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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.
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Letter from the Board Chair Happy New Year! All of us at YOSA hope your 2015 will be filled with music and accomplishment. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to congratulate YOSA musicians on their great concerts last fall. A highlight for me was the first ever YOSApalooza concert. Showcasing all YOSA orchestra musicians in a single performance at the new Tobin Center for the Performing Arts was a moving experience enjoyed by thousands. I look forward to next year’s YOSApalooza concert as we continue this new tradition. Another YOSA tradition involves bringing in a variety of guest artists who are masters of their instruments to work and perform with YOSA musicians. The interaction of world-class guest artists with our musicians provides a deep educational experience that will be relived for years to come. This year certainly continues this tradition. We are proud to welcome guest artist Branford Marsalis during our inaugural year at the Tobin Center. YOSA offers students from every neighborhood in our community the experience to develop their creative skills, mature into young adults, and discover achievement and success that allows this growth to continue. However, we cannot do this without your support. Supporting YOSA is more than an investment in young musicians. It is an investment in the future of our city. There are several ways for you to make a gift in support of YOSA, including our annual YOSA Beethoven 5k/10k on April 4. This fun run/walk is in a new location this year, Mission County Park, with the course along the River Walk. It is a great way to support the young musicians and participate in a healthy event in our beautiful city. Please visit yosa.org/yosa-run for more information on participating or becoming a sponsor. Thank you for joining us at a YOSA concert. And, more importantly, thank you for supporting YOSA as we work to change kids’ lives through music. Yours sincerely, John Frederick Ph.D. YOSA Board of Directors
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YOSA City Series 2 Sunday, February 8, 2015 3 p.m. Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Winter Lights” Sinfonietta Strings
Brenda Johnson, conductor Johann Ernst Galliard
(arranged by Kathy Fishburn & Virginia Luman)
Tanzun (Dancing)
Norman Leyden Serenade for String Orchestra Prelude Cakewalk Soon Hee Newbold
The Odyssey (Journey of Odysseus)
Flute Choir
Martha Long, conductor Gabriel Fauré (arranged by Eric Ledeuil)
Sicilienne from Pelléas and Mélisande, Op. 80
Christopher Steel Suite, Op. 69 Allegro Lento Allegro vivace Molto moderato Allegro vivace
Symphony
Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Gioachino Rossini
Overture to Il Signor Bruschino
Frederick Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 I. Allegro molto
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compiled by Troy Peters Although quite successful in his lifetime, German baroque composer Johann Ernst Galliard is overshadowed today by his famous contemporaries Bach, Handel, and Telemann. Born and trained in Germany, he spent most of his career in London, where he was known not only as a composer, but also as an oboist. Tanzun is an energetic allegro drawn from one of Galliard’s many instrumental sonatas. Norman Leyden was a remarkably versatile musician, clarinetist, and conductor equally at home with big band jazz, film and television scoring, or symphony orchestras. He was also a great educator, who founded the Westchester Youth Symphony and later conducted the Portland Youth Philharmonic. His Serenade for String Orchestra is a classic work for student orchestras, popular since its publication in 1971. Born in Korea in 1974, Soon Hee Newbold grew up in Maryland and has a thriving career as a violinist, conductor, and actress. However, she is best known as a composer of orchestral works for students. The Odyssey follows the legendary journey of Odysseus and his encounters with the lotus-eaters, the monstrous Cyclops, the sorceress Circe, and the beguiling sirens. One of the foremost French composers of his time, Gabriel Fauré greatly influenced the next generation of French composers (including Debussy and Ravel) with his sophisticated sense of instrumental color. The Sicilienne, a lovely melody for flute, is the most popular selection from Fauré’s incidental music which the composer wrote for an 1898 production in London of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Pelléas and Mélisande. Christopher Steel spent most of his working life in English colleges and universities, producing a large body of accessible, neoromantic music. His Suite, Op. 69, was written for six-part flute choir. It was composed for the flute students of Hilary Finzi, sister of cellist Jacqueline du Pré and one of the title characters in the Academy Award nominated 1998 film, Hilary and Jackie. Il Signor Bruschino, one of Gioachino Rossini’s silliest operas, relied heavily on visual comedy and repeated catch phrases, not unlike a Saturday Night Live sketch might today. The overture, performed much more frequently than the opera itself, includes an unusual musical effect: after the slow introduction, the strings rhythmically tap their bows on their music stands. While Rossini left no clue as to the meaning of this tapping, it becomes the main musical idea, repeated several times throughout the five-minute overture. The best-known work by English composer Frederick Delius, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, is a nostalgic look back at Delius’s travels in Norway, where he visited the great Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Delius creates a lush fantasia on a Norwegian folksong, over which the clarinets repeatedly sound the springtime call of the cuckoo. Opening with one of the most famous melodies that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ever wrote, the Symphony No. 40 is among his most beloved works. Written in 1788, the symphony stands at the center of the magnificent trilogy of Mozart’s last three symphonies. Although we do not know for sure when this music was first performed or even whether Mozart ever heard it played, it has been a cherished classic for more than two centuries.
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YOSA City Series 2 Sunday, February 8, 2015 7 p.m. Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Winter Lights” Capriccio Strings
Jonathan Raveneau, conductor Soon Hee Newbold
Hiawatha
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Kabalevsky Suite
(arranged by Grant Hull) Escapade
Rondo Song of the Cavalry Soon Hee Newbold
The Wild Western Frontier
Concertino Strings
Kenneth Freudigman, conductor William Boyce Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major Allegro Moderato e dolce Allegro Benjamin Britten “Sentimental Sarabande” from Simple Symphony, Op. 4 Gustav Holst Brook Green Suite Prelude Air Dance
Symphonic Winds
John Zarco, conductor Ron Nelson
Allemande from Courtly Airs and Dances
Dana Wilson
Odysseus and the Sirens
Ronald Lo Presti
Elegy for a Young American
W. Francis McBeth Of Sailors and Whales Ishmael Queequeg Father Mapple Ahab The White Whale 13
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compiled by Troy Peters & John Zarco Born in Korea in 1974, Soon Hee Newbold grew up in Maryland and has a thriving career as a violinist, conductor, and actress. However, she is best known as a composer of orchestral works for students. Inspired by the legendary Native American chief and founder of the Iroquois confederacy, Hiawatha uses modal and drum-like rhythms to evoke Native American music. Dmitri Kabalevsky, was very popular in his native Russia in the mid-twentieth century and wrote many simple piano pieces for young students. Grant Hull’s Kabalevsky Suite transforms three of these pedagogical piano works into a charming triptych for orchestra. In The Wild Western Frontier, Soon Hee Newbold skillfully evokes cowboys and cattle ranches with string melodies influenced by the film music of Elmer Bernstein and Dmitri Tiomkin, as well as the cowboy ballets of Aaron Copland. By the time William Boyce published his eight symphonies in 1760, their style was considered old-fashioned. Nevertheless, their melodic invention and optimistic energy made them popular. The Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major began its life as the overture to his 1756 New Year’s ode, Hail, hail, Auspicious Day. Like many overtures of this time period, it is cast in three movements, arranged fast-slow-fast. Shortly after his twentieth birthday, Benjamin Britten began to compose his Simple Symphony, a new work for string orchestra that took its melodies from pieces Britten had written years earlier as a prodigious child. The “Sentimental Sarabande” is a heartfelt slow movement that begins with material from the Suite No. 3 for Piano, originally written when he was twelve; the middle section uses a Waltz by the nine-year-old Britten of 1923. Gustav Holst was hospitalized when he wrote his sunny Brook Green Suite in 1933. It was intended for his students at St. Paul’s Girls School where he had taught for two decades. Holst was in a nostalgic mood when he wrote this music, taking the title from the location of his 1901 wedding. He heard the world premiere in March 1934—the final concert he attended before he died in May of the same year. Ron Nelson’s Courtly Airs and Dances is a suite of Renaissance dances, which were characteristic to five European countries during the sixteenth century. The Allemande, a German dance, is one of three movements in the suite meant to emulate the music of Claude Gervaise. Homer’s Odyssey, written about 2,700 years ago, tells of the return to Ithaca of Greek hero Odysseus after being away for twenty years. Odysseus and the Sirens depicts one of the epic’s most dramatic episodes: Odysseus is aware that he is about to encounter the sirens, famous for luring sailors to their death with their beguiling wind-like song. Intensely curious to hear them, he has all his sailors plug their ears and tie him to the mast, with instructions not to untie him, no matter what he says. As they approach, the sirens begin singing and Odysseus screams to be untied, but because the sailors can’t hear him they are all saved. After Odysseus’s ship passes by, the sirens fling themselves into the sea and are drowned.
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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Elegy For a Young American, written in 1964, is dedicated to the memory of President John F. Kennedy. The stages of mourning can be felt as the work unfolds. A quiet adagio sets a tone of respect and solemnity in the beginning. Feelings of shock and denial are reflected through dynamics and expressive melodic leaps of an octave. Anger and remorse express themselves throughout the work, but they are replaced with a more dignified resolution as the work draws to a close. Of Sailors and Whales is a five-movement work based on five scenes from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Commissioned by the California Band Directors Association, it was premiered in February 1990 by the California All-State Band, conducted by the composer, W. Francis McBeth. The work is sub-dedicated to Robert Lanon White, Commander USN (Ret.), who went to sea simply as a sailor.
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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 Gold Series 2 Sunday, February 22, 2015 7 p.m. The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts H-E-B Performance Hall Philharmonic Troy Peters, Music Director Branford Marsalis, alto saxophone Kenji Bunch
Supermaximum
Alexander Glazunov
Concerto in E-flat major for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra, Op. 109
Branford Marsalis, alto saxophone Jazz Concerto (Hot Sonata) for Alto Saxophone and Chamber Ensemble Moderato Vivo Andante Molto vivo Erwin Schulhoff
(orchestrated by Richard Rodney Bennett)
Branford Marsalis, alto saxophone John Zarco, conductor INTERMISSION Richard Strauss
Serenade in E-flat major, Op. 7 John Zarco, conductor
Edward Elgar
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 “Enigma”
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BRANFORD MARSALIS, Guest Artist
NEA Jazz Master, renowned Grammy Award®-winning saxophonist and Tony Award® nominee composer Branford Marsalis is one of the most revered instrumentalists of his time. The three-time Grammy Award® winner has continued to exercise and expand his skills as an instrumentalist, a composer, and the head of Marsalis Music, the label he founded in 2002 that has allowed him to produce both his own projects and those of the jazz world’s most promising new and established artists.
Marsalis made his Broadway debut as the composer of original music for the Tony Award® winning Broadway revival of August Wilson’s play “Fences”. Marsalis received a Tony nomination in the category of category of “Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre” and a 2010 Drama Desk Award® for “Outstanding Music in a Play” for his participation. Following these successes, Marsalis was asked to score the 2011 Broadway premiere of “The Mountaintop” starting Samuel Jackson and Angela Bassett. Leader of one of the finest jazz Quartets today, and a frequent soloist with classical ensembles, Branford has become increasingly sought after as a featured soloist with such acclaimed orchestras as the Chicago, Detroit, Düsseldorf, and North Carolina Symphonies and the Boston Pops, with a growing repertoire that includes compositions by Copland, Debussy, Glazunov, Ibert, Mahler, Milhaud, Rorem and Vaughn Williams. His propensity for innovative and forward-thinking compels him to seek new and challenging works by modern classical composers such as modern Scottish composer Sally Beamish who, after hearing Branford perform her composition “The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone” at the 2006 North Sea Jazz Festival, was inspired to re-conceive a piece in progress, “Under the Wing of the Rock,” which he premiered as part of the Celtic Connections festival Beamish’s home country of Scotland in January 2009. Making his first appearance with the New York Philharmonic in the summer of 2010, Marsalis was again invited to join them as soloist in their 2010-2011 concert series where he unequivocally demonstrated his versatility and prowess, bringing “a gracious poise and supple tone… and an insouciant swagger” (New York Times) to the repertoire. In 2011, the National Endowment for the Arts conferred the prestigious Jazz Masters Fellowship on the Marsalis Family, a celebration and acknowledgement of a family described by the New York Times as “jazz’s 18
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS most storied living dynasty”, who have made an indelible mark, collectively and individually, on the history and the future of jazz, America’s art form. The Branford Marsalis Quartet explores the limits of musical adventure and band cohesiveness on Four MFs Playin’ Tunes available August 2012. This is the first recording of the tight-knit working band with an electrifying young drummer that joined the band three years ago and the results are a nimble and sparkling album, featuring ambitious original compositions by members of the band, a Thelonious Monk classic, and one standard dating to 1930. The record blends the beautiful and subtle ballad sounds of 2004 release Eternal with the ecstatic contrasts of critically-acclaimed Braggtown. In other words, this just might be the Branford Marsalis Quartet’s most sublime musical achievement yet. Having gained initial acclaim through his work with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and his brother Wynton’s quintet in the early 1980s, Marsalis also performed and recorded with a who’s-who of jazz giants including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Sonny Rollins. He has also collaborated with such diverse artists as Sting, the Grateful Dead and Bruce Hornsby. His expansive interests are further reflected in his explorations in film, radio and television, including his role as the musical director of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for two years in the early 1990s. Marsalis has also acted in such popular movies such as Throw Mama from the Train and School Daze, provided music for Mo’ Better Blues and other films and hosted National Public Radio’s syndicated program Jazz Set. Dedicated to changing the future of jazz in the classroom, Marsalis has shared his knowledge at such universities as Michigan State, San Francisco State, Stanford and North Carolina Central, with his full Quartet participating in an innovative extended residency at the NCCU campus. Beyond these efforts, he is also bringing a new approach to jazz education to student musicians and listeners in colleges and high schools through Marsalis Jams, an interactive program designed by Marsalis in which leading jazz ensembles present concert/jam sessions in mini-residencies. Marsalis Jams has visited campuses in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest, and later established an ongoing Marsalis Berklee Jams series with the Berklee College of Music. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans native joined forces with friend Harry Connick, Jr. to conceive the New Orleans Habitat Musicians’ Village, the newly constructed community in the city’s historic Upper Ninth Ward that provides new homes for displaced residents, including displaced musicians and their families. At the heart of the Village stands the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, a magnificent facility with performance, instructional and practice spaces and a recording studio. Whether on the stage, in the recording studio, in the classroom or in the community, Branford Marsalis embodies a commitment to musical excellence and a determination to keep music at the forefront.
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PROGAM NOTES by Troy Peters
Bunch: Supermaximum
Kenji Bunch (born 1970) is one of the most widely performed American composers of his generation, recognized for blending exquisite craftsmanship with a broad stylistic palette. An accomplished violist, he also enjoys an active performing career. The Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music commissioned the original version of his Supermaximum for the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, which premiered the piece in 2011; Bunch expanded the instrumentation to create a full orchestra version in 2013. The composer writes: Supermaximum is inspired by the rich tradition of “chain gang” songs from the prison camps of the Depression-era South. With roots in West African folk song through generations of slavery and Jim Crow laws, this body of work serves as an example of an unlikely group of people resorting to art for spiritual and physical survival under the most hellish circumstances. The work begins with the unpitched rhythm of chain gang work—the swinging and clanging of axes and hammers—before the violas lead the call and response “singing.” Gradually, the music transcends the conditions of this harsh reality into an elevated, spiritual state of grace. The work comes full circle with a reiteration of the chain gang elements—but with a galvanized, hopeful resolve.
Glazunov: Saxophone Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 109
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) was an important Russian composer between the death of Tchaikovsky and the rise of the modern school of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich. He composed prolifically, conducted widely, and taught for many years at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Glazunov wrote his Saxophone Concerto, his last composition of note, for the German virtuoso Sigurd Rascher, who gave the premiere in 1934 in Sweden. Glazunov combines three contrasting movements (fast-slow-fast) into a single span of music, culminating in a spirited fugue in the style of a tarantella.
Schulhoff (orch. Bennett): Jazz Concerto (Hot Sonata)
Czech composer and pianist Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) unsuccessfully petitioned for Soviet citizenship in 1939 when the Nazis overran Czechoslovakia; Russia could not protect him. Because of Schulhoff’s Jewish heritage and his Communist politics, the Nazis interned him at a concentration camp at Wülzburg, Bavaria, where he died of tuberculosis. Two decades earlier, the influence of jazz had enlivened Schulhoff’s music throughout the 1920s. This culminated in his Hot Sonata of 1930, composed for saxophone and dance band, and later published for saxophone and piano. Because the composer’s original dance band score was lost, the English composer Richard Rodney Bennett created a new orchestration in 2002-2004. Like many of his contemporaries—Hindemith, Weill, Stravinsky, Ravel, and others—Schulhoff filtered the rhythms, harmonies, and phrasing of American jazz through the angular sensibility of European modernism to create a distinctive musical style.
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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Strauss: Serenade in E-flat major, Op. 7
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) had just turned seventeen when he composed his Serenade for 13 wind instruments in 1881. The son of one of Germany’s best horn players, Strauss was a prodigious talent who had already published a string quartet, a piano sonata, several shorter piano pieces, and an orchestral march. He would go on to become one of the most important composers of his generation, and many commentators consider this serenade his first mature work. The influence of Mozart and Mendelssohn is audible in this music, but it represents the young composer’s distillation of these influences into something remarkably original. The contour of the melodies is already characteristically “Straussian,” with moments of achingly beautiful lyricism that foreshadow his later works.
Elgar: “Enigma” Variations, Op. 36
On an October evening in 1898, after an exhausting day of teaching, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) relaxed by improvising at the piano. When his wife especially enjoyed one of his melodies, Elgar improvised variations on the tune, creating (mostly amusing) musical portraits of various friends. Over the next few months, one evening’s parlor game grew into an orchestral masterpiece, as the composer expanded and orchestrated the variations. Elgar later described the work that would make him famous as having been “commenced in a spirit of humor and continued in deep seriousness.” Elgar was in his forties when he finished the “Enigma” Variations, scraping together a living with long hours of teaching and hackwork for his publisher. On a lark, he sent the new score to the world-famous conductor Hans Richter, who surprised the composer by agreeing to introduce the work in London just a few months later. The premiere was a huge success, and Elgar was widely hailed as the greatest English composer in history. The “Enigma” Variations quickly became standard orchestral repertoire around the world, and Elgar was knighted by King Edward VII within five years. Elgar dedicated his “Enigma” Variations “to my friends pictured within,” and begins with the theme, followed by fourteen variations: Variation I (C.A.E.) is a loving portrait of his wife, Caroline Alice Elgar. Variation II (H.D.S-P.) depicts the rapid scales with which amateur pianist Hew David Steuart-Powell would warm up at the piano. Variation III (R.B.T.) imitates the bicycle bell and comic theatrical voice of Oxford professor Richard Baxter Townshend. Variation IV (W.M.B.) presents William Meath Baker making gruff announcements to his houseguests before slamming the door on his way out. Variation V (R.P.A.) is a portrait of Richard Penrose Arnold, whose regular juxtaposition of serious, thoughtful conversation with wit and jokes is audible. Variation VI (Ysobel) features the viola, the instrument played by Isabel Fitton. Variation VII (Troyte) good-naturedly mimics Arthur Troyte Griffith’s enthusiastic incompetence on the piano and might also depict a thunderstorm in which the friends were once caught.
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PROGAM NOTES (continued) Variation VIII (W.N.) evokes the stately home of Winifred Norbury, but also contains references to her charming laugh. Variation IX (Nimrod) salutes Elgar’s best friend, August Jaeger, remembering a time when Jaeger cheered up a depressed Elgar with a conversation about Beethoven. (“Nimrod” was not the insult it would come to be in the Bugs Bunny cartoons of later decades, but merely a reference to the Old Testament hunter and king; Jaeger is the German word for hunter.) Variation X (Dorabella) uses faltering woodwind rhythms to portray the slight stutter of Dora Penny. Variation XI (G.R.S.) describes the pet bulldog of George Robertson Sinclair, tumbling into the river and emerging, barking happily. Variation XII (B.G.N.) features the cello, the instrument played by Basil G. Nevinson. Elgar said that Variation XIII (* * *) depicted Lady Mary Lygon, whose journey by sea to Australia is depicted in timpani rolls that imitate the ship’s engine. Finally, Variation XIV (E.D.U.) is Elgar’s self-portrait, a heroic finale that also includes references to earlier variations.
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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. Brenda Johnson, YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor Brenda Johnson is orchestra director at Hector Garcia Middle School (Northside ISD), where she opened the school as founding conductor of the Gladiator Orchestra program. 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 Majorie Keller Young Music Educator’s Award from the American String Teacher Association 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 Association. 24
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS 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 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 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
Joseph Guzek
Sophia Sanchez
Winston Churchill High School
Arianna Jefferson
Harrison Schumann
Brian Kang
Claire Thornton
Victoria Klaunig
Wesley Tiong
Mika Kochheiser
Corry Tu
Benita Lee
Isaac Villaroya
Dora Cheng concertmaster
Kathleen Ran assistant concertmaster Health Careers High School
Emily Averyt principal second violin Saint Mary’s Hall
Victoria Acuña
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
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
Andrea Brun
Ronald Reagan High School
Ronald Reagan High School
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
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
Miranda Cole
Topiltzin Perez
John Marshall High School
Luis Gutierrez Fonseca
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
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
John Marshall High School
Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)
Dominik Peña
Alyse Gonzalez
Health Careers High School
Deborah Olivier
Ryan Cao
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
John Marshall High School
St. Anthony Catholic High School
Daniel Brun
Health Careers High School
San Antonio Christian Schools
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Isabelle Pacheco
San Antonio College
Saint Mary’s Hall
John Marshall High School
John Marshall High School
Home School
Kathleen Ran
Health Careers High School
Emilienne Riopel
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Wilmer Rodriguez Judson High School
Cristian Aguirre Bailey Boyen
Health Careers High School
Juliet DeNapoli
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
David Irizarry Home School
Rachel Jones Home School
Alyssa Peña
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Andrew Piña
Thomas C. Clark High School
Emma Reynolds
Winston Churchill High School
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Philharmonic
Troy Peters, Music Director
Isaac Schutz
BASS
Natalie Morales
Kevin Valdez
University of Texas at San Antonio
Hampton Rattan
STEM Academy -- Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Academy
John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)
Jesus Zendejo
Douglas MacArthur High School
Christopher Osborn principal Albert Coleman
Thomas C. Clark High School
Quynten Grove
Byron P. Steele II High School
CELLO
Alejandro Juul
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Alexandra Krick
Isabel Tweraser principal
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
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Minji Kim
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
Astrid Topletz
Ronald Reagan High School
Victoria Valdez
Grace Christian School
Saint Mary’s Hall
Alamo Heights High School
Kyle Krieger
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Hannah McCullough
Smithson Valley High School
Byron P. Steele II High School
BASSOON
Nicholas Fitch Tivy High School
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
Tivy High School
HORN
Michael Sagor
Ronald Reagan High School
William J. Brennan High School
Niklas Siebert
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
FLUTE
Alaina Blue
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Nnamdi Odita-Honnah
Eric Bassett
Benjamin Hanysz
Robert E. Lee High School
Derek Timmons
Medina Valley High School
Kevin Yang
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Louis D. Brandeis High School
TRUMPET
Paula Wilson
Judson High School
Judson High School
OBOE
Kailey Lopez
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Reagan Merrill
James Madison High School
Michael Tijerina
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
CLARINET
Jenna Gaulden
Dylan Frazier
Jonathan Fritzlen
Ronald Reagan High School
Bradley Kent
Ronald Reagan High School
TROMBONE Nat Hsu
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Nicholas Moppin Canyon High School
Winston Churchill High School
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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 (Lee H.S.)
Judson High School
Keve Bordas Keystone School
Scott Rogers
Judson High School
Dominic Walsh
Central Catholic High School
ORGAN
Cheryl Cellon Lindquist
Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor Audria Fogarty-Ramirez
Abigail Slaughter
Anne Gao
Enoch Szeto
McKenna Mosely assistant concertmaster
Hannah Garcia
Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)
Laura Tapley
William P. Hobby Middle 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
Ronald Reagan High School
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Douglas MacArthur High School
Ana Hernandez Quiros Ronald Reagan High School
Rebekah Jones Home School
Victoria Juarez
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Natalie Meissler Home School
Savanna Moore
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Nicole Perez
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Avery Robinson
Home School
STEM Academy -- Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Academy
Deja Dorrough
Abiud Rodriguez
Karen Wagner High School
Zoe Espinoza-Kochheiser Theodore Roosevelt High School
John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)
David Saucedo
Earl Warren High School
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help School
Thomas C. Clark High School
Home School
Victoria Villarreal
Samuel Clemens High School
VIOLA
Jalie-Ann Cummings principal
Judson Early College Academy
Imaya Farrell
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Jodei Pasasadaba
Ronald Reagan High School
Natalie Perez
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Michelle Richardson
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Joshua Rodriguez Judson High School
Kiana Williamson
James Madison High School
CELLO
Katelyn Petersen principal
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS
Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor Millie Camp
BASS
Bailey Nicolson
Sophie Deahl
Ronald Reagan High School
CLARINET
Samuel Becvar
Health Careers 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
Elisabeth Wang
Providence High School
David Zamarripa
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Blanka Bordas
Pearl Fernandes
Judson Early College Academy
BASSOON
Michael Chapa Wagner High School
Jared Worman
Jacob Resendez
Winston Churchill High School
Walter Krueger Middle School
Rhiannon Villarreal
James Madison High School
HORN
Ethan Gurwitz
FLUTE
Rebekah Taylor Home School
Winston Churchill High School
Hailey Schmidt
Randolph Middle School
OBOE
Sara Morales
William H. Taft High School
Symphonic Winds
Dr. John Zarco, Conductor
FLUTE
OBOE
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Christina Cardenas
Jasmine Perez
Eunice Chung
Joshua Roper
Gail Fernandes
Nathalie Vela Karen Wagner High School
Zia Kim
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
CLARINET
Ashley Ventrella
Canyon Lake High School
Smithson Valley Middle School
Judson Early College Academy
William J. Brennan High School
Kierstin Wilkins
First Baptist Academy of Universal City
Dustin Gonzales Simon Gonzales
Garrett Snowden
Smithson Valley High School
Mandy Whitaker
George West High School
Alejandro Yanez
Theodore Roosevelt High School
BASSOON
Emmali Ouderkirk
Byron P. Steele II High School
Austin Perry
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
John Paul Stevens High School
Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)
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Symphonic Winds
Dr. John Zarco, Conductor
ALTO SAXOPHONE
TRUMPET
TUBA
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Byron P. Steele II High School
Aldo Aguilar
Ian Aigner-Varoz
Torda Bordas
Coke R. Stevenson Middle School
Brennen Bishop
Xavier Alexander
Maxwell Harrison
Zachary Gilbertson
University of Texas at San Antonio
TENOR SAXOPHONE
Katherine Stinson Middle School
Cody Myre
Joshua Jalomo
Byron P. Steele II High School
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
BARITONE SAXOPHONE Eric Moeller James King
Engineering and Technologies Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)
Isaiah Aguilar Aidan Alcocer
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Caleb Keller
Harlandale High School
Miranda Nydegger
Antonian College Preparatory
PERCUSSION Anna Ayres
Providence College Preparatory School for Girls
Chukwudi Odita-Honnah
Ty Gonzales-Graves
Donovan Soza
Danielle Morales
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Roy D. Corbett Junior High School
Judson High School
Geneva School of Boerne
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
HORN
Shukria Al-Araibi
TROMBONE
Marco Alvarado
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Smithson Valley High School
Colton Noles
William J. Brennan High School
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Angel Rivera-Hernandez Briscoe Middle School
Home School
Flute Choir FLUTE
Antonio Jasiczek
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Quentin Johnston Home School
Emily Kuppers
St. Pius X Catholic School
Martha Long, Conductor Emily Lawitz
Tonda Turner
Eliana Olivier
Samantha Villarreal
Julia Roensch
Tyrece Williams
Home School
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Alamo Heights Junior School
Rebekah Taylor Home School
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Alamo Heights Junior School
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Robert E. Lee High School
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS
Concertino Strings
Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor
VIOLIN
Seva Joshi
Parker Baillon
Woodlake Hills Middle School
Victoria Kim
Lindee Fiedler
Linda Liu assistant concertmaster
Julia Lavergne
CELLO
Elijah Gonzalez concertmaster
Keystone School Basis Charter School
Dolph Briscoe Middle School Boerne High School
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Earl Warren High School
Eve Poindexter principal second violin
Tara Mosely
Simon Phoa principal
William P. Hobby Middle School
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Mariana Navarro
Giuliano Bucheli
James Madison High School
Barbara Bush Middle School
Adam Nix
Victoria Day
Great Hearts San Antonio
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Brianna Pendry
Britney Ericson
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Douglas MacArthur High School
Ethan Poidevin
Mia Flowers
Basis Charter School
Smithson Valley Middle School
Rahul Rajesh
Noah Hernandez
Health Careers High School
Elanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy
Natalie Rodriguez
Serena Kallead
Health Careers High School
William J. Brennan High School
Miaoyin Rojas
Rachel Taylor
Judson High School
William J. Brennan High School
Emily Seddighzadeh
Alejandra Wagnon
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Gregory Luna Middle School
Everardo Sifuentes
Avery Wilson
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
William H. Taft High School
Sankya Srinivasan
Elaine Zhang
Ruth Toth
BASS
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Matthew Anderson
Ed Rawlinson Middle School
Anna Claire Beasley Medina Valley High School
Benjamin Bendele Home School
Samuel Bentz Home School
Rema Bhat
Basis Charter School
Samantha Geri Cirineo Earl Rudder Middle School
Josie Decherd
Basis Charter School
Sofia Follman
Providence High School
Paulina Garcia
The Atonement Academy
Natalie Gifford
Winston Churchill High School
Camilla Guel
Basis Charter School
Sofia Hernandez
Incarnate Word High School
Angelina Hinojosa
Frank Tejeda Middle School
Georgeanna Hoey
Smithson Valley High School
Diana Hubbard
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Keystone School
Cornerstone Christian School
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Samantha Woods
Javier Hernandez principal
Calvary Baptist Academy
Saint Mary’s Hall
Wentao Yang
Blaine Bryan
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Winston Churchill High School
Taylor (Taein) Yoon
Andrew Butts
Blattman Elementary School
VIOLA
Andrew Kang principal
Alamo Heights High School
Avery Rogers
Boerne High School
Monroe May Elementary
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Sinfonietta Strings VIOLIN
Donnel Zhu concertmaster
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Katie Chong assistant concertmaster San Antonio Christian Schools
Andrea Reyes principal second violin
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
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
Jillian Griffis
Leon Valley Christian Academy
Grace Hende
Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)
Anirudha Reddy Karla Keystone School
Kaitlyn Kelly
Woodlake Hills Middle School
Christina Marie Martinez
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Joseph Albert Martinez
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Alicia McNulty
Providence High School
Hunter Messick
Katherine Stinson Middle School
Brenda Johnson, Conductor
David Miller
Jashea Hollis
Alex Navarro
Marissa Howard
Rebecca Neely
Amy Wang
Andrea Negro
CELLO
Jack C. Jordan Middle School
St. Pius X Catholic School
Barbara Bush Middle School
School of Science and Technology – Discovery
Carlos Nieto
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Samantha Olvera Judson Middle School
Natasha Pfeiffer
John B. Connally Middle School
Phillippe Riopel
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Emiliano Zendejo principal
John Garner Middle School
Katia Amori
Barbara Bush Middle School
Bianca Castillo
Frank Tejeda Middle School
Sydni-Simone Dukes
Valley Hi Elementary School
Virginia Allred Stacey Junior Senior High
Zakary Rodriguez
Julia Gutierrez
Jackson Rogler
Gayle Hende
Marciano Ross
Madeline Hoyle
Alec Sanchez
Madelyn Jarvis Johnston
Kelsey Smith
Valerie Jones
Alex Sobotker
Darius Keeffe
Willa White
Alexander Lomeli-Azoubel
Nathan Winfrey
Randy Resendez
Home School
Ed Rawlinson Middle School
Gregory Luna Middle School
Byron P. Steele II High School
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Home School
Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School
Great Hearts Monte Vista
VIOLA
Ruben Andrade principal
Robert L. Vale Middle School
Mikayla Acosta
Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)
Sophia Choe
Basis Charter School
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J. Frank Dobie Junior High School
Byron P. Steele II High School
Clara Driscoll Middle School
St. George Episcopal School
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Home School
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Frank Tejeda Middle School
Ronald Reagan High School
Aubrie Rettmann
J. Frank Dobie Junior High School
Tony Rodriguez
Ed Rawlinson Middle School
Lillian Roe
Seguin High School
Lulu Whitmore
Alamo Heights Junior School
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS
Sinfonietta Strings BASS
Zachary Zimmerman principal Bradley Middle School
Clayton Boyer
Currington Elementary
Raine Esparza
Basis Charter 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
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
Bernal Middle School
Itzel Galan
Basis Charter School
Robyn Gerry
Basis Charter School
Samuel Godoy
Earl Rudder Middle School
Brenda Johnson, Conductor
Jonathan Raveneau, Conductor
Jaime Gonzalez
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Trier Hodge
Roy D. Corbett Junior High School
Sarah Hubbard
Ed Rawlinson Middle School
Sophia Irizarry Home School
Alexia Johnson
J. Frank Dobie Junior High School
Colin Johnson
Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School
Victoria Jones Home School
Caitlin Kuhlman
Zoe Reyna
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
Robert G. Cole Middle School
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Eva Lizarraga
Nicholas Langston-Keathley
Great Hearts San Antonio
Ed Rawlinson Middle School
Diego Manrique
Gabriella Rodriguez Sanchez
Texas Virtual Academy
Edward H. White Middle School
Faith Mueller
CELLO
Home School
Carly Munoz
William P. Hobby Middle School
Isabel Oxford Keystone School
Alyson Park
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Odelia Pena-Pathan
Robert L. Vale Middle School
Andrew Perez Keystone School
Viviana Peters Home School
Victoria Abascal
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Evan Aranda
Walter Krueger Middle School
Kevin Black
St. George Episcopal School
Mary Candland Basis Charter School
Karina De La Torre
Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)
Amber Guerra
Judson Middle School
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Capriccio Strings
Jonathan Raveneau, Conductor
Basis Charter School
William P. Hobby Middle School
Connor Sparks
BASS
Rebeka Jones
Timothy Watkins
Barbara Bush Middle School
Conner Lindley
Derek Xu
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
William Huang
Home School
Dr. Bernard Harris Middle School
Great Hearts San Antonio
Alexandra Balfour Austin Campos
The Atonement Academy
Angelina Miller
Jack C. Jordan Middle 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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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
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
BOARD OF DIRECTORS FACULTY
ADMINISTRATION
John Frederick, Ph.D.
Troy Peters
Brandon Henson
Carl Leafstedt, Ph.D.
Kenneth Freudigman
Brittany Sharnsky
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
Brenda Johnson
YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor
Jonathan Raveneau
Kenneth Bloom, M.D.
YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor
Tony Campbell
Jacobi Caldwell
Magaly Chocano Nancy Halvorson Katie DeBauche John Lewis, Ph.D. Paul Oroian Karen Perretta Jeffrey Walsh Benjamin Westney
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
Operations Assistant
Alfonso Gonzales Bookkeeper
Kathleen Messina Office Coordinator
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS
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 David Dawson, bass Sixto Elizondo, violin Emily Freudigman, viola Ignacio Gallego, cello Jill Van Gee, viola Karen George, violin Mary Ellen Goree, violin Morgen Johnson, cello Ryan Murphy, cello Bassam Nashawati, violin Mark Nugent, cello Teresa Nguyen, viola Dr. Kristen Pellegrino, violin Julie Post, violin Mylyn Grace Ramos, violin
Zlatan Redzic, bass Martin Sanchez, bass Sarah Silver, violin Eric Siu, violin Stacey Storer, violin Darryl Tolliver, viola Aimee Toomes, violin Christina Trongone, violin Steve Zeserman, bass
Woodwinds
Mark Ackerman, oboe Jennifer Berg, oboe Dr. Rita Linard, flute Martha Long, flute Sharon Kuster, bassoon Jean Robinson, flute
Brass
Lee Hipp, tuba Martin McCain, trombone Molly Norcross, horn Brian Santero, trumpet Matthew Vangjel, trumpet
Percussion
Riely Francis Genaro Gonzalez Bill Patterson
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER 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, 2014 through January 15, 2015. 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 Culture and Creative Development Kronkosky Charitable Foundation Composers Anonymous Rackspace Foundation/RSF Endowment Star Performers H-E-B Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust Valero Energy Foundation Maestros A.C.F.E.A. Tour Consultants H-E-B Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oroian The Genevieve and Ward Orsinger Foundation Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts Shield-Ayres Foundation Texas Commission on the Arts The USAA Foundation, Inc. Zachry Foundation
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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Concertmasters
Rev. John Lewis & Ms. Pat Bridwell The Columbus Foundation John H. Frederick and Mimi W. Yu Marcia and Otto Koehler Foundation Ms. Elizabeth M. Lorenz and Mr. Rick Ramos Mr. & Mrs. John McCullough The Mirza Trust The Harris K. & Lois G. Oppenheimer Foundation Donald Oroian Oroian, Guest & Little, P.C. Anne and Troy Peters Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Sanders St. Mark’s Episcopal Church theFund Mr. Bruce I Topletz and Ms. Cristina Chial Traveling Blender, Llc University of North Texas Via Metropolitan Transit Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Waller Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Walsh
Principal Chairs
Mr. Steven Bankler, CPA Ms. Kris Brehm Mr. Edward E. (Sonny) Collins III Ms. Kathleen Doria & Mr. Ruben Silva Mr. and Mrs. Paul Halvorson Mr. Reid Hartson iHeart Realty Mr. John S. Jockusch Mr. Woodson Jones Dr. and Mrs. Carl Leafstedt Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur L. Matthews, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Timothy Owens Mr. and Mrs. Rob Rodriguez Ms. Louise Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Marshall T. Steves, Jr. Mollie Steves Zachry Fund of YOSA Endowment Fund Woodson Jones
Section Sponsors
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An intermezzo in one act Music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Libretto by Enrico Golisciani Sung in Italian with projected English translations
Libretto by Jean Cocteau, based on his play of the same name Music by Francis Poulenc Sung in French with projected English translations
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