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YOSA reaches more than 3,000 young musicians in the San Antonio area. More than 750 musicians participate in YOSA Orchestras and Summer Symphony Camp and an additional 2,400 receive free services through YOSA School Partnerships and the YOSA Invitational.

YOSA musicians represent 155 schools from 25 school districts and reflect the ethnic diversity of San Antonio. Ethnic and racial minorities represent 76% of the young musicians YOSA serves.

The Orchestras

More than 525 musicians are arranged into 9 orchestras with weekly rehearsals and 11 concerts annually.

Musicians with one-to-two years of playing experience begin in Prelude Strings. As their music skills progress and improve, they may graduate into Capriccio Strings, Sinfonietta Strings, Repertory Strings, and Concertino Strings. 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, and collaborate regularly with internationally renowned soloists and composers. The YOSA Philharmonic has represented San Antonio on 11 international tours, most recently to Prague, Vienna, and Budapest in 2016.

Summer Symphony Camp

Each summer, more than 250 students convene for a two-week day camp on the campus of Saint Mary’s Hall with some of San Antonio’s finest music teachers and professional musicians as faculty. YOSA has offered summer camp since 1985; the program has expanded to include woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

School Partnerships

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 in a program called YOSA MÁS:Music At School.

New in 2017, the YOSA Invitational provides the opportunity for local middle school and high school bands and orchestras to perform in San Antonio’s premier venue, the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. YOSA offers this resource to school music programs at no charge. An application process starts in February the year prior and participating groups are announced by August. Sixteen local music programs have been selected to participate at the first annual YOSA Invitational on May 15 and 16, 2017.

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 3,000 in 2016.

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.

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Letter from the Board Chair It is with pleasure that I welcome you to the first YOSA concerts of the 2016/17 season.

This year is full of exciting performances and opportunities for YOSA musicians, parents, and patrons. The YOSA Gold Series and City Series concerts provide our core performances and the Classic Albums Live Series continues with Purple Rain Live on March 13. The season will conclude with our traditional YOSApalooza concert on May 21, with all YOSA orchestras in concert at the Tobin Center.

More than 3,000 young musicians from all areas of San Antonio will be served by YOSA programs this year. In addition to our orchestras, we also will serve over 2,400 students through YOSA School Partnerships and, in May 2017, the first annual YOSA Invitational. Our innovative, first-ever Invitational event will bring 16 local middle and high school bands and orchestras to the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

Over a period of two days these school music ensembles will perform and record in the H-E-B Performance Hall. The YOSA Invitational will provide a memorable experience for the nearly 1,000 students and families.

This season has also seen continued growth in our YOSA Orchestras and Summer Symphony Camp. More than 750 musicians represent 155 schools from 25 school districts across the entire city and region. YOSA musicians not only participate in excellent music education opportunities through YOSA, but also create life-long memories and friendships. The dedication of the YOSA faculty and staff is what makes our organization able to to change kids’ lives through music. We are also served by an outstanding board of directors.

As YOSA grows, so must the support from our community. On average each YOSA Orchestra musician’s tuition is subsidized by more than $750. This gap between cost of the program and the modest tuition is how the community can support our work. I ask that you consider joining YOSA parents, staff, and the board of directors by becoming a donor. Please visit the YOSA website at www.yosa.org, or speak to a member of the YOSA staff or board of directors if you would like to learn more, and then tell your friends and colleagues about how you help change kids’ lives through music.

Best wishes,

Dr. Carl Leafstedt YOSA Board of Directors 7

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GUEST BIOS SOLI Chamber Ensemble

Stephanie Key, clarinet (YOSA alumna) Ertan Torgul, violin David Mollenauer, cello Carolyn True, piano

Founded in 1994, San Antonio’s SOLI Chamber Ensemble presents innovative programs of 20th and 21st century classical contemporary music and breaks down stereotypes linked with classical music by performing in art galleries and other intimate spaces, allowing audiences to get up close to the performers and the music. SOLI has twice been voted “Best Chamber Ensemble” by the San Antonio Current and continues to mesmerize audiences with its cutting edge performances around the country.

SOLI’s touring schedule has taken them to Houston, Denver, Austin, Colorado Springs, Louisville, and Dallas, among many others. SOLI was one of the first chamber ensembles invited to perform in the first-ever classical music event at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music & Media Festival in Austin, where they performed the music of Steve Reich, Elliott Carter, Michael Torke, and John Adams to a sellout crowd at a Boosey & Hawkes Music Company-sponsored showcase.

SOLI’s strong commitment to commissioning has resulted in 45 amazing works over the past 20 years from both emerging and established composers. The ensemble has premiered music by Steven Mackey, Paul Moravec, Ned Rorem, Robert X. Rodriguez, Tim Kramer, David Heuser, Alexandra Gardner, Elliott McKinley, Erich Stem, Jack Stamp, and others.

SOLI Chamber Ensemble is also deeply devoted to education. Each season, SOLI presents a series of short concerts for young people entitled “SOLI Saturdays,” designed to introduce the music of today and tomorrow to our next generation of listeners. As Trinity University’s Ensemble-in-Residence since 2008, SOLI performs frequently on campus; conducts open rehearsals; advises, guides and coaches student chamber groups; and closely works with the student composers. Annually, SOLI takes its residency program on tour to other universities and colleges throughout the U.S. Through outreach programs, the ensemble is able to reach audiences whom otherwise may not be able to attend live performances of any kind, using the music of our time to reach people in hospitals, hospices, clinics, and rehabilitation centers.

SOLI Chamber Ensemble has received numerous awards, including a 2013 CMA/ ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award and grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, New Music USA’s Creative Connections, Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts, the Argosy Foundation, the Amphion Foundation, the Tobin Endowment, the Cornyation Foundation, and the City of San Antonio’s Department of Culture and Creative Development.

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YOSA Gold Series 1 Sunday, November 6, 2016, 7 p.m.

The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts H-E-B Performance Hall “Remembering Bowie” Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director SOLI Chamber Ensemble Arturo Márquez

Danzón No. 2

Philip Glass

V-2 Schneider, from Symphony No. 4 “Heroes”

Troy Peters

Remembering Bowie World Premiere

SOLI Chamber Ensemble Arvo Pärt

Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten

continuing without pause into Henry Purcell (edited by Benjamin Britten)

Chacony in G minor, Z. 730

Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1812 Overture, Op. 49

The appearance of SOLI Chamber Ensemble is made possible by a generous grant from the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.

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compiled by Troy Peters Márquez: Danzón No. 2 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. In the early 1990s, while teaching at a university in Mexico City, Márquez began to compose the series of dances that would make him internationally famous. Although the danzón was originally a Cuban dance, it became very popular in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century, especially in the Mexico City and Veracruz.

After composing a 1992 danzón for saxophone and pre-recorded tape, Márquez was commissioned to write a second for his university’s orchestra. His Danzón No. 2, premiered in 1994, quickly became so popular that it has been called Mexico’s “second national anthem.” The composer writes: “Rather than dealing directly with the form and harmony of the classical danzón, the piece pays tribute to the tradition and its people. I decided to start with a slow, sensuous theme instead of an introduction. After that, a rhythmical section continues the elaboration of these materials. The work is dedicated to my daughter Lily.”

Glass: V-2 Schneider, from Symphony No. 4 “Heroes” American composer Philip Glass (born 1937) based his 1996 “Heroes” Symphony on David Bowie’s landmark 1977 album, Heroes. Glass writes: “David Bowie and Brian Eno were attempting to extend the normal definition of pop and rock. In a series of innovative recordings in which influences of world music and experimental avant-garde were used, they were redefining the language of music in ways that can be heard even today. Almost twenty years later, I went back to their original material, using it as a point of departure and inspiration, much as composers of the past have based their work on their contemporaries.

Using themes from Heroes, I made a new composition.” As Glass was writing his “Heroes” Symphony, choreographer Twyla Tharp suggested that he think of the music as a ballet score for her new dance company. With Bowie’s approval, they moved forward with the idea, creating a symphonic ballet that has been performed both with and without dancers. V-2 Schneider is the symphony’s finale, based on themes from Bowie’s song of the same title (which was a tribute to Florian Schneider of the electronic band Kraftwerk).

Peters: Remembering Bowie In my teens, David Bowie was one of my musical idols. I was especially inspired by his ability to balance commercial pop music and fashion with avant-garde sounds and allusions to Brecht, Warhol, Orwell, and other “serious” artists and authors.

He seemed equally at home on MTV and in the rarefied world of high culture. When Bowie died in January 2016, I was already planning to write a new concerto for SOLI Chamber Ensemble; it felt fitting to commemorate Bowie’s life and music in the piece for SOLI. I thought back to the 19th century, when it was common for composers to write virtuosic instrumental fantasies in which soloists played elaborate variations of popular melodies from the operas of the day—Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy for violin and orchestra, for example.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Remembering Bowie is just such a “fantasy,” with the clarinet, violin, cello, and piano soloists playing the role of rock and roll lead singers, accompanied by the orchestra in a medley of four favorite David Bowie songs.

Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten The remarkable music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (born 1935) often balances musical simplicity with expressive depth.

Pärt’s Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, composed in 1977, has become one of his most beloved works, one composer’s heartfelt memorial to another who had recently died. Pärt writes: “Why did the date of Benjamin Britten’s death, 4 December 1976, touch such a chord in me? During this time I was obviously at the point where I could recognize the magnitude of such a loss. Inexplicable feelings of guilt, more than that even, arose in me. I had just discovered Britten for myself. Just before his death I began to appreciate the unusual purity of his music... For a long time I had wanted to meet Britten personally, and now it would not come to that.”

Purcell (ed. Britten): Chacony in G minor, Z. 730 Just as Pärt admired the music of Benjamin Britten, Britten revered Henry Purcell (1659-1695), who lived and worked in England three centuries before Britten. Purcell is probably the only composer active before J.S. Bach whose music still holds a place in the orchestral repertoire. On his eighteenth birthday, in September 1677, Purcell accepted his first job: composer for the royal court orchestra known as the Twenty-Four Violins.

The G minor chacony for strings is probably one of the pieces he wrote in this new position. Purcell’s title (“chacony”) is a unique Anglicization of chaconne, the French name for a slow dance written over a repeating bass line. Purcell was a master of this hypnotic form, building expressive power and musical tension over 18 variations of the repeating bass line. Britten prepared his edition in 1945, adapting the music for modern string ensemble in the hope that it would reach a wider audience.

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49 During the last decade of his life, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was frustrated by the popularity of his 1812 Overture, which he declared “very loud and noisy and completely lacking in artistic merit, obviously written without warmth or love.” (Composers are not always the best judges of their own music; they are especially inclined to dismiss their more popular works, wishing that audiences paid more attention to their lesser-known music.) The music originated in the fall of 1880, when the new Cathedral of Christ the Savior was nearing completion in Moscow. For the cathedral’s upcoming consecration, Tchaikovsky’s friend and colleague Nikolai Rubinstein asked him to compose an overture commemorating Russia’s 1812 military victory over Napoleon and the French army. In just six weeks, Tchaikovsky wrote his showpiece, incorporating Russian Orthodox religious chant, the French national anthem, and the Tsarist national anthem to depict Russia’s battle with and victory over the French at the battle of Borodino. Famously, cannon shots evoke the moment of French retreat—and they return at the very end of the piece, along with the pealing of church bells, to “bring down the house.”

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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. He worked with dozens of San Antonio rock musicians to create YOSA’s Classic Albums Live series, winner of a 2016 Centropolitan Award from Centro San Antonio.

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 Branford Marsalis, Midori, Edgar Meyer, 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 20, 2016, 3 p.m.

Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Autumn Festival 1” Prelude Strings, Jacobi Caldwell, conductor

John Caponegro

Fiddling A-Round

Michael Story

Classic Bits and Pieces

Capriccio Strings, Martin Sanchez, conductor Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Sandra Dackow)

“Dance of the Tumblers” from The Snow Maiden

Mark Williams

Fiddles on Fire

Deborah Baker Monday

Conquistador!

Sinfonietta Strings, Brenda Johnson, conductor Elliot Del Borgo

Petite Overture

Doug Spata

Elementals

Ludwig van Beethoven (arr. Carrie Lane Gruselle)

Adagio Cantabile, from Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique”

Andrew Lloyd Webber (arr. Paul Jennings)

The Phantom of the Opera

Symphonic Winds, Andy Post, conductor

Robert Russell Bennett Suite of Old American Dances Cakewalk Schottische Western One-Step

Wallflower Waltz Rag Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major (arr. Roland L. Moehlmann) John Philip Sousa The Washington Post (arr. Keith Brion & Loras Schissel) Percy Grainger (arr. Larry Daehn)

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PROGRAM NOTES

compiled by Troy Peters John Caponegro directed school orchestras from elementary to high school for more than 40 years in New York. His work as a composer shows his tremendous experience with student musicians at every level. His 1975 composition Fiddling A-Round is a perfect example of his ability to write tuneful and engaging works for young string players.

Michael Story is one of today’s most prolific composers and arrangers for school bands and orchestras, with more than 1,000 published works available. His Classic Bits and Pieces is a rapid-fire medley of some of the world’s best-loved classical tunes, including music by Beethoven, Dvořák, Glière, Handel, Haydn, Offenbach, Rossini, and Tchaikovsky.

Because he was nervous about his potential to make a living in music, the young Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov became an officer in the Russian navy.

To his own surprise, however, he also became one of Russia’s leading composers, joining the faculty at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory when he was only 27. The rollicking “Dance of the Tumblers,” from his fairytale opera, The Snow Maiden, is based on an energetic Russian folksong.

Mark Williams was a longtime elementary school band director in Spokane, Washington. Although most of his output as a composer was band music, he also wrote several notable works for string orchestra. Fiddles on Fire, written in 1996, is his most popular orchestral work, ingeniously giving young string players fast-moving fiddle tunes that lie especially well under the fingers.

Deborah Baker Monday teaches cello and bass in the Logan City School District orchestra program in Utah and is widely known as a composer and arranger for young string ensembles. Her 2005 work, Conquistador!, “depicts the life and adventures of the Spanish explorers known as conquistadors.”

For three decades, Elliot Del Borgo taught at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York, one of the best-known training grounds for music teachers in the Northeast. His Petite Overture, published in 1987, opens with a slow introduction before moving into more intense and driving minorkey music.

Doug Spata lives in Cincinnati, where he is a clarinetist, composer, and orchestra teacher. He writes: “Bold accents, broad contrasts, driving crescendos, and aggressive rhythms give Elementals its fiery sound.

Melodies ebb and flow through the piece, building in intensity throughout this dramatic, challenging concert overture.”

Adagio Cantabile is the central slow movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor. Written in 1798, when the composer was 27 years old, the “Pathétique” Sonata is one of the most famous works of Beethoven’s early period. This movement is beloved for its memorable

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS opening melody, which may have been Beethoven’s homage to a similar tune from a Mozart piano sonata. Nearly 200 years later, Billy Joel reworked the melody into a minor pop hit, “This Night” from his 1983 album, An Innocent Man. Has there ever been a bigger hit than Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, The Phantom of the Opera? It is not only the longest running Broadway show in history, with nearly 12,000 performances, but has also grossed more than $5 billion in ticket sales worldwide. It opened in London in 1986 and in New York in 1988, and both productions are still running. Paul Jennings’ arrangement of the title song evokes all the drama and passion of the show.

Robert Russell Bennett is probably most famous for orchestrating many of the greatest musicals of Broadway’s golden age, from Show Boat (1927) to Camelot (1960). Bennett wrote his Suite of Old American Dances after attending a Carnegie Hall concert by the famous Goldman Band in 1948. The composer originally called the piece Electric Park and wrote: “Electric Park in Kansas City was a place of magic to us kids. The tricks with big electric signs, the illuminated fountains, the big band concerts, the scenic railway, and the big dance hall—all magic. In the dance hall all afternoon and evening you could hear the pieces the crowds danced to, and the five movements of my piece were samples of the dances of the day.”

During his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach was probably better known as an organist than as a composer. In the century after his death, however, he became widely regarded as one of the greatest composers who ever lived.

Bach was especially adept at counterpoint, composing a remarkable set of 48 pairs of preludes and fugues called The Well-Tempered Clavier. The Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major is one of several works by Bach that Iowa band director Roland L. Moehlmann arranged in the 1950s.

Starting during his tenure as conductor of “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Corps Band in the 1880s and ‘90s, John Philip Sousa wrote much of the music that established the concert band as a uniquely American institution. The Washington Post was one of his earliest successes, written in 1889 for The Washington Post newspaper’s essay contest awards ceremony. The march was a great hit; indeed, its popularity led to a reporter first dubbing Sousa “The March King.”

Australian composer Percy Grainger spent part of his life in England and eventually became an American citizen. He composed and arranged a wide range of music based on English folksongs. Of his Themes from “Green Bushes,” Grainger wrote: “Among countryside folksongs in England, ‘Green Bushes’ was one of the best known… It seems to breathe that lovely passion for the dance that swept like a fire over Europe in the middle ages—brimful of all the youthful joy and tender romance that so naturally seek an outlet in dancing.”

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YOSA City Series 1 Sunday, November 20, 2016, 7 p.m.

Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Autumn Festival 2”

Repertory Strings, Karen George, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fugue from Requiem in D minor, K. 626 (arr. Loreta Fin) Aram Khachaturian (arr. Robert Longfield)

Adagio from Spartacus, Op. 82

Richard Meyer

The Emerald Falcon

Concertino Strings, Kenneth Freudigman, conductor

Tomaso Albinoni Sinfonia in G major Allegro Adagio Allegro

Edvard Grieg “Norweigan” from Two Melodies, Op. 53

Paul Lewis English Suite I. March II. Meditation IV. Jaunt Flute Choir, Kristin Hayes, conductor Jindřich Feld Petit Divertissement Quasi Marcia Berceuse Scherzino Thomas Simaku

From Across the Sea

James Hook Trio in G major, Op. 83, No. 6 Allegretto Canzone: Andante Rondo: Allegretto Symphony, Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Ralph Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob) March: Seventeen Come Sunday Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy March: Folk Songs from Somerset Edvard Grieg (orch. Theodore Tobani)

“Wedding Day at Troldhaugen” from Lyric Pieces, Op. 65

Edward Elgar

Serenade Lyrique

Jean Sibelius

Finlandia, Op. 26

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compiled by Troy Peters By the time he started work on his Requiem in 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was already terminally ill, and he even wrote some of the music on his deathbed. Contrary to the events depicted in the film Amadeus, however, he did not dictate the music to his colleague Antonio Salieri. After Mozart was unable to finish the Requiem before he died, his widow asked Mozart’s copyist Franz Xaver Süssmayr to complete it. The fugue on today’s program is an instrumental arrangement of the “Kyrie eleison,” one of the few sections of the Requiem that the composer finished before his death.

Aram Khachaturian was one of the leading composers of the Soviet Union and the most celebrated 20th century musician from his native state of Armenia. His ballet Spartacus, completed in 1954, tells the story of an enslaved gladiator in ancient Rome who leads a slave rebellion against a Roman general. The famous Adagio—also sometimes called the “Love Theme”— depicts the reunion of the hero and his wife, Phrygia, after her rescue. Its passionate melodic style is reminiscent of Armenian folk laments.

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. Commissioned in 2011 by the Groves High School Orchestra in Beverly Hills, Michigan, Meyer’s The Emerald Falcon deliberately evokes the sound a superhero movie’s end credits, with its dark harmonies and driving rhythms.

During his lifetime, Tomaso Albinoni was famous in Venice as an opera composer, but his posthumous reputation rests mainly on instrumental music.

In 1715, he became the first Italian composer to publish concertos for oboe and strings, and his instrumental music was admired and studied by Bach, Vivaldi, and other contemporaries. His Sinfonia in G major is a perfect example of the fast-slow-fast form popular in Italy at the time, with lively rhythms and memorable tunes.

Norway’s greatest composer, Edvard Grieg, arranged his Two Melodies for string orchestra in 1891 from earlier songs for voice and piano. Though the composer did not quote actual folk melodies, a Norwegian flavor is palpable throughout. “Norwegian,” the first of the pair, recasts Grieg’s setting of a poem by A. O. Vinje, in which the poet was exhorting his countrymen to drop regional dialects and unite around a single national version of the Norwegian language.

Paul Lewis made his name in the 1960s writing music for British television.

The composer writes that his English Suite, originally written for string quartet, “reflects the composer’s love of the English countryside, uses folksong-like material, and sits firmly in the tradition established by Holst and Vaughan Williams.” The string orchestra version, published in 2001, is dedicated to Lewis’s fellow English composer, Philip Lane.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Czech composer Jindřich Feld taught at the Prague Conservatory and at universities in Australia and the United States. His charming Petit Divertissement for flute trio, published in 1976, reflects his admiration for 20th century French composers like Messiaen and Honegger.

Although born in Albania, Thomas Simaku has lived in England for the last 25 years. From Across the Sea, composed in 1997, is based on an ancient folksong from southern Italy, where an Albanian community has lived for more than five centuries. The composer writes: “The tenderness of the melodic lines expresses love for their distant homeland, which according to legend can be seen from the Calabrian mountain tops.”

A contemporary of Bach and Handel, James Hook was active as an organist and composer. Most of his output was musical comedy, written for the London theater scene. The Trio in G major is comes from a set of six trios published around 1895. They would have already sounded old-fashioned at the time, imitating the form of Italian baroque sonatas from decades earlier, but they are nonetheless tuneful and charming.

After two decades collecting and transcribing folksongs across the English countryside, Ralph Vaughan Williams composed his English Folk Song Suite for military band in 1923. When his publisher asked for an orchestral version in 1924, Vaughan Williams turned the job over to his student, Gordon Jacob. Each of the three movements is based on several traditional tunes that Vaughan Williams had collected in their “natural habitat” during his extensive travels.

Edvard Grieg originally wrote his “Wedding Day at Troldhaugen” for piano in 1896. Troldhaugn (“troll’s home) was what Grieg called the house he had built at Bergen for himself and his family. There was never a wedding in the house, but he and his wife celebrated their 25th anniversary there in 1892.

The music’s festive opening depicts the congratulatory greetings of guests arriving for the anniversary party.

Like many composers of his generation, Edward Elgar sometimes wrote “salon music”: short pieces with sentimental melodies, well suited to social occasions or parties. In 1899—around the same time he wrote the piece that would make him internationally famous, the Enigma Variations—Elgar dashed off his romantic Serenade Lyrique. He dedicated the piece to Ivan Caryll, a Belgian composer who achieved great success in London’s turn-ofthe-century musical comedy scene.

As Finland struggled for independence from Russia from 1890 until 1917, the voice of Jean Sibelius sounded strongly as the musical personification of Finnish freedom. No work represents this better than the symphonic poem Finlandia. Throughout the 1890s, czarist Russia had been cracking down on the rights of Finnish citizens, and in 1899 the Russian government seized all Finnish legislative control. As part of a series of rallies that same year, Sibelius composed a work called Finland Awakes, in support of press freedom. After the piece was a tremendous success with its first audience, the composer revised it in 1900 as Finlandia.

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YOSA CONDUCTOR BIOS

Andy Post, YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor Andy Post directed bands at Wood, Jackson, and Lopez Middle Schools in North East ISD and is an active consultant, clinician, and adjudicator. He has earned Teacher of the Year, Trinity Prize Distinguished Educator Award for NEISD, Who’s Who of American Teachers, PTA Lifetime Award, and was nominated for Disney National Teacher of the Year. His ensembles consistently earn Sweepstakes Awards at UIL and have been recognized at the Region, Area, and State levels by Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) and nationally by Choice Music National Wind Band Competition. Andy resides in San Antonio with his wife and two sons.

Kenneth Freudigman, YOSA Symphony & YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor Kenneth Freudigman is the co-founder and artistic director of two-time Grammy-nominated chamber ensemble Camerata San Antonio, principal cello of the San Antonio Symphony, a highly respected cello teacher, and conductor of the YOSA Symphony and Concertino Strings orchestras. Ken began his work as YOSA Symphony conductor in 2012.

Kristin Hayes, YOSA Flute Choir Conductor Kristin Delia Hayes is a freelance flutist, Baroque recorder player, music educator, and conductor in San Antonio, TX. She currently serves as Lecturer of Music at St. Mary’s University and Our Lady of the Lake University. She previously held teaching positions at University of Texas San Antonio and Florida State University. In addition to teaching flute-related courses, Dr. Hayes teaches music theory, music history, music technology, and music appreciation, serves as the coordinator for OLLU’s Music Internship Program, and coaches multiple woodwind ensembles. In Fall 2015, Dr. Hayes joined the faculty of the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA) as a woodwind coach and as director of the Flute Choir. She is also the founder and President of the current San Antonio Flute Association.

During the summer, Dr. Hayes teaches and performs at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, the UTSA Flute Camp, and the YOSA Summer Music Camp.

Dr. Hayes frequently performs with various ensembles, including the San Antonio Symphony, Mid-Texas Symphony, Opera Piccola of San Antonio, Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio, Texas Baroque Ensemble, San Antonio Chamber Choir, San Antonio Mastersingers, and the Peterson/Hayes duo. A registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, the Peterson/Hayes Duo (PhDuo) released their first album of commissions, Visitor Pass, in August 2016.

An active performer and clinician, Dr. Hayes has performed and presented at various festivals and conventions, including the National Flute Association Convention, MTNA National Convention, Mid-South Flute Festival, Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival and the Florida Flute Association Convention. She has also performed and held masterclasses at various 20

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS institutions throughout North and Central America, and she frequently serves as adjudicator for local, state, regional, and national competitions, including the NFA Young Artist Competition and the MTNA’s Junior, Senior, and Young Artist Final Woodwind Competitions. Dr. Hayes has also been a featured Baroque Recorder guest artist with the Arte Antigua Ensemble in Antigua, Guatemala.

Dr. Hayes received her flute performance degrees from from Tennessee Technological University (B.M.), University of Missouri- Kansas City Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and Florida State University (D.M.).

Karen George, YOSA Repertory Strings Conductor Karen George is the orchestra director at Johnson High School in San Antonio. Mrs. George studied violin at the University of Southern Mississippi with Stephen Redfield where she earned bachelor degrees in both Violin Performance and Music Education. She then attended University of Texas at Austin where she studied violin under Vincent Frittelli and received a Masters in Music Education with a minor in conducting. Mrs. George has also toured with several orchestras in Europe including the American Institute for Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria. In addition to her teaching job, she also performs in the Corpus Christi Symphony.

Mrs. George opened Johnson High School in 2008. Since then, her four orchestras have had successes at UIL with numerous Sweepstakes trophies. The Johnson orchestras have traveled to Europe and Hawaii to perform in various venues. Johnson full orchestra has made it to the finals for Honor Orchestra competition at TMEA three times and they made the finals for string in 2013. Recently, the Johnson Varsity orchestra was invited to perform at Midwest in Chicago this December. Mrs. George is married, has two beautiful daughters and a whippet.

Brenda Johnson, YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor Brenda Johnson is the orchestra director at O’Connor High School (Northside ISD) and has been with YOSA for two years. Prior to her current position, Mrs. Johnson taught for 10 years in Plano and the next 7 years at Hector Garcia MS in Northside ISD. For many consecutive years, Mrs. Johnson has received Sweepstakes ratings at UIL Concert/ Sight-reading. In its first year as a brand new school, the Garcia MS Chamber Orchestra received fourth place in the TMEA Honor Orchestra competition under the direction of Mrs. Johnson.

Originally from McAllen, Texas, Mrs. Johnson received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baylor University and a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of North Texas. In 2004, Mrs. Johnson was one of four teachers in Texas to receive the Marjorie Keller Young Music Educator Award from the American String Teacher Association. During her time in Plano, she received Teacher of the Year for Bowman Middle School in 2009. She then received the Educator of the Year award for Hector Garcia MS in 2016. Most recently, she was among 19 San Antonio area teachers to receive the ExCEL Award from Kens5 and the San Antonio Credit Union. She has served as secretary and treasurer 21

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YOSA CONDUCTOR BIOS (continued) for TexASTA and is a member of Texas Music Educator’s Association, Texas Orchestra Directors Association, Texas Music Adjudicators Association, and the American String Teacher Association with National School Orchestra.

Martin Sanchez, YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor Martin Sanchez is the orchestra director at Ed White Middle School in the North East Independent School District. His ensembles at Ed White have earned Sweepstakes awards at UIL contest. Mr. Sanchez is from San Antonio, Texas and received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the fall of 2013.

Before holding the job of director at Ed White, he held the Assistant Director position for several years in the UTSA String Project, a program to help university students hone their skills in string teaching. In 2013, He accepted the Lead Teaching Artist position for the YOSA Mas Program in the Edgewood Independent School District. He has also been involved with the YOSA Summer Symphony Camp for several years. Mr. Sanchez is a member of the Texas Music Educator’s Association and Texas Orchestra Directors Association.

Jacobi Caldwell, YOSA Prelude Strings Conductor Jacobi 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 Philharmonic 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 professor and director of orchestral studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, conductor of the UTSA Orchestra and Lyric Theatre, and head of instrumental conducting. He also serves as conductor and artistic director for the Symphony of the Hills (Kerrville) and is the founding director of the UTSA String Project.

Dr. Dowdy conducted YOSA’s Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1992, was the Interim Philharmonic Conductor in 2000, and named an honorary resident conductor in 2002. He researched and wrote YOSA’s history for his doctoral essay at the University of Iowa in 1995 and is a past president of TODA and TexASTA.

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Philharmonic VIOLIN

Troy Peters, Music Director Georgeanna Hoey

Smithson Valley High School

Victoria Villarreal

Kathleen Ran

concertmaster

Anna Isler

Peiyang Wang

Health Careers High School

Emily Averyt

Randolph High School

Samuel Clemens High School

Basis Charter School

Emma Jaax Home School

Taegyun Yoon

assistant concertmaster Linda Liu

Rebekah Jones

Taylor (Taein) Yoon

Victoria Juarez

Donnel Zhu

Yeonsuk Jung

Winston Churchill High School

VIOLA

Brian Kang

Thomas C. Clark High School

Victoria Klaunig

Bailey Boyen

Home School

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Mika Kochheiser

Jalie-Ann Cummings

Saint Mary’s Hall

Health Careers High School

principal second violin Victoria Acuña

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

Alex Brehm

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Daniel Cao

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Ryan Cao

Health Careers High School

Home School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Health Careers High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Health Careers High School

Esther Ko principal

Abigail Dickson

Judson Early College Academy

Home School

International Baccalaureate-Luther Burbank High School

Gemmalee DyerMok

Prisca Lafuente

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

Ronald Reagan High School

Earl Warren High School

Zoe Espinoza-Kochheiser

Benita Lee

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Alamo Heights High School

Dylan Fernandez de lara

Elise Maas

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Ronald Reagan High School

Paola Flores

Lutheran High School San Antonio

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Audria Fogarty-Ramirez Ronald Reagan High School

Anne Gao

Health Careers High School

Nicholas Garcia-Hettinger Louis D. Brandeis High School

Elijah Gonzalez

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

Joseph Guzek

Ronald Reagan High School

Sofia Hernandez

Incarnate Word High School

Natalie Meissler Daniel Nix

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Deborah Olivier

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Kymber Ovalle

John Paul Stevens High School

Eve Poindexter

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

Wilmer Rodriguez Judson High School

Abigail Slaughter

Samuel Clemens High School

Juliet DeNapoli Imaya Farrell

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Lindee Fiedler

Boerne High School

Madeline Gonzales

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

David Irizarry Home School

Andrew Kang

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Kathryn King

Alamo Heights High School

Joshua Rodriguez Judson High School

CELLO

Andrew Arkhipov

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

principal

Elijah Ayala

University of Texas at San Antonio

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Philharmonic CELLO (continued) Calvin Carroll

Douglas MacArthur High School

Federico Chavez-Torres Health Careers High School

Victoria Day

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Emily Dunn

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Audrey Jellett Tivy High School

Maximilian Klaunig

Samuel V. Champion High School

Catherine Kline

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Erik Martilla

Alamo Heights High School

Tricia Park

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Katelyn Petersen

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Jacob Resendez

Winston Churchill High School

John Rice

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Gabriela Sanchez

Robert G. Cole High School

Nicholas Slaughter

Samuel Clemens High School

Astrid Topletz

Ronald Reagan High School

Elisabeth Wang

Health Careers High School

David Zamarripa

Troy Peters, Music Director Blaine Bryan

Winston Churchill High School

Albert Coleman

Thomas C. Clark High School

Michael Djabarov

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

Presley Heikkila

Alamo Heights High School

Javier Hernandez

Austin Perry

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Austin Struble

William H. Taft High School

Jared Worman

James Madison High School

Jared Lange

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

Ronald Reagan High School

Conner Simmons

Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School

FLUTE

Eunice Chung

Smithson Valley High School

Sieon Kim

Keystone School

Tyrece Williams

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

Paula Wilson

Judson High School

OBOE

Darren Churn

Ronald Reagan High School

Brandon Kim

Byron P. Steele II High School

Reagan Merrill

James Madison High School

Joshua Roper

Veteran’s Memorial High School

CLARINET

Jenna Gaulden

BASS

Joshua Martinez

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Joshua Shterenberg

principal

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Samuel Becvar

Garrett Snowden

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Wagner High School

HORN

Winston Churchill High School

Alamo Heights High School

Michael Chapa

Saint Mary’s Hall

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Niklas Siebert

BASSOON

Smithson Valley High School

Smithson Valley High School

Aidan Alcocer

Evan Chenault

John Jay High School

Ethan Gurwitz

Winston Churchill High School

Caleb Keller

Harlandale High School

Micah Stark

New Braunfels High School

Derek Timmons

Medina Valley High School

TRUMPET

Ian Aigner-Varoz

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Dylan Frazier

Judson High School

Chukwudi (Chidy) Odita-Honnah Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Ethan Reed

Winston Churchill High School

TROMBONE Zachary Bell

Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School

Brett Lair

East Central High School

BASS TROMBONE Jacob Authier

John Marshall High School

TUBA

Evan Arnold

Ronald Reagan High School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

Shane Rowe

Jeremiah Guillen

Scott Rogers

PERCUSSION

Colton Noles

HARP

San Marcos High School

Ty Gonzales-Graves

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

FLUTE

William J. Brennan High School

William J. Brennan High School

Symphonic Winds

Gail Fernandes

Judson Early College Academy

Margaret Goree

Robert E. Lee High School

Madeline Kalina

Earl Warren High School

Zachary Huertas

Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

Mark Rogers

Janet Thongkam

Jackson Wymer

Alamo Heights High School

ALTO SAXOPHONE

Eliana Olivier

Ian Weidmann

Rebekah Taylor

TENOR SAXOPHONE

Home School

Megan Tomasini

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Basis Charter School

Smithson Valley High School

Oscar De La Torre

TROMBONE Joel Carlson

San Antonio Christian Schools

Nathaniel Reta

Central Catholic High School

Angel Rivera-Hernandez William H. Taft High School

EUPHONIUM

HORN

Alex Gonzales

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Nicole Croft

Basis North Charter School

Earl Warren High School

Danielle Croft

Cecilia Chavez-Torres

Jieon Kim

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

OBOE

Catherine Hanson

St. Anthony Catholic High School

BASSOON

Torda Bordas

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Rhiannon Villarreal

Andy Post, Conductor

Emily Lawitz

TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas

Judson High School

Health Careers High School

Randolph High School

Haley Ginn

Randolph High School

John Paul Stevens High School

Mark Vallejo

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

Louis D. Brandeis High School

TUBA

Blanka Bordas

Liam Ries

Byron P. Steele II High School

Health Careers High School

Roy D. Corbett Junior High School

Augustin Chincarini

Kaia Santos

Alamo Heights Junior School

Alamo Heights Junior School

Pearl Fernandes

TRUMPET

CLARINET

Judson Early College Academy

Skanda Hebbale

Health Careers High School

Logan Miller

Alamo Heights High School

Darius Wang

Basis North Charter School

Trapper Erwin

Shukria Al-Araibi Nate Alfonsin Saint Mary’s Hall

Richard Daul

Central Catholic High School

Samuel Clemens High School

BASS

Ashley Funk

Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

Home School

Bryce Gifford

Bradley Middle School

Allie Gonzales

Alamo Heights High School

Henry Jeff Unser

PERCUSSION Jesse Forgione Home School

Abigail Jones

Alamo Heights Junior School

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Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor VIOLIN

Carly Munoz

Health Careers High School

Steven Letch

Lindsey Ran

concertmaster

Mariana Navarro

Sophia Quevedo

Adam Nix

Christian Ruelas

Natasha Pfeiffer

Diana Salinas

Ethan Poidevin

Lyndsey Wyatt

Abiud Rodriguez John Jay High School

CELLO

Miaoyin Rojas

Ronald Reagan High School

Judson High School

principal

Marciano Ross

Bianca Castillo

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Bali Daniels

Alamo Heights High School

assistant concertmaster Katie Chong

San Antonio Christian Schools

principal second violin Rema Bhat

Basis Charter School

Easton Blackburn John Jay High School

Josie Decherd

Alamo Heights High School

Kayla DeJesus

Douglas MacArthur High School

Stephanie Do

Alamo Heights Junior School

Marley Duggan

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Erica Gonzalez

San Antonio College

Grace Hende

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Mallory Howarth

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Diana Hubbard

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Victoria Kim

Saint Mary’s Hall

James Mack Home School

Christina Marie Martinez

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Hunter Messick

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Douglas MacArthur High School

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Earl Warren High School

Basis Charter School

Texas Connections Academy

Jocelyn Thomson

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

Ruth Toth

Health Careers High School

Wentao Yang

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Robert E. Lee High School

William J. Brennan High School

Incarnate Word High School

Giuliano Bucheli

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Britney Ericson

Douglas MacArthur High School

Mia Flowers

Incarnate Word High School

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Josephine Garza

VIOLA

Max Healy

Clayton Boyer Home School

principal

Mikayla Acosta

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Ruben Andrade

John Paul Stevens High School

Parker Baillon

Incarnate Word High School

Alamo Heights High School

Breanna Humphrey

Ronald Reagan High School

Kevin McJilton

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Simon Phoa

Louis D. Brandeis High School

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

Lillian Roe

Josh Cunningham

Benito Salinas

Olivia Gorena

Avery Wilson

Alisha Harris

Phoebe Wilson

Winston Churchill High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

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Earl Warren High School

Home School

William J. Brennan High School

William H. Taft High School

Samuel Clemens High School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor Emiliano Zendejo

Angelimar Carrion Quiros

Elaine Zhang

Louis D. Brandeis High School

OBOE

BASS

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

Ronald Reagan High School

Lacey Weber

Austin Turner

Chamberlyn Barnett

CLARINET

Bryce Gifford

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Alexandra Balfour principal

Earl Rudder Middle School

Connor Berberek

Boerne Middle School South

Austin Campos

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Raine Esparza Home School

Pierce Haddad

Ronald Reagan High School

Henry Unser

Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

Wagner High School

Bailey Nicolson

Randolph Middle School

Gabriela Pedraza

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Mariela Barrientez Navarro High School

BASSOON

Rachel Watts

James Madison High School

Jaselle Rheann Reginaldo Louis D. Brandeis High School

HORN

Benjamin Walls

Louis D. Brandeis High School

FLUTE

Minji Kim

Keystone School

Flute Choir FLUTE

Hannah Anderson

Douglas MacArthur High School

Gabriella Banales

Robert G. Cole High School

Joseph Pickett

Samuel Hart

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

TRUMPET

Isaiah Dickson Home School

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Bradley Middle School

TROMBONE Joseph Garza

Earl Warren High School

Jason Regalado

Theodore Roosevelt High School

TUBA

Zachary Gilbertson

Antonian College Preparatory

PERCUSSION Ivan Salazar

Kitty Hawk Middle School

New Braunfels High School

Kristin Hayes, Conductor Arianna Blazicko

Emily Kuppers

Audra Blazicko

Helen Lan

Genavie Cabrera

Mehwish Rehman

Basis North Charter School

Health Careers High School

James Madison High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Julia Newton Aue Elementary

Basis Charter School

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Concertino Strings VIOLIN

Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor

Zoe Reyna

Lisa Kazami

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

concertmaster

Zakary Rodriguez

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Brent Freeman

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Katheryne Rosas

assistant concertmaster

Earl Warren High School

Cristian Colon

Heewon Yoon

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Valerie Barrera

VIOLA

principal second violin Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Eva Beckett

Geneva School of Boerne

Lawrence Corsini

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Ian Fernandes

Judson Middle School

Veronica Gonzalez

Ronald Reagan High School

Sophia Irizarry Home School

Alexia Johnson

Byron P. Steele II High School

Aurora Johnson

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Jamil Laureano-Cruz Northwest Vista College

Alex Navarro

Douglas MacArthur High School

Nina Pyron

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

principal

Riley Bemis

Dr. John Folks Middle School

Josiah Damiano

Cornerstone Christian School

Daniela Davis

Robert E. Lee High School

Cameron Halsell

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Matthew Hsu

Bradley Middle School

Kenneth Nelson

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Natalie Ramos Home School

Skylar Sargent

John Marshall High School

Calla Xu

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Repertory Strings Jose M. Lopez Middle School

concertmaster Christian Diaz

Great Hearts Monte Vista

assistant concertmaster

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Barbara Bush Middle School

principal

Ava Blair

Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School

Sara Conde

Thomas C. Clark High School

Zora Dickson Vincent Garcia-Hettinger

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

Julia Gutierrez

Byron P. Steele II High School

Grace Hart

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Elizabeth Machado

James Madison High School

Kate Pacheco

William J. Brennan High School

Emily Posada

Judson Early College Academy

Tony Rodriguez

Thomas C. Clark High School

BASS

Shane Rybacki Saint Mary’s Hall

principal

Soren Dickson Home School

Gabriel Salinas

Bernal Middle School

Ronald Reagan High School

Hallie Betts

Samuel Garcia Villar

Home School

Rebecca Neely

VIOLIN

CELLO

Karen George, Conductor

Philip Templeman Canyon Middle School

principal second violin Haley Bannister

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Luke Brehm

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Alessandra Finol

Basis North Charter School

Catherine Fiscal

John Marshall High School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Repertory Strings

Karen George, Conductor

Robyn Gerry

Savannah Stutevoss

Madigan Christensen

Jillian Griffis

Trinity Vaquera

Dalton Conner

Joshua Whipple

Karina De La Torre

Willa White

Amber Guerra

James Zhang

Gayle Hende

VIOLA

William Huang

John Marshall High School Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Emily Hart

Great Hearts San Antonio - Northern Oaks

Trier Hodge

Canyon High School

Victoria Jones Home School

Addison Lueck

Smithson Valley Middle School

Isaiah Marquez Home School

Claudia Mendible-Diaz Alamo Heights Junior School

Faith Mueller Home School

Amelia Ortiz

William H. Taft High School

Matthew Padron

East Central High School

Andrew Pai

Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School

James Pickens

William P. Hobby Middle School

Zachary Presley

Katherine Stinson Middle School

Jolie Richmond

Home School

John Paul Stevens High School Dolph Briscoe Middle School Winston Churchill High School Tex Hill Middle School

Payton Parham

William J. Brennan High School

principal

Giovanni Carrasco

John Marshall High School

Justin Colon

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Liam Normand Keystone School

Fernanda Patron

Barbara Bush Middle School

Izaak Rennebeck-Oliveira Saint Mary’s Hall

Martin Rosa

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

Riya Sahota

Frank Tejeda Middle School

CELLO

Barbara Bush Middle School

Payton Davis

Phillippe Riopel

principal

Valley Hi Elementary School

Emily Rivera

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Sarah Shaw

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Samuel Shterenberg Longs Creek Elementary

La Vernia Junior High School Coke R. Stevenson Middle School Health Careers High School Judson High School Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.) Basis Charter School

Rebeka Jones Home School

Caroline Krugle

Dolph Briscoe Middle School

Sarah Lancy

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Conner Lindley

James Madison High School

Aubrie Rettmann

Byron P. Steele II High School

Esmeralda Serna

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

Alexa Valles

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

BASS

Zachary Zimmerman

Byron P. Steele II High School

Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

Samantha Almogela

Hallie Marcott

Edward H. White Middle School

Llailan Bennett

Judson High School

Caedmon Briggs

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Samuel Caballero

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

principal

Alamo Heights High School

Mitch Poe

La Vernia High School

Ben Roe

Jim Barnes Middle School

AJ Wood

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

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Sinfonietta Strings VIOLIN

Brenda Johnson, Conductor

Joisset Hernandez

Barbara Bush Middle School

Lauren Vu

Sophia dela Cruz concertmaster

Khalia Jacob

Greg Woodard

Eugene Kim

Great Hearts San Antonio - Northern Oaks

VIOLA

Kendall Liberman

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

Emma Lloyd

Sofia Abascal

Basis Charter School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Faith Ruth Marquez

Anya Anaya

Home School

Bradley Middle School

Cristian Martinez

Ryan Berberek

Tex Hill Middle School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Levoun Ombaba

Sara Dulaney

The Atonement Academy

Catherine Zou

Basis Charter School

assistant concertmaster Jack Wadolowski Basis Charter School

principal second violin Sara Bassiri

James Bonham Academy

Isabella Caballero

Robert L. Vale Middle School

Adrianna Calvillo

Natalia Junior High School

Garrett Chambers

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Anthony Couvillion

Smithson Valley Middle School

Jared Cuevas

Scenic Hills Seventh-day Adventist Christian School

Francesca Finol

Basis North Charter School

Sarai Fleming JSTEM Academy

April Flores

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Anneli Flores-Jimenez

Veterans Memorial High School

Arianna Floyd

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

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Spring Branch Middle School

Francesco Payan

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Erik Peterson

San Antonio Academy of Texas

Adrian Reyes

Jack C. Jordan Middle School

Anani Rhames

Pearblossom Private School

Abigail Rios

Edward H. White Middle School

Daniel Robelo

Alamo Heights Junior School

Alec Sanchez

Byron P. Steele II High School

Nathanael Slaughter

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School

Mikaela Garza

Raylie Thames

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Home School

Jaime Gonzalez

Christi Toth

Douglas MacArthur High School

Cornerstone Christian School

Austin Tudlong

Smithson Valley Middle School

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Ronald Reagan High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Madison Perez principal

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Kristine Gonzalez

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Ryan Grove

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Anello Hill Zanoni

Alamo Heights Junior School

Alaina Judd

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Marnie Rosa

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Samantha Rubiano

Robert L. Vale Middle School

Dylan Rybacki

San Antonio Academy of Texas

Adrian Salazar

John Garner Middle School

Sidney Silva

Judson High School

Aidan Woods

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Sinfonietta Strings CELLO

Brenda Johnson, Conductor

Melissa Fusco

Matthew Averyt

JSTEM Academy

principal

Rylee Hupping

Saint Mary’s Hall

Victoria Abascal

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Domenica Aburto

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Isabella Avellanet JSTEM Academy

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

Cody Reed

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

Ilana Solis

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Kyle Chong

Morgan Varney

Caroline Cordts

Leanna Whipple

San Antonio Christian Schools

Woodridge Elementary School

Home School

William H. Taft High School

BASS

Remy Place

Edward H. White Middle School

principal

Kyler Benedict Home School

Gabriel Eddy

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Tyson Geigenmiller

Walter Krueger Middle School

Jasper Munden

Basis North Charter School

Geoffrey Seal

Spring Branch Middle School

Derek Xu

The Atonement Academy

Capriccio Strings VIOLIN

Victoria Baker

Alamo Heights Junior School

Natalie Benavides

Bulverde Creek Elementary School

Lydia Bentz Home School

Erin Brehm

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Fiona Carlson

San Antonio Christian Schools

Destiny Casias

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Meghan Cunningham

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Martin Sanchez, Conductor

Carmen Dean

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Kelsey Fish

St. George Episcopal School

Magoli Garcia

Alamo Heights Junior School

Annia Gimeno Marko Marko Keystone School

Samantha Gonzalez

Barbara Bush Middle School

Branimir Gore

Basis North Charter School

Abigail Gutierrez

E. M. Pease Middle School

Aric Herrera

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Julianna Jaramillo

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Katharine Jones Home School

Emily Kitayama

Castle Hills First Baptist School

Isabel Lew

Concordia Lutheran Church-School

Ariella Lopez

Gregory Luna Middle School

Homero Morales, Jr

William P. Hobby Middle School

Crystal Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Minh Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

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Capriccio Strings

Martin Sanchez, Conductor

VIOLIN (continued)

VIOLA

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Barbara Bush Middle School

Van Nguyen

Daniel Jett Dorgan

Katherine Pickett

Hannah Smith

Scarlett Poye

Reyna Stovall

Klein Road Elementary School

Alamo Heights Junior School

Kaylie Rios

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Alamo Heights Junior School

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

CELLO

Sofia Romero Home School

Kayla Sheridan

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Jewel Thames Home School

Faith Tucker

Castle Hills First Baptist School

Samara Valdez

IDEA Monterrey Park

Jesse Vargas

Kitty Hawk Middle School

Adriana Webb Home School

Andrew White

Tex Hill Middle School

Natalie Zepeda

Brentwood Middle School

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Joshua Damiano

Cornerstone Christian School

Matthew Diaz

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Carlos Gonzalez

John Garner Middle School

Alan Hernandez

Barbara Bush Middle School

Rebekah Andrews

Cassandra Padilla

J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

Ann Frank Inspire Academy

Abcde Bannister

Teddy Salzman

Home School

Barbara Bush Middle School

Anastazia Becvar

Daniella Silva

Cambridge Elementary School

E. T. Wrenn Middle School

Nathan Bledsoe

Erica Vaquera

Maria Cisneros

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

BASS

Danielle Clish

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Boerne Middle School South

Edward H. White Middle School

Jerome Collier

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Sean Compton

Tex Hill Middle School

Ramon Contreras Alamo Heights Junior School

Robert L. Vale Middle School

Kaleb Comstock David Gonima

Basis Charter School

Jacob Hoppas St.

Anthony Catholic School

Alexander Ibrahim

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Makayla Zimmerman

Edward H. White Middle School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS

Prelude Strings VIOLIN

Christa Cedillo

Smithson Valley Middle School

Charlotte Cerroni Saint Mary’s Hall

Desiree Contreras

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

Jonah Damiano

Cornerstone Christian School

Noah Detiveaux

San Antonio Christian Schools

Odilia Diaz

Castle Hills First Baptist School

Jillian Fernandez Home School

Camilla Finol

Jacobi Caldwell, Conductor

Ian Lynch

Sophia Ramos

Sean Lynch

Samuel Sheridan

Miya Morris

Helen Trottmann

Rebekah Richard

CELLO

Home School

Home School

Basis Charter School

Barbara Bush Middle School

Athena Sorenson

Bianca Garcia

Alana Velazquez

Ana Malo

Saint Mary’s Hall

Basis North Charter School

Daniel Wadolowski Home School

Averie Young

Keystone School

Arlon Seay Elementary

Mya Hollowell

VIOLA

Adiya Kirwan

Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy

Annastazia Delgado

Thomas L. Hatchett, Sr. Elementary School

Alexander Gore

Home School

Keystone School

E. T. Wrenn Middle School

Aaron Watts

Eralyn Johnson

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Ximena Roa

The Buckner Fanning Christian School

Trinity Christian Academy

Home School

Home School

Faith Adams

Woodridge Elementary School

Gregory Luna Middle School

Jeremy Medina-Suzuki St. John Bosco School

Natalie Menchaca

Earl Rudder Middle School

Petra Poenitzsch

Cambridge Elementary School

Peter Villalobos Home School

Basis North Charter School

BASS

Angelo Annis

Krueger Middle School

Alamo Heights Junior School

Lazaro Suarez

Ileana Godinez

Cambridge Elementary School

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FACULTY

Carl Leafstedt, Ph.D. Chair

Troy Peters Music Director

Shari Mao Vice Chair, Governance

Andy Post YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor

Evin Nicole Eubanks Vice Chair, Development

Kenneth Freudigman YOSA Symphony Conductor YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor

Nancy Halvorson Secretary

Kristin Hayes YOSA Flute Choir Conductor

Benjamin Westney Vice Chair, Finance/Treasurer

Karen George YOSA Repertory Strings Conductor

Lee Hipp Vice Chair, Music Programs

Brenda Johnson YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor

Kenneth Bloom

Martin Sanchez YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor

Kelly Cato Joseph Causby, Ph.D. Magaly Chocano Michelle Davis

Jacobi Caldwell YOSA Prelude Strings Conductor Eugene Dowdy Resident Conductor

Katie DeBauche

ADMINISTRATION

John Frederick

Brandon Henson Executive Director

Kirstin Garrison John Lewis, Ph.D. Elizabeth Lorenz Blanca Maldonado Ryan O’Donnell Donald Oroian Anne Rochelle Sonja Lanehart Schutz, Ph.D.

Chris Day Development Director Ben Hackett Development Assistant Dean Zarmbinski Operations Director Cassie VanderSloot Operations Coordinator Tyler Benware Operations Assistant

Jeffrey Walsh

Alfonso Gonzales Bookkeeper

Evelyn Berg President Emeritus

Kathleen Messina Office Coordinator

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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 2016/17 season. The musical education that our young musicians receive would not be possible without your support.

Strings

Michael Badillo, violin Nicholas Browne, bass Allyson Dawkins, viola Emily Freudigman, viola Ignacio Gallego, cello Beth Girko, violin Lani Gil, violin Holgen Gjoni, cello Mary Ellen Goree, violin Lydia Hurtado-Yanez, cello Morgen Johnson, cello Colin Meinecke, viola

David Milburn, bass David Mollenauer, cello Bassam Nashawati, violin Teresa Nguyen, viola Stacey Parker, violin Kristen Pellegrino, violin Josh Prado, viola Aurelia Rocha, cello Laura Scalzo, violin Darian Thomas, violin Aimee Toomes, violin Christina Trongone, cello Alexis von Biedenfeld, cello

Woodwinds

Jennifer Berg, oboe Kristen Hayes, flute Andrei Muravev, bassoon

Brass

Libby Barnette, horn Jaime Parker, trombone David Stephenson, trombone

Percussion

Riely Francis David Reinecke

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 3,000 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 October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016. 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 City of San Antonio Department of Arts and Culture Kronkosky Charitable Foundation Composers Dr. and Mrs. Kym and George Rapier The Rackspace Foundation Star Performers John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation Maestros Anonymous G. A. C. Halff Foundation Greehey Family Foundation H-E-B Mays Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oroian San Antonio Area Foundation St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery The Ewing Halsell Foundation The USAA Foundation, Inc. Tuesday Musical Club Mr. and Mrs. Bartell H. Zachry, Jr. Zachry Foundation Zachry Group 38

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Concertmasters

Steven Bankler, CPA Dr. Kenneth Bloom & Dr. Sheila Swartzman Mr. James S. Calvert Capital Group Companies Joseph Causby and Robert Brewer Cecilia Young Willard Helping Fund Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Davis Ms. Lauren Eberhart John H. Frederick and Mimi W. Yu Mr. and Mrs. Paul Halvorson Mr. Lee Hipp Joeris General Contractors Dr. and Mrs. Carl Leafstedt Lee and Zachry Carter Memorial Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation Rev. John Lewis & Ms. Pat Bridwell Ms. Elizabeth M. Lorenz and Mr. Rick Ramos Shari Mao Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur L. Matthews, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John McCullough Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation MPL Limited Partnership III Mr. and Mrs. Ryan O’Donnell Mr. and Mrs. Donald Oroian Oroian Guest & Little PC Anne and Troy Peters Mr. Kelly M. Ranson Anne and Jeff Rochelle Ms. Sonja Lanehart Schutz, Ph.D. and Mr. Paul Schutz, Ph.D. Mrs. Elsie G. Steg Mrs. Mary Pat Stumberg The Arts Fund The Harris K. & Lois G. Oppenheimer Foundation The Marshall T. Steves Sr. Foundation The Mirza Trust Mr. Bruce I. Topletz and Ms. Cristina Chial Kathleen Weir Vale and Albert Vale Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Waller Germaine and Jeffrey Walsh Zachry Construction Corporation

Principal Chairs

Ms. Kris Brehm Ms. Martha Bryant, Ph.D. Mr. Edward E. (Sonny) Collins III Mr. and Mrs. Dan De Bauche Ms. Evin Nicole Eubanks Kirstin and Bregger Garrison Mr. Brandon Henson Mr. John S. Jockusch Susan Marenda King, M.D. Mrs. Muriel J. Leafstedt Mr. & Mrs. Greg Markovich Melaleuca Mr. and Mrs. John and Betty Moulder Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe B. Smith St. Benedict’s Workshop Mr. & Mrs. Marshall T. Steves, Jr. Anonymous United Way University Health System Mr. Robert Valdez Monica Vaughan Deja Wilson

Section Sponsors

Robert Albright Mr. Kevin Allen Lisa Marie Anderson Anonymous Armstrong Vaughan & Associates, P.C. Ms. Flora Atherton Mr. Steven Bennett Mr. & Mrs. James Berg Ms. Mary Black Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Bolner Mary Alice Bond Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brahinsky Elizabeth Branch Ms. Carilyn Brehm Stella Brown Mr. & Mrs. Walter J. Buzzini III Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Calvert Kelly Cato Ms. Judith Cavender Richard H. Cavender CE Group Mrs. Magaly Chocano Rosemary P.Z. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Bartlett Cocke Mr. Michael Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Michael Connor Convention & Visitors Bureau Nancy W. Cook Ms. Elizabeth Copeland Ms. Kate Crone Mr. & Mrs. D. Rusty Crowley, Jr. John Dempsey and Margie Boldrick Mrs. April Dickson Ms. Kathleen Doria & Mr. Ruben Silva John L. Douglas Ms. Kaye Dunn Walter Peter Dyck Ms. Anna Edwards Eisenberg Group Carolyn Ellis and Richard Keith Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Forland Ms. Joan Fritze Elizabeth Fry Mr. & Mrs. Lon Fry James Garner Antonia Goldsmith Mrs. Mary Ellen Goree Mr. & Mrs. Leo Greenblum Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Grenier Julius and Kathleen Gribou Mr. & Mrs. Valeri Grokhovski Mr. & Mrs. Ryan A. Guest Ms. Margaret Hager Austin Hardy Mr. Jim Heaney Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Heard Frances Hearn Ms. Sandra Henson Mr. Don Hessenflow & Ms. Cathy Dawson Pam Hockersmith John Hornsby Dr. David Hough & Ms. Gina De Gennaro Mr. and Mrs. Jay Howard Ms. Nina Hoyle Ires Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Woodson Jones Anjali and Ajeya Joshi JP Morgan Chase

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Junior League of San Antonio, Inc. S. R. Juvenal Mr. Ronald Keller Mr. Christopher Kiernan Mr. Gary Kilgore Kenneth A. Kist, M.D. Mr. Cliff Kochheiser Sharon Kocurek Rabbi David Komerofsky Mr. & Mrs. Brian Komorek Rosemary E. Kowalski Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Krueger Barbara Kyse Sarah Lake Wende L. Lancaster Ms. Marline C Lawson Sarah R. Lemessurier Ms. Eileen Lentz Mr. Gary Lindley Mr. Kevin Liu Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lorenz Louis J. and Millie M. Kocurek Charitable Foundation B.H. Ludwig Mr. and Mrs. Jeb Maebius Mr. Tim Maher Mr. and Mrs. Marcos Maldonado Zelime Gillespie Matthews Nickey McCasland Marilyn McCullough Beatrice McFadden Mrs. Annabelle McGee June McManus Douglas McNeel Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Vachel McNeel Ms. Marise Melson Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Mendible Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Mielke Deborah Moore Lillian Padgitt Morris Aren and Dan Murray Mark Nelson Roxana Newsom Mr. William Nichols Nix Health Claudia and Michael Olivier Mrs. Camilla M. Parker Brenda L. Partain Jennifer Perloff Mr. & Mrs. David Phipps Andrea Pichler David Elizabeth Powell Diana Reed Mr. and Mrs. Randy Resendez Respite Care of San Antonio Wilkinson Rhodes Mr. and Mrs. David Rodriguez Col. (Ret.) William T. Rogerson Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Armstrong Seal Ms. Linda Seewald Mr. & Mrs. Josef Seiterle Patricia A. Semmes Dr. & Mrs. Albert C. Serrano Drs. Harry and Molly Shafer Mr. and Mrs. John Shipley Marga Speicher, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. George Spencer E.K. Studer Nancy M. Sutter Mr. Patrick H. Swearingen, Jr. Targeted Genomics The Columbus Foundation

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Mrs. Alex R. Thomas, Jr. Janelle B Tye Ms. Julie Vandertulip Alice Viroslav Mr. & Mrs. John Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Westney Ms. Marceline Whipp Mr. & Mrs. Bill Wilkinson Mary Beth Williamson Mrs. Jean Rogers Winchell Dr. and Mrs. John Wolcott Mr. & Mrs. Jon Wood Brian Yager Drs. Keying Ye and Limin Zheng Tina and Todd Zimmerman

Friends of YOSA

Noel Aljibe Amazonsmile Foundation Mr. David Amori Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Mrs. Sue Bain Mr. Michael Balcer Laura Barberena and Anthony Medrano Susie Barlow Mr. Quincy Barnes Ms. Ashley Barr Ms. Jessica Barrera Mr. and Mrs. Jim Barshop Mr. Alfred E. Becker Ms. Terry Brechtel Ms. Katherine Brooks Ms. Michele Brown Mr. Matt Brown Vanessa Sanlucar and William Bryan Ms. Nancy Bryant Mr. Rocio Bucheli Mr. & Mrs. Ricardo A. Bunge Mr. & Mrs Kevin Butts Mr. & Mrs. Manuel Reyes Campos Ms. Nicole Carney Ms. Mureen Caspers Betty M. Cavender Mr. and Mrs. Michael Churn Mary Ann Compton Mr. and Mrs. Sara Maria Conde Ms. Monica Cooper Mr. John Dailey Mary Davis Victoria Day Celia Day Ms. Sharon Drobeck Paul Easley Mr. Robert C. Ehlers & Mrs. Silvia Santinelli-Ehle Calasancio Fernandes Dawn and Daniel Finlayson Ms. Katrina Fitzpatrick Kathleen Fletcher Mr. Patrick Flores Mr. & Mrs. Derrick Flowers Dr. & Mrs. J. Howard Frederick Akiko Fujimoto Ms. Catherine Garcia Mr. Daniel Gillett Teresa Godinez Mr. Jeremy Goodell Dr. & Mrs. Donald J. Gordon Dr. and Mrs. Michael Gradassi

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Mr. Alan Graf Mr. Mark Greszler Mr. Jorge Guel Ms. Elizabeth Halff Mr. and Mrs. Rich Hartwick Ms. Andrea Hlosek Ms. Cari Holbrook Ms. Mary Hymel Inside Outside Wellness Center and Medical Spa Mr. Gylon Jackson Dr. & Mrs. Milton S. Jacobs Ms. Aurora Jimenez Carol and Walter Keim Mr. Hongwook Kim Mrs. Elizabeth Knowles Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Kochheiser Mrs. Ellen Kraig & Mr. David Kolodrubetz Mr. and Mrs. Weir Labatt Rachel Lake Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lancaster Ms. Nancy Larson Mr. Edward Leafe Dr. Qinghua Liang Mr. Warren Lieberman Jamie Little Mr. & Mrs. Arnoldo Lopez Kevin Lueck Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Macaluso, Jr. Percy Manrique Ms. Martha Marquez Mrs. Rosalinda Martinez Anthony Martinez, M.D. Rev. & Mrs. David C. Marx Katherine Matteson Ms. Melanie Mayfield Mr. David Medina Kathleen Messina Ms. Janie Mikesell Mrs. Lola Miles-Troutz Dr. & Mrs. Alexander L. Miller Mr. Jack Moulder Mr. Carlos Munoz Cara Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nix Mr. Gerald L O’Donnell Mr. Marcos Oliveira Ms. Krystal Ordonez Mr. and Mrs. Marian and Stephen Osborn Karen Owens Pam Parmer Joanne Patterson Erick Paulino Dr. William B. Perry and Mrs. Holly Perry Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Peters Mr. Steve Pfeiffer Ms. Kimberly Place Mr. Jason Presley Ms. Jennifer Prince Mr. Hampton Rattan Jeanne Redmond Craig Reed Mrs. Isabel Resendez Mr. Kevin Rettmann Ms. Pamela Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. Bill Reynolds Mr. Blair Richter Ms. Doris Rips Juan Robles Yolanda and Wilmer Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence and Martha Rogler Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Rogler

Mr. Fred Rosin Mrs. Rebecca Salazar Mrs. Tanya Sammis Paola Sandoval Ms. Sherri Santos Chom and James Seagraves Mr. John Seidenfeld Michael Sepeda David and Chelsea Short Dr. & Mrs. Reeves L. Smith Nancy Starr Ms. Terese Swartz Dr. Ana Valadez Ms. Cassie Vandersloot Ms. Maria Villarreal Bonilla Mrs. Ann Vineyard Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Wagner Mr. & Mrs. Mike Wagnon Wah Tee Alterations, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watson Mr. Daniel Weiss Richard D. Wheatley, Sr., Ph.D. Ms. Elizabeth Wymer Mr. Joseph Yglesias Seoghwan Yoon Joshua Younke Rev. & Mrs. Louis Zbinden

Gifts in Kind

Mr. Kevin Allen Americus Diamond Bird Bakery Carrabba’s Italian Grill Cici’s Pizza Ms. Caroline Decherd Mrs. April Dickson Eva’s Escape At The Gardenia Inn Evelyn Berg Fund of the YOSA Endowment Fund of the SAAF Green Vegetarian Cuisine H-E-B Hair By Kerri Hospitality Parking Houston St. Bistro Inspire Community Fine Art Center Joseph’s Kathy’s Kreations Kathleen Messina Mo-Ranch Conference Center Monster Mini Golf Ms. Ann Oettel Organic Movement Mr. Tom Ovalle Radius Center Mr. Chip Ruedebusch Saint Mary’s Hall Sam Ash Music Corporation San Antonio Plastic Bricks Satel’s Ms. Nancy Taylor Shivers Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery Spice of Life Catering St. David’s Episcopal Church The Popcorn Place Trinity University University of Texas at San Antonio University of The Incarnate Word Whataburger Restaurants LP Mr. Donald White Yoga In Motion

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