Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra

Cello

Chase Choi (North Gwinnett High School)

Yeseo Han (North Gwinnett High School)

Elly Kim (Peachtree Ridge High School)

Joshua Kim (North Gwinnett High School)

Alex Ko, principal (Lambert High School)

Katherine Lamback (Holy Innocents Episcopal School)

Andrew Laughlin (McIntosh High School)

Kevin Lee (Chattahoochee High School)

Jiayi Lu (Northview High School)

Kathy Park (Northview High School)

Kelsey Queen (DeKalb School of the Arts)

Dylan Song (The Westminster Schools)

Mia Song (Alpharetta High School)

Alex Woloschinow (Hillgrove High School)

Bass

Madeline Bower (Marietta High School)

Cecilia Clarke (Decatur High School)

Ethan Huang (Chamblee High School)

Alex Na (The Westminster Schools)

Audrey Nguyen (Alpharetta High School)

Connor Oneacre (Milton High School)

Hazel Patty (Decatur High School)

Richard Zhou, principal (North Gwinnett High School)

Paul Bhasin, conductor

Paul Bhasin holds the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Professorship in Music at Emory University where he serves as director of orchestral studies and director of undergraduate research in the Department of Music. In this capacity, he conducts the Emory University Symphony Orchestra and the Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra, oversees music research programs, and teaches conducting. Praised for his “crisp, clear” conducting and “highly expressive” interpretations, Bhasin’s career began when he won the Yamaha Young Performing Artist Competition in 1998.

Bhasin serves as music director and conductor of the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra and has recently led the Virginia Symphony Orchestra (including live radio broadcasts of subscription concerts), “President’s Own” United States Marine Band, American Youth Philharmonic, Williamsburg Symphony, performances at Interlochen, the Kennedy Center, and throughout the People’s Republic of China. He has also led performances as a guest conductor with members of the Richmond Symphony, National Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, and with honor orchestras and bands (including at the all-state level). He has presented at national conferences including the Midwest Orchestra Clinic and the National Music Teachers Association Conference. An avid proponent of chamber music, Bhasin serves as music director of the Atlanta Chamber Music Festival, has performed as a chamber musician on WFMT in Chicago, Detroit PBS-TV, and developed residencies with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Musicorps program and the Grammy-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird.

Bhasin has performed and recorded as a trumpeter with the Virginia Symphony and Opera; Columbus (Ohio) Symphony; New World Symphony; the Civic Orchestra of Chicago; and at the music festivals of Aspen, Tanglewood, and Ravinia; and as a soloist on National Public Radio, Detroit PBS-TV, the International Computer Music Conference, and at the International Dvořák Festival (Prague, Czech Republic). He has performed under the batons of Michael Tilson Thomas, James Conlon, James DePriest, Leonard Slatkin, Andreas Delfs, and Gustav Meier, and participated in the Aspen Conducting Academy orchestral program under David Zinman, and his trumpet students have won first prize at major competitions including the National Trumpet Competition. Bhasin has recorded as trumpeter and conductor for both the Centaur and Interscope record labels.

Bhasin’s compositions, transcriptions, and arrangements are published by Carl Fischer Music and have been performed and commissioned in the United States and abroad by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Opera Theater, and the Grand Tetons Festival Orchestra. In 2015, he composed and conducted the orchestral score to 9:23 Films’ motion picture, Hogtown (award-winner at the Berlin, Los Angeles and Nashville International Black film festivals) which was named a Critic’s Pick and one of the Top 10 Films of 2016 by the New York Times. He received his musical education from Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.