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YOSA reaches more than 3,000 young musicians in the San Antonio area. More than 750 musicians participate in YOSA Orchestras and Summer Symphony Camp and an additional 2,400 receive free services through YOSA School Partnerships and the YOSA Invitational. YOSA musicians represent 155 schools from 25 school districts and reflect the ethnic diversity of San Antonio. Ethnic and racial minorities represent 76% of the young musicians YOSA serves.

The Orchestras

More than 525 musicians are arranged into 9 orchestras with weekly rehearsals and 11 concerts annually. Musicians with one-to-two years of playing experience begin in Prelude Strings. As their music skills progress and improve, they may graduate into Capriccio Strings, Sinfonietta Strings, Repertory Strings, and Concertino Strings. Flute Choir, Symphony, and Symphonic Winds offer opportunities for string, woodwind, brass and percussion musicians. The most experienced young musicians in the region perform with the YOSA Philharmonic, playing professional-level repertoire in premier venues here and abroad, and collaborate regularly with internationally renowned soloists and composers. The YOSA Philharmonic has represented San Antonio on 11 international tours, most recently to Prague, Vienna, and Budapest in 2016.

Summer Symphony Camp

Each summer, more than 250 students convene for a two-week day camp on the campus of Saint Mary’s Hall with some of San Antonio’s finest music teachers and professional musicians as faculty. YOSA has offered summer camp since 1985; the program has expanded to include woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

School Partnerships

YOSA is committed to working with public and private schools throughout greater San Antonio. Some school partnerships involve classroom and school visits by YOSA faculty and staff. YOSA’s most comprehensive school partnerships are with the Roosevelt High School Compact in NEISD and the Edgewood Fine Arts Academy in EISD in a program called YOSA MÁS:Music At School. New in 2017, the YOSA Invitational provides the opportunity for local middle school and high school bands and orchestras to perform in San Antonio’s premier venue, the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. YOSA offers this resource to school music programs at no charge. An application process starts in February the year prior and participating groups are announced by August. Sixteen local music programs have been selected to participate at the first annual YOSA Invitational on May 15 and 16, 2017.

Our History

YOSA is a successor to the city’s first community-wide youth orchestra, which was created by SAISD in 1949. In recent years, YOSA has expanded its reach from 483 musicians in 2008 to more than 3,000 in 2016. YOSA is a resident company of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. The mission of Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, the premier orchestral experience for youth citywide, is to enhance education, enrich the community and transform lives by pursuing excellence in classical music in a stimulating, nurturing and fun environment that is equally accessible to all youth. Take a break from the outside world! Please turn off your cell phones, pagers, and all other audible electronic devices before the concert begins. Children of all ages are welcome at all YOSA concerts. We suggest that you sit near an exit so you can discreetly exit the auditorium in the event that your child is unable to maintain a sub-whisper level volume. Thank you.

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Letter from the Board Chair Happy New Year! And thank you for joining YOSA for our winter concerts. YOSA has a deep history in our community, dating back to 1949. Over the next few months, we hope you will join us to see the many sides of today’s YOSA organization. We’re bigger than you may remember, with more orchestras and more young people involved than ever before. New this year is the start of our “Winter Showcase” concert featuring YOSA Symphonic Winds and YOSA Symphony. Performing at the Tobin Center on February 12, these two ensembles will be joined by guest artist Steve Menard, trombone. Mr. Menard is currently the Principal Trombone of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and is on faculty at the University of North Texas College of Music. We are excited about the experiences the musicians in these ensembles will gain from their work with Mr. Menard. On March 13, we continue the tradition of our Classic Albums Live series with “Purple Rain Live.” I hope you will join us at the Tobin for another monumental night of collaboration with some of San Antonio’s best bands. Orchestrated by YOSA Music Director Troy Peters, Prince’s Grammy- and Oscar-winning 1984 album will be performed by a full orchestra with local bands. All proceeds will help YOSA change kids’ lives through music. Another wonderful newer tradition is our annual YOSApalooza concert. This season-finale concert features all nine YOSA orchestras performing in one extravaganza at the Tobin Center on Sunday, May 21 at 6 p.m. The concert is free to attend; however, tickets will be limited to three per family. You must have a ticket to attend YOSApalooza and they are first come, first served. Mark your calendars to get your tickets from the Tobin Center box office starting at 10 a.m. on February 27. As you can see, YOSA is serving more young musicians than ever before. Over the past ten years, YOSA has grown from serving 400 young musicians annually to now serving more than 3,000. I encourage you to help YOSA build the needed support from our community. Bring a neighbor to a concert. Tell a coworker about the fun rehearsals your musician is attending. Challenge a friend to match your donation to YOSA. Share our social media posts. There are so many ways to build community support of YOSA, but we can’t do it without your help. If you would like to know more ways to support YOSA, please visit with a YOSA board or staff member at a concert, or call the YOSA office. Thank you for attending our winter concerts. On behalf of the YOSA staff, faculty, and the board of directors, I wish you a very musical new year. Best wishes, 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. He worked with dozens of San Antonio rock musicians to create YOSA’s Classic Albums Live series, winner of a 2016 Centropolitan Award from Centro San Antonio.

Peters conducted the world premiere recording of Daron Hagen’s Masquerade with violinist Jaime Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson, and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, on Bridge Records. Among the other soloists with whom he has collaborated are Branford Marsalis, Midori, Edgar Meyer, and Richard Stoltzman. His work has been the subject of national media attention from CBS Sunday Morning, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, Symphony, and The New Yorker. Awarded a Vermont Arts Council Citation of Merit in 2009, he has also been honored with eight ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music and has conducted more than three-dozen world premieres. A popular lecturer, he has presented pre-concert talks for the Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and San Antonio Symphony. Peters is also active as a composer, where his honors include the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from Meet the Composer and the Rockefeller Foundation. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Pennsylvania, where his primary compositional mentors were Ned Rorem and George Crumb. Born in 1969 in Greenock, Scotland (of American parents), Peters grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and lives in San Antonio with his wife and two children.

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YOSA Gold Series 2 Sunday, January 22, 2017, 7 p.m. The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts H-E-B Performance Hall “Mozart at the Opera” Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director Shana Blake Hill, soprano Zachary Gordin, baritone W. A. Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute, K. 620 “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fu” from The Magic Flute, K. 620 Shana Blake Hill, soprano Zachary Gordin, baritone “Hai già vinta la causa—Vedrò mentre io sospiro” from The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 Zachary Gordin, baritone

“Porgi amor” from The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 Shana Blake Hill, soprano

“Là ci darem la mano” from Don Giovanni, K. 572 Shana Blake Hill, soprano Zachary Gordin, baritone

Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 572 César Franck Symphony in D minor Lento—Allegro ma non troppo Alegretto Finale: Allegro non troppo This concert is sponsored in part by the generosity of the Zachry Foundation. 9

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compiled by Troy Peters Mozart: Excerpts from The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni

Given his status as a legendary prodigy, it makes sense that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote his first opera at the age of 11, in the midst of childhood tours performing in European castles and concert halls. Although his native language was German, Italian was the customary operatic language throughout Europe at the time. Unsurprisingly, then, most of Mozart’s 20 operas are in Italian, and he produced quite a few “hit shows.”

Mozart was down on his luck by 1791, when his music was less popular in Vienna. When the singerimpresario Emanuel Schikaneder asked him to create a new Singspiel, the 18th century Austrian equivalent of a Broadway musical, Mozart jumped at the opportunity. The composer perfectly matched The Magic Flute’s fantastic fairy-tale story with music of sublime simplicity and wit. Premiered just nine weeks before Mozart’s death, it played to enthusiastic, sold-out audiences for several months—the greatest success of his career. The overture opens with three solemn chords evoking the opera’s exploration of Masonic rites and symbolism; these three chords return in varied form in the middle of the overture. The rest of the piece is a merry fugue, in which a sparkling little tune frolics throughout the orchestra. In the duet “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen,” the princess Pamina and the bird-catcher Papageno sing from very different perspectives of the joy and sanctity of marriage. Mozart was near the peak of his fame and commercial success five years earlier, when he wrote The Marriage of Figaro in 1786. It was his first collaboration with the Italian writer Lorenzo Da Ponte, who adapted a popular French play, removing most of the political elements that might have upset the Emperor. Figaro’s nemesis is his philandering employer, Count Almaviva, who covets Figaro’s young bride, Susanna. After the Count challenges the legality of their marriage, he vows not to let a servant stand in the way of his potential romantic conquest in the dramatic aria “Hai già vinta la causa—Vedrò mentre io sospiro.” In the lovely “Porgi amor,” the Countess contemplates the nature of love and laments her husband’s inattention.

As The Marriage of Figaro’s success quickly spread from Vienna to other European cities, Mozart and Da Ponte teamed up again in Don Giovanni, composed in 1787 for a theater in Prague. In “Là ci darem la mano,” the licentious nobleman Don Giovanni (better known in English as Don Juan) attempts to seduce the young Zerlina, who is engaged to another man. The opera’s unique mix of tragedy and comedy is reflected in the contrast between the overture’s portentous opening and its subsequent happy bustle. Mozart famously composed the overture in less than 24 hours before the opera opened; in July, many of the YOSA musicians on stage visited the Betramka villa in Prague, where legend has it that Mozart composed this last-minute masterpiece.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Franck: Symphony in D minor

What nationality was César Franck (1822-1890)? His hometown, Liége, was part of the Netherlands when he was born there in 1822, but it became a francophone Belgian city just eight years later. His father moved César and his brother to Paris in 1835, where both sons studied piano and eventually enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire. Except for a brief return to Belgium in his early twenties, Franck lived the rest of his life in Paris, where he became a naturalized French citizen in 1872. Today, Belgium claims him as Belgian—and France claims him as French.

Franck’s father, like Mozart’s more than a century before, had high hopes for his son’s musical celebrity. César, however, preferred a quiet life of teaching, organ playing, and composition, despite his virtuosic skills as a performer. As one of the 19th century’s greatest organists, Franck held a series of positions in prestigious Parisian churches and later taught at the Conservatoire de Paris. Although he wrote music nearly every day for decades, his public success as a composer came only in the last few years of his life.

Franck was especially interested in “cyclic form,” in which themes recur in multiple movements to unify a piece of music, when he began work on his Symphony in D minor in 1886. The opening three-note idea, which not only undergirds the first movement but returns later in the symphony, was well-known to 19th century music-lovers from its use by Beethoven, Liszt, and Wagner to symbolize “fate,” inescapable and ominous. The middle movement begins as a haunting slow movement and becomes a quickly scurrying scherzo, before superimposing both moods. Like Beethoven’s famous Ninth Symphony, the finale features reminiscences of the previous movements and finished with brash ebullience. Franck was disappointed at the symphony’s lukewarm reception at its 1889 premiere. It was only after the composer’s death that the Symphony in D minor became a staple of the repertoire. Indeed, by the 1930s, it was one of the most widely performed romantic symphonies in the orchestral repertoire. Recent decades have seen its popularity fade a bit, but it stills stands as one of the pinnacles of 19th century French orchestral music.

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GUEST BIOS 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 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

Shana Blake Hill, soprano Shana Blake Hill continues to excite audiences and critics alike in operatic, orchestral and theatrical genres. Opera News hailed Ms. Hill’s Cincinnati Opera performance of Rosalba in Florencia en el Amazonas as “…a highlight of the performance…floods of glorious sound.” Ms. Hill has appeared as a principal artist with such opera companies as: The Los Angeles Opera, Savonlinna Festival Opera, Dayton Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Pacific, Long Beach Opera, Santa Barbara Opera, Fargo Moorhead Opera, Sacramento Opera and Berkshire Opera. She has also been featured as a solo artist with orchestras such as; The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, The Seattle Symphony, The Pacific Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, The New West Symphony, Pacific Chorale, The Florida Philharmonic, The Naples Philharmonic, The Pasadena Symphony, The Louisville Orchestra, Northwest Sinfonietta and The Colorado Symphony.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Especially at home with contemporary music, some of Ms. Hill’s World Premiers and projects include: Bright Sheng’s The Phoenix for soprano and orchestra, Sakagawea in Michael Ching’s opera Corps of Discovery on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Sally Hemings in Glenn Paxton’s opera Monticello on the controversial personal life of Thomas Jefferson,Ticie in On Gold Mountain, an opera by Nathan Wang commissioned by Los Angeles Opera on the novel by Lisa See, Sara’s Diary: 9/11, a dramatic song cycle on prose by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Leroy Aarons for NPR live radio broadcast, and both the roles of Rosalba and Florencia Grimaldi in Daniel Catan’s acclaimed opera Florencia en el Amazonas. In the genre of film Ms. Hill was chosen by legendary film composer Jerry Goldsmith to record the title track “The Mission” which opens Paramount’s Blockbuster film The Sum of All Fears. Amazon.com remarks in their review of the soundtrack CD, “what sets it apart is the operatic performance of Shana Blake Hill…a stirring opening which proves to be the highpoint of the score.” Ms. Hill’s performance of “The Mission” was recently chosen to be part of Paramount Studio’s newly released 90th Anniversary Favorite Soundtrack Compilation CD. Other media credits include solos on the soundtracks of the feature film “Red Dirt” and the Sci-Fi Series “Seven Days to Midnight”, most recently she is heavily featured on the soundtrack of the short film “God don’t like Ugly”, premiering February of 2015, which examines interracial marriage in the south during the 1960s. Career Highlights include: The release on the Naxos label of Bright Sheng’s The Phoenix and Ms. Hill’s subscription debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Charles Dutoit, Violetta in La Traviata with Dayton Opera, Mr. Tambourine Man by John Corigliano with The Pasadena Symphony, Roberta in An American Tragedy by Tobias Picker (West Coast Premiere), World Premiere song cycle By William H. Curry with The North Carolina Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem with The Pasadena Symphony, Nedda in Pagliacci with Sacramento Opera, Maria in West Side Story with the Lexington Philharmonic, The Holiday Organ Spectacular at Disney Hall, and the creation, direction and performance of an evening of three Puccini Heroines with The Northwest Sinfonietta. Recent and upcoming projects include Aida in New Mexico and in Baltimore, Leila in The Pearl Fishers with Opera Southwest, Odabella in Attila with Opera Nova, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with the Angeles Chorale, Rossini’s Stabat Mater with The Dream Orchestra, a classical circus/cabaret series in Downtown LA, “Love and War” a new musical about pilots in WW2, an album, and film soundtrack with Grammy winning producer Andreao Heard, and a series of events throughout the year to celebrate the history of “Black Wall street” and the legacy of Dr. A.M. Moore in Durham North Carolina. Ms. Hill is also currently developing a one woman show called ‘Daughters of the Sword’ based on the lives of woman warriors throughout the ages and our Nation’s current female active duty soldiers and Veterans. Ms. Hill received her BM from Oberlin, her MM from USC, and is an Alumna of The Los Angeles Opera’s Resident Artist program.

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YOSA City Series 2 Saturday, February 4, 2017, 1 p.m. Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Winter Lights 1” Prelude Strings

Jacobi Caldwell, conductor Johann Pachelbel (arr. John Caponegro)

Canon in D major

Soon Hee Newbold

Medieval Kings

Flute Choir

Kristin Hayes, conductor George Frideric Handel (arr. Ricky Lombardo)

Allegro from Water Music

Camille Saint-Saëns (arr. by Sondra Tucker)

Marche Militaire Française from Algerian Suite, op. 60

Ann Cameron Pearce

Spanish Love Song

Anton Reicha

Minuet, Op. 12

Sinfonietta Strings

Brenda Johnson, conductor Antonio Vivaldi Allegro in G (arr. Steve Frackenpohl) (from Concerto for Two Mandolins, RV 532) Gabriel Fauré (arr. Larry Clark)

Pavane, Op. 50

Brian Balmages

Wood Splitter Fanfare

Todd Parish

Winter Solstice

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compiled by Kathleen Messina Johann Pachelbel was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music earning him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era. Pachelbel’s music enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime. Today, Pachelbel is best known for the Canon in D.

Born in Korea in 1974, Soon Hee Newbold grew up in Maryland and has a thriving career as a violinist, conductor, and actress. However, she is best known as a composer of orchestral works for students. Reminiscent of the Dark Ages when kings ruled and knights protected, this fantastic work, Medieval Kings, has an epic sound.

George Frederic Handel was only 25 years old when his music attracted the attention of the Elector of Hanover, who hired him as his court composer. When the Elector became King George I of England in 1714, Handel followed him to London. He rose to great fame there, with tremendous successes like Messiah and Water Music.

French composer Camille Saint-Saëns adored the French colony of Algeria where he vacationed often and lived full time for the last few years of his life. His Algerian Suite ends with a rousing finale, Marche Militaire Française, blithely celebrating the imperial power that would hold sway in Algeria for another 80 years.

North Carolina composer and flutist Ann Cameron Pearce co-founded the Raleigh Flute Choir, for whom she has written and arranged dozens of works. One of these is Spanish Love Song, a lush and well-crafted arrangement of a traditional Spanish melody. Anton Reicha was a Czech-born, later naturalized French composer. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, he is now best remembered for his substantial early contributions to the wind quintet literature and his legacy as teacher. The Minuet is from Reicha’s Quartet for Four Flutes.

Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi was a virtuoso violinist, teacher, and priest. Born in Venice, he is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers and his influence was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. Carefully crafted for string ensemble, the Allegro in G (from Concerto for Two Mandolins, RV 532) is driven by energetic rhythms that make all parts interesting and fun to play.

Gabriel Fauré originally wrote the Pavane for solo piano, but it became most popular in this 1887 version for orchestra (with optional chorus). This arrangement for string orchestra retains the warmth and charm of Fauré’s music, which reimagines a Spanish Renaissance dance form as a haunting Belle Époque processional.

Baltimore composer Brian Balmages is a band director at Towson University in Maryland, but his music is widely performed by student bands and orchestras. Wood Splitter Fanfare immediately commands attention with its sweeping lines, forceful rhythms, and counterpoint. The music drives through several sections before a flurry of chords bring the work to an exciting conclusion.

Todd Parrish is the orchestra director and music theory instructor at Hickory High School in Chesapeake, Virginia, and conducts the Bay Youth Concert Orchestra of Virginia. As a violinist, he has studied both solo and chamber repertoire along with symphonic literature. This fresh new work, Winter Solstice, describes the wonder and adventure of the winter season.

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Les Amies Trio Sunday, February 26 “Virtuosity on this order of magnitude is remarkable!” Newark Star Ledger

“Trio Les Amies is what you might call an ‘all-star trio’… playing with complete ease and finesse....” Palm Beach Daily News

THE PROGRAM

IBERT: Deux Interludes BAX: Elegiac Trio RAVEL: Sonatine en Trio DEVIENNE: Duo in C minor op. 3 No. 1 for flute and viola FAURE: Apres un Reve for viola and harp • Impromptu for solo harp • Morceau de Concours for flute and harp

Tickets can be purchased online or at the door for $25 per adult, students are free.

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YOSA City Series 2 Saturday, February 4, 2017, 4 p.m. Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Winter Lights 2” Capriccio Strings

Martin Sanchez, conductor Lauren Bernofsky

Electric Sinfonia

J.S. Bach Sleepers Wake (from Cantata No. 140) (arr. Soon Hee Newbold) Gauntlet

Doug Spata

Repertory Strings

Karen George, conductor Shirl Jae Atwell

Drifen

Gustav Mahler (arr. Brad Pfeil)

Third Movement from Symphony No. 1

Luigi Boccherini: Fandango (from Guitar Quintet No. 4 (arr. Clark McAlister) in D, G. 448)

Concertino Strings

Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Per Brant Sinfonia in D minor Allegro non molto Andante Allegro ma poco Vasily Kallinikov

Chanson triste

John Rutter Suite for Strings A-Roving I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue O Waly Waly Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron 17

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compiled by Kathleen Messina Lauren Bernofsky has written over a hundred works, including solo, chamber, and choral music, as well as larger-scale works for orchestra, film, musical, opera, and ballet. Electrifying and fast paced, Electric Sinfonia includes hints of rock music contrasting with longer, sweeping phrases. During his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach was probably better known as an organist than as a composer. In the century after his death, however, he became widely regarded as one of the greatest composers who ever lived. Sleepers Wake is one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas. He composed the choral cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after the Trinity, where it was first performed it on November 25, 1731.

Doug Spata lives in Cincinnati, where he is a clarinetist, composer, and orchestra teacher. Asked about the story behind Gauntlet, Spata wrote: “I really didn’t have one in mind, beyond abstract emotion, color, and movement. While a lot of my music conveys a certain mood or evokes a certain place or culture, none of my pieces are programmatic. They don’t tell specific stories. I think it’s great that Gauntlet inspires peoples’ imaginations.” An active composer with many commissions and publications to her credit, Shirl Jae Atwell was the 1997 winner of the Texas Orchestra Directors Association composition contest with her string orchestra piece Drifen. The unusual title is derived from the Middle English spelling of “driven.”

During his lifetime, Gustav Mahler’s was one of the world’s best-known conductors, but his compositions only gained wide popularity long after his death. In the Third Movement from Symphony No. 1, Mahler’s somber march drew inspiration from a picture depicting a hunter’s funeral procession (complete with animals carrying his casket) in a children’s book. All sections of the orchestra get a turn playing the melody in this wonderful introduction to one of the greatest symphonists. Luigi Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style, while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini composed several guitar quintets, including the Fandango, which was influenced by Spanish music. Swedish violinist, composer, and poet Per Brant was active in Stockholm, employed at the royal chapel from 1735, eventually becoming its Chief Court Kapellmeister in 1758. The Sinfonia in D minor is one of his few surviving works, an energetic and engaging late Baroque gem.

Vasily Kalinnikov was a rising star in Moscow’s music scene in the early 1890s, but his struggle with tuberculosis kept him from achieving the success that might otherwise have been possible and eventually led to his untimely death just before his 35th birthday. Chanson triste (“sad song”) is the composer’s own arrangement of a touching piano piece he completed in 1893.

Although John Rutter is one of the most widely performed living composers of choral music, his instrumental works are less widely known. Composed in 1973, the Suite for Strings transforms a series of English folk tunes into a charming set of pieces, with close stylistic ties to the English string music of Vaughan Williams, Holst, and Britten.

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YOSA Winter Showcase Sunday, February 12, 2017, 7 p.m. The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts H-E-B Performance Hall Steve Menard, trombone

Symphony

Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 “Little Russian” II. Andantino marziale, quasi moderato Georg Christoph Wagenseil Concerto in E-flat major for Alto Trombone and Orchestra Adagio Allegro assai Steve Menard, trombone Alexander Borodin Symphony No. 2 in B minor I. Allegro moderato

Symphonic Winds

Andy Post, conductor Henry Fillmore (ed. Robert E. Foster)

His Honor

Percy Grainger Handel in the Strand (arr. Richard Franko Goldman) William Schuman

Chester (Overture for Band)

Alexandre Guilmant Morceau Symphonique, Op. 88 (arr. Wesley Shepard) Steve Menard, trombone Joaquín Turina (arr. Alfred Reed) 20

La Procesión del Rocío, Op. 9

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compiled by Kathleen Messina In his Symphony No. 2, composed in 1872, Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky employed authentic folk tunes from the Ukraine, a region sometimes know as “Little Russia” in the 19th century. Tchaikovsky wrote down the tunes in his sketchbook after hearing Ukrainian peasants song them near his family’s vacation home. Georg Christoph Wagenseil was born in Vienna in 1715, thirty years after Bach and seventeen years before Haydn, so his musical career made the transition from the Baroque era to the Classical. He spent most of his career as a composer and teacher in Vienna’s Imperial court. With his Concerto for Alto Trombone (an instrument smaller than the tenor and bass trombones used in the modern orchestra), Wagenseil gives the instrument an opportunity show off its melodiousness, as well is its expansive range, all in dialogue with a graceful orchestra of strings, oboes, bassoon, and horns.

Alexander Borodin was a Russian composer of Georgian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. Borodin composed his Symphony No. 2 intermittently between 1869 and 1876. The symphony’s first movement creates a characteristically Russian quality through several techniques: its melodic and harmonic modalism, which evokes Central Asian sounds; the vivid brilliance of its scoring, often dominated by the brass; and the elemental rhythmic energy that accumulates around the many repetitions of its craggy opening idea. There are several lyrical episodes, but the music’s dominant impression is one of ferocious and enduring strength

Born in Cincinnati, Henry Fillmore was the eldest of five children. In his youth he mastered piano, guitar, violin, flute, and slide trombone. While best known for marches, he also wrote waltzes, foxtrots, hymns, novelty numbers, and overtures. His Honor is one of Fillmore’s most popular compositions. In the circus marching tradition, it was written in 1933 and dedicated to the Honorable Russell Wilson, mayor of Cincinnati from 1930 to 1937. Australian composer Percy Grainger spent part of his life in England and eventually became and American citizen. He composed and arranged a wide range of music based on English folksongs. Handel in the Strand is one of Grainger’s early light orchestral pieces, written in 1911, before he enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War I. Grainger had no trouble allowing other musicians to arrange his music to suit their needs, so Handel on the Strand has existed in several different versions.

William Schuman began composing in high school, forming a jazz ensemble in which he played violin and banjo. Schuman wrote a plethora of works in virtually every musical genre, each mirroring his strong personality in their sharply defined sense of structure, line, and dynamism. Chester began as the finale of Schuman’s 1956 New England Triptych, based on the music of Colonial American composer Williams Billings. Billings’ 1778 melody “Chester” was adopted by the Continental Army and sung around campfires during the American Revolution. Schuman extended his driving orchestral fantasy on the tune to create this overture for band.

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PROGRAM NOTES (continued) French organist and composer Félix-Alexandre Guilmant was a noted pedagogue, performer, and improviser who helped found the Schola Cantorum in Paris. His Morceau Symphonique for trombone and piano was composed as a contest piece for the Paris Conservatory. Thanks to its beautiful phrases and exciting allegro theme, it is a perennial favorite in the trombone repertoire.

When he was a small boy, one of Joaquín Turina’s favorite toys was a small accordion, and music was always his favorite subject at school. He studied piano and theory in his hometown of Seville and made his debut as a pianist at age 14. After studying at the Madrid Conservatory, Turina went to Paris, where he worked with Vincent d’Indy. During his years in Paris, he wrote fluently in the French style of the day. After the premiere of his Piano Quintet, however, he was advised by friends to write in a more consciously Spanish style. One of his first truly Spanish works was La Procesión del Rocío, written in France in 1912 and premiered by the Madrid Symphony the following year. This colorful portrait of a religious festival helped establish Turina’s reputation.

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GUEST BIO Steve Menard, trombone Steve Menard has enjoyed an extensive performing career throughout the United States and South America. Mr. Menard is currently Principal Trombone of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, and a member of the Utah Festival Opera Orchestra. He has also performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic and many others. In addition to his orchestral work, Mr. Menard has performed many Broadway shows, as well as recording sessions for television and film. In 2006, Mr. Menard performed with the first national tour of “Chita Rivera: A Dancer’s Life”, and in 2009 he performed with the national tour of “Fiddler on the Roof”, starring Chaim Topol.

Mr. Menard joined the faculty of the renowned University of North Texas College of Music in August of 2016, where he helps to lead a studio of more than 70 aspiring trombonists. Prior to his appointment at UNT, Mr. Menard served on the faculty at Louisiana State University. His students have enjoyed success as orchestral audition winners, as prominent freelance musicians and arts administrators. An active pedagogue, Mr. Menard regularly presents master classes and solo recitals at universities around the country. He has performed as a guest artist and adjudicated solo competitions at the American Trombone Workshop, presented by the U.S. Army Band in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Mr. Menard served on the faculty at the Alfredo De Saint Malo Music Festival in Panama City, Panama. In 2008, he was a finalist for the Lewis van Haney Orchestral Excerpt Competition and winner of the Frank Smith Solo Competition at the International Trombone Festival. Mr. Menard holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Trombone Performance from Northwestern University, and a Master of Music degree in Trombone Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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YOSA CONDUCTOR BIOS

Andy Post, YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor Andy Post directed bands at Wood, Jackson, and Lopez Middle Schools in North East ISD and is an active consultant, clinician, and adjudicator. He has earned Teacher of the Year, Trinity Prize Distinguished Educator Award for NEISD, Who’s Who of American Teachers, PTA Lifetime Award, and was nominated for Disney National Teacher of the Year. His ensembles consistently earn Sweepstakes Awards at UIL and have been recognized at the Region, Area, and State levels by Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) and nationally by Choice Music National Wind Band Competition. Andy resides in San Antonio with his wife and two sons. Kenneth Freudigman, YOSA Symphony & YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor Kenneth Freudigman is the co-founder and artistic director of two-time Grammy-nominated chamber ensemble Camerata San Antonio, principal cello of the San Antonio Symphony, a highly respected cello teacher, and conductor of the YOSA Symphony and Concertino Strings orchestras. Ken began his work as YOSA Symphony conductor in 2012. Kristin Hayes, YOSA Flute Choir Conductor Kristin Delia Hayes is a freelance flutist, Baroque recorder player, music educator, and conductor in San Antonio, TX. She currently serves as Lecturer of Music at St. Mary’s University and Our Lady of the Lake University. She previously held teaching positions at University of Texas San Antonio and Florida State University. In addition to teaching flute-related courses, Dr. Hayes teaches music theory, music history, music technology, and music appreciation, serves as the coordinator for OLLU’s Music Internship Program, and coaches multiple woodwind ensembles. In Fall 2015, Dr. Hayes joined the faculty of the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA) as a woodwind coach and as director of the Flute Choir. She is also the founder and President of the current San Antonio Flute Association. During the summer, Dr. Hayes teaches and performs at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, the UTSA Flute Camp, and the YOSA Summer Music Camp. Dr. Hayes frequently performs with various ensembles, including the San Antonio Symphony, Mid-Texas Symphony, Opera Piccola of San Antonio, Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio, Texas Baroque Ensemble, San Antonio Chamber Choir, San Antonio Mastersingers, and the Peterson/Hayes duo. A registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, the Peterson/Hayes Duo (PhDuo) released their first album of commissions, Visitor Pass, in August 2016. An active performer and clinician, Dr. Hayes has performed and presented at various festivals and conventions, including the National Flute Association Convention, MTNA National Convention, Mid-South Flute Festival, Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival and the Florida Flute Association Convention. She has also performed and held masterclasses at various 24

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS institutions throughout North and Central America, and she frequently serves as adjudicator for local, state, regional, and national competitions, including the NFA Young Artist Competition and the MTNA’s Junior, Senior, and Young Artist Final Woodwind Competitions. Dr. Hayes has also been a featured Baroque Recorder guest artist with the Arte Antigua Ensemble in Antigua, Guatemala. Dr. Hayes received her flute performance degrees from from Tennessee Technological University (B.M.), University of Missouri- Kansas City Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and Florida State University (D.M.). Karen George, YOSA Repertory Strings Conductor Karen George is the orchestra director at Johnson High School in San Antonio. Mrs. George studied violin at the University of Southern Mississippi with Stephen Redfield where she earned bachelor degrees in both Violin Performance and Music Education. She then attended University of Texas at Austin where she studied violin under Vincent Frittelli and received a Masters in Music Education with a minor in conducting. Mrs. George has also toured with several orchestras in Europe including the American Institute for Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria. In addition to her teaching job, she also performs in the Corpus Christi Symphony. Mrs. George opened Johnson High School in 2008. Since then, her four orchestras have had successes at UIL with numerous Sweepstakes trophies. The Johnson orchestras have traveled to Europe and Hawaii to perform in various venues. Johnson full orchestra has made it to the finals for Honor Orchestra competition at TMEA three times and they made the finals for string in 2013. Recently, the Johnson Varsity orchestra was invited to perform at Midwest in Chicago this December. Mrs. George is married, has two beautiful daughters and a whippet. Brenda Johnson, YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor Brenda Johnson is the orchestra director at O’Connor High School (Northside ISD) and has been with YOSA for two years. Prior to her current position, Mrs. Johnson taught for 10 years in Plano and the next 7 years at Hector Garcia MS in Northside ISD. For many consecutive years, Mrs. Johnson has received Sweepstakes ratings at UIL Concert/ Sight-reading. In its first year as a brand new school, the Garcia MS Chamber Orchestra received fourth place in the TMEA Honor Orchestra competition under the direction of Mrs. Johnson. Originally from McAllen, Texas, Mrs. Johnson received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baylor University and a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of North Texas. In 2004, Mrs. Johnson was one of four teachers in Texas to receive the Marjorie Keller Young Music Educator Award from the American String Teacher Association. During her time in Plano, she received Teacher of the Year for Bowman Middle School in 2009. She then received the Educator of the Year award for Hector Garcia MS in 2016. Most recently, she was among 19 San Antonio area teachers to receive the ExCEL Award from Kens5 and the San Antonio Credit Union. She has served as secretary and treasurer 25

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YOSA CONDUCTOR BIOS (continued) for TexASTA and is a member of Texas Music Educator’s Association, Texas Orchestra Directors Association, Texas Music Adjudicators Association, and the American String Teacher Association with National School Orchestra. Martin Sanchez, YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor Martin Sanchez is the orchestra director at Ed White Middle School in the North East Independent School District. His ensembles at Ed White have earned Sweepstakes awards at UIL contest. Mr. Sanchez is from San Antonio, Texas and received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the fall of 2013. Before holding the job of director at Ed White, he held the Assistant Director position for several years in the UTSA String Project, a program to help university students hone their skills in string teaching. In 2013, He accepted the Lead Teaching Artist position for the YOSA Mas Program in the Edgewood Independent School District. He has also been involved with the YOSA Summer Symphony Camp for several years. Mr. Sanchez is a member of the Texas Music Educator’s Association and Texas Orchestra Directors Association. Jacobi Caldwell, YOSA Prelude Strings Conductor
 Jacobi Caldwell, Conductor of YOSA Prelude Strings, earned her Bachelor of Music, String Emphasis, from the University of South Carolina. She studied conducting with David Rudge and participated in the USC Conductor’s Institute. She worked with the South Carolina Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the USC String Project. Following that, she taught in public schools, then spent years performing commercially. One of the highlights of her journey was moving to Texas and working with the Hill Country Youth Orchestra. She has gone on to teach at Kerrville ISD and Alamo Heights ISD, winning UIL Sweepstakes at every competition. She is currently teaching in Boerne ISD. Eugene Dowdy, Resident Conductor Eugene Dowdy is professor and director of orchestral studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, conductor of the UTSA Orchestra and Lyric Theatre, and head of instrumental conducting. He also serves as conductor and artistic director for the Symphony of the Hills (Kerrville) and is the founding director of the UTSA String Project. Dr. Dowdy conducted YOSA’s Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1992, was the Interim Philharmonic Conductor in 2000, and named an honorary resident conductor in 2002. He researched and wrote YOSA’s history for his doctoral essay at the University of Iowa in 1995 and is a past president of TODA and TexASTA.

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Philharmonic VIOLIN

Troy Peters, Music Director Georgeanna Hoey

Smithson Valley High School

Victoria Villarreal

Kathleen Ran

concertmaster

Anna Isler

Peiyang Wang

Health Careers High School

Deborah Olivier

Randolph High School

Samuel Clemens High School

Basis Charter School

Emma Jaax Home School

Taegyun Yoon

assistant concertmaster Gemmalee DyerMok

Rebekah Jones

Taylor (Taein) Yoon

Victoria Juarez

Donnel Zhu

Yeonsuk Jung

Winston Churchill High School

VIOLA

Brian Kang

Thomas C. Clark High School

Victoria Klaunig

Bailey Boyen

Home School

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Mika Kochheiser

Jalie-Ann Cummings

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

Home School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Health Careers High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Health Careers High School

Esther Ko principal

International Baccalaureate-Luther Burbank High School

Judson Early College Academy

Abigail Dickson

Prisca Lafuente

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

Zoe Espinoza-Kochheiser

Benita Lee

Ryan Cao

Health Careers High School

Home School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Dylan Fernandez de lara

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

Sofia Hernandez

Incarnate Word 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

Daniel Nix

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Kymber Ovalle

John Paul Stevens High School

Eve Poindexter

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

Wilmer Rodriguez Judson High School

Abigail Slaughter

Samuel Clemens High School

Juliet DeNapoli Imaya Farrell

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Lindee Fiedler

Boerne High School

Madeline Gonzales

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

David Irizarry Home School

Andrew Kang

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Kathryn King

Alamo Heights High School

Joshua Rodriguez Judson High School

CELLO

Andrew Arkhipov

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

principal

Elijah Ayala

University of Texas at San Antonio

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Philharmonic CELLO (continued) Calvin Carroll

Douglas MacArthur High School

Federico Chavez-Torres Health Careers High School

Victoria Day

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Emily Dunn

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Audrey Jellett Tivy High School

Maximilian Klaunig

Samuel V. Champion High School

Catherine Kline

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Erik Martilla

Alamo Heights High School

Tricia Park

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Katelyn Petersen

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Jacob Resendez

Winston Churchill High School

John Rice

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Gabriela Sanchez

Robert G. Cole High School

Nicholas Slaughter

Samuel Clemens High School

Astrid Topletz

Ronald Reagan High School

Elisabeth Wang

Health Careers High School

David Zamarripa

Troy Peters, Music Director Blaine Bryan

Winston Churchill High School

Albert Coleman

Thomas C. Clark High School

Michael Djabarov

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

Presley Heikkila

Alamo Heights High School

Javier Hernandez

Austin Perry

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Austin Struble

William H. Taft High School

Jared Worman

James Madison High School

Jared Lange

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

Ronald Reagan High School

Conner Simmons

Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School

FLUTE

Eunice Chung

Smithson Valley High School

Sieon Kim

Keystone School

Tyrece Williams

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

Paula Wilson

Judson High School

OBOE

Darren Churn

Ronald Reagan High School

Brandon Kim

Byron P. Steele II High School

Reagan Merrill

James Madison High School

Joshua Roper

Veteran’s Memorial High School

CLARINET

Jenna Gaulden

BASS

Joshua Martinez

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Joshua Shterenberg

principal

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Samuel Becvar

Garrett Snowden

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Wagner High School

HORN

Winston Churchill High School

Alamo Heights High School

Michael Chapa

Saint Mary’s Hall

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Niklas Siebert

BASSOON

Smithson Valley High School

Smithson Valley High School

Aidan Alcocer

Evan Chenault

John Jay High School

Ethan Gurwitz

Winston Churchill High School

Caleb Keller

Harlandale High School

Micah Stark

New Braunfels High School

Derek Timmons

Medina Valley High School

TRUMPET

Ian Aigner-Varoz

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Dylan Frazier

Judson High School

Chukwudi (Chidy) Odita-Honnah Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Ethan Reed

Winston Churchill High School

TROMBONE Zachary Bell

Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School

Brett Lair

East Central High School

BASS TROMBONE Jacob Authier

John Marshall High School

TUBA

Shane Rowe

San Marcos 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

Angelimar Carrion Quiros Wagner High School

Margaret Goree

Robert E. Lee High School

Madeline Kalina

Andy Post, Conductor

BASSOON

Jaselle Rheann Reginaldo Louis D. Brandeis High School

Rachel Watts

James Madison High School

Earl Warren High School

ALTO SAXOPHONE

Minji Kim

Basis Charter School

Keystone School

Emily Lawitz

TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas

Eliana Olivier

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Rebekah Taylor Home School

OBOE

Bailey Nicolson

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

Lacey Weber

Randolph Middle School

CLARINET

Mariela Barrientez Navarro High School

Torda Bordas

Ian Weidmann

Smithson Valley High School

TENOR SAXOPHONE Oscar De La Torre

Theodore Roosevelt High School

HORN

Haley Ginn

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Samuel Hart

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

Austin Turner

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

TROMBONE Joseph Garza

Earl Warren High School

Jason Regalado

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Josh Moorash

Smithson Valley High School

EUPHONIUM Danielle Croft

Randolph High School

Alex Gonzales

John Paul Stevens High School

Mark Vallejo

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

TUBA

Liam Ries

Shukria Al-Araibi

Benjamin Walls

Nate Alfonsin

TMI, The Episcopal School of Texas

Louis D. Brandeis High School

TRUMPET

Byron P. Steele II High School

Saint Mary’s Hall

Zachary Gilbertson

Antonian College Preparatory

Augustin Chincarini

Isaiah Dickson

Pearl Fernandes

Trapper Erwin

Raine Esparza

Logan Miller

Bryce Gifford

PERCUSSION

Gabriela Pedraza

Zachary Huertas

Darius Wang

Mark Rogers

Alamo Heights Junior School

Judson Early College Academy

Alamo Heights High School

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Basis North Charter School

Home School

Samuel Clemens High School

Bradley Middle School

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Earl Warren High School

BASS

Basic Charter School

Andrew Fisher

Brennan High School

Abby Jones

Alamo Heights Junior School

Ivan Salazar

Kitty Hawk Middle School

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Carly Munoz

Health Careers High School

Steven Letch

Lindsey Ran

concertmaster

Mariana Navarro

Sophia Quevedo

Adam Nix

Christian Ruelas

Natasha Pfeiffer

Diana Salinas

Ethan Poidevin

Lyndsey Wyatt

Abiud Rodriguez John Jay High School

CELLO

Miaoyin Rojas

Ronald Reagan High School

Judson High School

principal

Marciano Ross

Bianca Castillo

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

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

Basis Charter School

Texas Connections Academy

Jocelyn Thomson

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

Ruth Toth

Health Careers High School

Wentao Yang

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Robert E. Lee High School

William J. Brennan High School

Incarnate Word High School

Giuliano Bucheli

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Britney Ericson

Douglas MacArthur High School

Mia Flowers

Incarnate Word High School

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Josephine Garza

VIOLA

Max Healy

Clayton Boyer Home School

principal

Mikayla Acosta

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Ruben Andrade

John Paul Stevens High School

Parker Baillon

Incarnate Word High School

Alamo Heights High School

Breanna Humphrey

Ronald Reagan High School

Kevin McJilton

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Simon Phoa

Louis D. Brandeis High School

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

Lillian Roe

Josh Cunningham

Benito Salinas

Olivia Gorena

Avery Wilson

Alisha Harris

Phoebe Wilson

Winston Churchill High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

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Earl Warren High School

Home School

William J. Brennan High School

William H. Taft High School

Samuel Clemens High School

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Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor Emiliano Zendejo

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Elaine Zhang

Louis D. Brandeis High School

OBOE

Catherine Hanson

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Jieon Kim

Basis North Charter School

BASS

Chamberlyn Barnett Earl Rudder Middle School

principal

Alexandra Balfour

Ronald Reagan High School

Connor Berberek

Boerne Middle School South

Austin Campos

CLARINET

Blanka Bordas

Health Careers High School

Skanda Hebbale

Health Careers High School

BASSOON

Janet Thongkam

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

Raine Esparza

Jackson Wymer

Pierce Haddad

Ronald Reagan High School

HORN

Henry Unser

Health Careers High School

Basis Charter School

Alamo Heights High School

Nicole Croft

FLUTE

Joseph Pickett

Judson Early College Academy

Emily Lawitz

TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas

Home School

Allie Gonzales

Alamo Heights High School

TROMBONE Joel Carlson

San Antonio Christian Schools

Nathaniel Reta

Central Catholic High School

Angel Rivera-Hernandez William H. Taft High School

TUBA

Richard Daul

Central Catholic High School

PERCUSSION Jesse Forgione Home School

Cecilia Chavez-Torres

Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

Gail Fernandes

Ashley Funk

Randolph High School

New Braunfels High School

Kaia Santos

Alamo Heights Junior School

TRUMPET

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

James Madison High School

Alamo Heights High School

Emily Kuppers

Kierstin Wilkins

Basis North Charter School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Basis Charter School

Communication Arts High School

Helen Lan

Julia Newton Aue Elementary

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Concertino Strings VIOLIN

Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor

Alex Navarro

Lisa Kazami

Douglas MacArthur High School

concertmaster

Rebecca Neely

Basis North Charter School

Heewon Yoon

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Ronald Reagan 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

Skylar Sargent

John Marshall High School

Repertory Strings Katherine Stinson Middle School

concertmaster

Philip Templeman Canyon Middle School

principal second violin Haley Bannister

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

assistant concertmaster

Luke Brehm

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Ava Blair

Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School

Sara Conde

Thomas C. Clark High School

Zora Dickson 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

Emily Posada

Judson Early College Academy

Tony Rodriguez

Thomas C. Clark High School

BASS

Shane Rybacki Saint Mary’s Hall

principal

Soren Dickson Home School

Gabriel Salinas

Karen George, Conductor

Hallie Betts

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

Bernal Middle School

Northwest Vista College

Zachary Presley

Vincent Garcia-Hettinger

Home School

Jamil Laureano-Cruz

VIOLIN

CELLO

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Christian Diaz

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Alessandra Finol

Basis North Charter School

Catherine Fiscal

John Marshall High School

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Repertory Strings

Karen George, Conductor

Robyn Gerry

Trinity Vaquera

Payton Davis

Jillian Griffis

Joshua Whipple

Karina De La Torre

Willa White

Amber Guerra

James Zhang

Gayle Hende

VIOLA

William Huang

John Marshall High School Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Emily Hart

Great Hearts San Antonio - Northern Oaks

Trier Hodge

Canyon High School

Victoria Jones Home School

Addison Lueck

Smithson Valley Middle School

Isaiah Marquez Home School

Claudia Mendible-Diaz Alamo Heights Junior School

Faith Mueller Home School

Amelia Ortiz

William H. Taft High School

Matthew Padron

East Central High School

Andrew Pai

Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School

James Pickens

William P. Hobby Middle School

Jolie Richmond

Barbara Bush Middle School

Phillippe Riopel

Valley Hi Elementary School

Emily Rivera

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Sarah Shaw

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Samuel Shterenberg Longs Creek Elementary

Savannah Stutevoss Home School

John Paul Stevens High School Dolph Briscoe Middle School Winston Churchill High School Tex Hill Middle 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

Frank Tejeda Middle School

CELLO

Samantha Almogela

Edward H. White Middle School

principal

Llailan Bennett

Judson High School

Caedmon Briggs

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Samuel Caballero

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

Madigan Christensen

Byron P. Steele II High School Health Careers High School Judson High School Design and Technology Academy (Roosevelt H.S.) Basis Charter School

Rebeka Jones Home School

Caroline Krugle

Dolph Briscoe Middle School

Sarah Lancy

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Conner Lindley

James Madison High School

Aubrie Rettmann

Byron P. Steele II High School

Esmeralda Serna

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

Alexa Valles

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

BASS

Ben Roe

Jim Barnes Middle School

principal

Hallie Marcott

Alamo Heights High School

Mitch Poe

La Vernia High School

AJ Wood

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

La Vernia Junior High School

Dalton Conner

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS

Sinfonietta Strings VIOLIN

Brenda Johnson, Conductor

Khalia Jacob

Sara Bassiri

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

concertmaster

Eugene Kim

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

Jared Cuevas

Scenic Hills Seventh-day Adventist Christian School

Sophia dela Cruz

The Atonement Academy

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

Emma Lloyd

Basis Charter School

Faith Ruth Marquez Home School

Cristian Martinez Tex Hill Middle School

Levoun Ombaba

Spring Branch Middle School

Francesco Payan

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Erik Peterson

San Antonio Academy of Texas

Adrian Reyes

Jack C. Jordan Middle School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Catherine Zou

Basis Charter School

VIOLA

Sidney Silva Judson High School

principal

Sofia Abascal

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Anya Anaya

Bradley Middle School

Ryan Berberek

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Sara Dulaney

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Kristine Gonzalez

Abigail Rios

Ryan Grove

Daniel Robelo

Anello Hill Zanoni

Alec Sanchez

Alaina Judd

Pearblossom Private School

Edward H. White Middle School

Alamo Heights Junior School

Byron P. Steele II High School

Nathanael Slaughter

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School

Raylie Thames Home School

Christi Toth

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Cornerstone Christian School

Jaime Gonzalez

Austin Tudlong

Douglas MacArthur High School

Smithson Valley Middle School

Joisset Hernandez

Lauren Vu

Ronald Reagan High School

Jack Wadolowski

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Greg Woodard

Anani Rhames

Mikaela Garza

Barbara Bush Middle School

Basis Charter School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Alamo Heights Junior School

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

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS

Sinfonietta Strings CELLO

Brenda Johnson, Conductor

Melissa Fusco

Domenica Aburto

JSTEM Academy

principal

Rylee Hupping

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Victoria Abascal

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Isabella Avellanet JSTEM Academy

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

Cody Reed

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

BASS

Geoffrey Seal

Spring Branch Middle School principal

Kyler Benedict

Home School

Gabriel Eddy

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Matthew Averyt

Ilana Solis

Tyson Geigenmiller

Kyle Chong

Morgan Varney

Jasper Munden

Caroline Cordts

Derek Xu

Remy Place

Saint Mary’s Hall

San Antonio Christian Schools

Woodridge Elementary School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Home School

The Atonement Academy

Capriccio Strings VIOLIN

Victoria Baker

Alamo Heights Junior School

Natalie Benavides

Bulverde Creek Elementary School

Lydia Bentz Home School

Erin Brehm

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Fiona Carlson

San Antonio Christian Schools

Destiny Casias

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Meghan Cunningham

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Walter Krueger Middle School

Basis North Charter School

Edward H. White Middle School

Martin Sanchez, Conductor

Carmen Dean

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Kelsey Fish

St. George Episcopal School

Magoli Garcia

Alamo Heights Junior School

Annia Gimeno Marko Keystone School

Samantha Gonzalez

Barbara Bush Middle School

Branimir Gore

Basis North Charter School

Abigail Gutierrez

E. M. Pease Middle School

Aric Herrera

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Julianna Jaramillo

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Katharine Jones Home School

Emily Kitayama

Castle Hills First Baptist School

Isabel Lew

Concordia Lutheran Church-School

Ariella Lopez

Gregory Luna Middle School

Homero Morales, Jr

William P. Hobby Middle School

Crystal Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Minh Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

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Capriccio Strings VIOLIN (continued) Van Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Katherine Pickett

Klein Road Elementary School

Scarlett Poye

Alamo Heights Junior School

Kaylie Rios

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Sofia Romero Home School

Kayla Sheridan

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Jewel Thames Home School

Faith Tucker

Castle Hills First Baptist School

Samara Valdez

IDEA Monterrey Park

Jesse Vargas

Kitty Hawk Middle School

Adriana Webb Home School

Andrew White

Tex Hill Middle School

Natalie Zepeda

Brentwood Middle School

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Martin Sanchez, Conductor

VIOLA

Carlos Gonzalez

Hannah Smith

Alan Hernandez

Reyna Stovall

Cassandra Padilla

Kaemon Pena Great Hearts Monte Vista

Alamo Heights Junior School

CELLO

Rebekah Andrews

J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

Abcde Bannister Home School

John Garner Middle School

Barbara Bush Middle School

Anne Frank Inspire Academy

Teddy Salzman

Barbara Bush Middle School

Daniella Silva E. T. Wrenn Middle School

BASS

Anastazia Becvar

Kaleb Comstock

Cambridge Elementary School

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Maria Cisneros

David Gonima

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Basis Charter School

Danielle Clish

Jacob Hoppas

Edward H. White Middle School

St. Anthony Catholic School

Jerome Collier

Alexander Ibrahim

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Sean Compton

Makayla Zimmerman

Tex Hill Middle School

Ramon Contreras

Alamo Heights Junior School

Joshua Damiano

Cornerstone Christian School

Matthew Diaz

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Edward H. White Middle School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS

Prelude Strings VIOLIN

Faith Adams

Basis North Charter School

Jacobi Caldwell, Conductor

Adiya Kirwan

Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy

Sophia Ramos Home School

Samuel Sheridan

Christa Cedillo

Ian Lynch

Charlotte Cerroni

Sean Lynch

Desiree Contreras

Miya Morris

CELLO

Rebekah Richard

Thomas L. Hatchett, Sr. Elementary School

Smithson Valley Middle School

Saint Mary’s Hall

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

Jonah Damiano

Cornerstone Christian School

Noah Detiveaux

San Antonio Christian Schools

Odilia Diaz

Castle Hills First Baptist School

Jillian Fernandez Home School

Camilla Finol

The Buckner Fanning Christian School

Alexander Gore Keystone School

Mya Hollowell

Trinity Christian Academy

Eralyn Johnson Home School

Home School

Home School

Basis Charter School

Barbara Bush Middle School

Ximena Roa

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

Great Hearts Monte Vista

Helen Trottmann Keystone School

Annastazia Delgado

Bianca Garcia

Woodridge Elementary School

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

Krueger Middle School

Alamo Heights Junior School

Ileana Godinez

Cambridge Elementary School

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FACULTY

Carl Leafstedt, Ph.D. Chair

Troy Peters Music Director

Shari Mao Vice Chair, Governance

Andy Post YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor

Evin Nicole Eubanks Vice Chair, Development

Kenneth Freudigman YOSA Symphony Conductor YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor

Nancy Halvorson Secretary

Kristin Hayes YOSA Flute Choir Conductor

Benjamin Westney Vice Chair, Finance/Treasurer

Karen George YOSA Repertory Strings Conductor

Lee Hipp Vice Chair, Music Programs

Brenda Johnson YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor

Kenneth Bloom

Martin Sanchez YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor

Kelly Cato Joseph Causby, Ph.D. Magaly Chocano Michelle Davis

Jacobi Caldwell YOSA Prelude Strings Conductor Eugene Dowdy Resident Conductor

Katie DeBauche

ADMINISTRATION

John Frederick

Brandon Henson Executive Director

Kirstin Garrison John Lewis, Ph.D. Elizabeth Lorenz Blanca Maldonado Ryan O’Donnell Donald Oroian Anne Rochelle Sonja Lanehart Schutz, Ph.D. Jeffrey Walsh Evelyn Berg President Emeritus

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Chris Day Development Director Ben Hackett Development Assistant Tyler Benware Operations Manager Garrett Lefkowitz Operations Coordinator Alfonso Gonzales Bookkeeper Kathleen Messina Office Coordinator

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS

THANK YOU, COACHES Through sectional coaching and mentoring by professional musicians, YOSA offers its musicians the highest level of music education. The following musicians have assisted our orchestras during the 2016/17 season. The musical education that our young musicians receive would not be possible without your support. Strings

Michael Badillo, violin Nicholas Browne, bass Allyson Dawkins, viola Emily Freudigman, viola Ignacio Gallego, cello Lani Gil, violin Beth Girko, violin Holgen Gjoni, Cello Mary Ellen Goree, violin 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 Amy Pikler, viola Josh Prado, viola Aurelia Rocha, cello Laura Scalzo, violin Darian Thomas, violin Aimee Toomes, 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

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 January 1, 2016 to December 15, 2016. Please contact YOSA if your name is not included. Great Composers Composers Star Performers Maestros Concertmasters Principal Chairs Section Sponsors Friends of YOSA

$100,000 and above $50,000 to $99,999 $20,000 to $49,999 $5,000 to $19,999 $1,000 to $4,999 $500 to $999 $100 to $499 Less than $100

Great Composers City of San Antonio Department of Arts and Culture Composers Dr. and Mrs. Kym and George Rapier John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation The Rackspace Foundation Star Performers H-E-B Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust Zachry Foundation Maestros Anonymous County of Bexar Anyonymous G. A. C. Halff Foundation Greehey Family Foundation Mays Family Foundation Myra Stafford Pryor Charitable Trust National Endowment for the Arts NuStar Foundation Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts San Antonio Area Foundation Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Texas Commission on the Arts The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation The Ewing Halsell Foundation The USAA Foundation, Inc. Zachry Group 42

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Concertmasters

Steven Bankler, CPA Cecilia Young Willard Helping Fund Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Davis V. Grayson Dyer & Jacqueline Lee Mok John H. Frederick and Mimi W. Yu H-E-B HCA Physician Services Mr. Lee Hipp Joeris General Contractors Junior League of San Antonio, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Carl Leafstedt Lee and Zachry Carter Memorial Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation Rev. John Lewis & Ms. Pat Bridwell Ms. Elizabeth M. Lorenz and Mr. Rick Ramos Shari Mao MPL Limited Partnership III Mrs. and Mrs. Ryan O’Donnell Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oroian Oroian Guest & Little PC Anne and Troy Peters Mr. Kelly M. Ranson San Antonio Symphony Ms. Sonja Lanehart Schutz, Ph.D. and Mr. Paul Schutz, Ph.D. Mrs. Elsie G. Steg The Alfred S. Gage Foundation The Arts Fund The Harris K. & Lois G. Oppenheimer Foundation Mr. Bruce I. Topletz and Ms. Cristina Chial Kathleen Weir Vale and Albert Vale Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Waller Germaine and Jeffrey Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Bartell H. Zachry, Jr. Zachry Construction Corporation

Principal Chairs

Mr. James S. Calvert Joseph Causby and Robert Brewer Mr. Edward E. (Sonny) Collins III Mr. and Mrs. Dan De Bauche Mr. and Mrs. Paul Halvorson High School Music Service Lindsay R Irvin M.D., P.A. Jackson Walker L.L.P Susan Marenda King, M.D. Louis J. and Millie Matcek Kocurek Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur L. Matthews, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John and Betty Moulder Mr. and Mrs. Donald Oroian Andrea Pichler David Anne and Jeff Rochelle Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe B. Smith South Texas Money Management, Ltd St Benedicts Workshop Mrs. Mary Pat Stumberg The Rivard Report Mr. and Mrs. Uriel Tuck United Way University Health System Mr. Robert Valdez Monica Vaughan Deja Wilson

Section Sponsors

Ace Mart Restaurant Supply Mr. Kevin Allen Lisa Marie Anderson Armstrong Vaughan & Associates, P.C. 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 Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brahinsky Ms. Kris Brehm Ms. Carilyn Brehm Stella Brown Ms. Martha Bryant, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Walter J. Buzzini III Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Calvert Richard H. Cavender Ms. Judith Cavender CE Group Rev. & Mrs. Michael Chalk Mr. and Mrs. Chol and Elaine Chong Rosemary P.Z. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Bartlett Cocke Mr. Michael C. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Sara Maria Conde Mr. & Mrs. Michael Connor San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau Nancy W. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Taliaferro Cooper Mrs. Josephine Cormack Ms. Kate Crone Ms. Cathy Dawson and Mr. Don Hessenflow Mrs. April Dickson Ms. Kathleen Doria & Mr. Ruben Silva Ms. Kaye Dunn Walter Peter Dyck Ms. Evin Nicole Eubanks Ms. Joan Fritze Elizabeth Fry Mr. & Mrs. Lon Fry Jim and Frances Garner Kirstin and Bregger Garrison Mr. & Mrs. Leo Greenblum Mr. & Mrs. Ryan A. Guest Ms. Margaret Hager Mr. & Mrs. James L. Hayne Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Heard Frances Hearn Mr. Brandon Henson Ms. Sandra Henson Mr. Don Hessenflow & Ms. Cathy Dawson John Hornsby Pamela F. Howard Ms. Nina Hoyle Ires Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Woodson Jones Anjali and Ajeya Joshi JP Morgan Chase Mr. Ronald Keller Mr. Christopher Kiernan Mr. Gary Kilgore Mr. Hongwook Kim Kenneth A. Kist, M.D.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Sharon Kocurek Rabbi David Komerofsky Rosemary E. Kowalski Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Krueger Barbara Kyse Mr. and Mrs. Weir Labatt Wende L. Lancaster Ms. Marline C Lawson Mrs. Muriel J. Leafstedt Mr. and Mrs. Philip LeMessurier Ms. Eileen Lentz Mr. Gary Lindley Mr. Kevin Liu Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lorenz B.H. Ludwig Mr. and Mrs. Jeb Maebius Zelime Gillespie Matthews Pamela Matthews Marilyn McCullough Beatrice McFadden Mrs. Annabelle McGee June McManus Douglas McNeel Ms. Marise Melson Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Mendible Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Mielke Deborah Moore Lillian Padgitt Morris Mr. William Nichols Mrs. Camilla M. Parker Brenda L. Partain Jennifer Perloff Mr. & Mrs. David Phipps Respite Care of San Antonio Col. (Ret.) William T. Rogerson Mrs. Joycelyn H Rudeloff Stuart Seal Ms. Linda Seewald Patricia A. Semmes Mr. and Mrs. John Shipley Mr. & Mrs. George Spencer Li-Chyn Lee & Sulin Su Nancy M. Sutter Mr. Patrick H. Swearingen, Jr. Targeted Genomics Mrs. Alex R. Thomas, Jr. Janelle B Tye Ms. Julie Vandertulip Mr. & Mrs. George C. Vaughan Mr. Gregory Vaught Alice Viroslav Mr. & Mrs. John Walsh Ms. Marceline Whipp Mr. & Mrs. Bill Wilkinson Mary Beth Williamson Mrs. Jean Rogers Winchell Mr. & Mrs. Jon Wood Drs. Keying Ye & Limin Zheng Ye

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Friends of YOSA

Noel Aljibe Amazonsmile Foundation Mr. David Amori Ms. Flora Atherton Mrs. Sue Bain Mr. Quincy Barnes Ms. Ashley Barr Ms. Jessica Barrera Erin Barrientez Mr. and Mrs. Jim Barshop Mr. Alfred E. Becker Ms. Michele Brown Vanessa Sanlucar and William Bryan Mrs. Rocio Bucheli Mr. & Mrs. Ricardo A. Bunge Mr. & Mrs Kevin Butts Mr. & Mrs. Manuel Reyes Campos Dan Carlson Ariel Carrion Betty M. Cavender Rebecca Cerroni Dr. Charles Christian, Jr. Seunghyun Chung Fernando Cisneros Mary Ann Compton Mr. Ramon Contreras Mary Davis Angel Diaz Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A Diaz Ms. Sharon Drobeck Ms. Elinor L. Duff Olga Duignan Calasancio Fernandes Dawn and Daniel Finlayson Ms. Katrina Fitzpatrick Katrina Fleming Mr. Patrick Flores Heidi Forgione Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Forland Dr. & Mrs. J. Howard Frederick Meloney Funk Autumn Garza Nancy and David Gilbertson Mr. Daniel Gillett Lydia Veronica Gonzalez Mr. Jeremy Goodell Dr. & Mrs. Donald J. Gordon Mrs. Mary Ellen Goree Mr. Alan Graf Mr. Jorge Guel Debra Guillen Ms. Elizabeth Halff D’Ann Hart Alberto Hernandez Ms. Andrea Hlosek

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Ms. Mary Hymel Dr. & Mrs. Milton S. Jacobs Ms. Aurora Jimenez Mrs. Minjeong Kim Mrs. Elizabeth Knowles Mr. Cliff Kochheiser Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Kochheiser Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lancaster Dr. Qinghua Liang Mr. Warren Lieberman Janelle Lopez Kevin Lueck David Lynch Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Macaluso, Jr. Percy Manrique Ms. Martha Marquez Mrs. Rosalinda Martinez Anthony Martinez, M.D. Ms. Melanie Mayfield Mr. David Medina Kathleen Messina Ms. Janie Mikesell Mrs. Lola Miles-Troutz Heather Miller Lucille Montes Ana Moreno Mr. Jack Moulder Mr. Carlos Munoz Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nix Mr. Gerald L O’Donnell Mr. Gary Vega Obaya Mr. Marcos Oliveira Pam Parmer Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Peters Mr. Steve Pfeiffer Debra Pickett Mr. Jason Presley Ms. Jennifer Prince Project MEND Mr. Hampton Rattan Jeanne Redmond Ms. Diana Reed Craig Reed Delia Reed Gary Reed Mrs. Isabel Resendez Kevin and Denise Rettmann Ms. Pamela Reynolds Juan Robles Yolanda and Wilmer Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence and Martha Rogler Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Rogler Samantha Roper Mr. Fred Rosin Angela Rowe Gilbert Salazar Mrs. Rebecca Salazar Kristi, Benito, Diana, and Gabriel Salinas

Eric Salzman Mrs. Tanya Sammis Ms. Sherri Santos Chom and James Seagraves Mr. John Seidenfeld Mr. & Mrs. Josef Seiterle Dr. & Mrs. Alberto C. Serrano Mrs. Elizabeth J. Simpson Mr. Jason Miles Steward Sharon Struble Olga Suzuki Ms. Terese Swartz Bonita Swisher Kevin Templeman Glenn and Georgia Ann Thomas Kristy Turner Dr. Ana M. Valadez Sonia Vallejo Ms. Clara Melnik Vermillion Ms. Maria Villarreal Bonilla Justyna Wadolowski Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Wagner Wah Tee Alterations, LLC Dr. Andrew Walls, MD Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watson Lisa Weidmann Mr. Daniel Weiss Richard D. Wheatley, Sr., Ph.D. Paula Wilson Jackson Wymer Ms. Elizabeth Wymer Mr. Joseph Yglesias Rev. & Mrs. Louis Zbinden Yi Zou

Gifts in Kind

Cici’s Pizza Evelyn Berg Fund of the YOSA Endowment Fund of the SAAF H-E-B Hospitality Parking Mollie Steves Zachry Fund of YOSA Endowment Fund Mr. Chip Ruedebusch Mr. Kevin Allen Mr. Tom Ovalle Ms. Ann Oettel Ms. Caroline Decherd Radius Center Sam Ash Music Corporation San Antonio Area Foundation Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery Spice of Life Catering 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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