ASO | 12.15 | guests ATLANTA SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Jere Flint, Music Director and Conductor The Zeist Foundation Youth Orchestra Conductor Chair
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he Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, established in 1974, provides Atlanta’s most talented and dedicated students an outlet to perform masterworks. Each year more than 300 applicants, ages 13-18, audition for one of 120 seats in the orchestra.
ASO | 12.15 | guests
Throughout the season they will participate in three full-length concerts under the baton of ASO Staff Conductor and ASYO Music Director Jere Flint. The ASYO also has the opportunity to work with select guest conductors and visiting guest artists. The ASYO is nationally recognized as one of the best youth orchestras in the country, and is the only American youth orchestra ever to participate in an Olympic Games. The ASYO has also been featured on National Public Radio, WABE, and with the rock group, Collective Soul. VIOLIN I
Keanu Mitanga Co-Concertmaster Olivia Holladay Co-Concertmaster Ilya Kim Co-Concertmaster Andrew Koonce James Pinder Lihua Shu Justin Welch Hana Oberst Helena DeGrazia Kristie Liao Taylor Baldwin Ruolin Yang Eri Kudo Hansung Kang Shao-Hung Tung Joshua Shue Tracy Knight Joon Kang Joseph Pang Aomeng Cui VIOLIN II
Justin Lee Principal Eugene Ahn Tony Gong Andrew Fu Maya Johnson Leah Bonas
Brianna Hou Sarah Li Nam Kim Maya Kang Kyle Qian Alex Yang Andrew Zou Lesley Chang Amy Zhang Kathy Li Jasmine Liu Lingyi Xin Charles Tantillo Will Bontempo VIOLA
Erin Pitts Co-Principal Nathan Hung Co-Principal Monica Caldwell Nick Pelletier Richard Lee Matthew Pinder Katherine Hur James Kang Leigh Johnson Joy Hsieh Anderson Leggett Dain Song Amy Wang Amanda Hamilton
CELLO
OBOE
TROMBONE
Ahanu Banerjee Co-Principal Lindsey Sharpe Co-Principal Bailey Holbrook Laurent Boudard Christopher Yu Ju Sun Yoon Rae Baker Rita Young Austin Chun Zachary Barnes Francis Ku Thomas Evans
Ramsey Fahs Lauren Firestone Sydney Hancock Cassie Pilgrim
Luke Anders Kenton Campbell Michael MacNab Jahleel Smith
CLARINET
TUBA
Barret Ham Rachel Smith Carly Weikle Darien Williams
Ian McNeill Sander Schierer
BASS
Kathryn Evans Principal Daniel Tancredi Maren Eden Jefren Cruz Dennis Frank Logan Lysaght Mingcheng Yu Jan Denel Sabacan Robert Morgan Gabriel English FLUTE
Kaegan Gregory Haiwen Gui Beldon Lin Lexi Smith
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PERCUSSION
Will Lawson Haley Matthews Madeline Miller Sarah Robinson
Jake Darnell Nitish Jindal Nicholas Martinez Parker Olson Christina Voss
HORN
HARP
Jack Bryant Jonathan Chiou Sada Harris Thai Johnson Chelsea McFarland Nicolas Perez Allison Webb Jaylyn Wimby
KEYBOARD
BASSOON
TRUMPET
Imani Duhe Tyler Jesko Jacob Morgan Zach Wender
Angela Gaal Donevon Howard Tinsley Stokes Catherine Xie LIBRARIANS
Olivia Holladay Logan Lysaght