YOSA Program Spring 2017

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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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June 2014, the Trinity University Music Department was recognized as an ALL-STEINWAY SCHOOL by Steinway and Sons, for its commitment to excellence and purchase of 32 Steinway pianos.

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Letter from the Board Chair Welcome! On behalf of the YOSA board, thank you for attending our spring concerts. We congratulate all the young musicians performing in the final City Series and Gold Series concerts of the season.

YOSA Orchestras, Summer Symphony Camp, and School Partnerships are all made possible through your generosity and support. The YOSA Board of Directors is working hard to steward your kindness and create experiences for young musicians that only YOSA can provide.

YOSA has exciting plans this summer. Auditions for the 2017/18 season take place June 1-6 and will again be a welcoming experience for all. YOSA Summer Symphony Camp, June 12-23, is the largest day-camp for orchestra in our region. Don’t miss the fun and friendships at camp—be sure to register

by May 26. Video Games Live is an immersive concert event featuring music from the greatest video games of all time. And YOSA is bringing it to San Antonio for the first time on July 15 and 16 at the Tobin Center. Don’t miss this concert event. Tickets are on sale now through the Tobin Center box office.

As we look to the 2017/18 season, we are reminded that some members of the YOSA family will be graduating this year. The board extends its best wishes to our graduating seniors. We have no doubt that our graduates will carry the virtues learned and expressed in YOSA—discipline, creativity, patience, and grace under pressure—with them for the rest of their lives. Seniors, congratulations on this next step! You will always have a place in YOSA, and we hope you continue to participate with us as alumni.

Thank you, again, for joining us and for helping YOSA continue to change kids’ lives through music. Enjoy the concerts!

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Carl Leafstedt YOSA Board of Directors

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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 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 preconcert 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 Tuesday, May 16, 2017, 8 p.m.

The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts H-E-B Performance Hall “The Planets Live” Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director Adrian Wyard, visual artist Alan Hovhaness

And God Created Great Whales, Op. 229, No. 1

Gustav Holst

The Planets, Op. 32 Mars, the Bringer of War Venus, the Bringer of Peace Mercury, the Winged Messenger Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age Uranus, the Magician Neptune, the Mystic

This concert is generously sponsored in part by Humana John H. Frederick and Mimi W. Yu Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery

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PROGRAM NOTES

compiled by Troy Peters Hovhaness: And God Created Great Whales

Early in 1970, a marine biologist gave the RussianAmerican conductor Andre Kostelanetz recordings of humpback whale songs, from a soon-to-be-released LP record that would go on to sell millions of copies, thinking they might make interesting material for a composer to respond to. Kostelanetz immediately approached Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), who had a strong track record of producing atmospheric music blending elements of Armenian and other Asian music with 20th century classical techniques, about writing a new work for the New York Philharmonic’s Promenade concert series.

Hovhaness loved the idea of basing a composition on whale songs but preferred not to incorporate the actual taped sounds, hoping instead to imitate the whales with orchestral effects such as trombone glissandos. Eventually, however, Kostelanetz convinced Hovhaness to include the recorded sounds, and the composer wrote the music in about two weeks. The New York Philharmonic premiered the resulting piece in June 1970. With a title drawn from the Biblical creation story in Genesis, And God Created Great Whales quickly became one of the prolific composer’s most popular and frequently performed works.

Hovhaness later described the music this way: “Free rhythm-less vibrational passages, each string player playing independently, suggest waves in a vast ocean sky. Undersea mountains rise and fall in horns, trombones, and tuba.

Music of whales also rises and falls like mountain ranges. The song of the whale emerges like a giant mythical sea bird. Man does not exist, has not yet been born in the solemn oneness of Nature.”

Holst: The Planets

Like Hovhaness, English composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934) had a lifelong interest in mythology and folklore from around the world, and his output includes music inspired by Algerian culture, Indian legends, and Japanese dances. But Holst’s most famous work, The Planets, grew out of his fascination with astrology.

In the spring of 1913, Holst was vacationing on the Spanish island of Mallorca with a few other English artists, including the writer Clifford Bax. Holst spent long hours talking with Bax about astrology and became especially taken with Alan Leo’s book, What Is a Horoscope? When Holst returned to London, where he taught music at St. Paul’s Girl’s School, he began to plan a seven-part suite for large orchestra, exploring the astrological character of the planets. (Why seven planets? Earth was not ascribed astrological characteristics, and Pluto had yet to be discovered.)

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS Holst began work on “Mars, the Bringer of War” in 1914, just after the outbreak of World War I. Unresolved harmonies and unrelated chords are superimposed over a relentless, driving five-beat rhythmic pattern, resulting in dissonant clashes that aptly depict conflict. Composed in an era when war was becoming increasingly mechanized and brutal, “Mars” remains a powerful picture of the unforgiving nature of combat. Few scores have influenced film composers more powerfully, from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings and beyond.

It is difficult to imagine a more complete contrast than “Venus, the Bringer of Peace,” an oasis of calm after the fury of Mars. Slowly rising melodic lines in the horns and woodwinds float over lush strings, finally giving way to the heavenly shimmer of the celesta, harps, and glockenspiel. Throughout, Holst evokes a feeling of peace and of vertiginous space.

“Mercury, the Winged Messenger” was the last movement Holst composed, two years after he began work on The Planets. This quicksilver scherzo flies by, with fragments of scales in two different keys jostling against each other in unsettled bursts of energy. Holst described Mercury as “the symbol of the mind,” which might give some insight into his own mercurial, unpredictable temperament.

Describing “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity,” Holst asserted that it “brings jollity in the ordinary sense, and also the more ceremonial kind of rejoicing associated with religious or national festivities.” The opening is pure joy, with syncopated, celebratory melodies that almost imitate the sound of laughter. The more ceremonial central section is based on a stately melody in strings and horns, reminiscent of Holst’s English predecessor, Edward Elgar. (This melody’s popularity led Holst to rearrange it a few years later as a patriotic hymn, “I Vow to Thee, My Country.”)

Holst said more than once that his favorite movement of The Planets was “Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age,” a portrait of time’s inexorable march. A slow, repeated two-note pattern in the flutes and harps steadily ticks away over low, sustained melodies in the strings. Later, marching brass chorales build to a clangorous climax with peeling bells. Finally, the music arrives in a place of peace, tempered perhaps with the wisdom and harmony of old age.

In “Uranus, the Magician,” Holst seems to have drawn some inspiration from the famous bouncing bassoons in another portrait of musical wizardry, Paul Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, composed almost 20 years earlier. The four-note fanfare that opens the movement returns again and again, like an incantation calling the rest of the music into being. Ultimately, because Uranus is a prankster, we hear not only the evidence of tricks, but also the mischief-maker’s smug satisfaction with his own cleverness.

If Uranus evokes Dukas, “Neptune, the Mystic” is redolent of Debussy. Quiet and contemplative melodic fragments sound against sustained woodwind and brass chords. The fragments gradually evolve into a series of rising chromatic line, sounded by both the orchestra and a wordless offstage women’s chorus.

Everything fades away in the end, leaving only the voices, which gradually disappear into the far reaches of outer space.

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GUEST BIOS Adrian Wyard, visual artist Adrian M. Wyard is a Seattle-based visual artist and former designer & program manager at Microsoft. He has over 20 years of experience working in digital media, including computer graphics, photography, and videography as well as software design.

Adrian also has a master’s degree in the history of science from Oxford University and has been a longtime appreciator of classical music and an enthusiastic supporter of space exploration.

For more information please see: www.theplanetslive.com.

About The Planets Live source material While many of the visuals are original animations, everything shown has some basis in fact and has as its source data from telescopes, orbiting spacecraft, or rovers on the planets’ surfaces. Source images, video, and computer modeling courtesy of NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, DLR, ESA, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, The Space Telescope Science Institute, The Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the NCSA (esp.

Drs. B. Robertson & L. Hernquist), Carnegie Institution of Washington, USGS, California Institute of Technology, Lunar & Planetary Institute (esp. Dr. P Schenk), Malin Space Science Systems, The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona (esp. Dr. P Smith) and the Institute of Geological Sciences at The Free University of Berlin. Special thanks to Bard Canning for the enhanced Mars descent, Arthur Lepage for 3D modeling, and Andy Ermolli for deep space astrophotography

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YOSA City Series 3 Sunday, May 7, 2017, 3 p.m.

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

Jacobi Caldwell, conductor John Caponegro

Fiddling A-Round

Noah Klauss

Loch Lomond

Eriksen, Hermansen, Dean, Perry, & Wilhelm (arr. Robert Longfield)

Firework

Flute Choir

Kristin Hayes, conductor François-Joseph Gossec (arr. Trudy Kane)

“Tambourin” from The Triumph of the Republic

Pierre Max Dubois Flute Quartet

II. Passepied III. Complainte

I. Fêtes Samuel Adler Madrigals

I. Based on a 17th century

German part-song

II. Based on a Japanese

folk-song (Sakura)

III. Based on an Israeli folk-song

(The Olive Trees)

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Sinfonietta Strings

Brenda Johnson, conductor Franz Joseph Haydn (arr. Matthew Moreno)

The Bird (Finale from String Quartet, Op. 33, No. 3)

Brian Balmages

Ice Sculptures

Jeffrey Bishop

Orange Jam

Symphonic Winds

Andy Post, conductor Edwin Eugene Bagley (arr. Loras Schissel)

National Emblem

Shelley Hanson

“Seis Manuel” from Islas y Montañas

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Sea Songs

Alfred Reed First Suite for Band March Melody Rag Gallop

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PROGRAM NOTES

compiled by Kathleen Messina & 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.

“Loch Lomond,” also known as the “The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond,” is a traditional Scottish song first published in 1841. In Scotland, the song is often the final piece of music played during a party or special event. The folksong’s original composer is unknown, but Noah Klauss’ string orchestra version joins a long line of versions by artists as varied as AC/DC and Benny Goodman.

Katy Perry’s 2010 song Firework, which she co-wrote with several songwriters and producers, was one of the biggest international hits of the last decade. Its blend of uplifting lyrics, anthemic melody, and driving beats proved an irresistible combination. Florida music educator and composer Robert Longfield crafted the string orchestra arrangement on today’s program.

French composer François-Joseph Gossec was a favorite of Marie Antoinette’s but was later widely admired during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.

These days, Gossec is almost forgotten, except for the charming “Tamborin” for flute, an excerpt from his one-act opera, The Triumph of the Republic, composed in 1794 to celebrate the French Revolution.

Pierre-Max Dubois, also French, was born nearly two centuries after Gossec.

Like his teacher, Darius Milhaud, Dubois crafted music that incorporates piquant 20th century harmonies with engaging and often lighthearted melodies and rhythm. His 1962 Flute Quartet is typical of his expert writing for woodwind instruments.

Samuel Adler was born in Germany in 1928, but his family came to America in 1939 to escape the rise of the Nazis. The author of several textbooks on conducting and orchestration, Adler taught composition at the renowned Eastman School of Music for three decades. His 1986 flute sextet, Madrigals, is based on three folksongs from different parts of the world.

Franz Joseph Haydn did not invent the string quartet, but he became the form’s first master, writing 68 remarkable examples. Haydn composed the group of six quartets that would later be published as Opus 33 in 1781 and dedicated them to Grand Duke Paul of Russia. Texas orchestra director Matthew Moreno, who crafted the arrangement on today’s program, writes: “The Bird shows the more playful and lighthearted side of Haydn, portraying birdlike calls as the melody is passed to each section.”

Baltimore conductor and composer Brian Balmages has written a wide variety of music for student bands and orchestras. Commissioned by the Bridle Path/ Montgomery Elementary Select String Ensemble in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, Ice Sculptures depicts the construction, arrival of visitors, and eventual melting of a temporary hotel built of ice and snow.

Jeffrey Bishop is a music educator, composer, and conductor in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. His Orange Jam, composed for a school group in Oregon in 2007, is an energetic string orchestra groove that imitates the sounds and techniques of rock guitar.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS New England composer and conductor Edwin Eugene Bagley composed National Emblem during a 1902 train tour with his band. Frustrated with the march’s ending, he threw it away—but members of his band retrieved the score and surprised Bagley by playing the march at their next concert. Bagley’s clever reimagining of The Star-Spangled Banner’s melody quickly made this march his most popular work.

The seis is a folkdance of the Jibaro people, peasant farmers from the mountains of Puerto Rico. Shelley Hanson’s Seis Manuel, is based on a traditional harmonic pattern called the seis mapeyé, over which a singer improvises a melody. In keeping with the Puerto Rican custom of naming a seis after someone important to its creation, Hanson named Seis Manuel in honor of Minneapolis conductor Manny Laureano, who commissioned and premiered the piece.

Sea Songs is English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ rousing march based on three traditional British nautical songs: “Princess Royal,” “Admiral Benbow,” and “Portsmouth.” The music began life in 1923 as a movement in Vaughan Williams’ English Folk Song Suite, composed for the band at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall. After the premiere performance, the composer decided to remove Sea Songs from the suite and publish it separately.

Alfred Reed is one of America’s most widely performed composers of band music. Lee Holmes, director of the Edmonton Public School Symphonic Band in Edmonton, Alberta, commissioned Reed’s colorful First Suite for Band in 1974 for performance at the Canadian Music Educator Association convention the following spring. The suite consists of four contrasting movements: March, Melody, Rag, and Gallop.

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YOSA City Series 3 Sunday, May 7, 2017, 7 p.m.

Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Festival Finale 2” Capriccio Strings

Martin Sanchez, conductor Richard Meyer

Beethoven, Inc.

Gustav Holst “Jupiter” from The Planets, Op. 32 (arr. Deborah Baker Monday) Carold Nunez

M to the Third Power

Concertino Strings

Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco Concerto in B minor, Op. 2, No. 8 Allegro Largo Presto Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Miniature Dance Suite, Op. 124 March

Quick Minuet Graceful Dance Sarabande Jig

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Repertory Strings

Karen George, conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute, K. 620 (arr. Robert D. McCashin) Adam Carse The Winton Suite III. Dance IV. Song David Bobrowitz (ed. J. Cameron Law)

Alice’s Wonderland

Symphony

Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov Turkish Fragments, Op. 62 The Caravan

During a Rest

In the Night At the Festival Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36

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PROGRAM NOTES

compiled by Kathleen Messina & Troy Peters California composer Richard Meyer has not only written dozens of works for student orchestras, but also served for many years as music director of the Sacramento Youth Symphony Orchestra. His Beethoven, Inc. cleverly intertwines Beethoven’s famous “Ode to Joy” with other popular classical melodies by Mozart, Offenbach, Brahms, Handel, Bach, Saint-Saëns, and Rossini.

“Jupiter” is the fourth movement of Gustav Holst’s popular orchestral masterpiece, The Planets, composed between 1914 and 1916. Deborah Baker Monday’s string orchestra arrangement focuses on the ceremonial middle section of the piece, which is reminiscent of Holst’s English predecessor, Edward Elgar. The primary melody’s popularity led Holst to rearrange it a few years later as a patriotic hymn, “I Vow to Thee, My Country,” still widely sung in England.

Carold Nunez was a longtime high school orchestra director in Denton, Texas. In 1989, he was presented with the Texas Orchestra Director of the Year Award. For his string orchestra classic M to the Third Power, Nunez offered the subtitle “Minor Meter Mix.” The piece energetically explores a variety of time signatures and rhythmic patterns in a minor key.

Italian composer and cellist Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco was a colleague of many better-known composers, like Vivaldi and Corelli. He spent most of his career, however, outside of Italy, pursuing a wealth of opportunities in Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France. Dall’Abaco’s Concerto in B minor is typical of his engaging style, similar in spirit and character to the works of his Italian baroque contemporaries.

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs wrote a great deal of music for British amateur choirs and orchestras, and a few of his songs for voice and piano are still popular in England.

Gibbs’ Miniature Dance Suite, composed in 1949, is reminiscent of Peter Warlock’s beloved Capriol Suite, a harmonic modernization of consonant tunes set to oldfashioned dance rhythms.

One of classical music’s greatest prodigies, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart spent his childhood touring castles and concert halls in Europe, playing concerts and writing music. The Magic Flute, however, is a work of maturity, dating from 1791, the last year of his short life—he was only 35 when he died. The Overture opens seriously, but soon becomes a joyful romp.

Throughout the first half of the early 20th century, English composer Adam Carse was a respected music professor, first at Winchester College and later at the Royal College of Music. Today, his reputation as a composer rests on one piece, his Winton Suite, published in 1933. Winton is a suburb of Bournemouth (in the south of England), and Carse’s music depicts it as a place of pastoral calm and joyful contentment.

New York composer David Bobrowitz is a retired music educator. Based loosely on the 1865 novel by Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Wonderland captures the fun and mystery of Alice’s wonderland experiences, evoking the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, and other famous characters.

Early in his career, the Russian composer Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov was appointed conductor of an orchestra in Tblisi, Georgia. Inspired by the ethnic minorities in the region, he wrote several pieces evoking a variety of folk styles, the most celebrated of which was his “Procession of the Sardar.” Having established a reputation for musical depictions of other cultures, he returned to this idea throughout his career. His colorful 1930 suite, Turkish Fragments, actually draws on material from Azerbaijani, Turkish, Uzbek, and Kazakh folk music.

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. His Russian Easter Overture, composed in 1888 and dedicated to the memories of fellow composers Modest Mussorgsky and Alexander Borodin, is a brilliant orchestral tour de force, built on melodies drawn from a collection of old Russian Orthodox liturgical chants called the Obikhod.

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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.

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YOSA CONDUCTOR BIOS (continued) She has also performed and held masterclasses at various 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 22

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS 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 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 MÁS 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 Sofia Hernandez

Incarnate Word High School

Victoria Villarreal

Kathleen Ran

concertmaster

Georgeanna Hoey

Peiyang Wang

Health Careers High School

Deborah Olivier

Smithson Valley High School

Samuel Clemens High School

Basis Charter School

Anna Isler

Randolph High School

Taegyun Yoon

assistant concertmaster Gemmalee DyerMok

Emma Jaax

Taylor (Taein) Yoon

Rebekah Jones

Donnel Zhu

Victoria Juarez

Theodore Roosevelt High School

VIOLA

Yeonsuk Jung

Thomas C. Clark High School

Winston Churchill High School

principal

Brian Kang

Bailey Boyen

Health Careers High School

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Victoria Klaunig

Jalie-Ann Cummings

Home School

Judson Early College Academy

Mika Kochheiser

Juliet DeNapoli

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Ronald Reagan High School

principal second violin Victoria Acuña

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

Emily Averyt Saint Mary’s Hall

Alex Brehm

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Daniel Cao

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Ryan Cao

Health Careers High School

Home School

Home School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Health Careers High School

Esther Ko

International Baccalaureate-Luther Burbank High School

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

Zoe Espinoza-Kochheiser

Prisca Lafuente

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Dylan Fernandez de lara

Benita Lee

Abigail Dickson Home School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Paola Flores

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

Earl Warren High School

Alamo Heights High School

Linda Liu

Health Careers High School

Elise Maas

Ronald Reagan High School

Natalie Meissler

Lutheran High School San Antonio

Kymber Ovalle

John Paul Stevens High School

Eve Poindexter

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

Wilmer Rodriguez

Imaya Farrell

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

Judson High School

Andrew Arkhipov

Abigail Slaughter

principal

Samuel Clemens High School

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Elijah Ayala

University of Texas at San Antonio

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Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

Calvin Carroll

Albert Coleman

Austin Perry

Federico Chavez-Torres

Michael Djabarov

Austin Struble

Victoria Day

Presley Heikkila

Jared Worman

Alamo Heights High School

James Madison High School

Javier Hernandez

HORN

Douglas MacArthur High School

Health Careers High School

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

Thomas C. Clark High School

International School of the Americas (Lee H.S.) William H. Taft High School

Saint Mary’s Hall

Jared Lange

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

John Rice

Brandon Kim

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Byron P. Steele II High School

Nicholas Slaughter

Reagan Merrill

Samuel Clemens High School

James Madison High School

Astrid Topletz

Joshua Roper

Ronald Reagan High School

Veteran’s Memorial High School

Elisabeth Wang

CLARINET

Health Careers High School

David Zamarripa

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

BASS

Niklas Siebert

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

principal

Samuel Becvar

Alamo Heights High School

Blaine Bryan

Winston Churchill High School

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Jenna Gaulden

Winston Churchill High School

Joshua Martinez

Smithson Valley High School

Joshua Shterenberg

Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

Garrett Snowden

Smithson Valley High School

BASSOON

Aidan Alcocer

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

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

Shane Rowe

San Marcos High School

Michael Chapa

Wagner High School

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Philharmonic PERCUSSION

Ty Gonzales-Graves

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

Troy Peters, Music Director

HARP

Colton Noles

William J. Brennan High School

Rhiannon Villarreal

St. Anthony Catholic High School

Scott Rogers

Judson High School

FLUTE

Symphonic Winds

Andy Post, Conductor

Janet Thongkam

Angelimar Carrion Quiros

Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

Gail Fernandes

ALTO SAXOPHONE

Wagner High School

Judson Early College Academy

Minji Kim

Keystone School

Emily Lawitz

TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas

Eliana Olivier

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

OBOE

Catherine Hanson

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Lacey Weber

Randolph Middle School

CLARINET

Mariela Barrientez Navarro High School

Blanka Bordas

Health Careers High School

Torda Bordas

Basis Charter School

Ian Weidmann

TROMBONE Joel Carlson

San Antonio Christian Schools

Jason Regalado

Roosevelt High School

Nathaniel Reta

Central Catholic High School

Smithson Valley High School

EUPHONIUM BARITONE SAXOPHONE Danielle Croft Brandon Perez

Theodore Roosevelt High School

HORN

Randolph High School

Alex Gonzales

John Paul Stevens High School

Cecilia Chavez-Torres

Mark Vallejo

Health Careers High School

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

Nicole Croft

Randolph High School

TUBA

Joseph Pickett

Central Catholic High School

New Braunfels High School

Kaia Santos

Alamo Heights Junior School

TRUMPET

Richard Daul

Zachary Gilbertson

Antonian College Preparatory

BASS

Isaiah Dickson

Chamberlyn Barnett

Alamo Heights Junior School

Home School

Earl Rudder Middle School

Skanda Hebbale

Trapper Erwin

Health Careers High School

Samuel Clemens High School

PERCUSSION

Gabriela Pedraza

Ashley Funk

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Home School

Darius Wang

Bryce Gifford

Basis North Charter School

Bradley Middle School

BASSOON

Allie Gonzales

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Austin Turner

Augustin Chincarini

Jaselle Rheann Reginaldo

Alamo Heights High School

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

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Jesse Forgione Home School

Abby Jones

Alamo Heights Junior School

Ivan Salazar

Kitty Hawk Middle School

Savannah Schoenbaum Alamo Heights High School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS

Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor VIOLIN

Carly Munoz

Health Careers High School

Sophia Quevedo

Lindsey Ran

concertmaster

Mariana Navarro

Christian Ruelas

Adam Nix

Diana Salinas

Natasha Pfeiffer

Lyndsey Wyatt

Ethan Poidevin

Basis Charter School

CELLO

Abiud Rodriguez

Louis D. Brandeis High School

John Jay High School

principal

Miaoyin Rojas

Giuliano Bucheli

Judson High School

Ronald Reagan High School

Marciano Ross

Bianca Castillo

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Stephanie Do

Alamo Heights Junior School

assistant concertmaster Kayla DeJesus

Douglas MacArthur High School

principal second violin Rema Bhat

Basis Charter School

Easton Blackburn John Jay High School

Katie Chong

San Antonio Christian Schools

Bali Daniels

Alamo Heights High School

Josie Decherd

Alamo Heights High 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

Texas Connections Academy

Jocelyn Thomson

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

Ruth Toth

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Robert E. Lee High School

William J. Brennan High School

Incarnate Word High School

Simon Phoa

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Britney Ericson

Douglas MacArthur High School

Health Careers High School

Mia Flowers

VIOLA

Josephine Garza

Clayton Boyer Home School

principal

Ruben Andrade

John Paul Stevens High School

Parker Baillon

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

Josh Cunningham

Winston Churchill High School

Olivia Gorena

Thomas C. Clark High School

Alisha Harris

Thomas C. Clark High School

Steven Letch

Earl Warren High School

Incarnate Word High School

Incarnate Word High School

Max Healy

Alamo Heights High School

Breanna Humphrey

Ronald Reagan High School

Kevin McJilton

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Avery Wilson

William H. Taft High School

Phoebe Wilson

Samuel Clemens High School

Emiliano Zendejo

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Elaine Zhang

Louis D. Brandeis High School

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Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor BASS

OBOE

Basis Charter School

Basis North Charter School

Raine Esparza principal

Jieon Kim

Bailey Nicolson

Alexandra Balfour

International School of the Americas (Lee H.S.)

Connor Berberek

CLARINET

Ronald Reagan High School

Boerne Middle School South

Austin Campos

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Pierce Haddad

Ronald Reagan High School

Henry Unser

Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

Pearl Fernandes

Judson Early College Academy

Logan Miller

Alamo Heights High School

BASSOON

Rachel Watts

James Madison High School

Jackson Wymer

FLUTE

Alamo Heights High School

Margaret Goree

Robert E. Lee High School

Madeline Kalina

Earl Warren High School

Rebekah Taylor Home School

HORN

Haley Ginn

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Samuel Hart

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

Liam Ries

TMI, The Episcopal School of Texas

Benjamin Walls

Louis D. Brandeis High School

TRUMPET

Zachary Huertas

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Mark Rogers

Earl Warren High School

TROMBONE Joseph Garza

Earl Warren High School

Josh Moorash

Smithson Valley High School

Angel Rivera-Hernandez William H. Taft High School

TUBA

Shukria Al-Araibi

Byron P. Steele II High School

PERCUSSION Andrew Fisher

Brennan High School

Flute Choir FLUTE

Sydney Alaniz

Jefferson Middle School

Elise Aigner-Varoz Garcia Middle School

Hannah Anderson

Douglas MacArthur High School

Gabriella Banales

Robert G. Cole High School

Kristin Hayes, Conductor Arianna Blazicko

Mehwish Rehman

Audra Blazicko

Desi Tsacalis

Health Careers High School

Alamo Heights High School

Genavie Cabrera

Tonda Turner

Emily Kuppers

Kierstin Wilkins

Basis North Charter School

James Madison High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Helen Lan

Julia Newton Aue Elementary

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Basis Charter School

Alamo Heights High School

Communication Arts High School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS

Concertino Strings VIOLIN

Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor

Jamil Laureano-Cruz

Lisa Kazami

Northwest Vista College

concertmaster

Alex Navarro

Basis North Charter School

Heewon Yoon

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Douglas MacArthur High School

Zoe Reyna

assistant concertmaster

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

Katheryne Rosas

Zakary Rodriguez

Earl Warren High School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Valerie Barrera

VIOLA

principal second violin Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Eva Beckett

Geneva School of Boerne

Cristian Colon

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Lawrence Corsini

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Ian Fernandes

Judson Middle School

Brent Freeman

Jose M. Lopez 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

Calla Xu

Jose M. Lopez Middle 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

Nina Pyron

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Natalie Ramos Home School

CELLO

Vincent Garcia-Hettinger

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

principal

Ava Blair

Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School

Sara Conde

Thomas C. Clark High School

Zora Dickson Home School

Samuel Garcia Villar

Barbara Bush 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

Tony Rodriguez

Thomas C. Clark High School

BASS

Shane Rybacki Saint Mary’s Hall

principal

Soren Dickson Home School

Skylar Sargent

John Marshall High School

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS

Repertory Strings VIOLIN

Karen George, Conductor

Andrew Pai

Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School

Llailan Bennett

Zachary Presley concertmaster

James Pickens

Caedmon Briggs

Jolie Richmond

Samuel Caballero

Katherine Stinson Middle School

Hallie Betts

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

William P. Hobby Middle School

assistant concertmaster

Barbara Bush Middle School

Philip Templeman

Phillippe Riopel

Canyon Middle School

principal second violin Haley Bannister

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Valley Hi Elementary School

Emily Rivera

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Sarah Shaw

Judson High School Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

Madigan Christensen

La Vernia Junior High School

Dalton Conner

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

Luke Brehm

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Payton Davis

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Christian Diaz

Samuel Shterenberg Longs Creek Elementary

Gayle Hende

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Alessandra Finol

Savannah Stutevoss

Basis North Charter School

Home School

Catherine Fiscal

Willa White

John Marshall High School

Winston Churchill High School

Robyn Gerry

James Zhang

John Marshall High School

Tex Hill Middle School

Caroline Krugle

Jillian Griffis

VIOLA

Sarah Lancy

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

Justin Colon

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

principal

Giovanni Carrasco

John Marshall High School

Payton Parham

William J. Brennan High 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

Byron P. Steele II High School Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

William Huang

Basis Charter School

Rebeka Jones Home School

Dolph Briscoe Middle School 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

Ben Roe

Jim Barnes Middle School

principal

Faith Mueller

Frank Tejeda Middle School

La Vernia High School

Matthew Padron

CELLO

Edward H. White Middle School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Home School

East Central High School

Samantha Almogela principal

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS

Sinfonietta Strings VIOLIN

Brenda Johnson, Conductor

Khalia Jacob

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Greg Woodard

Sara Bassiri

concertmaster

Eugene Kim

Catherine Zou

Emma Lloyd

VIOLA

James Bonham Academy

Kendall Liberman

Clara Driscoll Middle School

assistant concertmaster Anthony Couvillion

Smithson Valley Middle School

principal second violin Isabella Caballero

Robert L. Vale Middle School

Adrianna Calvillo

Natalia Junior High School

Garrett Chambers

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Sophia dela Cruz

The Atonement Academy

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.)

Great Hearts San Antonio - Northern Oaks Basis Charter School

Basis Charter School

Judson High School

Cristian Martinez

Anya Anaya

Tex Hill Middle School

Bradley Middle School

Levoun Ombaba

Ryan Berberek

Spring Branch Middle School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Francesco Payan

Sara Dulaney

Home School

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Erik Peterson

San Antonio Academy of Texas

Adrian Reyes

Jack C. Jordan Middle 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

Raylie Thames Home School

Christi Toth

Cornerstone Christian School

Mikaela Garza

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Smithson Valley Middle School

Jaime Gonzalez

Lauren Vu

Joisset Hernandez

Jack Wadolowski

Barbara Bush Middle School

Sidney Silva

Faith Ruth Marquez

Austin Tudlong

Douglas MacArthur High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Ronald Reagan High School

principal

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Kristine Gonzalez MacArthur High School

Ryan Grove

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Anello Hill Zanoni

Alamo Heights Junior School

Alaina Judd

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Madison Perez

Coke R. Stevenson 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

Aidan Woods

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Basis Charter School

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Sinfonietta Strings CELLO

Domenica Aburto

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

principal

Isabella Avellanet JSTEM Academy

Brenda Johnson, Conductor

Rylee Hupping

Home School

Cody Reed

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

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

Matthew Averyt

Ilana Solis

Kyle Chong

Morgan Varney

Caroline Cordts

Derek Xu

Melissa Fusco

BASS

Saint Mary’s Hall

San Antonio Christian Schools

Woodridge Elementary School

JSTEM Academy

Kyler Benedict

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

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Home School

The Atonement Academy

Kaleb Comstock Gabriel Eddy

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Tyson Geigenmiller

Walter Krueger Middle School

Jasper Munden

Basis North Charter School

Remy Place

Edward H. White Middle School

Geoffrey Seal

Spring Branch Middle School

principal

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

Annia Gimeno 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

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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

Van Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS

Capriccio Strings

Martin Sanchez, Conductor

VIOLIN (continued)

VIOLA

Klein Road Elementary School

Ed White Middle School

Katherine Pickett

Kaemon Pena

Scarlett Poye

Hannah Smith

Kaylie Rios

Reyna Stovall

Alamo Heights Junior School

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Sofia Romero

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Alamo Heights Junior School

Home School

CELLO

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

Matthew Diaz

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Carlos Gonzalez

John Garner Middle School

Alan Hernandez

Barbara Bush Middle School

Cassandra Padilla

Anne Frank Inspire Academy

Rebekah Andrews

Daniella Silva

J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

E. T. Wrenn Middle School

Abcde Bannister Home School

BASS

Anastazia Becvar

Basis North Charter School

Cambridge Elementary School

Maria Cisneros

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Danielle Clish

Edward H. White Middle School

Jerome Collier

David Gonima

Jacob Hoppas

St. Anthony Catholic School

Alexander Ibrahim

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Makayla Zimmerman

Edward H. White Middle School

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Sean Compton

Tex Hill Middle School

Ramon Contreras

Alamo Heights Junior School

Joshua Damiano

Cornerstone Christian School

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS

Prelude Strings VIOLIN

Faith Adams

Basis North Charter School

Jacobi Caldwell, Conductor

Adiya Kirwan

Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy

Christa Cedillo

Ian Lynch

Charlotte Cerroni

Sean Lynch

Saint Mary’s Hall

Home School

Desiree Contreras

Miya Morris

Smithson Valley Middle School

Home School

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

Basis Charter School

Jonah Damiano

Barbara Bush Middle School

Cornerstone Christian School

Noah Detiveaux

San Antonio Christian Schools

Odilia Diaz

Castle Hills First Baptist School

Jillian Fernandez Home School

Camilla Finol

The Buckner Fanning Christian School

Alexander Gore Keystone School

Mya Hollowell

Trinity Christian Academy

Eralyn Johnson Home School

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Ileana Godinez

Cambridge Elementary School

Sophia Ramos Home School

Samuel Sheridan

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Helen Trottmann Keystone School

Rebekah Richard

CELLO

Ximena Roa

Thomas L. Hatchett, Sr. Elementary School

E. T. Wrenn Middle School

Athena Sorenson Saint Mary’s Hall

Alana Velazquez

Basis North Charter School

Daniel Wadolowski Home School

Aaron Watts Home School

Averie Young

Arlon Seay Elementary

VIOLA

Angelo Annis

Alamo Heights Junior School

Annastazia Delgado

Ana Malo

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

BASS

Lazaro Suarez

Walter Krueger Middle School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING 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 Benjamin Westney Vice Chair, Finance/Treasurer Lee Hipp Vice Chair, Access & Inclusion Allison Balfour Kenneth Bloom Kelly Cato Joseph Causby, Ph.D. Magaly Chocano Michelle Davis Katie DeBauche Uchechi Demaske John Frederick, Ph.D. Kirstin Garrison John Lewis, Ph.D. Elizabeth Lorenz Blanca Maldonado Ryan O’Donnell Donald Oroian Anne Rochelle Rob Rodriguez Sonja Lanehart Schutz, Ph.D. Jeffrey Walsh

Kristin Hayes YOSA Flute Choir Conductor Karen George YOSA Repertory Strings Conductor Brenda Johnson YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor Martin Sanchez YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor Jacobi Caldwell YOSA Prelude Strings Conductor Eugene Dowdy Resident Conductor ADMINISTRATION Brandon Henson Executive Director Ben Hackett Development Assistant Garrett Lefkowitz Operations Director Tyler Benware Operations Manager Alex Flores Operations Assistant Alfonso Gonzales Bookkeeper Kathleen Messina Office Coordinator

Evelyn Berg President Emeritus

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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 Erik Cavazos, violin Allyson Dawkins, viola Emily Freudigman, viola Ignacio Gallego, cello Joey Galvan, cello Kevin Garcia-Hettinger, violin Beth Girko, violin Lani Gil, violin Holgen Gjoni, cello Mary Ellen Goree, violin Rachel Garner, cello Jackson Hocott, bass Lydia Hurtado-Yanez, cello Morgen Johnson, cello

Colin Meinecke, viola David Milburn, bass Kayleigh Miller, viola David Mollenauer, cello Bassam Nashawati, violin Teresa Nguyen, viola Stacey Parker, violin Kristen Pellegrino, violin Julie Petri Post, violin Josh Prado, viola Aurelia Rocha, cello Laura Scalzo, violin Darian Thomas, violin Aimee Toomes-Lopez, violin Christina Trongone, cello Lynda Verner, 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 Steve Petersen, trombone

Percussion

Riely Francis Eric Peterson 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 August 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017. 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 Composers The Rackspace Foundation John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation of the San Antonio Area Foundation Star Performers H-E-B Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust Maestros Anonymous Anonymous County of Bexar H-E-B Mays Family Foundation The Mirza Trust of San Antonio National Endowment for the Arts Rackspace Hosting San Antonio Area Foundation Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Texas Commission on the Arts The USAA Foundation, Inc. Zachry Foundation Zachry Group

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The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Lee and Zachry Carter Memorial Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation Joseph Causby and Robert Brewer Michelle Seward Davis Dr. Thomas DeNapoli and Mr. Mark Walker V. Grayson Dyer & Jacqueline Lee Mok Mr. & Mrs. Charles Ebrom John H. Frederick and Mimi W. Yu The Alfred S. Gage Foundation Mr. Brandon Henson Humana Joeris General Contractors Dr. and Mrs. Carl Leafstedt Rev. John Lewis & Ms. Pat Bridwell Ms. Elizabeth M. Lorenz and Mr. Rick Ramos Mr. & Mrs. John McCullough MPL Limited Partnership III Mrs. and Mrs. Ryan O’Donnell The Harris K. & Lois G. Oppenheimer Foundation Oroian Guest & Little PC Donald Oroian Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oroian Anne and Troy Peters Mr. Kelly M. Ranson Anne and Jeff Rochelle Ms. Sonja Lanehart Schutz, Ph.D. and Mr. Paul Schutz, Ph.D. Mr. Bruce I. Topletz and Ms. Cristina Chial Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Waller Germaine and Jeffrey Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Westney Mr. and Mrs. James Weynand Cecilia Young Willard Helping Fund Kathleen Weir Vale and Albert Vale Zachry Construction Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Bartell H. Zachry, Jr.

Principal Chairs

Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan C. Calvert Ms. Kelly Cato Mr. Edward E. (Sonny) Collins III Combined Federal Campaign for the San Antonio Area Andrea Pichler David Mr. and Mrs. Dan DeBauche Mr. and Mrs. Paul Halvorson Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hipp Lindsay R Irvin M.D., P.A. Jackson Walker L.L.P Dr. Angelika Jansen & Mr. Bob Brown Jefferson Bank Susan Marenda King, M.D. Ms. Marline C Lawson Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lorenz Thomas Sanders Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital Foundation South Texas Money Management, Ltd St Benedicts Workshop Mrs. Elsie G. Steg Marshall Steves Jr. Mr. Henry Unser Deja Wilson

Section Sponsors

Anonymous Ace Mart Restaurant Supply Robert and Shari Albright Lisa Marie Anderson Mr. & Mrs. James Berg Ms. Mary Black Mr. Robert Blount, Jr. & Ms. Sandra Sandoval Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Bolner Mary Alice Bond Mr. Mario P. and Mrs. Lyndee A. Bordini Stella Brown Ms. Martha Bryant, Ph.D. Mr. James S. Calvert Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Calvert Dan Carlson Mr. and Mrs. Drew Cauthorn Richard H. Cavender Rev. & Mrs. Michael Chalk Mr. and Mrs. Chol and Elaine Chong Hariet Christian Anne Church Rosemary P.Z. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Bartlett Cocke Mr. Michael C. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Sara Maria Conde Mr. & Mrs. Michael Connor Convention & Visitors Bureau Nancy W. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Taliaferro Cooper Mrs. Josephine Cormack Ms. Kate Crone Mr. & Mrs. D. Rusty Crowley, Jr. Davy Crockett Lodge #1225 Ms. Cathy Dawson and Mr. Don Hessenflow Mr. James Dick Mrs. April Dickson Ms. Kathleen Doria & Mr. Ruben Silva Frances S. Douglas Walter Peter Dyck Ms. Evin Nicole Eubanks Ms. Joan G. Fritze Elizabeth Fry Jim and Frances Garner Kirstin and Bregger Garrison Antonia Goldsmith Maureen and Camilo Gonima Mr. and Mrs. Julius M. Gribou Mr. & Mrs. James L. Hayne Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Heard Frances Hearn Ms. Sandra Henson John Hornsby Pamela F. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Johnson Anjali and Ajeya Joshi JP Morgan Chase S. R. Juvenal Mr. Christopher Kiernan Mr. Hongwook Kim Kenneth A. Kist, M.D. Sharon M. Kocurek Mr. & Mrs. Brian Komorek

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS Rosemary E. Kowalski Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Krueger Sarah Lake Wende L. Lancaster Mrs. Muriel J. Leafstedt Mr. and Mrs. Philip LeMessurier Jing Liu B.H. Ludwig Dr. David Young and Dr. Cynthia Lyle Mr. and Mrs. Jeb Maebius Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur L. Matthews, Jr. Zelime Gillespie Matthews Pamela Matthews Marilyn McCullough Mr. Jim McDaniel Ms. Linda McDavitt Beatrice McFadden Mrs. Annabelle McGee June McManus Ms. Marise Melson Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Mendible Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Mielke Deborah Moore Lillian Padgitt Morris Dr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Murgo Roxana Newsom Drs. Victor & Valerie Ostrower Mrs. Camilla M. Parker Julie and George Parker Brenda L. Partain Jennifer Perloff Mr. & Mrs. David Phipps Ms. Diana Reed Wilkinson Rhodes Juan Robles Col. (Ret.) William T. Rogerson Mrs. Joycelyn H Rudeloff Mr. & Mrs. J.E. Seiterle Patricia A. Semmes Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe B. Smith George Spencer Jr. E.K. Studer Li-Chyn Lee & Sulin Su Nancy M. Sutter Mr. Patrick H. Swearingen, Jr. Targeted Genomics Janelle B Tye Mr. Robert Valdez Mr. & Mrs. George C. Vaughan Mr. Gregory Vaught Alice Viroslav Mr. & Mrs. John Walsh Mr. & Mrs. Bill Wilkinson Mary Beth Williamson Drs. Peggy Wilson & Jim Sims Mrs. Jean Rogers Winchell Mr. & Mrs. Jon Wood Drs. Keying Ye & Limin Zheng Ye Seoghwan Yoon Mr. & Mrs. John Younger

Friends of YOSA

Chiyui Ahn Veronica Alvarez Amazonsmile Foundation

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Dulce Annis Mrs. Sue Bain Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Baldridge Erin Barrientez Mr. Alfred E. Becker Mr. Jeremy Booker Mrs. Rocio Bucheli Mr. & Mrs. Ricardo A. Bunge Mr. & Mrs. Manuel Reyes Campos Ms. Carinne N Carrillo Ariel Carrion Betty M. Cavender Rebecca Cerroni Dr. Charles Christian, Jr. Seunghyun Chung Fernando Cisneros Valery Collier Mr. Ramon Contreras Ms. Monica Cooper Ms. Cindy Cummings Mary Davis Monica de Leon Angel Diaz Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A Diaz Ms. Elinor L. Duff Olga Duignan Mrs. Deborah M Dunn-Talley Dr. and Mrs. Estrada Calasancio Fernandes Dawn and Daniel Finlayson Katrina Fleming Kathleen Fletcher Mr. & Mrs. Derrick Flowers Heidi Forgione Meloney Funk Ms. Martha Galbraith Autumn Garza Janet M Garza Nancy and David Gilbertson Simon Peter Gonzales Lydia Veronica Gonzalez Dr. & Mrs. Donald J. Gordon Debra Guillen Ms. Elizabeth Halff Audra D. and Scott A. Hall D’Ann Hart Mr. and Mrs. Rich Hartwick Alberto Hernandez Dr. & Mrs. Milton S. Jacobs Mrs. Minjeong Kim Mrs. Ellen Kraig & Mr. David Kolodrubetz Mr. and Mrs. Weir Labatt Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lancaster Mr. Dean A. Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Arnoldo Lopez Janelle Lopez Kevin Lueck David Lynch Mrs. Rosalinda Martinez Katherine Matteson Heather Miller Lucille Montes Ana Moreno Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Nicolella Blanca D. and Gerald L. O’Donnell

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | SPRING CONCERTS Mr. Gary Vega Obaya Karen Owens Pamela L Parmer Paula Peacock Ms. Toni Peters Debra Pickett Project MEND Jeanne Redmond Delia Reed Lisa Reta Kevin and Denise Rettmann Adam Rodriguez Maricarmen Romero Samantha Roper Angela Rowe Ms. Rachel Rustin Gilbert Salazar Kristi, Benito, Diana, and Gabriel Salinas Eric Salzman Ms. Sherri Santos Dr. and Mrs. Edward Sargent Mr. Josh Saunders Chom and James Seagraves Dr. & Mrs. Alberto C. Serrano Mrs. Elizabeth J. Simpson Mr. Jason Miles Steward Sharon Struble Olga Suzuki Bonita Swisher Kevin Templeman Glenn and Georgia Ann Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Tribble Mrs. Jeannette Balcer Truitt Kristy Turner Dr. Ana M. Valadez Sonia Vallejo

Ms. Reina P Vargas David Vasquez Jose Velazquez Ms. Clara Melnik Vermillion Justyna Wadolowski Wah Tee Alterations, LLC Dr. Andrew Walls, MD Lisa Weidmann Richard D. Wheatley, Sr. Ph.D. Paula Wilson Mr. Randy Wong Ms. Patricia L. Wood Jackson Wymer Yi Zou

Gifts in Kind

Evelyn Berg Fund of the YOSA Endowment Fund of the SAAF Cici’s Pizza Freetail Brewing Co. Guillermo’s Catering Rebecca and Ben Hackett H-E-B Hospitality Parking Key Ideas Incorporated Mariposa Designs Nectar Wine Bar & Ale House Quick Signs Radius Center Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery St. David’s Episcopal Church Taco Cabana University of Texas at San Antonio University of The Incarnate Word Whataburger Restaurants LP

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