MS YO
M A R I N SY M P H ONY Y O U T H O R C H E S T R A ANN KRINITSKY | MUS IC DIRECTOR
Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra Winter Concert, December 2 013
SPRING CONCERT M ARIN SYM P H O N Y YO U T H ORCHESTRA Ann Krinitsky, conductor
Sunday, May 11, 2 014 7:00 p.m.
College of Marin James Dunn Performing Arts Theatre mar insymphony.org
VIOLIN I Ty Loft, concertmaster David Sohn, assistant concertmaster Lainie Johnston Lianne Pearce Stephanie Oh Hanah Rolf Annika Williams Megan Amaglio Danelia Changeux Katya Schane Christopher Giddings Maya Nesbitt-Schnadt VIOLIN II Douglas Wei, principal Maya Schane Clark Chung Katy Wearing Christian Li Katherine Podoll Talya Klinger Priana Aquino Yuma Overturf Madeleine Reeds Ivan Liang Mason Weems Michelle Verghese VIOLA Chelsea Coppock, principal Carissa Comnick Nick Forester Taylor Kong Nathan Smith Karla Garcia Robert Moir
CELLO Hana Dahl, principal Euan Shields Aurora Schunemann Willa Nagy Michelle Ruttimann Riley Lyman BASS James Lehmann Kenzie Ryan FLUTE Naomi Ferrell Jeremy Goldwasser Shiriel King Abramson Jaimme Lee Eva Wang Grace Won CLARINET Jack Conklin William McAfee Jackson Waner BASSOON Colin McAfee Karl Tietze*
HORN Annalisa Blackadar Heidi Trefethen* Janis Lieberman* Diane Ryan* TRUMPET Satya Karri Laurent Kleinheinz Brendan Wilhelmsen Noah Wheeler Alana Zaleski TROMBONE Tiffany Devlin Max Perkoff* Julie King* TUBA Trevor Bjorklund* HARP Anna Lorenz* PERCUSSION Avi Perkoff Liam Wallace
*guests Manager, Associate Conductor Andrei Gorchov Are you interested in becoming a member of one of our youth orchestras? Auditions for the Marin Symphony Youth Programs 2 014 -15 Season will be held at College of Marin on August 30 & 31, and September 6 & 7, 2014. Register online at marinsymphony.org… click on the “Youth” tab and go to “2 014 -15 Youth Auditions.”
MS YO
M A R I N SY M P H ONY Y O U T H O R C H E S T R A ANN KRINITSKY | MUS IC DIRECTOR
Sunday, May 11, 2 014, 7:00 p.m.
MARIN SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA SPRING CONCER T Ann Krinitsky, conductor PROGRAM Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave) –Andrei Gorchov, conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto No. 4 for Violin in D Major, 1st movement (Allegro) –Lainie Johnston, violin Paul Hindemith: Geschwindmarsch –Mike Martinez, conductor Emmanuel Chabrier: España INTERMISSION Pietro Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavelleria Rusticana Jean Sibelius: Concerto for Violin in D minor, 2nd movement (Adagio) –David Sohn, violin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Flute in D Major, 1st movement (Allegro aperto) –Jaimme Lee, flute Alexander Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from “Prince Igor”
Ann Krinitsky is Director of the Marin Symphony Youth Performance programs, conducts the Marin Symphony’s Family Concerts and the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra. As Music Director of the Virtuoso Program at San Domenico School, she conducts the award-winning Orchestra da Camera. A frequent guest conductor with the Honolulu Symphony, she led community and educational concerts on Oahu as well as on tour to the neighbor islands of Hawaii and Kauai. Ann has conducted Ballet Hawaii’s Nutcracker since 2008 and has directed the string orchestra at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival for two summers. In the Bay Area, she has held the posts of Interim Director of Orchestras at Stanford University; Music Director of the Nova Vista Symphony, Palo Alto Philharmonic, the Berkeley Youth and Community Women’s
Orchestras; Conductor of the Acalanes Chamber Orchestra; and Assistant Conductor of the Pacific Mozart Ensemble. She has also served on the faculty at Laney College in Oakland and as Conductor of the Chautauqua Summer Camp Orchestra in western New York. She has guest conducted the Maui Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Chamber Music Hawaii, the Women’s Philharmonic, the Camellia Symphony, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, the Marin Chamber Orchestra, and the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra.
Mike Martinez is Director of Music at Adeline E. Kent Middle School, Kentfield, Instrumental Conductor at Arrowbear Music Camp, and Vice President of the Marin Music Educators Association. He is also a Wind Coach and Conductor with the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra, and an arranger, composer and baritone saxophonist with San Francisco based Soul/R&B group, Baby & the Luvies. Mike has a B.M. Music Education degree from San Francisco State University, and graduated with honors.
Thanks to our private teachers... Allen Biggs Allegra Chapman Andrei Gorchov Anne Lerner-Wright Art Austin Betty Musser Bonnie Rasmussen Brenda Schuman-Post Carol Caywood Cathryn Lee Chanmi Lim Charmian Stewart Claudia Campazzo Craig Reiss Dan Kristianson Dana Phillips David Horn Davis Law Dennie Mehocich Doris Fukawa Ellen Pesavento
Eugene Chuklov Jan Bogart Jane Lenoir John Mattern John Sadler Jonathan Knight Julie Mellon Kathy Marshall Katie Butler Katie Dennis Leslie Berrios Liz Matthews Mariko Smiley Mark Culbertson Mary Pitchford Matt Eakle Meg Eldridge Michael Grossman Mick Berry Ming Xue Miranda Kincaid
Miriam Perkoff Moses Sedler Nick Knowles Patricia Miner Pete Estrabrook Phoebe Dong Rachel Noyes Walker Radhika Miller Rimma Medvedeveh Robert Howard Roy Zajac Sergei Riabchenko Shaina Evoniuk Steve Bergman Steve Gardner Steve Salgo Tran Nguyen Wendy Loder William Holmes Zaven Melikian
Lainie Johnston a senior at Tamalpais High School, started playing the violin at the age of four with the San Francisco Music Studio. This is her first year in the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra. She is the concertmistress of her high school orchestra and traveled to New York City to compete alongside them in the Heritage Music Festival. They won a gold ranking and she personally was one of seven to achieve the Maestro Award out of 2,000 fellow musicians. Lainie has been dancing at Happy Feet Dance Studio for 15 years, was on the varsity girls’ tennis team for three years at her high school, and has volunteered at the Marine Mammal Center since her sophomore year. After graduation from high school, she plans to attend Occidental College with a major in Biology with an emphasis in Marine Biology.
David Sohn is currently a senior at Sir Francis Drake High School. He has participated in MSYO for the last five years while serving as an assistant
principal for two years. David has taught violin to over 20 students including this year’s Nancy Scott and Richard Judge Scholarship 1st place winners. Outside of the symphonic genre, David also is involved in Rock band, Jazz band and producing. After high school graduation, David plans to attend Penn State where he will study International Politics.
Jaimme Lee a senior at San Marin High School, has been playing flute since the sixth grade when she saw a performance by a family friend and fell in love with the instrument. She has been playing ever since and studies with Jane Lenoir. Jaimme has been a member of the Marin Symphony Youth Programs for five years, starting in Crescendo and then MSYO. She has participated in her school bands playing not only the flute but also saxophone. Jaimme is also the leader of the Rafael Ensemble, a community service based group that plays at rest homes and various functions. This performance will be her first solo with an orchestra. Jaimme will be attending UCLA next fall and hopes to continue playing the flute and participating in music.
Special thank you to: Trevor Bjorklund, Joanna Pinckney and the College of Marin Music Department. Set-up Assistants Kathy Franks and Alejandra Changeux. Alasdair Neale, Jenny Douglass, Renee Froman, Elizabeth Prior, Elizabeth Seaman, Erica Posner, Jeff vom Saal, Peter Rodgers, Marty Eshoff, Laura Cooper, Maria Marciales, Christine Aguilar, Angela Colombo and the Marin Symphony, Christian Dean and the Magic Flute, Jonnette Newton and the Martin Luther King Jr. Academy. Instrumental Coaches: Kathy Marshall, Joyce Lee, David Horn, Christina Wong, Dan Kristianson, Anne Lerner-Wright, Timothy Zieminsky, Max Perkoff, Mike Martinez. Glenn Cardon and Bandwagon Media Services, Judy Kirschner and Skywalker Sound, Rob DeNunzio and the San Domenico School. All of our private instrumental teachers, school music directors, and supporting parents and families.