stevens High School

Garrett Snowden

Smithson Valley High School

Alejandro Yanez

Theodore Roosevelt High School

BASSOON

Michael Chapa Wagner High School

Jared Worman

James Madison High School

Judson Early College Academy

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Symphonic Winds ALTO SAXOPHONE Torda Bordas

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

James King

Dr. John Zarco, Conductor

Hailey Schmidt

Randolph High School

TRUMPET

Ian Aigner-Varoz

Engineering and Technologies Academy Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School (Roosevelt H.S.)

TENOR SAXOPHONE Cody Myre

Byron P. Steele II High School HS Senior

Juan Gonzalez

John Jay High School

Maxwell Harrison

Katherine Stinson Middle School

BARITONE SAXOPHONE Eric Moeller Aldo Aguilar

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Geneva School of Boerne

Chukwudi Odita-Honnah

HORN

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

International School of the Americas (Lee H.S.)

Theodore Roosevelt High School

William Adams

Donovan Soza

Isaiah Aguilar

TROMBONE

Roy D. Corbett Junior High School

Ethan Gurwitz

Winston Churchill High School

Miranda Nydegger

Marco Alvarado

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Angel Rivera-Hernandez Briscoe Middle School

EUPHONIUM

Michael Lesley Judson High School

TUBA

Shukria Al-Araibi

Byron P. Steele II High School

Xavier Alexander Judson High School

Kendrick Williams

Robert E. Lee High School

PERCUSSION Anna Ayres

Providence College Preparatory School for Girls

Michael Mollicone

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Danielle Morales

Smithson Valley High School

Colton Noles

William J. Brennan High School

Home School

Flute Choir FLUTE

Antonio Jasiczek

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Quentin Johnston Home School

Emily Kuppers

William P. Hobby Middle School

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Martha Long, Conductor Emily Lawitz

Rebekah Taylor

Eliana Olivier

Samantha Villarreal

Julia Roensch

Tyrece Williams

Home School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Alamo Heights Junior School

Home School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Robert E. Lee High School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Concertino Strings

Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor

VIOLIN

Julia Lavergne

Cipriano Bell

Woodlake Hills Middle School

Tara Mosely

Lindee Fiedler

Linda Liu assistant concertmaster

Mariana Navarro

CELLO

Elijah Gonzalez concertmaster

Earl Warren High School William P. Hobby Middle School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School Boerne High School

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

James Madison High School

Seva Joshi principal second violin

Adam Nix

Simon Phoa principal

Great Hearts San Antonio

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Brianna Pendry

Giuliano Bucheli

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Barbara Bush Middle School

Ethan Poidevin

Victoria Day

Basis Charter School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Eve Poindexter

Britney Ericson

Keystone School

Matthew Anderson

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Anna Claire Beasley Medina Valley High School

Douglas MacArthur High School

Home School

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Samuel Bentz

Rahul Rajesh

Health Careers High School

Smithson Valley Middle School

Home School

Rema Bhat

Natalie Rodriguez

Basis Charter School

Health Careers High School

Samantha Geri Cirineo

Miaoyin Rojas

Earl Rudder Middle School

Judson High School

Josie Decherd

Emily Seddighzadeh

Basis Charter School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Sofia Follman

Everardo Sifuentes

Providence High School

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Paulina Garcia

Sankya Srinivasan

The Atonement Academy

Keystone School

Natalie Gifford

Ruth Toth

Winston Churchill High School

Cornerstone Christian School

Camilla Guel

Samantha Woods

Basis Charter School

Calvary Baptist Academy

Sofia Hernandez

Wentao Yang

Incarnate Word High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Angelina Hinojosa

Taylor (Taein) Yoon

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Blattman Elementary School

Georgeanna Hoey

VIOLA

Benjamin Bendele

Smithson Valley High School

Diana Hubbard

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Victoria Kim

Basis Charter School

Andrew Kang principal

Monroe May Elementary

Parker Baillon

Dolph Briscoe Middle School

Mia Flowers

Josephine Garza

Incarnate Word High School

Noah Hernandez

Elanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy

Serena Kallead

William J. Brennan High School

Paul Lopez-Perryman Keystone School

Rachel Taylor

William J. Brennan High School

Alejandra Wagnon

Gregory Luna Middle School

Avery Wilson

William H. Taft High School

Elaine Zhang

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

BASS

Javier Hernandez principal

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Blaine Bryan

Winston Churchill High School

Andrew Butts

Alamo Heights High School

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Sinfonietta Strings

Lisa McCutchan, Conductor

VIOLIN

Alicia McNulty

VIOLA

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Hunter Messick

Robert L. Vale Middle School

Donnel Zhu concertmaster

Katie Chong assistant concertmaster San Antonio Christian Schools

Nathan Winfrey principal second violin Great Hearts Monte Vista

Leo Arreguin

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Julia Cervantes

Judson Middle School

Lawrence Corsini

Katherine Stinson Middle School

Josiah Damiano

Cornerstone Christian School

Isabel Dickinson Basis Charter School

Alessandra Finol

Hardy Oak Elementary School

Sophia Flores

Judson Early College Academy

Julius Gonzalez

Anson Jones Middle School

Jillian Griffis

Leon Valley Christian Academy

Grace Hende

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Anirudha Reddy Karla Keystone School

Kaitlyn Kelly

George Gervin Academy

Christina Marie Martinez

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Joseph Albert Martinez

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Katherine Stinson Middle School

David Miller

Ruben Andrade principal Mikayla Acosta

Jack C. Jordan Middle School

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Alex Navarro

Sophia Choe

St. Pius X Catholic School

Rebecca Neely

Barbara Bush Middle School

Andrea Negro

School of Science and Technology – Discovery

Carlos Nieto

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Basis Charter School

Jashea Hollis

J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

Marissa Howard

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Sarena Williams Wagner High School

Samantha Olvera

CELLO

Natasha Pfeiffer

Seguin High School

Judson Middle School

John B. Connally Middle School

Andrea Reyes

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Phillippe Riopel

Valley Hi Elementary School

Zakary Rodriguez Home School

Jackson Rogler

Lillian Roe principal

Katia Amori

Barbara Bush Middle School

Danny Candland Basis Charter School

Bianca Castillo

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Sydni-Simone Dukes

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Virginia Allred Stacey Junior Senior High

Marciano Ross

Julia Gutierrez

Alec Sanchez

Gayle Hende

Kelsey Smith

Madeline Hoyle

Alex Sobotker

Madelyn Jarvis Johnston

Willa White

Valerie Jones

Gregory Luna Middle School

Byron P. Steele II High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Home School

Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School

Byron P. Steele II High School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

St. George Episcopal School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Home School

Darius Keef

Clara Driscoll Middle School

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Sinfonietta Strings

Lisa McCutchan, Conductor

Alexander Lomeli-Azoubel

Tony Rodriguez

BASS

Randy Resendez

Lulu Whitmore

Basis Charter School

Aubrie Rettmann

Emiliano Zendejo

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Ronald Reagan High School

J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Alamo Heights Junior School

John Garner Middle School

Raine Esparza principal Clayton Boyer

Currington Elementary

Zachary Zimmerman Bradley Middle School

Capriccio Strings VIOLIN

Sara Bassiri

James Bonham Academy

Chloe Bayani

Judson Middle School

Luke Brehm

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Sarah Bush

Providence College Preparatory School for Girls

Emily Ann Castilleja

John B. Connally Middle School

Micah delaFuente Home School

Tirzah delaFuenta Home School

Nicole Detiveaux

San Antonio Christian Schools

Christian Diaz

Coker Elementary School

Cameron Dunbar Oak Run Middle School

Felicia Early Home School

Ian Fernandes

Judson Middle School

Francesca Finol

Hardy Oak Elementary School

Elizabeth Fowler

Walter Krueger Middle School

Gillian Fritz

Dolph Briscoe Middle School

Jonathan Raveneau, Conductor

Itzel Galan

Carly Munoz

Robyn Gerry

Franchelis Nieves-Perez

Samuel Godoy

Isabel Oxford

Jaime Gonzalez

Alyson Park

Trier Hodge

Odelia Pena-Pathan

Sarah Hubbard

Andrew Perez

Sophia Irizarry

Viviana Peters

Allaya Jarrett

Kylee Rasmussen

Alexia Johnson

Zoe Reyna

Basis Charter School Basis Charter School Earl Rudder Middle School Clara Driscoll Middle School Roy D. Corbett Junior High School

Ed Rawlinson Middle School Home School

John H. Wood Middle School J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

Colin Johnson

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Victoria Jones Home School

Caitlin Kuhlman

Robert G. Cole Middle School

Eva Lizarraga

Great Hearts San Antonio

Diego Manrique

Texas Virtual Academy

Faith Mueller Home School

William P. Hobby Middle School Judson Middle School Keystone School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School Robert L. Vale Middle School Keystone School Home School Home School

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Jolie Richmond

Barbara Bush Middle School

Nathanael Slaughter

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School

Emily Voeller Home School

Stephanie Woods

Trinity Christian Academy

Ronald Zhu

Bob Beard Elementary School

VIOLA

Kristine Gonzalez

Clara Driscoll Middle School

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Capriccio Strings

Jonathan Raveneau, Conductor

Nicholas Langston-Keathley Kevin Black Ed Rawlinson Middle School

St. George Episcopal School

Conner Lindley

Ericka Martinez

Mary Candland

Angelina Miller

Hadassah delaFuente

Connor Sparks

Karina De La Torre

Timothy Watkins

St. Peter Prince of the Apostles School

Gabriella Rodriguez Sanchez Edward H. White Middle School

Amy Wang

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

CELLO

Victoria Abascal

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Evan Aranda

Walter Krueger Middle School

Basis Charter School Home School

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Amber Guerra

Judson Middle School

William Huang

Basis Charter School

Rebeka Jones Home School

Prelude Strings VIOLIN

Camille Aljibe

Shepherd of the Hills

Oasis Allinger

John A. Sippel Elementary School

Madeline Dickinson

Dr. Winn Murnin Elementary School

Julianna Jaramillo

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Emily Kitayama

Huebner Elementary School

Kaitlyn Lien

Encino Park Elementary School

Crystal Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Minh Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Van Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Mayala Peña

Roosevelt Elementary School

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Dr. Bernard Harris Middle School Jack C. Jordan Middle School William P. Hobby Middle School Great Hearts San Antonio

Derek Xu

The Atonement Academy

BASS

Alexandra Balfour

Barbara Bush Middle School

Austin Campos

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Jacobi Caldwell, Conductor

Erik Peterson

San Antonio Academy of Texas

Jayleen Rangel

Sarah King Elementary School

Adrian Reyes

Carlos Coon Elementary

Daniel Robelo

Cambridge Elementary School

Christi Toth

Cornerstone Christian School

Natalie Zepeda

N. Winston Elementary School

VIOLA

Sofia Abascal

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Arlette Lomeli-Azoubel

Roan Forest Elementary School

Catherine Martinez

Alfonso S. Perales Elementary School

Madison Perez

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

CELLO

Kyle Chong

San Antonio Christian Schools

Caroline Cordts

Woodridge Elementary School

Caroline Krugle

Dolph Briscoe Middle School

Loretta Medina

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Elijah Owens

Ann Frank Inspire Academy

Daniella Silva

Henry B. Gonzales Elementary School

Kayla Wood

Laura Ingalls Wilder Intermediate School

BASS

Ben Roe

Weinert Elementary

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS FACULTY

ADMINISTRATION

John Frederick, Ph.D

Troy Peters

Brandon Henson

Carl Leafstedt, Ph.D.

Kenneth Freudigman

Mary Compton

Chair

Vice Chair, Development and Chair Elect

Thomas Sanders

Vice Chair, Governance

Lee Hipp

Vice Chair, Music Programs

Kathleen Doria Treasurer

Shari Mao Secretary

Music Director

YOSA Symphony Conductor YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor

John Zarco

YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor

Martha Long

YOSA Flute Choir Conductor

Lisa McCutchan

YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor

Jonathan Raveneau

Robert Albright, Ph.D.

YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor

Kenneth Bloom

Jacobi Caldwell

Tony Campbell Magaly Chocano

YOSA Prelude Strings Conductor

Eugene Dowdy

Resident Conductor

Executive Director

Development Assistant

Ben Hackett

Operations Director

Aurelia Rocha

Operations Coordinator

Jackson Hocott

Operations Assistant

Emily Weir

Opertions Assistant

Alfonso Gonzales Bookkeeper

Kathleen Messina Office Coordinator

Francisco Garza, M.D. Nancy Halvorson Katie Kinder John Lewis, Ph.D. Paul Oroian Karen Perretta Jeffrey Walsh Benjamin Westney

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THANK YOU, COACHES Through sectional coaching and mentoring by professional musicians, YOSA offers its musicians the highest level of music education. The following musicians have assisted our orchestras during the 2014/15 season. The musical education that our young musicians receive would not be possible without your support.

Strings

Marisa Bushman, viola Allyson Dawkins, viola Emily Freudigman, viola Ignacio Gallego, cello Mary Ellen Goree, violin Morgen Johnson, cello David Milburn, bass Ryan Murphy, cello Bassam Nashawati, violin Zlatan Redzic, bass Martin Sanchez, bass Eric Siu, violin Stacey Storer, violin Aimee Toomes, violin Steve Zeserman, bass

Woodwinds

Mark Ackerman, oboe Martha Long, flute Jean Robinson, flute

Brass

Lee Hipp, tuba Martin McCain, trombone Molly Norcross, horn

Percussion Riely Francis Bill Patterson

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

THANK YOU, DONORS

YOSA is honored to recognize the many businesses, foundations, governmental organizations and friends who have made it possible for 1,800 young musicians in our community to be part of YOSA’s continuing tradition of music and learning, friends and fun. Listed here are the generous donors who have made this experience possible through gifts made August 1, 2013 through September 30, 2104. Please contact YOSA if your name is not included.

Great Composers Composers Star Performers Maestros Concertmasters Principal Chairs Section Sponsors Friends of YOSA

$100,000 and above $50,000 to $99,999 $20,000 to $49,999 $5,000 to $19,999 $1,000 to $4,999 $500 to $999 $100 to $499 Less than $100

Great Composers Anonymous City of San Antonio, Department of Culture and Creative Development Kronkosky Charitable Foundation Composers Rackspace Foundation/RSF Endowment Valero Energy Foundation Star Performers H-E-B Tournament of Champions Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts Mr. and Mrs. Bartell H. Zachry, Jr. Maestros Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Charity Ball Association of San Antonio The Greehey Family Foundation Ewing Halsell Foundation H-E-B Junior League of San Antonio Marcia and Otto Koehler Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Genevieve and Ward Orsinger Foundation Marshall T. Steves, Sr. Foundation Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation Texas Commission on the Arts USAA Foundation, Inc. Zachry Foundation 37

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Concertmasters

Anonymous Mrs. Ann Griffith Ash Steven Bankler, CPA Dr. Kenneth Bloom and Dr. Sheila Swartzman Dr. and Mrs. Anthony T. Campbell John Canning Lee and Zachry Carter Memorial Fund Columbus Foundation Nathalie and Gladys Dalkowitz Charitable Trust Mr. Thomas Denapoli Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ebrom John H. Frederick and Mimi W. Yu G.A.C. Halff Foundation iHeart Realty Kohl’s Rev. John Lewis and Ms. Pat Bridwell Ms. Elizabeth M. Lorenz and Mr. Rick Ramos Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur L. Matthews, Jr. Mirza Trust Harris K. and Lois G. Oppenheimer Foundation Oroian, Guest, and Little, P.C. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oroian Anne and Troy Peters Principal Combined Fund Organization San Antonio Area Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sanders Servant’s Heart Foundation St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Terra Nova Violins The Fund Mr. Bruce Topletz and Ms. Cristina Chial University Health System Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Waller Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Walsh Angel and Jeremy Whitley Willard Helping Fund Mollie Steves Zachry Fund of the YOSA Endowment

Principal Chairs

Mrs. Christy Atkins Barton, East, and Caldwell, PLLC. Col. (Ret.) Jeanne Berkheiser BKD Boomerang Carnets Dr. Paul Boskind Ms. Kris Brehm Richard H. Cavender Mr. Edward E. (Sonny) Collins III Core Research John Dainauskas Eisenberg Group Col. (Ret.) and Mrs. John J. Franco, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Halvorson Mr. Lee Hipp Inside Outside Wellness Center and Medical Spa Mr. John S. Jockusch Woodson Jones Katie Kinder Louis J. and Millie M. Kocurek Charitable Foundation Ms. Marline C. Lawson Dr. and Mrs. Carl Leafstedt Mrs. Muriel J. Leafstedt Ms. Annette Markowitz McCrae Hearing Ventures, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John McCullough Oak Park Cleaners Donald Oroian Dr. and Mrs. Timothy Owens Mr. and Mrs. David Phipps Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Riopel Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe B. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Marshall T. Steves, Jr. Stone Oak Therapy Services and Learning Institute Mrs. Mary Pat Stumberg Monica Vaughan Via Metropolitan Transit Dr. Emily Volk Mr. and Mrs. John Walsh Kristi and Gregg Whitenton

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Section Sponsors

Ace Mart Restaurant Supply Alamo Heights Chiropractic Health Center Robert Albright Karen Allsup, M.D., P.A. American Classic Tours and Musical Festival Lisa Marie Anderson Ms. Flora Atherton Mr. Robert Augsburger Kimberly and Douglas Becker Mr. and Mrs. Keith Becvar Eveyln Berg Fund of the YOSA Endowment Big Burger’s of Texas (DBA Cheesy Jane’s) Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Birdwell Ms. Mary Black Mr. Bobby Blount and Ms. Sandra Sandoval Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bolner Mr. and Mrs. James S. Calvert Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan C. Calvert Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Calvert Michelle Cantu, M.D. Stacy Castillo Mr. and Mrs. James Cavender Dr. and Mrs. C. Brandon Chenault Dr. and Mrs. William Chiego Mrs. Magaly Chocano Mr. Garry Cole Mr. and Mrs. Taliaferro Cooper Mrs. Josephine Cormack Cox Smith Matthews, Inc. Louise and Tom Davis Joanna Chao and Paul Detiveaux Stephen M Dick, Ph.D. Ms. Kathleen Doria and Mr. Ruben Silva Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Douglass Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Dowdy Mr. Myron E. East Family First Care Clinic Dawn and Daniel Finlayson Joanna Foster Frost National Bank Mr. and Mrs. Lon Fry Galen Health Institutes Garden Ridge Center for Dentistry, P.C. James Garner Mr. and Mrs. John Gokelman Ms. Maureen Gonima Gross and Esparza, PLLC Mr. and Mrs. Ryan A. Guest Ms. Janis Hadnott Mr. and Mrs. Jim Harnish Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hayne Ms. Sarah Hedrick Mr. Brandon Henson Mr. Don Hessenflow and Ms. Cathy Dawson Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hockersmith Interlochen Center for the Arts J. Hillburn Men’s Clothier Ms. Ali James Jefferson Bank Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Johnson Rev. and Mrs. Raymond E. Judd, Jr. Ann Marie and Rob Karns Mr. Ronald Keller Ms. Jane M. Key Mr. Gary Kilgore Kenneth A. Kist, M.D.

Sharon Kocurek Mr. and Mrs. Brian Komorek Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Krueger Toni and John Kyle Barbara Kyse Lamont School of Music, University of Denver Mr. Leopoldo Leyendecker Ms. Lisa Lopez Mr. Tim Maher Mrs. Phyllis Sue Range Malone Ms. Chris Maloney Babette and Kenneth Margolis Rev. and Mrs. David C. Marx Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Vachel McNeel Susan Michael Aren and Dan Murray Network for Good Donna Nicolson Ms. Bonny Osterhage Pack-Mark, Inc. Julie and George Parker Brenda L. Partain Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Patton Judith and Charles Paulette Pawderosa Pet Ranch Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Perretta Pleasanton Dental Care, Elite Dental Theresa Poenisch Darren Poidevin Ms. Patricia Quintana-Perron Robert Ramirez, M.D. Mr. Kelly M. Ranson Respite Care of San Antonio Ms. Michelle Robles Col. (Ret.) William T. Rogerson Sam Ash Music Corporation Mr. and Mrs. William M. Schur Mr. and Mrs Paul Schutz Security Service Federal Credit Union Dr. and Mrs. Albert C. Serrano Mr. Brian W. Sharp Ms. Louise Shaw Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Sisson Sogand Solgi Southtown Yoga Loft Marga Speicher, Ph.D. St. Mary’s University Ms. Julie Kelleher Stacy Mr. James Stafford Mrs. Elsie G. Steg Sulin Su Texas Physical Therapy Specialists Mr. and Mrs. Bill Tracy W. Stephen Tyczka Kathleen Weir Vale Teresa Villa Watermark Group Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Westney Ms. Sandra Wheatley Dr. and Mrs. John Wolcott Mr. and Mrs. Jon Wood Mr. and Mrs. Keying Ye Mr. and Mrs. John Younger Mr. and Mrs. David Zachry Tina and Todd Zimmerman

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Friends of YOSA

Ms. Nora Aguilar Linda Aikin-Cook and Werk Cook Lisa and Francisco Alderete Dr. and Mrs. Horatio Aldredge James Allen Margaret Anaglia Roger Andrade Beverly Axford Karen Barr Georzena and Neil Bascos Joanne and Stephen Bassett Tracey Beach Mr. Randy Bear Leigh Bedford Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C. Biskin Steven L. Bissell Mr. James L. Blackwood and Dr. Susan Blackwood Brian Blue Doug Bock Kim and Lawrence Bock Mr. and Mrs. Ricardo A. Bunge Leslie and Matt Burns Michelle Bush Mr. Wade Campbell Kris Campos Sam Campos Florinda Cardenas Mr. Tim Casey Lupita Ana Castrejon Dave Cauthon Vicki Chadwick Lisa Chavez Margaret and Kelvin Cheng Ruben Chio Arthur M. Clements, M.D. Mary Ann Compton Mr. Stephen J. Cross Patrick Crowley Mr. and Mrs. John Cruz Ms. Pamela D. Culbertson Celia Day Chris De Los Santos Ms. Caroline Decherd Amanda Delgado Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd A. Denton, Jr. Troye Denton David Diaz Mrs. Elinor L. Duff Michael Dworaczyk Ms. Lauren Eberhart Ms. Anna Edwards Marcus Elliot Sonya Estrada Gary Fair Norma Farrell Jessica Fernandez Kathryn Flinn Alex Flores Ms. Monica Flores Mr and Mrs. Derrick Flowers Robert Fogarty Rick Frazier Dr. and Mrs. J. Howard Frederick Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Freudigman Ms. Joan Fritze David Fritzlen Mr. Robert G. Gallaghar Ruby Garcia

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Anna Garcia-Bewley Francisco Garza, M.D. Mark Gerber Charles Gleinser Mr. John Godoy Crystal Gomez Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gomez Kara and Lorenzo Gomez Ms. Francie Gonzales Griselda Gonzales Dr. and Mrs. Donald J. Gordon Jonathan Grant Mr. and Mrs. Leo Greenblum Linda Gutierrez Luis Gutierrez Ms. Audra Hall Tracy Hende Nicki Henderson Mrs. Mary Hoffman Ms. Vivian Holder Mrs. Doe Hollimon Alane Honigblum Mrs. Mary Jane Howe Brandon Hughes Darby Ivins Dr. and Mrs. Milton S. Jacobs Brian James Anajali and Ajeya Joshi Shah Khan Karen Kimbell Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knopp Mr. Cliff Kochheiser Mark Kochheiser Mrs Ellen Kraig and Mr. David Kolodrubetz Shelley and Semih Kumru Mr. and Mrs. Weir Labatt Margaret Leff Ms. Eileen Lentz Thomas Lewis Ms. Nisha Limaye Christof Littwitz, MPA Martha Long Mr. and Mrs. Arnoldo Lopez Lauren and Jeremy Mandel Loren Marie Mr. and Mrs. Greg Markovich Rose Martinez Stephen Maturo Mrs. Marguerite McCormick Stephen McCreary, Ph.D. Dr. and Mrs. Arthur McFee Emily and Shane McGouyrk Mr. and Mrs. Pat McMurry Mrs. Lola Miles-Troutz Dr. and Mrs. Alexander L. Miller Deborah Miller Anders Monsen Mr. and Mrs. Chris Moppin Ms. Carol Morris Ryan Munoz National Analysts Worldwide Paul Neidinger Mr. Arthur Nisenfeld Mr. Gerald L O’Donnell Claudia and Michael Olivier Mr. Joseph Ortega Marian Osborn Eunsuk Park and Cheo Sung Lee Susan Kucinkas Perry

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Friends of YOSA (continued) Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pickett Thomas Porter Barry Pryce Amy Pysarenko Rekha Rajesh Dr. Joan Ratner Jacqueline Redding Craig Reed Georgette Reyes Mr. and Mrs. Bill Reynolds Jack Richardson Robin Richie Mr. Blair Richter Yvette Riopel Ms. Doris Rips Ms. Jill Rips Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rogers Lily Ryals Laura Salazar Mr. John L. Santikos David Santos Ms. Sherri Santos Rob Schlegel Nancy Schwartz Chom and James Seagraves Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Sethness Colette Singh Mr. and Mrs. Brad Smith Mrs. Reeves Smith Teri Snowden Mr. Steve Spriester Cnaushua Stebbins Mr. and Mrs. Tim Stevenson Ali Stout Lora Sweatt Mr. Robert Swensen Michelle Swisher Steve Toth Gene and Kurt Tweraser Dr. Ana Valadez Rocio and Johnny Valdez Mr. Kenneth Vanderbilt Veronica Vara Dr. and Mrs. Arnold B. Vardiman Jamiel Vargas Mr. Gregory Vaught Mr. and Mrs. Harold Vexler Miguel Vildosola Mr. and Mrs. Ishmael Villarreal Neal R. Wagner Sophia Walker Sandra Weeks Ms. Jill Wieder Sara Wilkins Rebecca Wilson Ms. Mercille Elise Wisakowsky Clinton Wood Ms. Patricia L. Wood Rev. and Mrs. Louis Zbinden

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Gifts in Kind

Mr. and Mrs. Isrzel Aguilar Alamo Drafthouse Al’s Gourmet Nuts Americus Diamond James Amonett David Begin Briscoe Western Art Museum Martha Bryant, Ph.D. Ms. Nancy Bryant Camerata of San Antonio Mr. Gary Carter Cici’s Pizza Cigars International Glazer’s of San Antonio Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Grenier Ms. Margaret Hager Mr. Dwight Hobart Vivian Holder James Avery Jewelry La Focaccia Italian Grill Lauren’s Portrait Art Los Barrios Mr. and Mrs. Scott L Mankewitz MBS Fitness, Southtown McNay Art Museum Meadow Boutique Kathleen Messina Dr. Bart Nichols Paesano’s Italian Restaurant Radius Center Chris Rutz Alicia and Jorge Salas San Antonio Plastic Surgery Institute Seaworld San Antonio Skin the Day Spa Mrs. Kathy Sosa Southwest Airlines Co. Spa Black Mr. and Mrs. Grant Tibbetts TPC San Antonio USAA Real Estate Company UTSA Voci De Sorelle Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Whitley Mr. Steve Zeserman

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