Young Artists Orchestra 2020-2021 members
Oboe
Laura Lambrech Nathan Lessard Lauren O’Connor
Clarinet
Mark Bernard Andrew Dorsett Ada Graham Wyn Parney
Basson
Brooke Ellis Raleigh Eversole Shane Underwood
Horn
George Frommell Maxwell Martin* Audrey Parmentier Jasmine Perry-Grice* Olivia Walt*
Trumpet
Annabella Brotherston Devin Rocha Sophie Urban
Trombone
Bryce Irving Bryce Medlyn Samantha Reising
Universal Ballet Korea. During the 2014-2015 Season he conducted productions of Follies, Gianni Schicchi, Idomeneo, and Lucia di Lammermoor. In the past ten seasons he has been on the podium for Carmen, Così fan tutte, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Sweeney Todd, The Turn of the Screw, The Barber of Seville, Madama Butterfly, La cenerentola, Rigoletto, Tosca, Die Zauberflöte, Die Fledermaus, La traviata, Il trovatore, Street Scene, La bohème, Pagliacci, Cavalleria rusticana, Falstaff, Turandot, The Marriage of Figaro, The Merry Widow, Aïda, Don Giovanni, and The Tender Land. In addition, he has conducted over one hundred performances of The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Firebird, and many other dance works. Named Educator of the Year by the Colorado Chapter of the American String Teachers Association in 2008, Mr. Kenney enjoys working with talented young people in his position as Director of Orchestras at Colorado State University and has served as Guest Conductor with the Alabama, New Mexico, and Virginia All-State Orchestras. Awarded the prestigious Carmen Dragon Conducting Prize in 1992, Wes Kenney served as Music Director of the Oakland Youth Orchestra for five seasons.
Tuba
Josiah Nelson
Percussion
Cameron Davison* AJ Hudson Daulton Templet
Harp
Julianne McCollough Clare Trainor Madeleine Worrall
*College Fellow
an emphasis in conducting. As a conducting teacher he has taught at many workshops including a Conductors Guild workshop at CSU and at the Conductor’s Institute held at Bard College in upstate New York, teaching alongside founder Harold Farberman and American Symphony Orchestra Music Director Leon Botstein. Mr. Kenney is a past president of the Conductors Guild, a 2000-member service organization to the conducting profession. He currently is on the Guild’s advisory board. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and San Francisco State University. Additional studies include three years as a fellow at the Conductors Institute, several American Symphony Orchestra League and Conductors Guild Workshops, and the Sandpoint Festival. His teachers include Harold Farberman, Hans Beer, Gunther Schuller, Hans Swarovsky and Miltiardes Carides.
Mr. Kenney is one of the founders of the CSU Summer Masters Degree program for working Music Educators and has helped over 60 professionals earn their MME degrees with 2020-2021 Season Program
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