OMEA All-State High School Orchestra

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2020

5:00 PM

Conductor: Young K Kim

Manager: Darian Douglas

Danse Bacchanale Camille Saint-Saens

Komm Susser Tod J S Bach arr L Stokowski

Jupiter from the Planets ................................... . Gustav Holst

Young K Kim, Conductor

Young K. Kim is currently the Director of Orchestras at Johns Creek High School in Johns Creek, Georgia Under his direction, his groups performed fve times at the GMEA conference in Savannah, Georgia (2000, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015) He has taken two different high school orchestras to the prestigious Midwest Clinic in Chicago – once with the Centennial High School Orchestra (2005) and twice with the Johns Creek High School Orchestra (2012, 2017) Other notable performances include performing at the 58th Biennial (MENC) Music Educators National Conference in Nashville, Tennessee (2002) and the special 2012 Centennial Celebration of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. His groups also traveled and performed internationally–participating in fve European concert tours (2001, 2005, 2009, 2014, 2019)

Young Kim is an active clinician, guest conductor, and adjudicator throughout the United States and abroad In addition to guest conducting All-State and Honor Orchestras, he also conducted many music camps such as the ASTA music camp, the UGA Summer Music Camp, and conductor of the Interlochen Summer Music Arts Camp in Interlochen, MI

In 2006, Young Kim was selected as the “2006 Georgia Music Educator of the Year” by the Georgia Music Educators Association He was also selected and recognized as the “Expert Teacher Cadre-7” in the Fulton County Schools system in 1997 and participated in its leadership program

Young Kim was named the “S T A R Teacher“ of Johns Creek High School in 2010, 2012, and 2018 and “Teacher of the Year” at Johns Creek High School in 2011

Darian Douglas, Orchestra Manager

Darian Douglas is a professional violinist and educator who has been performing and teaching orchestras in Tucson, Arizona and Lake Oswego, Oregon since 2008 He is currently a Graduate Fellow in String Education at the University of Oregon In the interest of sharing this knowledge of pedagogy to enrich the community, Mr Douglas strives to provide every student with a real-world musical experience and to instill a life-long love of music and performing Through partnerships with the American String Teachers Association, universities in Oregon, and professional musicians in the community, Mr Douglas has initiated more active involvement of students and parents in artistic communities of Eugene and Northwest Oregon