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YOSA reaches more than 3,000 young musicians in the San Antonio area. More than 750 musicians participate in YOSA Orchestras and Summer Symphony Camp and an additional 2,400 receive free services through YOSA School Partnerships and the YOSA Invitational. YOSA musicians represent 155 schools from 25 school districts and reflect the ethnic diversity of San Antonio. Ethnic and racial minorities represent 76% of the young musicians YOSA serves.
The Orchestras
More than 525 musicians are arranged into 9 orchestras with weekly rehearsals and 11 concerts annually. Musicians with one-to-two years of playing experience begin in Prelude Strings. As their music skills progress and improve, they may graduate into Capriccio Strings, Sinfonietta Strings, Repertory Strings, and Concertino Strings. 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, and collaborate regularly with internationally renowned soloists and composers. The YOSA Philharmonic has represented San Antonio on 11 international tours, most recently to Prague, Vienna, and Budapest in 2016.
Summer Symphony Camp
Each summer, more than 250 students convene for a two-week day camp on the campus of Saint Mary’s Hall with some of San Antonio’s finest music teachers and professional musicians as faculty. YOSA has offered summer camp since 1985; the program has expanded to include woodwinds, brass, and percussion.
School Partnerships
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 in a program called YOSA MÁS:Music At School. New in 2017, the YOSA Invitational provides the opportunity for local middle school and high school bands and orchestras to perform in San Antonio’s premier venue, the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. YOSA offers this resource to school music programs at no charge. An application process starts in February the year prior and participating groups are announced by August. Sixteen local music programs have been selected to participate at the first annual YOSA Invitational on May 15 and 16, 2017.
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 3,000 in 2016. 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 It is with pleasure that I welcome you to the first YOSA concerts of the 2016/17 season. This year is full of exciting performances and opportunities for YOSA musicians, parents, and patrons. The YOSA Gold Series and City Series concerts provide our core performances and the Classic Albums Live Series continues with Purple Rain Live on March 13. The season will conclude with our traditional YOSApalooza concert on May 21, with all YOSA orchestras in concert at the Tobin Center. More than 3,000 young musicians from all areas of San Antonio will be served by YOSA programs this year. In addition to our orchestras, we also will serve over 2,400 students through YOSA School Partnerships and, in May 2017, the first annual YOSA Invitational. Our innovative, first-ever Invitational event will bring 16 local middle and high school bands and orchestras to the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. Over a period of two days these school music ensembles will perform and record in the H-E-B Performance Hall. The YOSA Invitational will provide a memorable experience for the nearly 1,000 students and families. This season has also seen continued growth in our YOSA Orchestras and Summer Symphony Camp. More than 750 musicians represent 155 schools from 25 school districts across the entire city and region. YOSA musicians not only participate in excellent music education opportunities through YOSA, but also create life-long memories and friendships. The dedication of the YOSA faculty and staff is what makes our organization able to to change kids’ lives through music. We are also served by an outstanding board of directors. As YOSA grows, so must the support from our community. On average each YOSA Orchestra musician’s tuition is subsidized by more than $750. This gap between cost of the program and the modest tuition is how the community can support our work. I ask that you consider joining YOSA parents, staff, and the board of directors by becoming a donor. Please visit the YOSA website at www.yosa.org, or speak to a member of the YOSA staff or board of directors if you would like to learn more, and then tell your friends and colleagues about how you help change kids’ lives through music. Best wishes,
Dr. Carl Leafstedt YOSA Board of Directors 7
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GUEST BIOS SOLI Chamber Ensemble
Stephanie Key, clarinet (YOSA alumna) Ertan Torgul, violin David Mollenauer, cello Carolyn True, piano
Founded in 1994, San Antonio’s SOLI Chamber Ensemble presents innovative programs of 20th and 21st century classical contemporary music and breaks down stereotypes linked with classical music by performing in art galleries and other intimate spaces, allowing audiences to get up close to the performers and the music. SOLI has twice been voted “Best Chamber Ensemble” by the San Antonio Current and continues to mesmerize audiences with its cutting edge performances around the country.
SOLI’s touring schedule has taken them to Houston, Denver, Austin, Colorado Springs, Louisville, and Dallas, among many others. SOLI was one of the first chamber ensembles invited to perform in the first-ever classical music event at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music & Media Festival in Austin, where they performed the music of Steve Reich, Elliott Carter, Michael Torke, and John Adams to a sellout crowd at a Boosey & Hawkes Music Company-sponsored showcase. SOLI’s strong commitment to commissioning has resulted in 45 amazing works over the past 20 years from both emerging and established composers. The ensemble has premiered music by Steven Mackey, Paul Moravec, Ned Rorem, Robert X. Rodriguez, Tim Kramer, David Heuser, Alexandra Gardner, Elliott McKinley, Erich Stem, Jack Stamp, and others.
SOLI Chamber Ensemble is also deeply devoted to education. Each season, SOLI presents a series of short concerts for young people entitled “SOLI Saturdays,” designed to introduce the music of today and tomorrow to our next generation of listeners. As Trinity University’s Ensemble-in-Residence since 2008, SOLI performs frequently on campus; conducts open rehearsals; advises, guides and coaches student chamber groups; and closely works with the student composers. Annually, SOLI takes its residency program on tour to other universities and colleges throughout the U.S. Through outreach programs, the ensemble is able to reach audiences whom otherwise may not be able to attend live performances of any kind, using the music of our time to reach people in hospitals, hospices, clinics, and rehabilitation centers. SOLI Chamber Ensemble has received numerous awards, including a 2013 CMA/ ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award and grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, New Music USA’s Creative Connections, Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts, the Argosy Foundation, the Amphion Foundation, the Tobin Endowment, the Cornyation Foundation, and the City of San Antonio’s Department of Culture and Creative Development.
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YOSA Gold Series 1 Sunday, November 6, 2016, 7 p.m. The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts H-E-B Performance Hall “Remembering Bowie” Philharmonic
Troy Peters, Music Director SOLI Chamber Ensemble Arturo Márquez
Danzón No. 2
Philip Glass
V-2 Schneider, from Symphony No. 4 “Heroes”
Troy Peters
Remembering Bowie World Premiere
SOLI Chamber Ensemble Arvo Pärt
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
continuing without pause into Henry Purcell (edited by Benjamin Britten)
Chacony in G minor, Z. 730
Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture, Op. 49
The appearance of SOLI Chamber Ensemble is made possible by a generous grant from the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.
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compiled by Troy Peters Márquez: Danzón No. 2 Mexican composer Arturo Márquez (born 1950) has always drawn on a wide variety of influences. His father was a mariachi and many of his relatives were folk musicians. On the other hand, he grew up in a Los Angeles suburb, where he got to know classical music and American rock and pop. In the early 1990s, while teaching at a university in Mexico City, Márquez began to compose the series of dances that would make him internationally famous. Although the danzón was originally a Cuban dance, it became very popular in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century, especially in the Mexico City and Veracruz. After composing a 1992 danzón for saxophone and pre-recorded tape, Márquez was commissioned to write a second for his university’s orchestra. His Danzón No. 2, premiered in 1994, quickly became so popular that it has been called Mexico’s “second national anthem.” The composer writes: “Rather than dealing directly with the form and harmony of the classical danzón, the piece pays tribute to the tradition and its people. I decided to start with a slow, sensuous theme instead of an introduction. After that, a rhythmical section continues the elaboration of these materials. The work is dedicated to my daughter Lily.”
Glass: V-2 Schneider, from Symphony No. 4 “Heroes” American composer Philip Glass (born 1937) based his 1996 “Heroes” Symphony on David Bowie’s landmark 1977 album, Heroes. Glass writes: “David Bowie and Brian Eno were attempting to extend the normal definition of pop and rock. In a series of innovative recordings in which influences of world music and experimental avant-garde were used, they were redefining the language of music in ways that can be heard even today. Almost twenty years later, I went back to their original material, using it as a point of departure and inspiration, much as composers of the past have based their work on their contemporaries. Using themes from Heroes, I made a new composition.” As Glass was writing his “Heroes” Symphony, choreographer Twyla Tharp suggested that he think of the music as a ballet score for her new dance company. With Bowie’s approval, they moved forward with the idea, creating a symphonic ballet that has been performed both with and without dancers. V-2 Schneider is the symphony’s finale, based on themes from Bowie’s song of the same title (which was a tribute to Florian Schneider of the electronic band Kraftwerk). Peters: Remembering Bowie In my teens, David Bowie was one of my musical idols. I was especially inspired by his ability to balance commercial pop music and fashion with avant-garde sounds and allusions to Brecht, Warhol, Orwell, and other “serious” artists and authors. He seemed equally at home on MTV and in the rarefied world of high culture. When Bowie died in January 2016, I was already planning to write a new concerto for SOLI Chamber Ensemble; it felt fitting to commemorate Bowie’s life and music in the piece for SOLI. I thought back to the 19th century, when it was common for composers to write virtuosic instrumental fantasies in which soloists played elaborate variations of popular melodies from the operas of the day—Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy for violin and orchestra, for example.
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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Remembering Bowie is just such a “fantasy,” with the clarinet, violin, cello, and piano soloists playing the role of rock and roll lead singers, accompanied by the orchestra in a medley of four favorite David Bowie songs.
Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten The remarkable music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (born 1935) often balances musical simplicity with expressive depth. Pärt’s Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, composed in 1977, has become one of his most beloved works, one composer’s heartfelt memorial to another who had recently died. Pärt writes: “Why did the date of Benjamin Britten’s death, 4 December 1976, touch such a chord in me? During this time I was obviously at the point where I could recognize the magnitude of such a loss. Inexplicable feelings of guilt, more than that even, arose in me. I had just discovered Britten for myself. Just before his death I began to appreciate the unusual purity of his music... For a long time I had wanted to meet Britten personally, and now it would not come to that.”
Purcell (ed. Britten): Chacony in G minor, Z. 730 Just as Pärt admired the music of Benjamin Britten, Britten revered Henry Purcell (1659-1695), who lived and worked in England three centuries before Britten. Purcell is probably the only composer active before J.S. Bach whose music still holds a place in the orchestral repertoire. On his eighteenth birthday, in September 1677, Purcell accepted his first job: composer for the royal court orchestra known as the Twenty-Four Violins. The G minor chacony for strings is probably one of the pieces he wrote in this new position. Purcell’s title (“chacony”) is a unique Anglicization of chaconne, the French name for a slow dance written over a repeating bass line. Purcell was a master of this hypnotic form, building expressive power and musical tension over 18 variations of the repeating bass line. Britten prepared his edition in 1945, adapting the music for modern string ensemble in the hope that it would reach a wider audience.
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49 During the last decade of his life, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was frustrated by the popularity of his 1812 Overture, which he declared “very loud and noisy and completely lacking in artistic merit, obviously written without warmth or love.” (Composers are not always the best judges of their own music; they are especially inclined to dismiss their more popular works, wishing that audiences paid more attention to their lesser-known music.) The music originated in the fall of 1880, when the new Cathedral of Christ the Savior was nearing completion in Moscow. For the cathedral’s upcoming consecration, Tchaikovsky’s friend and colleague Nikolai Rubinstein asked him to compose an overture commemorating Russia’s 1812 military victory over Napoleon and the French army. In just six weeks, Tchaikovsky wrote his showpiece, incorporating Russian Orthodox religious chant, the French national anthem, and the Tsarist national anthem to depict Russia’s battle with and victory over the French at the battle of Borodino. Famously, cannon shots evoke the moment of French retreat—and they return at the very end of the piece, along with the pealing of church bells, to “bring down the house.”
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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. He worked with dozens of San Antonio rock musicians to create YOSA’s Classic Albums Live series, winner of a 2016 Centropolitan Award from Centro San Antonio.
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 Branford Marsalis, Midori, Edgar Meyer, 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 City Series 1 Sunday, November 20, 2016, 3 p.m. Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Autumn Festival 1” Prelude Strings, Jacobi Caldwell, conductor
John Caponegro
Fiddling A-Round
Michael Story
Classic Bits and Pieces
Capriccio Strings, Martin Sanchez, conductor Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Sandra Dackow)
“Dance of the Tumblers” from The Snow Maiden
Mark Williams
Fiddles on Fire
Deborah Baker Monday
Conquistador!
Sinfonietta Strings, Brenda Johnson, conductor Elliot Del Borgo
Petite Overture
Doug Spata
Elementals
Ludwig van Beethoven (arr. Carrie Lane Gruselle)
Adagio Cantabile, from Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique”
Andrew Lloyd Webber (arr. Paul Jennings)
The Phantom of the Opera
Symphonic Winds, Andy Post, conductor
Robert Russell Bennett Suite of Old American Dances Cakewalk Schottische Western One-Step Wallflower Waltz Rag Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major (arr. Roland L. Moehlmann) John Philip Sousa The Washington Post (arr. Keith Brion & Loras Schissel) Percy Grainger (arr. Larry Daehn)
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compiled by Troy Peters John Caponegro directed school orchestras from elementary to high school for more than 40 years in New York. His work as a composer shows his tremendous experience with student musicians at every level. His 1975 composition Fiddling A-Round is a perfect example of his ability to write tuneful and engaging works for young string players. Michael Story is one of today’s most prolific composers and arrangers for school bands and orchestras, with more than 1,000 published works available. His Classic Bits and Pieces is a rapid-fire medley of some of the world’s best-loved classical tunes, including music by Beethoven, Dvořák, Glière, Handel, Haydn, Offenbach, Rossini, and Tchaikovsky. Because he was nervous about his potential to make a living in music, the young Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov became an officer in the Russian navy. To his own surprise, however, he also became one of Russia’s leading composers, joining the faculty at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory when he was only 27. The rollicking “Dance of the Tumblers,” from his fairytale opera, The Snow Maiden, is based on an energetic Russian folksong. Mark Williams was a longtime elementary school band director in Spokane, Washington. Although most of his output as a composer was band music, he also wrote several notable works for string orchestra. Fiddles on Fire, written in 1996, is his most popular orchestral work, ingeniously giving young string players fast-moving fiddle tunes that lie especially well under the fingers. Deborah Baker Monday teaches cello and bass in the Logan City School District orchestra program in Utah and is widely known as a composer and arranger for young string ensembles. Her 2005 work, Conquistador!, “depicts the life and adventures of the Spanish explorers known as conquistadors.” For three decades, Elliot Del Borgo taught at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York, one of the best-known training grounds for music teachers in the Northeast. His Petite Overture, published in 1987, opens with a slow introduction before moving into more intense and driving minorkey music. Doug Spata lives in Cincinnati, where he is a clarinetist, composer, and orchestra teacher. He writes: “Bold accents, broad contrasts, driving crescendos, and aggressive rhythms give Elementals its fiery sound. Melodies ebb and flow through the piece, building in intensity throughout this dramatic, challenging concert overture.” Adagio Cantabile is the central slow movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor. Written in 1798, when the composer was 27 years old, the “Pathétique” Sonata is one of the most famous works of Beethoven’s early period. This movement is beloved for its memorable
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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS opening melody, which may have been Beethoven’s homage to a similar tune from a Mozart piano sonata. Nearly 200 years later, Billy Joel reworked the melody into a minor pop hit, “This Night” from his 1983 album, An Innocent Man. Has there ever been a bigger hit than Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, The Phantom of the Opera? It is not only the longest running Broadway show in history, with nearly 12,000 performances, but has also grossed more than $5 billion in ticket sales worldwide. It opened in London in 1986 and in New York in 1988, and both productions are still running. Paul Jennings’ arrangement of the title song evokes all the drama and passion of the show. Robert Russell Bennett is probably most famous for orchestrating many of the greatest musicals of Broadway’s golden age, from Show Boat (1927) to Camelot (1960). Bennett wrote his Suite of Old American Dances after attending a Carnegie Hall concert by the famous Goldman Band in 1948. The composer originally called the piece Electric Park and wrote: “Electric Park in Kansas City was a place of magic to us kids. The tricks with big electric signs, the illuminated fountains, the big band concerts, the scenic railway, and the big dance hall—all magic. In the dance hall all afternoon and evening you could hear the pieces the crowds danced to, and the five movements of my piece were samples of the dances of the day.” During his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach was probably better known as an organist than as a composer. In the century after his death, however, he became widely regarded as one of the greatest composers who ever lived. Bach was especially adept at counterpoint, composing a remarkable set of 48 pairs of preludes and fugues called The Well-Tempered Clavier. The Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major is one of several works by Bach that Iowa band director Roland L. Moehlmann arranged in the 1950s. Starting during his tenure as conductor of “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Corps Band in the 1880s and ‘90s, John Philip Sousa wrote much of the music that established the concert band as a uniquely American institution. The Washington Post was one of his earliest successes, written in 1889 for The Washington Post newspaper’s essay contest awards ceremony. The march was a great hit; indeed, its popularity led to a reporter first dubbing Sousa “The March King.” Australian composer Percy Grainger spent part of his life in England and eventually became an American citizen. He composed and arranged a wide range of music based on English folksongs. Of his Themes from “Green Bushes,” Grainger wrote: “Among countryside folksongs in England, ‘Green Bushes’ was one of the best known… It seems to breathe that lovely passion for the dance that swept like a fire over Europe in the middle ages—brimful of all the youthful joy and tender romance that so naturally seek an outlet in dancing.”
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YOSA City Series 1 Sunday, November 20, 2016, 7 p.m. Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Autumn Festival 2”
Repertory Strings, Karen George, conductor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fugue from Requiem in D minor, K. 626 (arr. Loreta Fin) Aram Khachaturian (arr. Robert Longfield)
Adagio from Spartacus, Op. 82
Richard Meyer
The Emerald Falcon
Concertino Strings, Kenneth Freudigman, conductor
Tomaso Albinoni Sinfonia in G major Allegro Adagio Allegro
Edvard Grieg “Norweigan” from Two Melodies, Op. 53 Paul Lewis English Suite I. March II. Meditation IV. Jaunt Flute Choir, Kristin Hayes, conductor Jindřich Feld Petit Divertissement Quasi Marcia Berceuse Scherzino Thomas Simaku
From Across the Sea
James Hook Trio in G major, Op. 83, No. 6 Allegretto Canzone: Andante Rondo: Allegretto Symphony, Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Ralph Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob) March: Seventeen Come Sunday Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy March: Folk Songs from Somerset Edvard Grieg (orch. Theodore Tobani)
“Wedding Day at Troldhaugen” from Lyric Pieces, Op. 65
Edward Elgar
Serenade Lyrique
Jean Sibelius
Finlandia, Op. 26
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compiled by Troy Peters By the time he started work on his Requiem in 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was already terminally ill, and he even wrote some of the music on his deathbed. Contrary to the events depicted in the film Amadeus, however, he did not dictate the music to his colleague Antonio Salieri. After Mozart was unable to finish the Requiem before he died, his widow asked Mozart’s copyist Franz Xaver Süssmayr to complete it. The fugue on today’s program is an instrumental arrangement of the “Kyrie eleison,” one of the few sections of the Requiem that the composer finished before his death. Aram Khachaturian was one of the leading composers of the Soviet Union and the most celebrated 20th century musician from his native state of Armenia. His ballet Spartacus, completed in 1954, tells the story of an enslaved gladiator in ancient Rome who leads a slave rebellion against a Roman general. The famous Adagio—also sometimes called the “Love Theme”— depicts the reunion of the hero and his wife, Phrygia, after her rescue. Its passionate melodic style is reminiscent of Armenian folk laments. Richard Meyer is not only a widely performed composer of music for young string players, but also teaches middle school orchestra in the Los Angeles suburb of Temple City. Commissioned in 2011 by the Groves High School Orchestra in Beverly Hills, Michigan, Meyer’s The Emerald Falcon deliberately evokes the sound a superhero movie’s end credits, with its dark harmonies and driving rhythms. During his lifetime, Tomaso Albinoni was famous in Venice as an opera composer, but his posthumous reputation rests mainly on instrumental music. In 1715, he became the first Italian composer to publish concertos for oboe and strings, and his instrumental music was admired and studied by Bach, Vivaldi, and other contemporaries. His Sinfonia in G major is a perfect example of the fast-slow-fast form popular in Italy at the time, with lively rhythms and memorable tunes. Norway’s greatest composer, Edvard Grieg, arranged his Two Melodies for string orchestra in 1891 from earlier songs for voice and piano. Though the composer did not quote actual folk melodies, a Norwegian flavor is palpable throughout. “Norwegian,” the first of the pair, recasts Grieg’s setting of a poem by A. O. Vinje, in which the poet was exhorting his countrymen to drop regional dialects and unite around a single national version of the Norwegian language. Paul Lewis made his name in the 1960s writing music for British television. The composer writes that his English Suite, originally written for string quartet, “reflects the composer’s love of the English countryside, uses folksong-like material, and sits firmly in the tradition established by Holst and Vaughan Williams.” The string orchestra version, published in 2001, is dedicated to Lewis’s fellow English composer, Philip Lane.
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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Czech composer Jindřich Feld taught at the Prague Conservatory and at universities in Australia and the United States. His charming Petit Divertissement for flute trio, published in 1976, reflects his admiration for 20th century French composers like Messiaen and Honegger. Although born in Albania, Thomas Simaku has lived in England for the last 25 years. From Across the Sea, composed in 1997, is based on an ancient folksong from southern Italy, where an Albanian community has lived for more than five centuries. The composer writes: “The tenderness of the melodic lines expresses love for their distant homeland, which according to legend can be seen from the Calabrian mountain tops.” A contemporary of Bach and Handel, James Hook was active as an organist and composer. Most of his output was musical comedy, written for the London theater scene. The Trio in G major is comes from a set of six trios published around 1895. They would have already sounded old-fashioned at the time, imitating the form of Italian baroque sonatas from decades earlier, but they are nonetheless tuneful and charming. After two decades collecting and transcribing folksongs across the English countryside, Ralph Vaughan Williams composed his English Folk Song Suite for military band in 1923. When his publisher asked for an orchestral version in 1924, Vaughan Williams turned the job over to his student, Gordon Jacob. Each of the three movements is based on several traditional tunes that Vaughan Williams had collected in their “natural habitat” during his extensive travels. Edvard Grieg originally wrote his “Wedding Day at Troldhaugen” for piano in 1896. Troldhaugn (“troll’s home) was what Grieg called the house he had built at Bergen for himself and his family. There was never a wedding in the house, but he and his wife celebrated their 25th anniversary there in 1892. The music’s festive opening depicts the congratulatory greetings of guests arriving for the anniversary party. Like many composers of his generation, Edward Elgar sometimes wrote “salon music”: short pieces with sentimental melodies, well suited to social occasions or parties. In 1899—around the same time he wrote the piece that would make him internationally famous, the Enigma Variations—Elgar dashed off his romantic Serenade Lyrique. He dedicated the piece to Ivan Caryll, a Belgian composer who achieved great success in London’s turn-ofthe-century musical comedy scene. As Finland struggled for independence from Russia from 1890 until 1917, the voice of Jean Sibelius sounded strongly as the musical personification of Finnish freedom. No work represents this better than the symphonic poem Finlandia. Throughout the 1890s, czarist Russia had been cracking down on the rights of Finnish citizens, and in 1899 the Russian government seized all Finnish legislative control. As part of a series of rallies that same year, Sibelius composed a work called Finland Awakes, in support of press freedom. After the piece was a tremendous success with its first audience, the composer revised it in 1900 as Finlandia.
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YOSA CONDUCTOR BIOS
Andy Post, YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor Andy Post directed bands at Wood, Jackson, and Lopez Middle Schools in North East ISD and is an active consultant, clinician, and adjudicator. He has earned Teacher of the Year, Trinity Prize Distinguished Educator Award for NEISD, Who’s Who of American Teachers, PTA Lifetime Award, and was nominated for Disney National Teacher of the Year. His ensembles consistently earn Sweepstakes Awards at UIL and have been recognized at the Region, Area, and State levels by Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) and nationally by Choice Music National Wind Band Competition. Andy resides in San Antonio with his wife and two sons. Kenneth Freudigman, YOSA Symphony & YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor Kenneth Freudigman is the co-founder and artistic director of two-time Grammy-nominated chamber ensemble Camerata San Antonio, principal cello of the San Antonio Symphony, a highly respected cello teacher, and conductor of the YOSA Symphony and Concertino Strings orchestras. Ken began his work as YOSA Symphony conductor in 2012. Kristin Hayes, YOSA Flute Choir Conductor Kristin Delia Hayes is a freelance flutist, Baroque recorder player, music educator, and conductor in San Antonio, TX. She currently serves as Lecturer of Music at St. Mary’s University and Our Lady of the Lake University. She previously held teaching positions at University of Texas San Antonio and Florida State University. In addition to teaching flute-related courses, Dr. Hayes teaches music theory, music history, music technology, and music appreciation, serves as the coordinator for OLLU’s Music Internship Program, and coaches multiple woodwind ensembles. In Fall 2015, Dr. Hayes joined the faculty of the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA) as a woodwind coach and as director of the Flute Choir. She is also the founder and President of the current San Antonio Flute Association. During the summer, Dr. Hayes teaches and performs at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, the UTSA Flute Camp, and the YOSA Summer Music Camp. Dr. Hayes frequently performs with various ensembles, including the San Antonio Symphony, Mid-Texas Symphony, Opera Piccola of San Antonio, Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio, Texas Baroque Ensemble, San Antonio Chamber Choir, San Antonio Mastersingers, and the Peterson/Hayes duo. A registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, the Peterson/Hayes Duo (PhDuo) released their first album of commissions, Visitor Pass, in August 2016. An active performer and clinician, Dr. Hayes has performed and presented at various festivals and conventions, including the National Flute Association Convention, MTNA National Convention, Mid-South Flute Festival, Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival and the Florida Flute Association Convention. She has also performed and held masterclasses at various 20
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS institutions throughout North and Central America, and she frequently serves as adjudicator for local, state, regional, and national competitions, including the NFA Young Artist Competition and the MTNA’s Junior, Senior, and Young Artist Final Woodwind Competitions. Dr. Hayes has also been a featured Baroque Recorder guest artist with the Arte Antigua Ensemble in Antigua, Guatemala. Dr. Hayes received her flute performance degrees from from Tennessee Technological University (B.M.), University of Missouri- Kansas City Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and Florida State University (D.M.). Karen George, YOSA Repertory Strings Conductor Karen George is the orchestra director at Johnson High School in San Antonio. Mrs. George studied violin at the University of Southern Mississippi with Stephen Redfield where she earned bachelor degrees in both Violin Performance and Music Education. She then attended University of Texas at Austin where she studied violin under Vincent Frittelli and received a Masters in Music Education with a minor in conducting. Mrs. George has also toured with several orchestras in Europe including the American Institute for Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria. In addition to her teaching job, she also performs in the Corpus Christi Symphony. Mrs. George opened Johnson High School in 2008. Since then, her four orchestras have had successes at UIL with numerous Sweepstakes trophies. The Johnson orchestras have traveled to Europe and Hawaii to perform in various venues. Johnson full orchestra has made it to the finals for Honor Orchestra competition at TMEA three times and they made the finals for string in 2013. Recently, the Johnson Varsity orchestra was invited to perform at Midwest in Chicago this December. Mrs. George is married, has two beautiful daughters and a whippet. Brenda Johnson, YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor Brenda Johnson is the orchestra director at O’Connor High School (Northside ISD) and has been with YOSA for two years. Prior to her current position, Mrs. Johnson taught for 10 years in Plano and the next 7 years at Hector Garcia MS in Northside ISD. For many consecutive years, Mrs. Johnson has received Sweepstakes ratings at UIL Concert/ Sight-reading. In its first year as a brand new school, the Garcia MS Chamber Orchestra received fourth place in the TMEA Honor Orchestra competition under the direction of Mrs. Johnson. 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 Marjorie Keller Young Music Educator Award from the American String Teacher Association. During her time in Plano, she received Teacher of the Year for Bowman Middle School in 2009. She then received the Educator of the Year award for Hector Garcia MS in 2016. Most recently, she was among 19 San Antonio area teachers to receive the ExCEL Award from Kens5 and the San Antonio Credit Union. She has served as secretary and treasurer 21
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YOSA CONDUCTOR BIOS (continued) for TexASTA 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. Martin Sanchez, YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor Martin Sanchez is the orchestra director at Ed White Middle School in the North East Independent School District. His ensembles at Ed White have earned Sweepstakes awards at UIL contest. Mr. Sanchez is from San Antonio, Texas and received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the fall of 2013. Before holding the job of director at Ed White, he held the Assistant Director position for several years in the UTSA String Project, a program to help university students hone their skills in string teaching. In 2013, He accepted the Lead Teaching Artist position for the YOSA Mas Program in the Edgewood Independent School District. He has also been involved with the YOSA Summer Symphony Camp for several years. Mr. Sanchez is a member of the Texas Music Educator’s Association and Texas Orchestra Directors Association. 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 Philharmonic 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 professor and director of orchestral studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, conductor of the UTSA Orchestra and Lyric Theatre, and head of instrumental conducting. He also serves as conductor and artistic director for the Symphony of the Hills (Kerrville) and is the founding director of the UTSA String Project. Dr. Dowdy conducted YOSA’s Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1992, was the Interim Philharmonic Conductor in 2000, and named an honorary resident conductor in 2002. He researched and wrote YOSA’s history for his doctoral essay at the University of Iowa in 1995 and is a past president of TODA and TexASTA.
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Philharmonic VIOLIN
Troy Peters, Music Director Georgeanna Hoey
Smithson Valley High School
Victoria Villarreal
Kathleen Ran
concertmaster
Anna Isler
Peiyang Wang
Health Careers High School
Emily Averyt
Randolph High School
Samuel Clemens High School
Basis Charter School
Emma Jaax Home School
Taegyun Yoon
assistant concertmaster Linda Liu
Rebekah Jones
Taylor (Taein) Yoon
Victoria Juarez
Donnel Zhu
Yeonsuk Jung
Winston Churchill High School
VIOLA
Brian Kang
Thomas C. Clark High School
Victoria Klaunig
Bailey Boyen
Home School
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Mika Kochheiser
Jalie-Ann Cummings
Saint Mary’s Hall
Health Careers High School
principal second violin Victoria Acuña
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Alex Brehm
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Daniel Cao
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Ryan Cao
Health Careers High School
Home School
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Health Careers High School
Thomas C. Clark High School
Ed Rawlinson Middle School
Health Careers High School
Esther Ko principal
Abigail Dickson
Judson Early College Academy
Home School
International Baccalaureate-Luther Burbank High School
Gemmalee DyerMok
Prisca Lafuente
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Ronald Reagan High School
Earl Warren High School
Zoe Espinoza-Kochheiser
Benita Lee
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Alamo Heights High School
Dylan Fernandez de lara
Elise Maas
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Ronald Reagan High School
Paola Flores
Lutheran High School San Antonio
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Audria Fogarty-Ramirez Ronald Reagan High School
Anne Gao
Health Careers High School
Nicholas Garcia-Hettinger Louis D. Brandeis High School
Elijah Gonzalez
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Joseph Guzek
Ronald Reagan High School
Sofia Hernandez
Incarnate Word High School
Natalie Meissler Daniel Nix
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Deborah Olivier
Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)
Kymber Ovalle
John Paul Stevens High School
Eve Poindexter
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Wilmer Rodriguez Judson High School
Abigail Slaughter
Samuel Clemens High School
Juliet DeNapoli Imaya Farrell
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Lindee Fiedler
Boerne High School
Madeline Gonzales
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
David Irizarry Home School
Andrew Kang
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Kathryn King
Alamo Heights High School
Joshua Rodriguez Judson High School
CELLO
Andrew Arkhipov
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
principal
Elijah Ayala
University of Texas at San Antonio
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Philharmonic CELLO (continued) Calvin Carroll
Douglas MacArthur High School
Federico Chavez-Torres Health Careers High School
Victoria Day
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Emily Dunn
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Audrey Jellett Tivy High School
Maximilian Klaunig
Samuel V. Champion High School
Catherine Kline
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Erik Martilla
Alamo Heights High School
Tricia Park
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Katelyn Petersen
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Jacob Resendez
Winston Churchill High School
John Rice
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Gabriela Sanchez
Robert G. Cole High School
Nicholas Slaughter
Samuel Clemens High School
Astrid Topletz
Ronald Reagan High School
Elisabeth Wang
Health Careers High School
David Zamarripa
Troy Peters, Music Director Blaine Bryan
Winston Churchill High School
Albert Coleman
Thomas C. Clark High School
Michael Djabarov
International School of the Americas (Lee H.S.)
Presley Heikkila
Alamo Heights High School
Javier Hernandez
Austin Perry
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Austin Struble
William H. Taft High School
Jared Worman
James Madison High School
Jared Lange
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Ronald Reagan High School
Conner Simmons
Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School
FLUTE
Eunice Chung
Smithson Valley High School
Sieon Kim
Keystone School
Tyrece Williams
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Paula Wilson
Judson High School
OBOE
Darren Churn
Ronald Reagan High School
Brandon Kim
Byron P. Steele II High School
Reagan Merrill
James Madison High School
Joshua Roper
Veteran’s Memorial High School
CLARINET
Jenna Gaulden
BASS
Joshua Martinez
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Joshua Shterenberg
principal
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Samuel Becvar
Garrett Snowden
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Wagner High School
HORN
Winston Churchill High School
Alamo Heights High School
Michael Chapa
Saint Mary’s Hall
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Niklas Siebert
BASSOON
Smithson Valley High School
Smithson Valley High School
Aidan Alcocer
Evan Chenault
John Jay High School
Ethan Gurwitz
Winston Churchill High School
Caleb Keller
Harlandale High School
Micah Stark
New Braunfels High School
Derek Timmons
Medina Valley High School
TRUMPET
Ian Aigner-Varoz
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Dylan Frazier
Judson High School
Chukwudi (Chidy) Odita-Honnah Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Ethan Reed
Winston Churchill High School
TROMBONE Zachary Bell
Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School
Brett Lair
East Central High School
BASS TROMBONE Jacob Authier
John Marshall High School
TUBA
Evan Arnold
Ronald Reagan High School
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS
Philharmonic
Troy Peters, Music Director
Shane Rowe
Jeremiah Guillen
Scott Rogers
PERCUSSION
Colton Noles
HARP
San Marcos High School
Ty Gonzales-Graves
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
FLUTE
William J. Brennan High School
William J. Brennan High School
Symphonic Winds
Gail Fernandes
Judson Early College Academy
Margaret Goree
Robert E. Lee High School
Madeline Kalina
Earl Warren High School
Zachary Huertas
Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)
Mark Rogers
Janet Thongkam
Jackson Wymer
Alamo Heights High School
ALTO SAXOPHONE
Eliana Olivier
Ian Weidmann
Rebekah Taylor
TENOR SAXOPHONE
Home School
Megan Tomasini
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Basis Charter School
Smithson Valley High School
Oscar De La Torre
TROMBONE Joel Carlson
San Antonio Christian Schools
Nathaniel Reta
Central Catholic High School
Angel Rivera-Hernandez William H. Taft High School
EUPHONIUM
HORN
Alex Gonzales
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Nicole Croft
Basis North Charter School
Earl Warren High School
Danielle Croft
Cecilia Chavez-Torres
Jieon Kim
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Theodore Roosevelt High School
OBOE
Catherine Hanson
St. Anthony Catholic High School
BASSOON
Torda Bordas
Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)
Rhiannon Villarreal
Andy Post, Conductor
Emily Lawitz
TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas
Judson High School
Health Careers High School
Randolph High School
Haley Ginn
Randolph High School
John Paul Stevens High School
Mark Vallejo
John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)
Louis D. Brandeis High School
TUBA
Blanka Bordas
Liam Ries
Byron P. Steele II High School
Health Careers High School
Roy D. Corbett Junior High School
Augustin Chincarini
Kaia Santos
Alamo Heights Junior School
Alamo Heights Junior School
Pearl Fernandes
TRUMPET
CLARINET
Judson Early College Academy
Skanda Hebbale
Health Careers High School
Logan Miller
Alamo Heights High School
Darius Wang
Basis North Charter School
Trapper Erwin
Shukria Al-Araibi Nate Alfonsin Saint Mary’s Hall
Richard Daul
Central Catholic High School
Samuel Clemens High School
BASS
Ashley Funk
Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)
Home School
Bryce Gifford
Bradley Middle School
Allie Gonzales
Alamo Heights High School
Henry Jeff Unser
PERCUSSION Jesse Forgione Home School
Abigail Jones
Alamo Heights Junior School
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Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor VIOLIN
Carly Munoz
Health Careers High School
Steven Letch
Lindsey Ran
concertmaster
Mariana Navarro
Sophia Quevedo
Adam Nix
Christian Ruelas
Natasha Pfeiffer
Diana Salinas
Ethan Poidevin
Lyndsey Wyatt
Abiud Rodriguez John Jay High School
CELLO
Miaoyin Rojas
Ronald Reagan High School
Judson High School
principal
Marciano Ross
Bianca Castillo
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Bali Daniels
Alamo Heights High School
assistant concertmaster Katie Chong
San Antonio Christian Schools
principal second violin Rema Bhat
Basis Charter School
Easton Blackburn John Jay High School
Josie Decherd
Alamo Heights High School
Kayla DeJesus
Douglas MacArthur High School
Stephanie Do
Alamo Heights Junior School
Marley Duggan
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Erica Gonzalez
San Antonio College
Grace Hende
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Mallory Howarth
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Diana Hubbard
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Victoria Kim
Saint Mary’s Hall
James Mack Home School
Christina Marie Martinez
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Hunter Messick
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Douglas MacArthur High School
Great Hearts Monte Vista
Earl Warren High School
Basis Charter School
Texas Connections Academy
Jocelyn Thomson
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Ruth Toth
Health Careers High School
Wentao Yang
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Robert E. Lee High School
William J. Brennan High School
Incarnate Word High School
Giuliano Bucheli
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Britney Ericson
Douglas MacArthur High School
Mia Flowers
Incarnate Word High School
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Josephine Garza
VIOLA
Max Healy
Clayton Boyer Home School
principal
Mikayla Acosta
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Ruben Andrade
John Paul Stevens High School
Parker Baillon
Incarnate Word High School
Alamo Heights High School
Breanna Humphrey
Ronald Reagan High School
Kevin McJilton
Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School
Simon Phoa
Louis D. Brandeis High School
John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)
Lillian Roe
Josh Cunningham
Benito Salinas
Olivia Gorena
Avery Wilson
Alisha Harris
Phoebe Wilson
Winston Churchill High School
Thomas C. Clark High School
Thomas C. Clark High School
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Earl Warren High School
Home School
William J. Brennan High School
William H. Taft High School
Samuel Clemens High School
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS
Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor Emiliano Zendejo
Angelimar Carrion Quiros
Elaine Zhang
Louis D. Brandeis High School
OBOE
BASS
International School of the Americas (Lee H.S.)
Ronald Reagan High School
Lacey Weber
Austin Turner
Chamberlyn Barnett
CLARINET
Bryce Gifford
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Alexandra Balfour principal
Earl Rudder Middle School
Connor Berberek
Boerne Middle School South
Austin Campos
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Raine Esparza Home School
Pierce Haddad
Ronald Reagan High School
Henry Unser
Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)
Wagner High School
Bailey Nicolson
Randolph Middle School
Gabriela Pedraza
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
Mariela Barrientez Navarro High School
BASSOON
Rachel Watts
James Madison High School
Jaselle Rheann Reginaldo Louis D. Brandeis High School
HORN
Benjamin Walls
Louis D. Brandeis High School
FLUTE
Minji Kim
Keystone School
Flute Choir FLUTE
Hannah Anderson
Douglas MacArthur High School
Gabriella Banales
Robert G. Cole High School
Joseph Pickett
Samuel Hart
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
TRUMPET
Isaiah Dickson Home School
Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)
Bradley Middle School
TROMBONE Joseph Garza
Earl Warren High School
Jason Regalado
Theodore Roosevelt High School
TUBA
Zachary Gilbertson
Antonian College Preparatory
PERCUSSION Ivan Salazar
Kitty Hawk Middle School
New Braunfels High School
Kristin Hayes, Conductor Arianna Blazicko
Emily Kuppers
Audra Blazicko
Helen Lan
Genavie Cabrera
Mehwish Rehman
Basis North Charter School
Health Careers High School
James Madison High School
Thomas C. Clark High School
Julia Newton Aue Elementary
Basis Charter School
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Concertino Strings VIOLIN
Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor
Zoe Reyna
Lisa Kazami
Coke R. Stevenson Middle School
concertmaster
Zakary Rodriguez
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Brent Freeman
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Katheryne Rosas
assistant concertmaster
Earl Warren High School
Cristian Colon
Heewon Yoon
Ed Rawlinson Middle School
Frank Tejeda Middle School
Valerie Barrera
VIOLA
principal second violin Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)
Eva Beckett
Geneva School of Boerne
Lawrence Corsini
Louis D. Brandeis High School
Ian Fernandes
Judson Middle School
Veronica Gonzalez
Ronald Reagan High School
Sophia Irizarry Home School
Alexia Johnson
Byron P. Steele II High School
Aurora Johnson
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Jamil Laureano-Cruz Northwest Vista College
Alex Navarro
Douglas MacArthur High School
Nina Pyron
Sandra Day O’Connor High School
principal
Riley Bemis
Dr. John Folks Middle School
Josiah Damiano
Cornerstone Christian School
Daniela Davis
Robert E. Lee High School
Cameron Halsell
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Matthew Hsu
Bradley Middle School
Kenneth Nelson
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Natalie Ramos Home School
Skylar Sargent
John Marshall High School
Calla Xu
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Repertory Strings Jose M. Lopez Middle School
concertmaster Christian Diaz
Great Hearts Monte Vista
assistant concertmaster
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Barbara Bush Middle School
principal
Ava Blair
Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School
Sara Conde
Thomas C. Clark High School
Zora Dickson Vincent Garcia-Hettinger
Coke R. Stevenson Middle School
Julia Gutierrez
Byron P. Steele II High School
Grace Hart
Frank Tejeda Middle School
Elizabeth Machado
James Madison High School
Kate Pacheco
William J. Brennan High School
Emily Posada
Judson Early College Academy
Tony Rodriguez
Thomas C. Clark High School
BASS
Shane Rybacki Saint Mary’s Hall
principal
Soren Dickson Home School
Gabriel Salinas
Bernal Middle School
Ronald Reagan High School
Hallie Betts
Samuel Garcia Villar
Home School
Rebecca Neely
VIOLIN
CELLO
Karen George, Conductor
Philip Templeman Canyon Middle School
principal second violin Haley Bannister
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Luke Brehm
Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School
Alessandra Finol
Basis North Charter School
Catherine Fiscal
John Marshall High School
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS
Repertory Strings
Karen George, Conductor
Robyn Gerry
Savannah Stutevoss
Madigan Christensen
Jillian Griffis
Trinity Vaquera
Dalton Conner
Joshua Whipple
Karina De La Torre
Willa White
Amber Guerra
James Zhang
Gayle Hende
VIOLA
William Huang
John Marshall High School Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)
Emily Hart
Great Hearts San Antonio - Northern Oaks
Trier Hodge
Canyon High School
Victoria Jones Home School
Addison Lueck
Smithson Valley Middle School
Isaiah Marquez Home School
Claudia Mendible-Diaz Alamo Heights Junior School
Faith Mueller Home School
Amelia Ortiz
William H. Taft High School
Matthew Padron
East Central High School
Andrew Pai
Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School
James Pickens
William P. Hobby Middle School
Zachary Presley
Katherine Stinson Middle School
Jolie Richmond
Home School
John Paul Stevens High School Dolph Briscoe Middle School Winston Churchill High School Tex Hill Middle School
Payton Parham
William J. Brennan High School
principal
Giovanni Carrasco
John Marshall High School
Justin Colon
Ed Rawlinson Middle School
Liam Normand Keystone School
Fernanda Patron
Barbara Bush Middle School
Izaak Rennebeck-Oliveira Saint Mary’s Hall
Martin Rosa
John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)
Riya Sahota
Frank Tejeda Middle School
CELLO
Barbara Bush Middle School
Payton Davis
Phillippe Riopel
principal
Valley Hi Elementary School
Emily Rivera
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Sarah Shaw
Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)
Samuel Shterenberg Longs Creek Elementary
La Vernia Junior High School Coke R. Stevenson Middle School Health Careers High School Judson High School Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.) Basis Charter School
Rebeka Jones Home School
Caroline Krugle
Dolph Briscoe Middle School
Sarah Lancy
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Conner Lindley
James Madison High School
Aubrie Rettmann
Byron P. Steele II High School
Esmeralda Serna
North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)
Alexa Valles
Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)
BASS
Zachary Zimmerman
Byron P. Steele II High School
Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)
Samantha Almogela
Hallie Marcott
Edward H. White Middle School
Llailan Bennett
Judson High School
Caedmon Briggs
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Samuel Caballero
John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)
principal
Alamo Heights High School
Mitch Poe
La Vernia High School
Ben Roe
Jim Barnes Middle School
AJ Wood
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
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Sinfonietta Strings VIOLIN
Brenda Johnson, Conductor
Joisset Hernandez
Barbara Bush Middle School
Lauren Vu
Sophia dela Cruz concertmaster
Khalia Jacob
Greg Woodard
Eugene Kim
Great Hearts San Antonio - Northern Oaks
VIOLA
Kendall Liberman
Coke R. Stevenson Middle School
Emma Lloyd
Sofia Abascal
Basis Charter School
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Faith Ruth Marquez
Anya Anaya
Home School
Bradley Middle School
Cristian Martinez
Ryan Berberek
Tex Hill Middle School
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Levoun Ombaba
Sara Dulaney
The Atonement Academy
Catherine Zou
Basis Charter School
assistant concertmaster Jack Wadolowski Basis Charter School
principal second violin Sara Bassiri
James Bonham Academy
Isabella Caballero
Robert L. Vale Middle School
Adrianna Calvillo
Natalia Junior High School
Garrett Chambers
STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School
Anthony Couvillion
Smithson Valley Middle School
Jared Cuevas
Scenic Hills Seventh-day Adventist Christian School
Francesca Finol
Basis North Charter School
Sarai Fleming JSTEM Academy
April Flores
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Anneli Flores-Jimenez
Veterans Memorial High School
Arianna Floyd
John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)
Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Spring Branch Middle School
Francesco Payan
Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School
Erik Peterson
San Antonio Academy of Texas
Adrian Reyes
Jack C. Jordan Middle School
Anani Rhames
Pearblossom Private School
Abigail Rios
Edward H. White Middle School
Daniel Robelo
Alamo Heights Junior School
Alec Sanchez
Byron P. Steele II High School
Nathanael Slaughter
Our Lady of Perpetual Help School
Mikaela Garza
Raylie Thames
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Home School
Jaime Gonzalez
Christi Toth
Douglas MacArthur High School
Cornerstone Christian School
Austin Tudlong
Smithson Valley Middle School
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Ronald Reagan High School
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Madison Perez principal
STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School
Kristine Gonzalez
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Ryan Grove
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Anello Hill Zanoni
Alamo Heights Junior School
Alaina Judd
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Marnie Rosa
Ed Rawlinson Middle School
Samantha Rubiano
Robert L. Vale Middle School
Dylan Rybacki
San Antonio Academy of Texas
Adrian Salazar
John Garner Middle School
Sidney Silva
Judson High School
Aidan Woods
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS
Sinfonietta Strings CELLO
Brenda Johnson, Conductor
Melissa Fusco
Matthew Averyt
JSTEM Academy
principal
Rylee Hupping
Saint Mary’s Hall
Victoria Abascal
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Domenica Aburto
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Isabella Avellanet JSTEM Academy
Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)
Cody Reed
Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)
Ilana Solis
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Kyle Chong
Morgan Varney
Caroline Cordts
Leanna Whipple
San Antonio Christian Schools
Woodridge Elementary School
Home School
William H. Taft High School
BASS
Remy Place
Edward H. White Middle School
principal
Kyler Benedict Home School
Gabriel Eddy
STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School
Tyson Geigenmiller
Walter Krueger Middle School
Jasper Munden
Basis North Charter School
Geoffrey Seal
Spring Branch Middle School
Derek Xu
The Atonement Academy
Capriccio Strings VIOLIN
Victoria Baker
Alamo Heights Junior School
Natalie Benavides
Bulverde Creek Elementary School
Lydia Bentz Home School
Erin Brehm
Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School
Fiona Carlson
San Antonio Christian Schools
Destiny Casias
Clara Driscoll Middle School
Meghan Cunningham
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Martin Sanchez, Conductor
Carmen Dean
Great Hearts Monte Vista
Kelsey Fish
St. George Episcopal School
Magoli Garcia
Alamo Heights Junior School
Annia Gimeno Marko Marko Keystone School
Samantha Gonzalez
Barbara Bush Middle School
Branimir Gore
Basis North Charter School
Abigail Gutierrez
E. M. Pease Middle School
Aric Herrera
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Julianna Jaramillo
STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School
Katharine Jones Home School
Emily Kitayama
Castle Hills First Baptist School
Isabel Lew
Concordia Lutheran Church-School
Ariella Lopez
Gregory Luna Middle School
Homero Morales, Jr
William P. Hobby Middle School
Crystal Nguyen
St. Luke’s Catholic School
Minh Nguyen
St. Luke’s Catholic School
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Capriccio Strings
Martin Sanchez, Conductor
VIOLIN (continued)
VIOLA
St. Luke’s Catholic School
Barbara Bush Middle School
Van Nguyen
Daniel Jett Dorgan
Katherine Pickett
Hannah Smith
Scarlett Poye
Reyna Stovall
Klein Road Elementary School
Alamo Heights Junior School
Kaylie Rios
Great Hearts Monte Vista
Alamo Heights Junior School
Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School
CELLO
Sofia Romero Home School
Kayla Sheridan
Great Hearts Monte Vista
Jewel Thames Home School
Faith Tucker
Castle Hills First Baptist School
Samara Valdez
IDEA Monterrey Park
Jesse Vargas
Kitty Hawk Middle School
Adriana Webb Home School
Andrew White
Tex Hill Middle School
Natalie Zepeda
Brentwood Middle School
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Joshua Damiano
Cornerstone Christian School
Matthew Diaz
Great Hearts Monte Vista
Carlos Gonzalez
John Garner Middle School
Alan Hernandez
Barbara Bush Middle School
Rebekah Andrews
Cassandra Padilla
J. Frank Dobie Junior High School
Ann Frank Inspire Academy
Abcde Bannister
Teddy Salzman
Home School
Barbara Bush Middle School
Anastazia Becvar
Daniella Silva
Cambridge Elementary School
E. T. Wrenn Middle School
Nathan Bledsoe
Erica Vaquera
Maria Cisneros
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
BASS
Danielle Clish
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Boerne Middle School South
Edward H. White Middle School
Jerome Collier
Jose M. Lopez Middle School
Sean Compton
Tex Hill Middle School
Ramon Contreras Alamo Heights Junior School
Robert L. Vale Middle School
Kaleb Comstock David Gonima
Basis Charter School
Jacob Hoppas St.
Anthony Catholic School
Alexander Ibrahim
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School
Makayla Zimmerman
Edward H. White Middle School
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS
Prelude Strings VIOLIN
Christa Cedillo
Smithson Valley Middle School
Charlotte Cerroni Saint Mary’s Hall
Desiree Contreras
Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)
Jonah Damiano
Cornerstone Christian School
Noah Detiveaux
San Antonio Christian Schools
Odilia Diaz
Castle Hills First Baptist School
Jillian Fernandez Home School
Camilla Finol
Jacobi Caldwell, Conductor
Ian Lynch
Sophia Ramos
Sean Lynch
Samuel Sheridan
Miya Morris
Helen Trottmann
Rebekah Richard
CELLO
Home School
Home School
Basis Charter School
Barbara Bush Middle School
Athena Sorenson
Bianca Garcia
Alana Velazquez
Ana Malo
Saint Mary’s Hall
Basis North Charter School
Daniel Wadolowski Home School
Averie Young
Keystone School
Arlon Seay Elementary
Mya Hollowell
VIOLA
Adiya Kirwan
Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy
Annastazia Delgado
Thomas L. Hatchett, Sr. Elementary School
Alexander Gore
Home School
Keystone School
E. T. Wrenn Middle School
Aaron Watts
Eralyn Johnson
Great Hearts Monte Vista
Ximena Roa
The Buckner Fanning Christian School
Trinity Christian Academy
Home School
Home School
Faith Adams
Woodridge Elementary School
Gregory Luna Middle School
Jeremy Medina-Suzuki St. John Bosco School
Natalie Menchaca
Earl Rudder Middle School
Petra Poenitzsch
Cambridge Elementary School
Peter Villalobos Home School
Basis North Charter School
BASS
Angelo Annis
Krueger Middle School
Alamo Heights Junior School
Lazaro Suarez
Ileana Godinez
Cambridge Elementary School
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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
FACULTY
Carl Leafstedt, Ph.D. Chair
Troy Peters Music Director
Shari Mao Vice Chair, Governance
Andy Post YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor
Evin Nicole Eubanks Vice Chair, Development
Kenneth Freudigman YOSA Symphony Conductor YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor
Nancy Halvorson Secretary
Kristin Hayes YOSA Flute Choir Conductor
Benjamin Westney Vice Chair, Finance/Treasurer
Karen George YOSA Repertory Strings Conductor
Lee Hipp Vice Chair, Music Programs
Brenda Johnson YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor
Kenneth Bloom
Martin Sanchez YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor
Kelly Cato Joseph Causby, Ph.D. Magaly Chocano Michelle Davis
Jacobi Caldwell YOSA Prelude Strings Conductor Eugene Dowdy Resident Conductor
Katie DeBauche
ADMINISTRATION
John Frederick
Brandon Henson Executive Director
Kirstin Garrison John Lewis, Ph.D. Elizabeth Lorenz Blanca Maldonado Ryan O’Donnell Donald Oroian Anne Rochelle Sonja Lanehart Schutz, Ph.D.
Chris Day Development Director Ben Hackett Development Assistant Dean Zarmbinski Operations Director Cassie VanderSloot Operations Coordinator Tyler Benware Operations Assistant
Jeffrey Walsh
Alfonso Gonzales Bookkeeper
Evelyn Berg President Emeritus
Kathleen Messina Office Coordinator
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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 2016/17 season. The musical education that our young musicians receive would not be possible without your support. Strings
Michael Badillo, violin Nicholas Browne, bass Allyson Dawkins, viola Emily Freudigman, viola Ignacio Gallego, cello Beth Girko, violin Lani Gil, violin Holgen Gjoni, cello Mary Ellen Goree, violin Lydia Hurtado-Yanez, cello Morgen Johnson, cello Colin Meinecke, viola
David Milburn, bass David Mollenauer, cello Bassam Nashawati, violin Teresa Nguyen, viola Stacey Parker, violin Kristen Pellegrino, violin Josh Prado, viola Aurelia Rocha, cello Laura Scalzo, violin Darian Thomas, violin Aimee Toomes, violin Christina Trongone, cello Alexis von Biedenfeld, cello
Woodwinds
Jennifer Berg, oboe Kristen Hayes, flute Andrei Muravev, bassoon
Brass
Libby Barnette, horn Jaime Parker, trombone David Stephenson, trombone
Percussion
Riely Francis David Reinecke
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THANK YOU, DONORS
YOSA is honored to recognize the many businesses, foundations, governmental organizations and friends who have made it possible for 3,000 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 October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016. 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 Arts and Culture Kronkosky Charitable Foundation Composers Dr. and Mrs. Kym and George Rapier The Rackspace Foundation Star Performers John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation Maestros Anonymous G. A. C. Halff Foundation Greehey Family Foundation H-E-B Mays Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oroian San Antonio Area Foundation St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery The Ewing Halsell Foundation The USAA Foundation, Inc. Tuesday Musical Club Mr. and Mrs. Bartell H. Zachry, Jr. Zachry Foundation Zachry Group 38
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Concertmasters
Steven Bankler, CPA Dr. Kenneth Bloom & Dr. Sheila Swartzman Mr. James S. Calvert Capital Group Companies Joseph Causby and Robert Brewer Cecilia Young Willard Helping Fund Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Davis Ms. Lauren Eberhart John H. Frederick and Mimi W. Yu Mr. and Mrs. Paul Halvorson Mr. Lee Hipp Joeris General Contractors Dr. and Mrs. Carl Leafstedt Lee and Zachry Carter Memorial Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation Rev. John Lewis & Ms. Pat Bridwell Ms. Elizabeth M. Lorenz and Mr. Rick Ramos Shari Mao Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur L. Matthews, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John McCullough Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation MPL Limited Partnership III Mr. and Mrs. Ryan O’Donnell Mr. and Mrs. Donald Oroian Oroian Guest & Little PC Anne and Troy Peters Mr. Kelly M. Ranson Anne and Jeff Rochelle Ms. Sonja Lanehart Schutz, Ph.D. and Mr. Paul Schutz, Ph.D. Mrs. Elsie G. Steg Mrs. Mary Pat Stumberg The Arts Fund The Harris K. & Lois G. Oppenheimer Foundation The Marshall T. Steves Sr. Foundation The Mirza Trust Mr. Bruce I. Topletz and Ms. Cristina Chial Kathleen Weir Vale and Albert Vale Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Waller Germaine and Jeffrey Walsh Zachry Construction Corporation
Principal Chairs
Ms. Kris Brehm Ms. Martha Bryant, Ph.D. Mr. Edward E. (Sonny) Collins III Mr. and Mrs. Dan De Bauche Ms. Evin Nicole Eubanks Kirstin and Bregger Garrison Mr. Brandon Henson Mr. John S. Jockusch Susan Marenda King, M.D. Mrs. Muriel J. Leafstedt Mr. & Mrs. Greg Markovich Melaleuca Mr. and Mrs. John and Betty Moulder Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe B. Smith St. Benedict’s Workshop Mr. & Mrs. Marshall T. Steves, Jr. Anonymous United Way University Health System Mr. Robert Valdez Monica Vaughan Deja Wilson
Section Sponsors
Robert Albright Mr. Kevin Allen Lisa Marie Anderson Anonymous Armstrong Vaughan & Associates, P.C. Ms. Flora Atherton Mr. Steven Bennett Mr. & Mrs. James Berg Ms. Mary Black Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Bolner Mary Alice Bond Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brahinsky Elizabeth Branch Ms. Carilyn Brehm Stella Brown Mr. & Mrs. Walter J. Buzzini III Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Calvert Kelly Cato Ms. Judith Cavender Richard H. Cavender CE Group Mrs. Magaly Chocano Rosemary P.Z. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Bartlett Cocke Mr. Michael Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Michael Connor Convention & Visitors Bureau Nancy W. Cook Ms. Elizabeth Copeland Ms. Kate Crone Mr. & Mrs. D. Rusty Crowley, Jr. John Dempsey and Margie Boldrick Mrs. April Dickson Ms. Kathleen Doria & Mr. Ruben Silva John L. Douglas Ms. Kaye Dunn Walter Peter Dyck Ms. Anna Edwards Eisenberg Group Carolyn Ellis and Richard Keith Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Forland Ms. Joan Fritze Elizabeth Fry Mr. & Mrs. Lon Fry James Garner Antonia Goldsmith Mrs. Mary Ellen Goree Mr. & Mrs. Leo Greenblum Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Grenier Julius and Kathleen Gribou Mr. & Mrs. Valeri Grokhovski Mr. & Mrs. Ryan A. Guest Ms. Margaret Hager Austin Hardy Mr. Jim Heaney Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Heard Frances Hearn Ms. Sandra Henson Mr. Don Hessenflow & Ms. Cathy Dawson Pam Hockersmith John Hornsby Dr. David Hough & Ms. Gina De Gennaro Mr. and Mrs. Jay Howard Ms. Nina Hoyle Ires Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Woodson Jones Anjali and Ajeya Joshi JP Morgan Chase
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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Junior League of San Antonio, Inc. S. R. Juvenal Mr. Ronald Keller Mr. Christopher Kiernan Mr. Gary Kilgore Kenneth A. Kist, M.D. Mr. Cliff Kochheiser Sharon Kocurek Rabbi David Komerofsky Mr. & Mrs. Brian Komorek Rosemary E. Kowalski Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Krueger Barbara Kyse Sarah Lake Wende L. Lancaster Ms. Marline C Lawson Sarah R. Lemessurier Ms. Eileen Lentz Mr. Gary Lindley Mr. Kevin Liu Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lorenz Louis J. and Millie M. Kocurek Charitable Foundation B.H. Ludwig Mr. and Mrs. Jeb Maebius Mr. Tim Maher Mr. and Mrs. Marcos Maldonado Zelime Gillespie Matthews Nickey McCasland Marilyn McCullough Beatrice McFadden Mrs. Annabelle McGee June McManus Douglas McNeel Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Vachel McNeel Ms. Marise Melson Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Mendible Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Mielke Deborah Moore Lillian Padgitt Morris Aren and Dan Murray Mark Nelson Roxana Newsom Mr. William Nichols Nix Health Claudia and Michael Olivier Mrs. Camilla M. Parker Brenda L. Partain Jennifer Perloff Mr. & Mrs. David Phipps Andrea Pichler David Elizabeth Powell Diana Reed Mr. and Mrs. Randy Resendez Respite Care of San Antonio Wilkinson Rhodes Mr. and Mrs. David Rodriguez Col. (Ret.) William T. Rogerson Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Armstrong Seal Ms. Linda Seewald Mr. & Mrs. Josef Seiterle Patricia A. Semmes Dr. & Mrs. Albert C. Serrano Drs. Harry and Molly Shafer Mr. and Mrs. John Shipley Marga Speicher, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. George Spencer E.K. Studer Nancy M. Sutter Mr. Patrick H. Swearingen, Jr. Targeted Genomics The Columbus Foundation
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Mrs. Alex R. Thomas, Jr. Janelle B Tye Ms. Julie Vandertulip Alice Viroslav Mr. & Mrs. John Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Westney Ms. Marceline Whipp Mr. & Mrs. Bill Wilkinson Mary Beth Williamson Mrs. Jean Rogers Winchell Dr. and Mrs. John Wolcott Mr. & Mrs. Jon Wood Brian Yager Drs. Keying Ye and Limin Zheng Tina and Todd Zimmerman
Friends of YOSA
Noel Aljibe Amazonsmile Foundation Mr. David Amori Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Mrs. Sue Bain Mr. Michael Balcer Laura Barberena and Anthony Medrano Susie Barlow Mr. Quincy Barnes Ms. Ashley Barr Ms. Jessica Barrera Mr. and Mrs. Jim Barshop Mr. Alfred E. Becker Ms. Terry Brechtel Ms. Katherine Brooks Ms. Michele Brown Mr. Matt Brown Vanessa Sanlucar and William Bryan Ms. Nancy Bryant Mr. Rocio Bucheli Mr. & Mrs. Ricardo A. Bunge Mr. & Mrs Kevin Butts Mr. & Mrs. Manuel Reyes Campos Ms. Nicole Carney Ms. Mureen Caspers Betty M. Cavender Mr. and Mrs. Michael Churn Mary Ann Compton Mr. and Mrs. Sara Maria Conde Ms. Monica Cooper Mr. John Dailey Mary Davis Victoria Day Celia Day Ms. Sharon Drobeck Paul Easley Mr. Robert C. Ehlers & Mrs. Silvia Santinelli-Ehle Calasancio Fernandes Dawn and Daniel Finlayson Ms. Katrina Fitzpatrick Kathleen Fletcher Mr. Patrick Flores Mr. & Mrs. Derrick Flowers Dr. & Mrs. J. Howard Frederick Akiko Fujimoto Ms. Catherine Garcia Mr. Daniel Gillett Teresa Godinez Mr. Jeremy Goodell Dr. & Mrs. Donald J. Gordon Dr. and Mrs. Michael Gradassi
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | FALL CONCERTS Mr. Alan Graf Mr. Mark Greszler Mr. Jorge Guel Ms. Elizabeth Halff Mr. and Mrs. Rich Hartwick Ms. Andrea Hlosek Ms. Cari Holbrook Ms. Mary Hymel Inside Outside Wellness Center and Medical Spa Mr. Gylon Jackson Dr. & Mrs. Milton S. Jacobs Ms. Aurora Jimenez Carol and Walter Keim Mr. Hongwook Kim Mrs. Elizabeth Knowles Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Kochheiser Mrs. Ellen Kraig & Mr. David Kolodrubetz Mr. and Mrs. Weir Labatt Rachel Lake Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lancaster Ms. Nancy Larson Mr. Edward Leafe Dr. Qinghua Liang Mr. Warren Lieberman Jamie Little Mr. & Mrs. Arnoldo Lopez Kevin Lueck Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Macaluso, Jr. Percy Manrique Ms. Martha Marquez Mrs. Rosalinda Martinez Anthony Martinez, M.D. Rev. & Mrs. David C. Marx Katherine Matteson Ms. Melanie Mayfield Mr. David Medina Kathleen Messina Ms. Janie Mikesell Mrs. Lola Miles-Troutz Dr. & Mrs. Alexander L. Miller Mr. Jack Moulder Mr. Carlos Munoz Cara Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nix Mr. Gerald L O’Donnell Mr. Marcos Oliveira Ms. Krystal Ordonez Mr. and Mrs. Marian and Stephen Osborn Karen Owens Pam Parmer Joanne Patterson Erick Paulino Dr. William B. Perry and Mrs. Holly Perry Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Peters Mr. Steve Pfeiffer Ms. Kimberly Place Mr. Jason Presley Ms. Jennifer Prince Mr. Hampton Rattan Jeanne Redmond Craig Reed Mrs. Isabel Resendez Mr. Kevin Rettmann Ms. Pamela Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. Bill Reynolds Mr. Blair Richter Ms. Doris Rips Juan Robles Yolanda and Wilmer Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence and Martha Rogler Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Rogler
Mr. Fred Rosin Mrs. Rebecca Salazar Mrs. Tanya Sammis Paola Sandoval Ms. Sherri Santos Chom and James Seagraves Mr. John Seidenfeld Michael Sepeda David and Chelsea Short Dr. & Mrs. Reeves L. Smith Nancy Starr Ms. Terese Swartz Dr. Ana Valadez Ms. Cassie Vandersloot Ms. Maria Villarreal Bonilla Mrs. Ann Vineyard Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Wagner Mr. & Mrs. Mike Wagnon Wah Tee Alterations, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watson Mr. Daniel Weiss Richard D. Wheatley, Sr., Ph.D. Ms. Elizabeth Wymer Mr. Joseph Yglesias Seoghwan Yoon Joshua Younke Rev. & Mrs. Louis Zbinden
Gifts in Kind
Mr. Kevin Allen Americus Diamond Bird Bakery Carrabba’s Italian Grill Cici’s Pizza Ms. Caroline Decherd Mrs. April Dickson Eva’s Escape At The Gardenia Inn Evelyn Berg Fund of the YOSA Endowment Fund of the SAAF Green Vegetarian Cuisine H-E-B Hair By Kerri Hospitality Parking Houston St. Bistro Inspire Community Fine Art Center Joseph’s Kathy’s Kreations Kathleen Messina Mo-Ranch Conference Center Monster Mini Golf Ms. Ann Oettel Organic Movement Mr. Tom Ovalle Radius Center Mr. Chip Ruedebusch Saint Mary’s Hall Sam Ash Music Corporation San Antonio Plastic Bricks Satel’s Ms. Nancy Taylor Shivers Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery Spice of Life Catering St. David’s Episcopal Church The Popcorn Place Trinity University University of Texas at San Antonio University of The Incarnate Word Whataburger Restaurants LP Mr. Donald White Yoga In Motion
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