VIRTUAL BENEFIT CONCERT PROGRAM AUG 18, 2020 | 8 PM EST
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PROGRAM ORDER Fanfare for Hope .................................................... James Chris
Estrellita
McAffrey LeDoux
Kim
Elizabeth
(Trumpet)
Manuel
Choe
(Piano)
Takatsugu
Guerra
(Double
Duchess of Devonshire's Reel
exc.
Claire
Yoo
(Violin)
Stella
Cha
(Viola)
from
Deep River
Greenlee
...............................
....... Samuel
Yu
Elizabeth
Gina
Lu
Ignatius
Coleridge-Taylor
Maud
Samuel
Sancho
Powell
Gonzaga
Coleridge-Taylor
(Piano)
Gravagne
James
Estrada
(Violin) Yang
A Short Breath in an Intermittent World
Max
arr.
(Clarinet)
............................................
Tienne
Noel
Bass)
Clarinet Quintet in F# minor
Najee
Muramatsu
(Marimba)
En Mi Viejo San Juan................................................ Abimelec
Ponce
(Violin) Yang
Land .......................................................... Glenn
Vinson
(Trumpet)
..............................................................
Bryan
Jaylin
McAffrey (Piano
+
(Viola) (Trumpet) Composition)
.............................
Max
Lu
Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Allemande + Courante......... Jacqueline
Balada
Guo
Kim
Catie
Thai
Francisca
“Chiquinha”
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Sadiel
Gina
Jordan Igbo
(Viola) (Cello)
.................................................
Claire
Yoo
(Violin)
Stella
Cha
(Viola)
Ignatius
En Foret ............................................................... Keneil
Soni
Chocolate Drops
(French
Thai
Bryan
Kim
(Violin) (Violin)
Eugene
Sancho
Bozza
Horn)
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Catie
Vinson
(Violin)
Gravagne
Le Vieux Garcon
Jaylin
(Violin)
Gravagne
Lydia
Cuentas
(Violin)
Sparkle! ................................................................
Samuel
Gonzaga
(Violin)
Muñoz
Dante
Bach
(Violin)
Dolce from Cuatro Fugas Luis
S.
(Marimba)
.........................................
Bryan
J.
Will
Marion
Cooks
PROGRAM NOTES Fanfare for Hope Jaylin
Vinson
Fanfare for Hope is an energetic duet highlighting the uplifting timbres that trumpets are able to produce, and acts as a reminder to hope for what’s to come. Few things are in our control, so it is imperative to embrace everything one does have agency over. It is wonderful that we have the mental capacity to take any situation and choose the l e n s i n w h i c h w e v i e w i t , c r e a t i n g a d r a s t i c a l l y d i f f e r e n t n a r r a t i v e f r o m t h e s a m e e v e n t s . Wh i l e l i s t e n i n g , p i c t u r e yourself in a universe of possibility, and allow hope to be your driving force.
Estrellita Manuel
Ponce
Manuel Ponce revolutionized classical music in Mexico. Born during the early Modernist Era and greatly influenced by both French Impressionism and Neoclassicism, Ponce composed hundreds of works ranging from folk song arrangements to piano concerti. In 1912, he wrote Estrellita (“My Little Star”) for voice, which quickly became his most famous work. Eleven years later, renowned violinist Jascha Heifetz arranged Estrellita for violin and piano, incorporating various techniques to maintain the romantic essence of Ponce’s original composition. The warm vibrato and bowing patterns come together to mimic the depth of the human voice, while the high passages express the passionate yet painful agony of unrequited love.
Land Takatsugu
Muramatsu
"Land" was commissioned by Momoko Kamiya for her project Pieces of Peace. The title inspires itself from the imagery of vast amounts of open space, as if looking down upon a very open, peaceful field. Today it stands as a testimony to just how lyrical and expressive a marimba can sound.
En Mi Viejo San Juan Noel
Estrada
En mi Viejo San Juan was written in 1942 for Estrada's brother, who had been deployed to Panama during World War II and was feeling a deep nostalgia for his motherland, Puerto Rico. The song has now become an anthem of Puerto Rican emigration to New York, and together with La Borinqueña and Preciosa, "En mi Viejo San Juan" is considered a national anthem by many Puerto Ricans, especially those who live across the world.
Duchess of Devonshire's Reel, Le Vieux Garçon Ignatius
Sancho
Ignatius Sancho was a brilliant composer as well as a social reformer in the 18th century. Though his work as a composer is often largely overshadowed by his espilatory writings of the African Slave Trade, his contributions as the first recorded black man to publish music are significant in understanding the origins of a classical tradition among black musicians in the Western world. Written in the miniature classical style, as was fashionable at the time, Sancho’s “Minuets, Cotillons, and Country Dances” were published anonymously in 1767 and rose to fame gradually alongside his groundbreaking letters after his death. “Le Vieux Garcon” and “The Duchess of Devonshire’s Reel,” two of the works in this collection, are short, lively pieces.
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from
Samuel
Clarinet Quintet in F# minor
Coleridge-Taylor
"The composition of Coleridge-Taylor's clarinet quintet was prompted by a comment made by Charles Villiers Stanford saying that no clarinet quintet made after the one composed by Brahms would be without his influence. Coleridge-Taylor took this as a challenge and wrote a masterpiece. The second movement, larghetto affettuoso, opens with a tender, folk-like melody. The final return of the principal theme is absolutely beautiful and a joy to play as well." -Hyperion Records, UK
Deep River Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor
arr.
Maud
Powell
Well-acclaimed British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a pioneer of African American folk music throughout the 20th century. His diverse collection of works consists of orchestral ballads, chamber music, choral works, solos, and incidental music, all immensely influenced by both traditional African tunes and composers such as Dvorak, Grieg, and Tchaikovsky. His choral trilogy, The Song of Hiawatha (1898-1900), quickly became a worldwide sensation, giving him widespread prominence in the world of classical music. In 1905, ColeridgeTaylor composed the 24 Negro Melodies, writing in its preface: “What Brahms has done for the Hungarian folk music, Dvorak for the Bohemian, and Grieg for the Norwegian, I have tried to do for these Negro Melodies.” “Deep River,” arguably one of the most well known pieces of this series, stems from a pre-Civil War African American spiritual of the same name. Stating “deep river….my home is over Jordan….deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into campground,” this spiritual embodies a hope for a better future and encapsulates a longing feeling for freedom.
A Short Breath in an Intermittent World Max
Lu
Written for a trio of trumpet, viola, and piano plus electronics, “a short breath in an intermittent world” is a piece born out of chaos. The world around us is enveloped by trauma: a push for social justice, a global pandemic, and general unrest. Surrounded by uncertainty in this rapidly evolving world, it is valuable to take a step back and breathe. For just a second, to breathe and remember who you are; to remember how small we are in the context of the vast world. To create a small, intermittent world for yourself, in which you look only to yourself and you let everything else disappear.
This music was born out of my own mental world, in which I took a step back to look within - the anger, the stillness, the passion - the strange, intermittent world that lives inside our subconscious minds.
In this self-reflection, the long, ringing chords and breath tones are written. In the anger within, tense, dissonant lines interact with extended techniques and sounds. In the marvels of sentience and self-awareness, harmony is built using stacked fourths and fifths, referencing the beginnings of harmony as a musical concept. Addressing the physical world, the harmonic overtone series is explored, and addressing the breaking of boundaries, microtonality is used. And in the background, an electronic track is used to create a psychedelic, otherworldly atmosphere mirroring the subconscious world.
“a short breath in an intermittent world” was created as I took a step back to look within. While listening, I encourage you to do the same.
Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major Allemande, Courante J.
S.
Bach
The history of Bach’s cello suites continue to be disputed, but we know they were mostly unknown until the 1900s, when Catalan cellist Pablo Casals began studying them after finding the manuscripts in a thrift shop. Today, they are some of the most widely played and recognized pieces of classical music.
The Allemande, following the Prelude, is a German dance with compulsive phrases and lively melodic structures, while the Courante, another dance, incorporates more energetic rhythms and harmonies. Throughout the piece, Bach contrasts the more “excited” eighth note rhythms with the slurred sixteenths notes, solidifying both the rhythmic structures and the vibrant motions of the piece.
Balada Francisca
“Chiquinha”
Gonzaga
Francisca "Chinquinha" Gonzaga was a Brazilian composer and pianist. After entering an arranged marriage at 16, she divorced her husband to pursue music professionally, and despite being a woman in a predominantly male industry, Gonzaga was able to find success in her musical career. She composed thousands of works, incorporating jazz, waltz, polka, and Afro-Brazilian styles into them. Gonzaga became the very first female composer, conductor, and music teacher in Brazil, and her compositions were popular among the public. Today, Gonzaga is one of Brazil’s most celebrated musicians.
Dolce from Cuatro Fugas para Violín Sadiel
Cuentas
Sadiel Cuentas was born in 1973 to a newly democratic but turbulent Peru—the country faced steep economic hardship and violent conflicts from rebel groups in the 1980s and 1990s, resulting in thousands of deaths. In 2014, Cuentas’ violin concerto, dedicated to the victims of terrorism from this era, was premiered by Carlos Johnson and the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. Though some of his other works had received rewards and honorable mentions, his violin concerto gave him national recognition, and since then, the National Ministry of Culture has commissioned two pieces incorporating traditional Peruvian elements from him. He currently teaches at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences.
Sparkle! Jaylin
Vinson
Sparkle! was an attempt at both exposing the shimmery colors of a string quartet and compiling some of my favorite textures that ask for sonic exuberance from a string quartet. Including folk-like melodies and irregular time signatures, the piece perpetually accelerates, pointing to a final checkpoint of dynamic bombasity until it is drawn back to a calm and familiar place, eventually tapering into silence. Only the overtones remain as an afterthought. Needless to say, this exciting chamber work truly allows the musicians and their playing to sparkle!
En Foret Eugene
Bozza
Bozza was a French composer and violinist, and remains one of the most prolific composers of chamber music for wind instruments. He wrote En Foret as a solo horn composition for the Paris Conservatory in 1941 and used it as a way to evaluate graduates at the Paris conservatory. Because it highlights the technical abilities of the performer, requiring great flexibility, fast tonguing, and command of the extremes of the horn’s range and includes many advanced techniques in his piece (lip trills, hand stopping, and glissandi) this composition often appears on competition lists.
Chocolate Drops Will
Marion
Cooks
Will Marion Cook was an African-American composer, conductor, and violinist. One of the most important figures in pre-jazz African-American music, Cook composed a wide range of works, from instrumental pieces to musical theater, and after studying under composer Antonin Dvorak, Cook was inspired to incorporate aspects of AfricanAmerican culture into his compositions, including traditional Negro spirituals and Black dialect. Cook gained immense popularity and had his works featured on notable stages such as Broadway and Carnegie Hall, and also became the first Black man to conduct a white theater orchestra. The combination of liveliness and classical complexity in Cook’s music served as a precursor to jazz, influencing a generation of African-American musicians including jazz musician and composer Duke Ellington.
MUSICIAN BIOS Bryan Kim is a 16 year old
Jacqueline Guo is a 15
violinist at Blacksburg
year old percussionist at
High School. He began his
Basis Independent in San
musical career at age 5
Jose, California.
when much to his parents’
Starting her music journey
shock- he played Sesame
on a small glockenspiel and
Street songs on a toy
drumpad at the age of 4,
violin. Bryan is a
she grew up playing and
nationally recognized
performing in her chamber
violinist, debuting as a
group as well as other
soloist at Carnegie Hall
percussion ensembles while
multiple times from age 8.
exploring various
He has also made
percussion instruments
ppearances as a guest soloist with the Youth
along the way. Additional to NYO2, she's had the
Orchestras of Central Virginia, Old Dominion
opportunity to play with the CASMEC Wind
University Symphony Orchestra, Renaissance
Symphony and NCBA Honor Band, and outside of
Music Academy Chamber Orchestra, and the
playing percussion, Jacqueline enjoys reading,
Roanoke Youth Symphony Orchestra. This
drawing, and surfing the web.
summer, he was selected for his third year of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestras 2 after touring with Gil Shaham and Garbiela Montero in 2018 and 2019 respectively. In his freetime, Bryan loves to watch Tik Tok and scroll through Reddit, much to his parents’ concerns.
The admins of the NYO2 4Youth concert have been corresponding with Carnegie Hall and Save The Music Staff, organizing guidelines/deadlines for the project, doing graphics work, and editing recordings for the YouTube premiere.
Stella Cha is a 17-year-old violist from Closter, NJ. Starting as a violinist from age 5, she switched to viola at 12, and has attended Horace Mann School and Juilliard PreCollege Division since she was 13. She was selected as a member of NYO2 and is also the first place winner of several international music competitions. For the past two summers, she has given free lessons to young local students in violin and viola along with founding the Lemonade and Melody Music Festival in her community featuring Juilliard Pre-College musicians. Outside of music, Stella plays softball and enjoys spending her free time watching old movies, going on drives, playing ukulele, and eating.
16-year-old Glenn Choe is a rising junior at from Cedar Park, Texas who began his percussion musical journey when he joined his middle school band. In addition the NYO2 program, Glenn has attended the 2019 Julliard Summer Percussion Seminar and has performed in the TMEA All-State Philharmonic Orchestra. He has placed highly in various solo and concerto competitions, including first at the 2019 Great Plains International Marimba competition. Glenn has been spending the majority of quarantine exploring sound, drawing, spending time with his family, and staring at his phone, as most teenagers do.
Abimelec Guerra is a 16 year old double bassist from Stroudsburg, PA. He started playing guitar at 7, changed to bass guitar at 9, and started learning double bass at 12. He has won first place alongside with his school orchestra in competitions, made studio recordings, arranged for a jazz quartet at Moravian College, he is first chair in all of his Orchestra ensembles, and is currently in charge of his school's PMEA Competition Bass Division. He was the first musician to get into NYO2 in his region, and the only one to be chosen this year from PA. he is also the founder of the international Bass Group called 'The Bass Bunch."
G i n a M a r i e G r a v a g n e, 1 6 , b e g a n p l a y i n g v i o l a a t a g e t h r e e w i t h D r . J u l i a H a r d i e a t t h e Central Texas String Academy in Waco, TX. She has played in many orchestras and ensembles, including playing principal viola in two of The Suzuki Association of the Americas' international youth chamber orchestras. Ginamarie is a 3-time TMEA All-State Symphony member and sits principal viola in the Waco Symphony Youth Orchestra. At age 13, she debuted as a soloist with the New Mexico Philharmonic. This summer Ginamarie participated in Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra 2 program. As a string player, her favorite type of music to play is small chamber ensembles. Some of her other musical interests include singing and arranging for her church. Ginamarie is a homeschooled rising senior and enjoys rollerblading, kayaking, and painting with watercolors in her free time.
Najee Greenlee is a 17 year old clarinet player from Michigan. He has played in the World Youth Wind Symphony, the Wind Symphony, and Orchestra at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy, and is inspired by clarinetists David Shifrin and Nicolas Baldeyrou. Outside of his clarinet studies, he enjoys playing table tennis with friends, reading about history, and playing guitar.
Samuel Igbo is a 14-year-old violinist from Boerne, Texas. At 12 years old, he began studying violin and has progressed to a high level already. He has now been finding ways to enhance classical music opportunities in his community by offering private lessons and mentorships to young students, as well as participating in a program called Through the Staff, mentored by instructor and friend Nikki Naghavi. He has participated in the Sphinx Performance Academy, NYU Summer Strings Intensive, and the VIA Music Academy. While Sam was accepted into NYO2, he was not able to participate in the program this year. However, he feels invested in the NYO community and in contributing to the youth of the orchestral world through this concert. In his spare time, he loves volunteering, running cross country, and reading outside.
16-year-old Dante Jordan from Miami, FL started playing the violin in at age 8. Since then, he has played with multiple orchestras including the two-time Emmy winning Miami-Dade Symphony Orchestra and the Greater Miami Youth Symphony Orchestra. Currently, he is a rising junior at New World School of the Arts in Florida studying under Dr. Anne Chicheportiche. Dante enjoys spending his free time roller skating, reading fantasy, and observing the stars. Christopher LeDoux, 14, is a trumpet player from Staten Island, New York. He began playing the trumpet at the age of seven in his local District 31 Summer Ensemble and in the Salute to Music Staten Island Senior Band. Christopher has also been a part of several other ensembles including New York City's Citiwide Jazz Ensemble, the Manhattan Youth Symphonic Band at Third Street Music School, and local high school pit orchestras. He debuted as a soloist in his church's Christmas concert and shortly after was a soloist for his middle school symphonic band. Over the past three years, he has been a part of Carnegie Hall's New York Pops Kids On Stage Program, where he had the honor to perform alongside several well-known artists including the New York Pops, and play in a separate invitational jazz combo. This summer as a rising freshman, he was selected as a member of Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra 2 program. Christopher also plays basketball competitively and enjoys playing football, bike riding, and swimming in his free time. Maxwell Lu is an 18-year-old aspiring composer, violinist, and pianist as Class of 2024 at Columbia University. In 2018, he began studying composition under composer Wu Yiming. He has written multiple concert pieces as well as several arrangements and electronic music, exploring various styles including minimalism, impressionism, jazz, spectralism, and film. As a composer apprentice for NYO-USA this year, Max worked on orchestral pieces as well as smaller ensemble pieces on the side. Max’s pieces have been recognized in multiple international and national competitions, and have notably been performed in Vienna, Austria. In his free time, Max enjoys hiking, hanging out with friends, listening to music, and thinking about the future.
17-year-old James McAffrey from Oklahoma City, OK began playing trumpet with the Oklahoma Homeschool Bands at age nine. He has been a member of the Oklahoma Youth Orchestras program since the 8th grade and is currently principal trumpet in the orchestra. He has competed in several major trumpet competitions, including the National Trumpet Competition, as well as playing a feature with the Oklahoma City Symphonic Band. This summer, he was selected for Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra 2 (NYO2) program. James is concurrently enrolled at Oklahoma City University, where he studies with Professor Michael Anderson and plays in the OCU Symphony Orchestra. He is also a competitive rock climber with Team Texas in Norman, OK. James is a homeschooled rising senior and plans to pursue a trumpet performance degree in college.
Luis Muñoz is a 16-year-old violinist from Anchorage, Alaska.
He played cello for two
years, but began studying with Nina Bingham, later switching to violin.
In addition to
NYO2, he has played in a variety of ensembles like the ASAA All-State Orchestra, UAA Sinfonia, Ensemble Summa, and the Anchorage Youth Symphony, where he will serve as concertmaster this coming fall.
Lately, most of his time outside music is spent learning
linguistics and studying Iñupiaq, though his secondary interests also include history and science.
Keneil Soni is a 16-year-old french horn player from Albertson, NY.
He began playing the
trumpet in third grade and later moved on to the french horn one year later. He has now been playing the french horn for over 6 years and has played in the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, Nassau Suffolk Wind Ensemble, and will be joining the Juilliard Pre-College this fall. Apart from music, he enjoys playing basketball and is a member of his high school’s tennis and cross country teams. Keneil is a board member of various clubs at his high school and also established an organization to help out those in need during this pandemic. He recently conducted research on planarian stem cells, and is doing so on epileptic activity this summer. He hopes to pursue a career as a surgeon.
17-year-old Catherine Thai began playing violin at age five and has grown into a dedicated chamber and orchestral musician. She played in quartets that won various string quartet competitions in 2018, 2019, and 2020. She is a founding member of the Elements Quartet and has played in the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra since 2016. Catie has also been accepted into multiple high-level orchestras including the North Central Honor Orchestra, the OkMEA All-State Orchestra, the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute Orchestra, and Carnegie Hall's 2020 National Youth Orchestra 2. In addition, she has won recognition as a solo violinist, also appearing as a violinist in the independent short film, Forget-Me-Not. Catie is a rising senior currently studying violin under Dr. Gregory Lee of the University of Oklahoma. In her free time, Catie enjoys doodling her friends, photographing her cat, and watching korean dramas.
17-year-old Jaylin Vinson began his musical journey at the age of 11 when he picked up the violin in his middle school orchestra. His instrumental experience includes participation in the North Central Honor Orchestra, OkMEA All-State orchestra, the Oklahoma Youth Orchestras, and solo and chamber competitions. Throughout OK, he has received commissions and performances from concert bands to string orchestras. Jaylin is also an active member of Project:21 which serves to provide mentorship and performance opportunities for collegiate level composers. Back home, Jaylin, a rising senior, studies with Dr. Edward Knight, professor of composition at Oklahoma City University. Jaylin is also Head Drum Major of his high school marching band. In his free time, you can catch Jaylin trail running or
re-watching
season 2 of Umbrella Academy.
E l i z a b e t h Y a n g, 1 6 , b e g a n l e a r n i n g t h e p i a n o a t a g e f o u r a n d i s a r i s i n g j u n i o r a t Montgomery High School, NJ. She has been competing from a young age and won numerous competitions, including the New Jersey Music Teachers Association Young Musician Competition, MTNA Senior Duet Piano Competition, Camerata Artists International Competition, and National League of Performing Arts Virtuosi Competition. She also enjoys playing the oboe and has been participating in NJMEA All-State ensembles throughout high school. In her leisure time, Elizabeth enjoys reading, watching movies, and drawing.
Claire Yoo is a 15-year-old violinist from Idaho Falls, Idaho. Her most notable achievements in ten years of performance include acceptance to 2020 IMEA All-State Orchestra, the Idaho Falls Youth Symphony, and the 2020 Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra 2, invitational performances at the Idaho Gems Invitational Concert, and awards from the 2019 Idaho Music Teacher's Association Strings Division, the Idaho Falls Youth Symphony Concerto Competition and the Idaho State Solo Regional Competition. In her free time, Claire, a rising sophomore, enjoys painting murals, studying history, and listening to musicals.
Tienne Yu is a 16 year old violinist from Freehold, New Jersey, currently studying at The Juilliard School's Pre-College Division. At age ten, she had her solo debut with the Bravura Youth Orchestra, and sat concertmaster for the 2017 and 2018 CJMEA Intermediate Orchestra and NJMEA All-State Intermediate Orchestra. This past summer, she was invited to participate in Carnegie Hall's 2020 NYO2 Program. Tienne, a rising junior, is also student government co-president at Biotechnology High School and has earned a second degree black belt.
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