Yosa Program Spring 2015

S P R I N G

2015

PROGRAM BOOK

CONCERT SEASON

June 19 at 8:00 pm

H-E-B Performance Hall

June 26, at 7:30 pm H-E-B Performance Hall

June 25 at 7:30 pm H-E-B Performance Hall

Tobin Center for the Performing Arts 100 Auditorium Circle | www.tobincenter.org | 210.223.8624

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YOSA musicians number more than 1,800 and come from more than 158 schools in 21 school districts.

YOSA musicians are ethnically diverse — 53% Hispanic, 33% Caucasian, 3% AfricanAmerican, 8% Asian-American. Greater than one-third of YOSA musicians receive tuition assistance; more than 65% receive free programs through community partnerships.

The Orchestras

Over 450 musicians are arranged into 8 orchestras with weekly rehearsals and 10 concerts annually.

Musicians with one to two years of playing experience begin in YOSA Prelude Strings.

As their music skills progress and improve, they may graduate into Capriccio Strings, Sinfonietta Strings, and Concertino Strings. YOSA 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, collaborating regularly with internationally renowned soloists and composers.

The YOSA Philharmonic has represented San Antonio on 10 international tours, most recently London in 2012 and Québec in 2014.

Summer Symphony Camp

In July of each summer, more than 200 students convene for a two-week day camp hosted at Saint Mary’s Hall with some of San Antonio’s finest music teachers and professional musicians as faculty. YOSA has been offering summer camp since 1985; the program has expanded to include woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

YOSA MÁS:Music at School

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. The seven schools of the Roosevelt Compact, a project involving NEISD’s Roosevelt High School and the two middle schools and four elementary schools that feed Roosevelt High, is funded by Rackspace. This school partnership includes extensive interaction between YOSA staff, teachers, and young musicians.

The Edgewood Independent School District partnership includes an after-school program at two elementary schools, and additional teaching resources at the middle school orchestra level with plans to expand to high school.

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 1,800 in 2014.

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 Welcome! On behalf of YOSA’s board, thank you for attending our spring concerts.

We are thrilled that you are joining us for the final City Series and Gold Series concerts of the 2014/15 season.

As you listen to these young musicians— who represent 158 public and private schools in 21 districts and 35 home schools—I hope you are reminded of YOSA’s vision and your vital role within this organization.

What YOSA does, eight orchestras, Summer Symphony Camp and YOSA MÁS: Music At School, is made possible through your generosity. The YOSA Board of Directors is working hard to steward your kindness and has used the 2014/15 season to develop a durable strategic plan.

Moving forward, the plan will drive financial sustainability, programming excellence, and board development. It will also help YOSA continue to do what it does best: change kids’ lives through music.

The Board of Directors is not the only part of the YOSA family planning for the future. Some of our young musicians are about to graduate from high school. As YOSA seniors embark on this new journey, we wish you all the best. We have no doubt that whichever path you choose, you will carry the virtues learned and expressed in YOSA—discipline, creativity, patience, and grace under pressure—with you to success. Seniors, congratulations on this next step! You will always have a place in YOSA and we hope you participate with us as alumni.

The concert season may be over but YOSA’s summer months are busy.

The YOSA Board of Directors is looking forward to the 2015 YOSA Summer Symphony Camp; a two week-long intensive music camp taught by excellent YOSA faculty. If you are interested in registering for camp, please visit the YOSA website at yosa.org.

We are excited to announce a summer concert. On June 27, YOSA will perform, in conjunction with talented guest artists, the entire OK Computer album by Radiohead. Please consider supporting this exciting new opportunity through concert sponsorship, contributing to YOSA’s Indiegogo campaign, or purchasing tickets at tobincenter.org or by calling the box office at (210) 223-8624.

Thank you again for joining us and helping YOSA to continue to do its good work. Enjoy the performances!

Yours sincerely, John Frederick Ph.D. YOSA Board of Directors 8

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YOSA City Series 3 Sunday, May 10, 2015, 3 p.m.

Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Festival Finale 1” Prelude Strings

Jacobi Caldwell, conductor

John Caponegro

Shoe Symphony

Merle J. Isaac

Dance from Apollo Suite

Brian Balmages

Velocity

Capriccio Strings

Jonathan Raveneau, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Finale from Divertimento No. 2 (arranged by Sandra Dackow) in D major, K. 131 Kenneth Sarch

Ahlan Sabaya Alfarah

John Williams

Main Theme from Star Wars

(arranged by Larry Clark)

Symphonic Winds

John Zarco, conductor

Karl King

Gallant Marines

Clare Grundman

Fantasy on American Sailing Songs

(arranged by James Swearingen)

Andrew Boysen, Jr. Symphony No. 4 Fast

Smooth and flowing Scherzo and trio Fast Morton Gould

(arranged by Douglas E. Wagner)

American Salute

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PROGRAM NOTES

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 Shoe Symphony, published in 1991, has become a classic for young string players, with its entertaining use of rhythmic foot stomping and shuffling.

Merle J. Isaac was an experienced music educator who became well known as a composer and arranger for young orchestras. In his Apollo Suite, Isaac drew inspiration from the Greek god of music, poetry, art, knowledge, and the sun (among other things). The Dance is the suite’s rollicking finale, with melodies reminiscent of American fiddle tunes.

Baltimore composer Brian Balmages is a band director at Towson University in Maryland, but his music is widely performed by student bands and orchestras.

Velocity, commissioned by the Valley Orchestra Guild and the West Des Moines Community School elementary string faculty, was published in 2014. It creates an atmosphere of dynamic intensity through driving unisons and rhythmic force.

Because Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of music’s greatest prodigies, the music he wrote in his childhood and teens is often strikingly mature. He was 16 years old when he wrote the Divertimento No. 2 in 1772, probably for a party or wedding in his native Salzburg. Its finale is full of the joyful vitality of which Mozart was already a master.

Kenneth Sarch is a Julliard-trained violinist who has worked as an orchestral musician and university professor throughout the United States. In 1991, while visiting the National Conservatory of Music in Amman, Jordan, Sarch wrote Ahlan Sabaya Alfarah (Arabic for “We Are the Girls of Joy”), based on a traditional Jordanian folk dance melody. He conducted its premiere with the Conservatory String Orchestra in Amman at the conclusion of his visit.

No movie music in the world is better known than John Williams’ memorable theme for Star Wars. The music was a crucial part of the massive success of this 1977 blockbuster, heightening the intensity of the drama and adventure throughout. It earned its composer Golden Globe and Academy Awards for best original score.

Karl King made his name as a composer in the 1910s, when he toured with various circus bands and wrote the most famous circus march of all time, Barnum & Bailey’s Favorite. King went on to write more than 200 marches; Gallant Marines (1942) is one of several King wrote to salute the U.S. military during World War II. In addition to composing and arranging dozens of successful band works, Clare Grundman also orchestrated Broadway musicals and co-wrote the New York Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary. His Fantasy on American Sailing Songs (1952) was dedicated to the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association. This lovely and robust medley of sailing songs includes “Hornet and Peacock,” “Lowlands,” “What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?” and “Rio Grande”. Each song is stated plainly and then varied with appealing melodic and harmonic treatment.

Andrew Boysen, Jr., is a music professor at the University of New Hampshire, where he conducts the wind symphony and teaches conducting and composition. His Symphony No. 4, composed in 2004, is a rarity: a full, four-movement symphony intended specifically for performance by young bands. It follows an abbreviated version of the standard four-movement symphonic form to produce a work of breadth and power.

American Salute, which Morton Gould composed in less than 24 hours, is a set of brilliantly scored variations on the Civil War song, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” From its first performance on an NBC radio program in 1942, American Salute has been a staple of patriotic concerts. “What amazes me now is that critics say it is a minor masterpiece,” Gould recalled in 1985. “To me, it was just a setting. I was doing a million of those things!”

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YOSA City Series 3 Sunday, May 10, 2015, 7 p.m.

Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Festival Finale 2”

Sinfonietta Strings

Brenda Johnson, conductor

Soon Hee Newbold

Warrior Legacy

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arranged by Richard Meyer)

Finale from Serenade in C major for Strings, Op. 48

Brian Balmages

To Tame the Raging Rapids

Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, & Paice

Smoke on the Water

(arranged by Larry Moore)

Concertino Strings

Kenneth Freudigman, conductor

Frederick II, King of Prussia Symphony in G major Allegro Andante Presto Frederick Delius Two Aquarelles (arranged by Eric Fenby) Lento, ma non troppo Gaily, but not quick Peter Warlock Capriol Suite Basse-Danse - Pavane - Tordion

Bransles - Pieds-en-l’air - Mattachins

Choir Flute

Martha Long, conductor

Georg Philipp Telemann

Allegro from Concerto in G major

Georges Bizet

Carillon from L’Arlésienne

Joseph Brackett

Simple Gifts

(arranged by Ervin Monroe)

(arranged by Richard McHenry) (arranged by Ricky Lombardo)

Symphony

Gioachino Rossini

Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Overture to La scala di seta

Friedrich Witt Symphony in A major Adagio—Allegro vivace Minuet: Allegro Andante Finale: Allegretto

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PROGRAM NOTES

compiled by Troy Peters & John Zarco Born in Korea in 1974, Soon Hee Newbold grew up in Maryland and has a thriving career as a violinist, conductor, and even actress. She is best known, however, as a composer of orchestral works for students. Her Warrior Legacy was commissioned in 2009 for the 20th anniversary of the Acushnet Classical Ensemble, a youth orchestra in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Newbold writes that the music’s cinematic character “evokes heroes and warriors of myth and legend.”

Tchaikovsky composed two of his most famous works back-to-back in the autumn of 1880: his lush Serenade for Strings and the bombastic 1812 Overture. The Serenade’s energetic finale is based on two Russian folk tunes: a slow tune sung by Volga laborers and a more animated Russian dance, which Tchaikovsky sometimes accompanies with quickly pulsing pizzicato to imitate the sound of a balalaika.

Baltimore composer Brian Balmages is a band director at Towson University in Maryland, but his music is widely performed by student bands and orchestras.

The composer writes that To Tame the Raging Rapids “describes mankind’s constant fascination with some of the most powerful forces in nature. As the work opens, the beauty of the water and its sound calms the listener. Soon, however, we plunge into the water and test ourselves against the raging rapids.”

In December 1971, the English rock band Deep Purple was in Montreux, Switzerland, to record an album. While they were there, a fire broke out at a Frank Zappa concert and burned down the casino, sending smoke billowing onto Lake Geneva. Smoke on the Water was inspired by these real-life events, leading to one of the most iconic guitar riffs in rock music.

The achievements of Frederick II during his reign as King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 included steadfast patronage of the arts, support of the Enlightenment, and several military victories, most notably his triumph in the Seven Years War. He became widely known as “Frederick the Great,” as a result. He was also an accomplished flutist and composer. His Symphony in G major is one of four that he composed and shows the influence of his dear friend, C.P.E. Bach.

Late in life, as Frederick Delius became blind and paralyzed, he was assisted by Eric Fenby, a young man who would take dictation as Delius imagined new music or talk the composer through transcriptions and arrangements of works from earlier in Delius’s career. The Two Aquarelles for string orchestra are Fenby’s lovely 1932 arrangements of two earlier a cappella choral works, originally titled “To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water.”

Delius was also a great mentor to the younger composer Philip Heseltine, who composed under the pen name Peter Warlock. Warlock’s greatest success was his Capriol Suite, composed for piano duet in 1925 and arranged for string orchestra in 1926. The Capriol Suite is a set of six dances based on melodies found in a French manual of Renaissance dances by Jehan Tabourot. Warlock dresses the Renaissance tunes on piquant 20th century harmonies, creating a charming and memorable result.

Ervin Monroe was the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s principal flutist for forty years, from 1968 to 2008. He is also well known as an arranger and publisher of music for flute ensemble. His arrangement of Telemann’s Concerto in G major beautifully captures the spirit and energy of this German Baroque master.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS In 1872, Georges Bizet’s wrote music for L’Arlésienne (“The Maid of Arles”), a romantic play set in Provence. The composer died three years later, just after his opera Carmen became a huge hit. In 1879, his friend Ernest Guiraud compiled two suites of music from L’Arlésienne to satisfy the public’s desire for more music

by Bizet. The “Carillon” is one of the most memorable selections, built around a repeated three-note pattern that imitates church bells to accompany a lovely folklike melody.

Ricky Lombardo is a flutist and band director in Princeton, New Jersey, who has made a number of idiomatic and charming arrangements for flute choir. His Simple Gifts is a lovely setting of Joseph Brackett’s hymn, composed in 1848 in a Shaker settlement in Maine. The melody was rarely heard until Aaron Copland borrowed it for his 1944 ballet Appalachian Spring; since then, it has become one of the best-known American hymn tunes around the world.

Rossini’s 1812 opera La scala di seta (“The Silken Ladder”) was a one-act comic farce, concerning the comings and goings of Giulia and Dorvil, who are secretly married, while Giulia’s father cluelessly acts as a matchmaker for his daughter. The overture sets the comic mood from the outset, with lots of stops and starts that foreshadow characters stumbling through comic shenanigans.

Friedrich Witt was a German composer and cellist, born about a month before Beethoven, in 1770. Although he was well known during his lifetime as a composer of oratorios, operas, concertos, and at least 18 symphonies, he has mostly disappeared from the repertoire. Like much of his music, Witt’s charming Symphony in A major shows the strong influence of Haydn.

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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.

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 Midori, Edgar Meyer, Christopher O’Riley, 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 Gold Series 3 Sunday, May 17, 2015, 7 p.m.

Tobin Center for the Performing Arts H-E-B Performance Hall

Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

Jamie-Rose Guarrine, soprano Ryland Angel, tenor Zachary Gordin, baritone

San Antonio Choral Society Children’s Chorus of San Antonio University of the Incarnate Word Cardinal Chorale

Michael Daugherty Route 66

Carl Orff Carmina Burana

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

1. O Fortuna

2. Fortune plango vulnera

I. Primo vere

3. Veris leta facies

4. Omnia Sol temperat

5. Ecce gratum

Uf dem anger

6. Tanz

7. Floret silva

8. Chramer, gip die varwe mir

9. Reie—Swaz hie gat umbe—

Chume, chum, geselle min—Swaz hie gat umbe

10. Were diu werit alle min

II. In Taberna

11. Estuans interius

12. Olim lacus colueram

13. Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis

14. In taberna quando sumus

III. Cour d’amours

15. Amor volat undique

16. Dies, nox et omnia

17. Stetit puella

18. Circa mea pectora

19. Si puer cum puellula

20. Veni, veni, venias

21. In trutina

22. Tempus est iocundum

23. Dulcissime

Blanziflor et Helena

24. Ave formosissima

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

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RYLAND ANGEL, Tenor

Grammy-nominated countertenor Ryland Angel has performed in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Gavin Bryars’s Doctor Ox’s Experiment (English National Opera), Fairy Queen (Barcelona), Gluck’s Orfeo (Koblenz), Amadigi (Karlsruhe), Venus and Adonis (Flanders Opera), Dido and Aeneas (Opera Comique), The Play of Daniel (Spoleto), and Ballet Comique de La Royne (Geneva). Angel has sung on over 50 recordings including music of Buxtehude, Charpentier, Scarlatti, Handel, Monteverdi, Purcell, Bach, and film soundtracks of Le Petit Prince, La Peau, Henry 4th, Machete, The Mystery of Dante and the PBS TV special Heavenly Voices. Recent engagements include Doux Mensonges (Opera National de Paris), Agrippina (NYCO), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Florentine Opera, Kansas Opera), Julius Caesar (Utah Opera, Boston Baroque, Opera Colorado), Sant Alessio (Paris, London, New York), Carmina Burana (Lincoln Center), St. John Passion (Saint Thomas and Houston Bach), Classics and Rock (Seoul Philharmonic), Tesla (Dartmouth), Acis and Galatea (Houston) and Messiah (Handel and Haydn Society, Masterworks Chorus, Musica Sacra at Carnegie Hall). rylandangel.com

ZACHARY GORDIN, Baritone

Zachary Gordin is renowned as a dynamic and engaging artist, bringing masterful singing and strong physicality to a wide variety of roles: from baroque heroes to contemporary works written specifically for him. Recent operatic highlights include: Joseph De Rocher – the convict - in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking with Dayton Opera, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte as a guest with UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Visalia Opera Company, Escamillo in Carmen with Diablo Symphony Orchestra and San Francisco Lyric Opera, Silvio in I Pagliacci and Monterone in Rigoletto with Sacramento Opera, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with West Bay Opera, Germont in La traviata with West Bay Opera and Center Stage Opera, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor with North Bay Opera and Center Stage Opera, and many others.

On the concert stage, he has performed Monteverdi’s Magnificat with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Bach’s Cantata #82 “Ich habe 18

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS genug” with the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed Brahms’ Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Oakland Symphony Chorus, Schubert’s Mass in E-flat and Psalm 92 with the San Francisco Choral Society, Mozart’s Requiem with the Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah, Fauré’s Requiem, and Verdi’s Otello with Oakland East Bay Symphony, and Orff’s Carmina Burana in performances with the Pacific Shores Philharmonic, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Bakersfield Symphony, Santa Clara Chorale, and others. In addition to his performing schedule he maintains an active vocal studio and is in demand as a presenter of workshops and master classes for young artists. For more information, visit www.zacharygordin.com.

JAMIE-ROSE GUARRINE, Soprano

Soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine is acclaimed for her vibrant vocal beauty, charming stage presence, and accomplished musicianship.

Guarrine has performed on the stages of Los Angeles Opera, Minnesota Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Chicago Opera Theater, Utah Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Madison Symphony, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, The National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, Santa Fe Symphony, among many others. In recent seasons, Guarrine returned to both Austin Lyric Opera and the Florentine Opera in her signature role of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, as well as debuts with Opera Omaha in Die Zauberflöte and Opera Memphis in Lee Hoiby’s This is the Rill Speaking. Her performance repertoire ranges from the baroque such as the Pergolesi Stabat Mater and Keiser’s The Fortunes of King Croesus to modern works such as the roles of Xanthe/Aphrodite in Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata and Maria Celeste in Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei. The summer of 2013 saw Guarrine’s debut of the title role in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammemoor at Opera Saratoga in New York, where “as the title character, soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine possesses an utterly thrilling, agile voice. She commanded the famous Act 3 “mad scene” with pathos, beauty, and heartbreaking skill.” (Saratoga Wire) Last season, Guarrine “traversed the Fiakermilli’s coloratura flights with ease and clarity” (Opera News) in the Minnesota Opera’s Production of Richard Strauss’ Arabella, and returned to Opera Omaha in the role of Poppea in Handel’s Agrippina.

Projects for 2014-2015 and beyond include Madison Opera in the Park, the Mozart Requiem with the Lake Chelan Bach Festival, Mozart’s C Minor Mass with the Bradley University Orchestra and Chorus, Carmina Burana with the YOSA, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with the Illinois Wesleyan Civic Orchestra, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with Opera Fairbanks, and her return to Florentine Opera.

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PROGAM NOTES

by Troy Peters

Daugherty: Route 66

Michael Daugherty (born 1954) is one of the most widely performed American composers of our time, frequently celebrating historical and cultural icons (including Superman, Liberace, Diego Rivera, and Elvis Presley) through music that blends modernist classical techniques with the stylistic influence of rock, jazz, and blues.

The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra commissioned and premiered Route 66 for the opening concert of the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in East Lansing, Michigan on April 25, 1998. The composer writes: Route 66 is a high-octane nostalgic musical romp from Illinois to California along America’s first intercontinental highway, as seen through my rear view mirror. The music takes off with four trumpets, in musical canon, and a metallic brake drum, pulsating like the yellow painted line that divides the two-lane asphalt highway. As woodwinds, mallet instruments, and bongos continue the syncopation, a soaring string melody casts a panoramic soundstage down “The Mother Road.” A lonely tuba solo, which signals the only traffic light of the journey, segues into a breathtaking expansion of the opening tune, punctuated by chromatic scales at lightning speed. Upon the entrance of a syncopated Latin groove on cowbell, we suddenly shift gears into a development section of exciting multilayered twists and turns. The final brassy chord signals the end of our symphonic road trip down “Main Street America.”

Orff: Carmina Burana

German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982) wrote several unsuccessful operas in the 1920s, but his main accomplishment at the time was the development of “Orff Schulwerk,” an innovative approach to music education for young children that remains influential and widely used around the world. Orff the composer was fluent in avant-garde musical techniques, but by the early 1930s—like Copland in America and Shostakovich in Soviet Russia—he was searching for a simpler, more direct style of expression that could immediately engage listeners. He found the jumping-off point for his new style in a unique book of poetry.

In 1803, a collection of about 200 poems was discovered in a Bavarian abbey at Beuren. Taken together, they paint a vivid, earthy portrait of medieval life, satirizing 13th-century manners and morals, criticizing the omnipotence of money, and praising the joys of food, drink, and physical love. The poets were known as goliards—overeducated, underemployed monks who traveled around Europe, entertaining in palaces and taverns with their songs and poems, written in a heady mixture of Latin, old German, and old French. The Bavarian manuscript was published in 1847 as Carmina Burana (“Songs of Beuren”).

In setting 24 poems from Carmina Burana to music as a “scenic cantata” for three soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Orff forged a compelling musical language by combining the insistent, driving rhythm of early Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring and The Wedding) with melodies that evoke German folksongs and Renaissance madrigals. Premiered in Frankfurt in 1937, Carmina Burana was an immediate smash with audiences. Although it had to wait until after World War II to gain fame outside of Germany, by the 1960s it was popular around the world.

The work is laid out in three large sections with prologue and epilogue. The three principal divisions—Primo Vere (“Springtime”), In Taberna (“In the Tavern”) and

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS Cour d’Amours (“Court of Love”)—are made up of hedonistic songs of youth, joy, and love. However, the matching prologue and epilogue caution against unbridled enjoyment. “The wheel of fortune turns; dishonored I fall from grace and another is raised on high,” warns Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (“Fortune, Empress of the World”), the poet’s reminder that the turning of the same Wheel of Fortune that brings sensual pleasure may also grind that joy to dust. This juxtaposition of antitheses—the most rustic human pleasures with the sternest of cosmic admonitions—coupled with Orff’s irresistibly catchy musical idiom gives Carmina Burana its dynamic theatricality.

Carmina Burana opens with the famous chorus O Fortuna, depicting the relentless turning of the Wheel of Fate through a powerful repeated rhythmic figure that builds inexorably to a stunning climax. After a brief morality tale (Fortune plango vulnera— “I lament the wounds that fortune deals”), the celebration of spring begins. Its songs and dances are filled with sylvan brightness and optimistic anticipation appropriate to the annual rebirth of the earth and the spirit. The next section, In Taberna (“In the Tavern”), is given over wholly to the men’s voices. Along with hearty drinking songs are heard two satirical stories: Olim lacus colueram (“Once in lakes I made my home”), a fiendishly difficult aria in which the tenor plays the role of a swan as he cooks on a spit, and Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis, the tale of a corrupt monk. The third major section, Cour d’Amours (“Court of Love”), leaves behind the revelry of the tavern to enter a refined, seductive world of sensual pleasure. The music is limpid, gentle and enticing, and marks the first appearance of the soprano soloist. The lovers’ urgent entreaties grow in ardor, with insistent encouragement from the chorus, until the soprano delivers the most rapturous moment in the score, Dulcissime (“Sweetest Boy”). A grand paean to the loving couple (Blanziflor et Helena) is cut short by the intervention of imperious fate, as the opening chorus (O Fortuna), like the turning of the great wheel, comes around again to close the piece where it began.

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San Antonio Choral Society

Dr. Jennifer L. Seighman, Artistic Director Dr. N. Seth Nelson, Keyboard Artist Christian Cruz and Joseph Herron, Conducting Interns

SOPRANO

Linda Bailey Rebecca Bartelt Yvonne Cosgrove Rebecca Dawes*** Sara DeTurk Debbie Finger Brianna Garcia Monique Grigsby*** Ludmila Krupova Connie Medrano Maria Medrano Janet Metzner Dawn Moreno Monica Northrop Becky Nelson* Linda Otstott Muffin Russell*** Karen Scales Paula Schlein Erica Spelman Amanda Smith Trina Smith Elizabeth Velez Micah Walker Amy White Linda Wilcox Sierra Wynder

ALTO

Brianne Ainsworth Christa Alderete*** Sandi Ashworth Sharon Beales Amy Bryant Barbara Dauerty Mary Friday Josie Geremia Kerri Hammer*** Gina Hayes Jennifer Hermann Nettie Hinton Christy Hylden Corinne McLeod Maren Mitchell Aubie Nanninga Mary Ann Quick Mitzi Roberts* Gail Saenz Crystal Valdez Anna Westbrook Christina Womack Heather Yun

TENOR

Graham Bridges Isaac Chavez Ken Chiang Christian Cruz*** Michael Cooling Lance Dawalga Thomas Duesing Jim Fannin Donald Kearney Kurt Kendall Scott Mortensen Ronald Olson Sebastian Pinzon Gary Seighman Michael Stevens Craig Wilson*

* Section Leaders

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*** Students

BARITONE/BASS Adrian Aguilar Miguel Alcantar Dan Badger Mickey Bailey Marcus Canales Jim Garner Victor Garza John Gelsinger John Harris Joseph Herron*** Jim Kirkpatrick Larry Loden Jim Noel* Dennis Schaffer Larry Stern David Woods

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS Established in 1965, the San Antonio Choral Society is an 80-person mixedvoice community chorus, open to adult and talented high school singers. The mission of the choir is to foster the joy of choral music by providing an opportunity for men and women to perform a wide range of innovative and diverse programs in a variety of venues, and to be a vibrant part of San Antonio’s arts community. Recently, the ensemble has performed such choral masterworks as Mozart’s Requiem, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Duruflé’s Requiem, Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer, Corigliano’s Fern Hill, John Rutter’s Mass of the Children, Robert Rays’ Gospel Mass and premiered new commissions by Jerome Malek, Leslie Hogan, and James Syler. Pops concerts have included music from the Beatles, Hollywood movie classics, Gilbert and Sullivan, Broadway stage, and jazz genre. The ensemble collaborates with local and nationally-recognized musical artists to provide unique and quality performances in the San Antonio community and beyond. The choir has been featured at numerous events such as Luminaria, the return of the Travis Letter to the Alamo, the Oblate School of Theology Commencement, Spurs basketball games, the New Year’s Eve Celebration at Sea World, and the Texas Choral Directors Association annual convention. In the summer of 2014, the choir embarked on a spectacular ten-day musical tour of Bavaria and Austria.

Jennifer L. Seighman is in her fourth season as artistic director of the San Antonio Choral Society. Under her baton, recent collaborative performances have included a multiple choir and brass Gabrieli celebration, the SA Symphony Brahms Festival, Britten’s St. Nicolas, a city-wide Messiah sing, and an historic ten-day choir tour to Bavaria and Austria. Over the past twenty years, Dr. Seighman has worked professionally as a music director and organist building choral music programs in churches as well as public and private school settings.

She graduated magna cum laude with the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Westminster Choir College where she studied voice and organ and sang with renowned orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. She holds a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Oklahoma and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Sacred Choral Music from The Catholic University of America.

The focus of her doctoral treatise is a multi-case study of Catholic choir school programs in the United States. This summer she has been invited to present her research at the Psallite Domino conference on sacred music and liturgical reform after Vatican II in Liverpool, UK. In addition to her current position as organist at the historic Travis Park United Methodist Church in downtown San Antonio, Dr. Seighman has been organist for Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with the San Antonio Symphony in 2011 and the Texas Choral Directors Association annual conference worship service in 2013. From 2012 to 2014, she presided as Dean of the Alamo Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Jennifer resides in San Antonio with her husband, Gary, Director of Choral Activities at Trinity University.

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Children’s Chorus of San Antonio Irma Taute, Associate Director

YOUTH ACADEMY MIXED CHORUS Monica Barba Seana Barclay Teresa DeGennaro Rachel Deschner Emily Elizondo Sofia Follman Destiny Herndon Emily Isler Erin Isler Madison Jury Prisca Lafuente Violet Luna Mishel Malik Jacob Morse Trainor Noal Alejandro Olvera Elizabeth Potts Jacob Quesada Mark Rogers Sara Tuscher KeVon Vernon Julia Grace Walker Kyra White Matthew Whyte

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YOUTH ACADEMY TREBLE CHORUS Rema Bhat Fernanda Campos Trinity Cardenas Luke DaLomba Ashley Davidson Zora Dickson Tappen Douglas Gabriel Eddy Uriel Eddy Elizabeth Elizondo Caroline Hughes Hannah Jury Garrett Kilpatrick Brenna Kubinski Remie LeBlanc Caitlyn Litwhiler Clarissa Longoria Emily May Alejandro Moncada Elizabeth Morrey Evelyn Morrey Melissa Phillips Tony Rodriguez Naomi Rosario Vaughn Scott Isabella Soave Jenna Takach Sophia Talley Nina Trevino Raegan Weaver Hollis Wilkins

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS The Children’s Chorus of San Antonio was founded in 1983 by Marguerite McCormick. As a resident company of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, CCSA is organized in collaboration with San Antonio schools, homeschool families, and music programs throughout greater San Antonio. Three divisions and seven citywide community choruses provide inspirational and transformative musical experience for hundreds of children from birth through young adulthood.

Through singing and the art of choral music, CCSA develops the musical and personal potential of children and youth through a culturally diverse repertoire, a commitment to inclusion, and a socially responsible approach to music education through performance. Our young musicians are empowered through the pursuit of artistic excellence as a way of knowing themselves and the world around them.

CCSA’s three divisions include: Core Ensembles—training and performance ensembles for boys and girls ages 8-22; Music Together®—early childhood classes for infants, toddlers, and young children through age 7 and their families; and Project: Sing!—tuition-free neighborhood programs for San Antonio, Edgewood, and Harlandale ISD students.

CCSA’s advanced choirs regularly sing with the San Antonio Symphony and Mastersingers and have traveled across the state and around the world with featured performances at state, regional, and national music education and choral conventions. They have toured Scotland, Italy, Ireland, England, Canada, and France and have been featured on NBC-TV’s Today Show and NPR’s Performance Today.

As they perform throughout our city and all around the country, our young artists learn great musical literature and acquire the means to perform with excellence.

While they discover their musical artistry, they develop discipline and leadership skills, build lasting relationships, and grow as individuals. Our young artists are the future generations of creative, engaged, and well-rounded citizens.

Irma Taute, associate director of the advanced choruses, is in her 20th season with CCSA. A music educator for more than four decades, Taute has taught in two school districts in San Antonio, the Texas cities of Alice and Kingsville, Texas A&I (A&M) University, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education from Texas A&I (A&M) University in Kingsville. A frequently contracted choral clinician and adjudicator, Taute has also conducted middle school region choirs and prepared choruses for the San Antonio Symphony. She has held leadership positions for TMEA Regions 11 and 12, the South Texas chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and the San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers, where she is also a rehearsal assistant. Taute is a member of TMAA, ACDA, TMEA, NATS, and TCDA and has maintained a private voice studio for more than 30 years.

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University of the Incarnate Word Cardinal Chorale William Gokelman, Director

SOPRANO

Victoria Acosta Samantha Alecozay Carmen Arenas Maria Barron Esper Ragen Breath Denisse Chavez Bianca Diaz Lucinda Esquivel Andrea Galvan Elizette Gonzalez Courtney Hight Rylee Krkosa Jennifer Kroon Angela Mattingly Nina McGuane Cynthia Rael Paola Sabella Myrna Urbina Victoria Villarreal

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ALTO

Sofia Altamirano Sorangel Arguellez Adrianna Ayala Berenice Chavez Elisabeth Hand Alexandra Krauss Elise Pardue Amber Parry Candice Strycharz Astrid Tapia Candice Velasquez Corina Villarreal Jennifer Villarreal Rebecca Villarreal Sarah Grace Villarreal Teresa Vincent Kiae Waite Kristen Walker-Byrd

TENOR

Andrew Coldwell Matthew Davis Joseph Flores Carlos Hinojosa Tabitha Hoxie Joshua Hutchinson Nathan Munoz Gabriel Ramos Dominic Trevino

BARITONE/BASS Miguel Alcantar Victor Arcos Christopher Barnes Nathaniel Foster Benjamin Fragozo Gilberto Gonzalez James Kirkpatrick Christopher Prewit Israel (Joe) Rivas R. Rodriguez-Colon Matthew Shavers Jason Smith

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS The UIW Cardinal Chorale is the primary vocal ensemble of UIW. It is comprised of students from many different academic disciplines. The Chorale represents UIW to the city of San Antonio and the state of Texas through its Christmas and spring concerts, concert tours, and other performances. The Chorale has toured throughout several southern states, most extensively in Texas. Recent performances include two in Carnegie Hall (2010 and 2000), and numerous radio and television appearances during the Christmas season. In 1996, the Chorale was asked to sing the “Star-Spangled Banner” (arranged by William Gokelman) with Tejano star Emilio Navaira at the NBA All-Star game, held in the Alamodome.

In 1995, the Chorale was invited to sing for the Mass celebrating the 25th anniversary of San Antonio Archbishop Patrick Flores. The Chorale has performed on two CDs of liturgical choral music, “Behold,” and “Mirad,” both published by Good For The Soul Music. The Chorale is a major ensemble in the UIW Music Department, and the largest student organization on the UIW campus.

The University of the Incarnate Word has a vibrant and growing Music Department that offers degrees in Music Education, Music Therapy, Music Industries, and the Bachelor of Arts in Music, with focuses on composition or performance. Ensembles include the Cardinal Chorale, Cardinal Singers, Jazz Ensemble (invitations to Montreux and North Sea Festivals), Orchestra of the Incarnate Word (a blend of students and community players), and the Cardinal Band. Class sizes are kept relatively small (with the exception of the performing ensembles) so that students receive a good deal of attention, directly from the faculty. Students are taught within the ideals of justice and service, as instituted by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word.

William Gokelman is a Professor of Music, and Department of Music Chair at the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio. He directs the Cardinal Chorale and Cardinal Singers, and teaches piano, vocal coaching, choral methods, and conducting. For eight years, William was a keyboard artist with the San Antonio Symphony, and often performed chamber music concerts with members of the orchestra. In 2004, William was signed as a recording artist/composer with Good For The Soul Music, a Christian record and print music company. From 2001-2008, William was on staff at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church, where he directed the Chancel Choir and served as a cantor and pianist/organist.

During the past 20 years, William has served as musical director for several theatrical companies, and in 1995 earned the Alamo Theater Arts Community GLOBE Award for his musical direction of Cottonpatch Gospel at the University of the Incarnate Word. In spring 2014, William began coaching the San Antonio Police Department choir, the “Blue Line,” preparing them for performances throughout the city for civic and sporting events. The choir also serves a community outreach function for the SAPD. William holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from Incarnate Word College, where he earned the Amy Freeman Lee Award for the Arts and Humanities, and a Master of Music degree in vocal coaching and accompanying from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, where he was awarded the Alfred E. Merron Award for Accompanying. In 2006, William became the second recipient of the UIW Presidential Teaching Award, and was voted UIW’s Moody Professor for 2010-2011. William is a member of BMI, NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences), National Association of Pastoral Musicians (as a member of the Pianist’s Steering Committee), American Choral Director’s Association, Texas Choral Director’s Association, and Texas Music Educators Association.

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YOSA CONDUCTOR BIOS

Kenneth Freudigman, YOSA Symphony & YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor Kenneth Freudigman is the co-founder and artistic director of Camerata San Antonio, principal cello of the San Antonio Symphony, adjunct professor of cello at the University of Texas at San Antonio, former Education Director of the Cactus Pear Music Festival, and a highly respected cello pedagogue. Ken began his work as YOSA Symphony conductor in 2012.

Dr. John Zarco, YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor John Zarco is the Associate Director of Bands at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he conducts the UTSA Symphonic Band and Chamber Winds, in addition to assisting with the UTSA “Spirit of San Antonio” Marching Band. His responsibilities also include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting, wind literature, and music education.

Martha Long, YOSA Flute Choir Conductor Martha Long joined the San Antonio Symphony as principal flute in October 2012. Martha received her Bachelor’s degree from the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where she studied with Jim Walker, and continued her studies at the New England Conservatory as a student of Elizabeth Rowe. She was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 2010 and 2011 and returned in 2012 as a New Fromm Player, focusing on the performance of new compositions. Martha has also performed with the Colorado, Fort Collins (CO), New World, and North Carolina Symphonies. Martha began her work with YOSA Flute Choir in 2013.

Brenda Johnson, YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor Brenda Johnson is orchestra director at Hector Garcia Middle School (Northside ISD), where she opened the school as founding conductor of the Gladiator Orchestra program. 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 Majorie Keller Young Music Educator’s Award from the American String Teacher Association 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 Association.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS Jonathan Raveneau, YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor Jonathan Raveneau is a versatile and eclectic musician with specialties ranging from classical to jazz in both instrumental and vocal genres. Jonathan joined YOSA as conductor in 2010. Jonathan also conducts the Cavatina Orchestra for the Hill Country Youth Orchestras.

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 Phiharmonic 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 an associate professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio where he is Director of Orchestral Studies, conductor of the UTSA Orchestra and Lyric Theatre, and head of instrumental conducting.

Dr. Dowdy conducted YOSA’s Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1992 and was Interim Philharmonic Conductor in 2000. He researched and wrote YOSA’s history for his doctoral essay at the University of Iowa in 1995. He also serves as associate conductor for the Symphony of the Hills (Kerrville), and is the founding director of the UTSA String Project. He is a past president of TODA and TexASTA.

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Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

VIOLIN

Joseph Guzek

David Rueda

Winston Churchill High School

Arianna Jefferson

Sophia Sanchez

Brian Kang

Harrison Schumann

Victoria Klaunig

Claire Thornton

Mika Kochheiser

Wesley Tiong

Benita Lee

Corry Tu

Lydia Matteson

Isaac Villaroya

Dora Cheng concertmaster

Kathleen Ran assistant concertmaster Health Careers High School

Emily Averyt principal second violin Saint Mary’s Hall

Victoria Acuña

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Sebastian Alderete John Jay High School

Anne Archer

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Jessie Atkins

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Ronald Reagan High School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Home School

Burbank High School

Alamo Heights High School

Incarnate Word High School

Elise Maas

Ronald Reagan High School

Daniel Meloni

William H. Taft High School

Abigail Boyer

David Menchaca

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Antonian College Preparatory

Elisa Bravo

Sandra Moon

University of Texas at San Antonio

Alex Brehm

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Daniel Brun

San Antonio College

Andrea Brun

Ronald Reagan High School

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Daniel Nix

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Deborah Olivier

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Ryan Cao

Isabelle Pacheco

Miranda Cole

Dominik Peña

Health Careers High School

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Ivanna Gomez

John Marshall High School

John Marshall High School

Topiltzin Perez Home School

Alyse Gonzalez

Emilienne Riopel

Luis Gutierrez Fonseca

Wilmer Rodriguez

John Marshall High School

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Judson High School

University of Texas at San Antonio

Saint Mary’s Hall

San Antonio Christian Schools

John Marshall High School

Health Careers High School

John Marshall High School

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

Peiyang Wang

Basis Charter School

Emily Ye

Keystone School

Taegyun Yoon

Thomas C. Clark High School

VIOLA

Christopher Gokelman principal

St. Anthony Catholic High School

Cristian Aguirre

John Marshall High School

Bailey Boyen

Health Careers High School

Juliet DeNapoli

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

David Irizarry Home School

Rachel Jones Home School

Alyssa Peña

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Andrew Piña

Thomas C. Clark High School

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Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

Emma Reynolds

BASS

Isaac Schutz

University of Texas at San Antonio

Winston Churchill High School

STEM Academy -- Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Academy

Kevin Valdez

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

Jesus Zendejo

Douglas MacArthur High School

Christopher Osborn principal Albert Coleman

Thomas C. Clark High School

Quynten Grove

Byron P. Steele II High School

Alejandro Juul Saint Mary’s Hall

CELLO

Alexandra Krick

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Kyle Krieger

Isabel Tweraser principal

Andrew Arkhipov

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Julianna Bray

Northwest Vista College

Federico Chavez-Torres Health Careers High School

Emily Dunn

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Gwendolyn Hollida

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Minji Kim

Health Careers High School

Prisca Lafuente

Earl Warren High School

Mary Nerio

Seton Home Study

Tricia Park

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Alamo Heights High School

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Hannah McCullough Tivy High School

Michael Sagor

William J. Brennan High School

Niklas Siebert

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

HARP

Abigail Taylor

CLARINET

Jenna Gaulden

Winston Churchill High School

Natalie Morales

Smithson Valley High School

Hampton Rattan

Byron P. Steele II High School

BASSOON

Nicholas Fitch Tivy High School

Kaan Kumru

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

Andy Thomas

Smithson Valley High School

Elaina Walzel

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

HORN

Eric Bassett

Ronald Reagan High School

Benjamin Hanysz

Robert E. Lee High School

Home School

Derek Timmons

FLUTE

Kevin Yang

Alaina Blue

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Nnamdi Odita-Honnah

Medina Valley High School

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Louis D. Brandeis High School

TRUMPET

Paula Wilson

Judson High School

Judson High School

Dylan Frazier

Jonathan Fritzlen

OBOE

Ronald Reagan High School

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Ronald Reagan High School

Kailey Lopez

Ryan Hayes

Astrid Topletz

Reagan Merrill

Bradley Kent

Victoria Valdez

Michael Tijerina

Marc Rodriguez

Samuel V. Champion High School

Ronald Reagan High School

Grace Christian School

James Madison High School

Ronald Reagan High School

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

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Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

TROMBONE

PERCUSSION

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Nat Hsu

Nicholas Moppin Canyon High School

BASS TROMBONE Antonio Morales

Robert E. Lee High School

Gabriela Barrera Jacob Bissell

Judson High School

Keve Bordas Keystone School

Danielle Morales

Scott Rogers

Judson High School

Dominic Walsh

Central Catholic High School

PIANO

Cheryl Cellon Lindquist N. Seth Nelson

Smithson Valley High School

Colton Noles

TUBA

Ricardo Gandarilla

William J. Brennan High School

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor VIOLIN

Dylan Fernandez de lara concertmaster Frank Tejeda Middle School

McKenna Mosely assistant concertmaster William P. Hobby Middle School

Abigail Dickson principal second violin Home School

Gabriel Akessler

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Daniel Arkhipov

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Chandler Baker

Central Catholic High School

Matthew Christman

Business Careers High School

Aaliyah Crawford

James Madison High School

Giselle De La Torre Pinedo Health Careers High School

Olivia Deahl Home School

Deja Dorrough

Karen Wagner High School

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Zoe Espinoza-Kochheiser Theodore Roosevelt High School

Audria Fogarty-Ramirez Ronald Reagan High School

Anne Gao

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Hannah Garcia

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Abiud Rodriguez

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

David Saucedo

Earl Warren High School

Abigail Slaughter

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School

Enoch Szeto

Thomas C. Clark High School

Erica Gonzalez

Laura Tapley

Ana Hernandez Quiros

Victoria Villarreal

Rebekah Jones

VIOLA

Douglas MacArthur High School

Ronald Reagan High School

Home School

Home School

Samuel Clemens High School

Victoria Juarez

Jalie-Ann Cummings principal

Natalie Meissler

Imaya Farrell

Savanna Moore

Jodei Pasasadaba

Nicole Perez

Natalie Perez

Avery Robinson

Michelle Richardson

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Home School

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

STEM Academy -- Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Academy

Judson Early College Academy

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Ronald Reagan High School

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS

Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor Joshua Rodriguez

Elisabeth Wang

OBOE

Kiana Williamson

David Zamarripa

Theodore Roosevelt High School

CELLO

BASS

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Ronald Reagan High School

Judson High School

James Madison High School

Katelyn Petersen principal Millie Camp

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Sophie Deahl Home School

Maximilian Klaunig

Samuel V. Champion High School

Catherine Kline

Providence High School

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Michael Djabarov principal Samuel Becvar

Alamo Heights High School

Adrian Iniguez

Travis Early College High School

Anaelli Rodriguez

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

Erik Martilla

St. Anthony Catholic High School

Winston Churchill High School

Nicholas Slaughter

Samuel Clemens High School

Rhiannon Villarreal

Gail Fernandes

Judson Early College Academy

Zia Kim

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Ashley Ventrella

William J. Brennan High School

Kierstin Wilkins

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

OBOE

Sara Morales Taft High School

Simon Gonzales

John Paul Stevens High School

Garrett Snowden

Smithson Valley High School

BASSOON James King

Engineering and Technologies Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

Emmali Ouderkirk HORN Aidan Alcocer

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

FLUTE

Christina Cardenas

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Miranda Nydegger Home School

Eunice Chung

Smithson Valley Middle School

Symphonic Winds FLUTE

CLARINET

Byron P. Steele II High School

HARP

Jacob Resendez

Nathalie Vela

Karen Wagner High School

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Alamo Heights High School

Jasmine Perez

Dr. John Zarco, Conductor

Bailey Nicholson

Alejandro Yanez

Joshua Roper

BASSOON

Kreuger Middle School

First Baptist Academy of Universal City

CLARINET

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Michael Chapa

Wagner High School

Pearl Fernandes

Austin Perry

Blanka Bordas

Jared Worman

Judson Early College Academy Health Careers High School

Dustin Gonzales

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

James Madison High School

Canyon Lake High School

ALTO SAXOPHONE

Mandy Whitaker

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

George West High School

Torda Bordas

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Symphonic Winds Aldo Aguilar

Theodore Roosevelt High School

TENOR SAXOPHONE Cody Myre

Byron P. Steele II High School

HORN

Isaiah Aguilar

Roy D. Corbett Junior High School

Ethan Gurwitz

Winston Churchill High School

Luis Hernandez Edison High School

Caleb Keller

Dr. John Zarco, Conductor

TRUMPET

TUBA

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Byron P. Steele II High School

Ian Aigner-Varoz

Shukria Al-Araibi

Maxwell Harrison

Xavier Alexander

Joshua Jalomo

Zachary Gilbertson

Katherine Stinson Middle School

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Natalie Johns

Judson High School

Antonian College Preparatory

Home School

PERCUSSION

Eric Moeller

Earl Warren High School

Geneva School of Boerne

Chukwudi Odita-Honnah

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Ernesto Aguirre Anna Ayres

Providence College Preparatory School for Girls

Harlandale High School

TROMBONE

Ty Gonzales-Graves

Hailey Schmidt

Briscoe Middle School

Danielle Morales

Randolph High School

Angel Rivera-Hernandez

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Smithson Valley High School

Colton Noles

William J. Brennan High School

Flute Choir FLUTE

Gabriella Banales Cole High School

Sinead Bolton

St. Phillip’s College

Antonio Jasiczek

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Quentin Johnston Home School

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Martha Long, Conductor Emily Kuppers

Tonda Turner

Emily Lawitz

Tyrece Williams

Eliana Olivier

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

CELLO

Rebekah Taylor

Health Careers High School

St. Pius X Catholic School

Home School

Home School

Alamo Heights Junior School

Robert E. Lee High Schoo

Federico Chavez-Torres

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS

Concertino Strings VIOLIN

Tara Mosely concertmaster

William P. Hobby Middle School

Miaoyin Rojas assistant concertmaster Judson High School

Seva Joshi principal second violin Keystone School

Matthew Anderson

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Anna Claire Beasley Medina Valley High School

Benjamin Bendele Home School

Samuel Bentz Home School

Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor

Victoria Kim

Lindee Fiedler

Julia Lavergne

CELLO

Basis Charter School Earl Warren High School

Linda Liu

Simon Phoa principal

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Mariana Navarro

Giuliano Bucheli

James Madison High School

Barbara Bush Middle School

Adam Nix

Victoria Day

Great Hearts San Antonio

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Brianna Pendry

Britney Ericson

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Douglas MacArthur High School

Ethan Poidevin

Mia Flowers

Eve Poindexter

Hansi Goldman

Basis Charter School

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Rahul Rajesh

Rema Bhat

Health Careers High School

Samantha Geri Cirineo

Health Careers High School

Josie Decherd

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Sofia Follman

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Paulina Garcia

Keystone School

Natalie Gifford

Cornerstone Christian School

Basis Charter School Earl Rudder Middle School Basis Charter School Providence High School The Atonement Academy Winston Churchill High School

Elijah Gonzalez

Woodlake Hills Middle School

Camilla Guel

Basis Charter School

Sofia Hernandez

Incarnate Word High School

Angelina Hinojosa

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Georgeanna Hoey

Smithson Valley High School

Diana Hubbard

Boerne High School

Natalie Rodriguez

Emily Seddighzadeh

Smithson Valley Middle School Robert E. Lee High School

Noah Hernandez

Elanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy

Serena Kallead

William J. Brennan High School

Paul Lopez-Perryman Keystone School

Everardo Sifuentes

Benito Salinas

Sankya Srinivasan

Rachel Taylor

Ruth Toth

Alejandra Wagnon

Samantha Woods

Avery Wilson

Wentao Yang

Elaine Zhang

Taylor (Taein) Yoon

BASS

VIOLA

Saint Mary’s Hall

Calvary Baptist Academy Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School Blattman Elementary School

Andrew Kang principal

William J. Brennan High School William J. Brennan High School Gregory Luna Middle School William H. Taft High School Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Javier Hernandez principal Blaine Bryan

Monroe May Elementary

Winston Churchill High School

Parker Baillon

Andrew Butts

Dolph Briscoe Middle School

Alamo Heights High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

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Sinfonietta Strings VIOLIN

Donnel Zhu concertmaster

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Katie Chong assistant concertmaster San Antonio Christian Schools

Andrea Reyes principal second violin

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Leo Arreguin

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Julia Cervantes

Judson Middle School

Lawrence Corsini

Katherine Stinson Middle School

Josiah Damiano

Cornerstone Christian School

Isabel Dickinson Basis Charter School

Alessandra Finol

Hardy Oak Elementary School

Sophia Flores

Judson Early College Academy

Jillian Griffis

Leon Valley Christian Academy

Grace Hende

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Anirudha Reddy Karla Keystone School

Kaitlyn Kelly

Woodlake Hills Middle School

Christina Marie Martinez

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Joseph Albert Martinez

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Alicia McNulty

Providence High School

Hunter Messick

Katherine Stinson Middle School

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Brenda Johnson, Conductor

David Miller

Giovanni Carrasco

Alex Navarro

Sophia Choe

Rebecca Neely

Jashea Hollis

Andrea Negro

Marissa Howard

Jack C. Jordan Middle School

St. Pius X Catholic School

Barbara Bush Middle School

School of Science and Technology – Discovery

Carlos Nieto

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Samantha Olvera Judson Middle School

John Marshall High School

Basis Charter School

J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Diana Salinas

Briscoe Middle School

Amy Wang

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Natasha Pfeiffer

CELLO

Phillippe Riopel

John Garner Middle School

John B. Connally Middle School

Valley Hi Elementary School

Zakary Rodriguez Home School

Jackson Rogler

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Marciano Ross

Emiliano Zendejo principal Katia Amori

Barbara Bush Middle School

Bianca Castillo

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Sydni-Simone Dukes

Gregory Luna Middle School

Virginia Allred Stacey Junior Senior High

Alec Sanchez

Julia Gutierrez

Kelsey Smith

Gayle Hende

Alex Sobotker

Madeline Hoyle

Willa White

Madelyn Jarvis Johnston

Nathan Winfrey

Valerie Jones

VIOLA

Darius Keeffe

Byron P. Steele II High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Home School

Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Ruben Andrade principal

Robert L. Vale Middle School

Mikayla Acosta

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Byron P. Steele II High School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

St. George Episcopal School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Home School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Alexander Lomeli-Azoubel Frank Tejeda Middle School

Randy Resendez

Ronald Reagan High School

Aubrie Rettmann

J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

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Sinfonietta Strings Tony Rodriguez

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Lillian Roe

Seguin High School

Lulu Whitmore

Alamo Heights Junior School

BASS

Zachary Zimmerman principal Bradley Middle School

Sara Bassiri

James Bonham Academy

Luke Brehm

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Sarah Bush

Providence College Preparatory School for Girls

Emily Ann Castilleja

John B. Connally Middle School

Nicole Detiveaux

San Antonio Christian Schools

Christian Diaz

Coker Elementary School

Felicia Early Home School

Ian Fernandes

Judson Middle School

Francesca Finol

Hardy Oak Elementary School

April Flores

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Elizabeth Fowler

Walter Krueger Middle School

Gillian Fritz

Bernal Middle School

Itzel Galan

Basis Charter School

Robyn Gerry

Basis Charter School

Austin Campos

Dr. Hector P Garcia Middle School

Raine Esparza

Basis Charter School

Clayton Boyer

Currington Elementary

Capriccio Strings VIOLIN

Brenda Johnson, Conductor

Jonathan Raveneau, Conductor

Samuel Godoy

Viviana Peters

Jaime Gonzalez

Zoe Reyna

Earl Rudder Middle School Clara Driscoll Middle School

Trier Hodge

Roy D. Corbett Junior High School

Sarah Hubbard

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Sophia Irizarry Home School

Alexia Johnson

J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

Victoria Jones Home School

Eva Lizarraga

Great Hearts San Antonio

Addison Lueck

Smithson Valley Middle School

Diego Manrique

Texas Virtual Academy

Faith Mueller Home School

Home School

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Jolie Richmond

Barbara Bush Middle School

Nathanael Slaughter

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School

Emily Voeller Home School

Quade White

Hobby Middle School

Stephanie Woods

Trinity Christian Academy

Rae Xin Basis Charter School Ronald Zhu

Bob Beard Elementary School

VIOLA

Kristine Gonzalez

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Carly Munoz

Nicholas Langston-Keathley

Isabel Oxford

Izaak Rennebeck-Oliveira

Alyson Park

Gabriella Rodriguez Sanchez

Andrew Perez

Sarah White

William P. Hobby Middle School Keystone School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School Keystone School

Ed Rawlinson Middle School St. Mary’s Hall

Edward H. White Middle School Hobby Middle School

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Capriccio Strings CELLO

Victoria Abascal

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Evan Aranda

Walter Krueger Middle School

Kevin Black

St. George Episcopal School

Mary Candland Basis Charter School

Karina De La Torre

Jonathan Raveneau, Conductor

Amber Guerra

Connor Sparks

William Huang

Timothy Watkins

Rebeka Jones

Derek Xu

Conner Lindley

Dr. Bernard Harris Middle School

BASS

Angelina Miller

Barbara Bush Middle School

Judson Middle School Basis Charter School Home School

Jack C. Jordan Middle School

William P. Hobby Middle School Great Hearts San Antonio The Atonement Academy

Alexandra Balfour

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Prelude Strings

Jacobi Caldwell, Conductor

VIOLIN

Mayala Peña

Shepherd of the Hills

Erik Peterson

Camille Aljibe

Oasis Allinger

John A. Sippel Elementary School

Madeline Dickinson

Dr. Winn Murnin Elementary School

Julianna Jaramillo

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Emily Kitayama

Huebner Elementary School

Kaitlyn Lien

Encino Park Elementary School

Crystal Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Minh Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Van Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Roosevelt Elementary School

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

San Antonio Academy of Texas

CELLO

Jayleen Rangel

San Antonio Christian Schools

Sarah King Elementary School

Adrian Reyes

Carlos Coon Elementary

Daniel Robelo

Cambridge Elementary School

Christi Toth

Cornerstone Christian School

Natalie Zepeda

N. Winston Elementary School

VIOLA

Sofia Abascal

Kyle Chong

Caroline Cordts

Woodridge Elementary School

Caroline Krugle

Dolph Briscoe Middle School

Elijah Owens

Ann Frank Inspire Academy

Daniella Silva

Henry B. Gonzales Elementary School

Kayla Wood

Laura Ingalls Wilder Intermediate School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

BASS

Arlette Lomeli-Azoubel

Weinert Elementary

Roan Forest Elementary School

Catherine Martinez

Alfonso S. Perales Elementary School

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Madison Perez

Ben Roe

BOARD OF DIRECTORS FACULTY

ADMINISTRATION

John Frederick, Ph.D.

Troy Peters

Brandon Henson

Carl Leafstedt, Ph.D.

Kenneth Freudigman

Teresa Tuck

Chair

Vice Chair, Development and Chair Elect

Thomas Sanders

Vice Chair, Governance

Lee Hipp

Vice Chair, Music Programs

Kathleen Doria Treasurer

Shari Mao Secretary

Kenneth Bloom Tony Campbell Magaly Chocano Katie DeBauche Evin Eubanks Nancy Halvorson John Lewis, Ph.D. Paul Oroian Karen Perretta Jeffrey Walsh Benjamin Westney

Music Director

Executive Director

Development Director YOSA Symphony Conductor YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor

Ben Hackett

John Zarco

YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor

Martha Long

YOSA Flute Choir Conductor

Brenda Johnson

Operations Director

Aurelia Rocha

Operations Coordinator

Jackson Hocott

Operations Assistant

YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor Alfonso Gonzales Bookkeeper

Jonathan Raveneau

YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor

Jacobi Caldwell

YOSA Prelude Strings Conductor

Eugene Dowdy

Resident Conductor

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 2014/15 season. The musical education that our young musicians receive would not be possible without your support.

Strings

Marisa Bushman, viola Nicholas Browne, bass Allyson Dawkins, viola David Dawson, bass Sixto Elizondo, violin Emily Freudigman, viola Ignacio Gallego, cello Jill Van Gee, viola Karen George, violin Mary Ellen Goree, violin Morgen Johnson, cello Ryan Murphy, cello Bassam Nashawati, violin Mark Nugent, cello Teresa Nguyen, viola

Dr. Kristen Pellegrino, violin Julie Post, violin Zlatan Redzic, bass Martin Sanchez, bass Sarah Silver, violin Eric Siu, violin Stacey Storer, violin Darryl Tolliver, viola Aimee Toomes, violin Christina Trongone, violin Steve Zeserman, bass

Martha Long, flute Sharon Kuster, bassoon Jean Robinson, flute

Woodwinds

Percussion

Mark Ackerman, oboe Jennifer Berg, oboe Dr. Rita Linard, flute

Brass

John Carroll, trumpet Lee Hipp, tuba Martin McCain, trombone Molly Norcross, horn Brian Santero, trumpet Matthew Vangjel, trumpet Riely Francis Genaro Gonzalez Bill Patterson

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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 1,800 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 August 1, 2014 through April 15, 2015. 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 for Culture and Creative Development Kronkosky Charitable Foundation Composers Anonymous Rackspace Foundation/RSF Endowment Star Performers H-E-B Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust Valero Energy Foundation Maestros A.C.F.E.A. Tour Consultants H-E-B Oroian, Guest and Little, P.C. The Genevieve and Ward Orsinger Foundation Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts Shield-Ayres Foundation Texas Commission on the Arts The USAA Foundation, Inc. Zachry Foundation

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS Concertmasters

Dr. Kenneth Bloom and Dr. Sheila Swartzman Rev. John Lewis and Ms. Pat Bridwell The Columbus Foundation Nathalie and Gladys Dalkowitz Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ebrom John H. Frederick and Mimi W. Yu Mr. and Mrs. Paul Halvorson Marcia and Otto Koehler Foundation Ms. Elizabeth M. Lorenz and Mr. Rick Ramos The Marshall T. Steves Sr. Foundation Maverick Video Productions, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John McCullough The Mirza Trust The Harris K. and Lois G. Oppenheimer Foundation Donald Oroian Anne and Troy Peters Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sanders St. Mark’s Episcopal Church theFund Mr. Bruce I. Topletz and Ms. Cristina Chial University of North Texas Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Waller Germaine and Jeffrey Walsh

Principal Chairs

Steven Bankler, CPA Ms. Kris Brehm Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan C. Calvert Capital Group Companies Mr. Edward E. (Sonny) Collins III Ms. Kathleen Doria and Mr. Ruben Silva Col. (Ret.) and Mrs. John J. Franco, Jr. Reid Hartson High School Music Service Mrs. Nancy Halvorson Mr. John S. Jockusch Woodson Jones Dr. and Mrs. Carl Leafstedt Marion Lee Living Cities Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur L. Matthews, Jr. Rachel Miranda Dr. and Mrs. Timothy Owens Mr. and Mrs. Rob Rodriguez Ms. Louise Shaw Mr. and Mrs. Marshall T. Steves, Jr. Via Metropolitan Transit Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Westney Mollie Steves Zachry Fund of YOSA Endowment Fund

Section Sponsors

Ace Mart Restaurant Supply Robert Albright Lisa Marie Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Stephanie Apolinar Mrs. Ann Griffith Ash William Atlas Dr. and Mrs. George Bannayan Laura Barberena Evelyn Berg Fund of the YOSA Endowment Fund of the SAAF Shelita Boissiere Mr. and Mrs. Eric Brahinsky Elizabeth Branch Ms. Martha Bryant, Ph.D. Mr. James S. Calvert

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Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Calvert Mr. and Mrs. James Cavender Mr. and Mrs. James M. Cavender III Richard H. Cavender Mr. and Mrs. Marty Chaney Ms. Sandra Chapa Mrs. Magaly Chocano Mr. Garry Cole Mr. and Mrs. Taliaferro Cooper Core Research Mrs. Josephine Cormack Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated Ms. Molly Cox Louise and Tom Davis Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Dowdy Ms. Gina Galaviz Eisenberg Eisenberg Group Kathy and Steven Feinstein Valerie Flores Joanna Foster James Garner Julius and Kathleen Gribou Klaus Guenther Mr. and Mrs. Ryan A. Guest Jacqueline Halcomb Marc Harrison Mr. Brandon Henson Ms. Sandra Henson Mr. Don Hessenflow and Ms. Cathy Dawson Jackson Walker L.L.P Jefferson Bank Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Johnson Anjali and Ajeya Joshi Mr. Ronald Keller Gary Kilgore Heiu and Sang Kim Katie DeBauche Antje and Norman Klaunig Louis J. and Millie M. Kocurek Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Brian Komorek Mrs Ellen Kraig and Mr. David Kolodrubetz Barbara Kyse Mary and James Lancaster Mrs. Muriel J. Leafstedt Ms. Eileen Lentz Elizabeth Lutz Mr. Tim Maher Shari Mao Nickey McCasland Ms. Linda McDavitt Douglas McNeel Mr. and Mrs. James McNeel Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Vachel McNeel Mr. and Mrs. Alex Menchaca Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Mielke Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mikesell Dr. and Mrs. Alexander L. Miller National Association of Women Business OwnersSan Antonio Drs. Victor and Valerie Ostrower Julie and George Parker Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Perretta Andrea Pichler Jeanette Pierce Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Riopel Col. (Ret.) William T. Rogerson Kristi, Benito and Gabriel Salinas San Antonio Area Foundation Security Service Federal Credit Union

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS Mr. and Mrs. Abdol Hamid Seddighzadeh Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe B. Smith Mrs. Elsie G. Steg Mr. Patrick H. Swearingen, Jr. Sandra Trevino Mr. David Vieira Ms. Sandra Wheatley Richard D. Wheatley, Sr., Ph.D.

Friends of YOSA

Ms. Connie Acevedo Ms. Sonya Acuna Dakota Ainsworth Linda Aikin-Cook and Werk Cook Lori Allen and Camden Smith Eva Almendarez Peggy and Tom Alspaugh AmazonSmile Foundation Ms. Diane Anderson Lydia Andrade Roger Andrade Anonymous Mr. Zachary Archer Mr. and Mrs. George Atiee Lauren Aubrey Larry and Vicki Baillon Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Baldridge Russell Barbee Marycela Barron Miriam Bauer Mr. and Mrs. Keith Becvar Rebecca Benavides Mrs. Barbara A. Bentley Lynnette Bergstrom Ms. Mary Black Mr. James L. Blackwood and Dr. Susan Backwood Paula Boston Mr. Malachi Braddy Mr. Todd Briere Mr. Dan Britt Tara Brouse Nicholas Browne Vanessa Sanlucar and William Bryan Ms. Melissa Bryant Melida Buentello-Olivo Mr. and Mrs. Ricardo A. Bunge Mr. and Mrs. Anthony T. Campbell Florencia Caniglia Mr. Wayne Cannon James Cardenas Ms. Xochitl Castellanos Stacy Castillo Dave Cauthon Mr. Brad Cavanaugh Candice Chapin Alicia Chavez Monique Chavoya Ms. Tanya Clark Mary Ann Compton Mr. Oliverio Corchado Mr. Peter Cortez Ms. Meredith Costey Mr. Dave Coy Carrie and Bayleigh Crane Ms. Kate Crone Ms. Pamela D. Culbertson Jalie-Ann Cummings Mr. Pedro Delgado

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Delgado Ms. Veronica Delgado Tyler Dendle Daniel Diaz Mr. James Dick Ms. Ashley Dickinson Ms. Jennifer Dowdy John Downs Mr. Dave Dretke Ms. Amanda Dunbar Kathleen Dunn-Cane Carolyn Ellis and Richard Keith Debra Engler Ms. Zoe Espinoza-Kochheiser Ms. Patricia Estrada-Vega Mayumi Fernandez De Lara Ms. Laura Fernandez Ms. Alexis Flores Mr. William Flynn Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Forland Ms. Morgan Fox Rick Frazier Wilma Frazier Dr. and Mrs. J. Howard Frederick Mr. John Fredland Mr. Elmer Freed Ms. Joan Fritze Raquel Fuentes Anna Garcia-Bewley Kristin and Bregger Garrison Ms. Renee Garvens Mr. Esteban Garza Ms. Irene Garza Josephine Garza Mr. Kris Garza Ms. Gail Gauthier Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Gideon Mr. and Mrs. David Gilbertson Mr. and Mrs. John Gokelman Helene Gold Mr. and Mrs. David Gomez Dr. and Mrs. Donald J. Gordon Anna Guerrero Jenny Gutierrez Luis Gutierrez Monica Gutierrez Mr. Steve Guzek Ms. Adriana Haley Bret Hamilton Ms. Leticia Hart Mr. and Mrs Rich Hartwick Melanie Hennus Stacey Hernandez Susana Hernandez Denise Hinchmann Sandy and Rey Hinojosa Sandy Hinojosa Kathy Hitt Janya and Darvel Hodge Alane Honigblum Mr. Tom Hooker Nikima Hosang Don Hudson Laura Huete Ms. Heather Jackson Dr. and Mrs. Milton S. Jacobs Mr. Larry Jennings Ms. Linda Jones Michael Jordan Victoria Juarez

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS Mr. Seok Kang and Ms. Yunyoung Choi David Kauffman Ms. Michelle Keem Mikki Kilgore Kenneth A. Kist, M.D. Elizabeth Knowlton Peter Kohrs Mary Francis Kopcho Mr. and Mrs. Weir Labatt Linda Lancaster Mr. Alexander C. Lasater Mr. Frank Leal Ms. Jessica Lee Margaret Leff David Limon Amy Livingstone Ms. Kyra Lloyd Ms. Katie Loftin Mr. Jose Longoria Mr. and Mrs. Arnoldo Lopez Mr. and Mrs. George Lowe Joann Lowry Ms. Karina Loya Suzy and Santana Maldonado Percy Manrique Leah Martinez Ms. Melissa Maskulka Ms. Amanda McChesney Mrs. Marguerite McCormick Emily and Shane McGouyrk Mr. Javier Melendez Ms. Joan Meloni Angela Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Brice Moczygemba Lisa Molina Ms. Sonia Monroy Veronica Monticolombi Kathleen Montoya Joseph Murgo Pamela Rene Guevara Neri Marlene Nichols Donna Nicolson Daniel Nix Mr. Gerald L O’Donnell Art Ordoqui Marian Osborn Mr. Alejandro Padro-Fuentes Mr. Randolph Palada Meggan Partain Ms. Pamela Patton Ms. Annette Paulin Erick Paulino Ms. Brenda Jean Pena Ms. Lileana Pena Dr. William B. Perry and Mrs. Holly Perry Ms. Toni Peters John Petersen Suzanne Pokorny Steve Quidley Mr. Zachary Rabern Rekha Rajesh Ms. Diane Ramirez Robyn Ramirez Ms. Mylyn Ramos Judy Rath Bethany Raynes Elizabeth Raynes Mr. and Mrs. Bill Reynolds Ms. Rebecca Reynolds Paul Riggle

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Ms. Jill Rips Jan Rivera Nina Rivera Erin Robbins Ms. Amy Roberts Ms. Amanda Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence and Martha Rogler Brigit Romo Dr. Marc Rosenthal Jen Rosio Dr. and Mrs. Richard Rouse Ms. Graciela Ruiz Sarah Jane Ryan Laura Salazar Ms. Laura Saldivar Luna San Antonio Botanical Gardens Ms. Cassandra Sanchez Mr. and Mrs. David Sanchez Ms. Maria Sanchez Frankie Schreve Sebastian Schriener Jack Scogin Hayden Scott Chom and James Seagraves Michael Sepeda Mr. Brian W. Sharp Sarah and Jeremy Silver Colette Singh Mrs. Reeves Smith William Sparks Debbi Spencer Priya Srinivasan Mr. David Starratt Cnaushua Stebbins Ms. Catherine Strey Michelle Swisher Emily Taguiam Ms. Sylvia Torres Steve Toth Barbara Tracy Mr. Felix Tweraser Shanetta Tyre Ms. Leslie Uresti Dr. Ana Valadez Ms. Priscilla Valbuena Tania Vanmeter Richard Vasquez Valentin Vasquez Mr. Gregory Vaught Jerry Villarreal Mark Wall Ms. Jill Watson Ms. Mary Watson Ms. Hailey Watts Mr. Mikal Watts Emilia and William Westney Alanda R. White John Wingfield Amy Wise Clinton Wood Mitzi Wood Ms. Patricia L. Wood Mary Jane and Steve Woods Mr. and Mrs. Keying Ye Rev. and Mrs. Louis Zbinden Ariel and Eleazar Zendejo Mr. Steve Zeserman Tina and Todd Zimmerman

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS Gifts in Kind Alamo Drafthouse Al’s Gourmet Nuts Americus Diamond Big Bob’s Burgers Briscoe Western Art Musuem Old Town Cat House Camp Gladiator Carrabba’s Italian Grill Cici’s Pizza Lisa Compton Mary Ann Compton Mr. Thomas Denapoli Joanna Chao and Paul Detiveaux Dominion Dental Spa Drury Hotels Earth Burger Eastern Retail Services Fleet Feet Sports San Antonio Fresh Urban Flowers Green Vegetarian Cuisine Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Grenier Ms. Amy Harwell H-E-B Hospitality Parking Hotel Contessa James Avery Joe’s Crab Shack Kiddie Park Kiolbassa La Tuna Grill La Vida Art Gallery Laser Quest Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club

Liberty Bar YOSA Board Member Lucy Activewear McNay Art Museum Kathleen Messina Mo-Ranch Conference Center Outback Steakhouse Outerwall Inc. (Dba Redbox) P.F. Chang’s Paesano’s Italian Restaurant The Popcorn Place Radius Center Luis Gutierrez Ramirez Rudy’s Bar-B San Antonio B-Cycle San Antonio Botanical Garden San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio Symphony Southwest School of Art Spa Black Stone Werks Big Rock Grille Mr. and Mrs. Ross Taylor The Thinkery Twin Sisters Restaurant U.S. Safety Services The Union, Yoga and Strength USAA Real Estate Co. University of the Incarnate Word University of Texas at San Antonio Valero Texas Open The Wash Tub Westin Hotels and Resorts Kendra Scott Jewelry Witte Museum Wyndham Garden

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