THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE OF LIBERAL AND FINE ARTS SCHOOL OF MUSIC
The UTSA School of Music presents UTSA Orchestra
Troy Peters, conductor
Enigma
Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
UTSA Recital Hall featuring Emily Densmore, soprano
Josette Garcia, violin
The Bamboula: Rhapsodic Dance, Op. 75 (1910)
“Nigun” from Baal Shem (1 923 )
Josette Garcia, violin
“Qui la voce sua soave” from I Puritani ( 1835)
Emily Densmore, soprano
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 “Enigma” (189 8-99)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Edward Elgar (1857-19 34)
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE OF LIBERAL AND FINE ARTS SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Emily Densmore is a singing actress from Austin, currently based in San Antonio. gorgeous, powerful voice,” (Big Island Music) she is passionate about breathing life into diverse repertoire and sharing in the creation of accessible music experiences. As a winner of the 2024/ 25 UTSA Concerto and Aria Competition, Emily will make an appearance with the UTSA Orchestra under the direction of Troy Peters in April 2025. Previous roles include Charlotte in Women on the Line (premiere), Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, La Princesa in Montsalvatge’s El gato con Botas, Emily in Soul of Word (premiere), and Diana in Offenbach’s Orpheus and Eurydice Emily graduates in May with her master’s in vocal performance with a concentration in arts nonprofit management from the School of Music at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she studies with Jourdan Laine Howell. She earned her bachelor’s in vocal performance with a minor in Italian studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied with Cynthia Morrow.
Violinist Josette Garcia is a sophomore at UTSA and is currently in her third semester pursuing a degree in Music Performance under the guidance of Dr. Nicole Cherry. A winner of the 2024/25 UTSA Concerto and Aria Competition, she is an active member in both the UTSA Orchestra and Mariachi Los Paisanos. Josette credits her love for music to her father, whose expressive playing on jazz flute and drums left a lasting impression on her from a young age. When she’s not making music, she enjoys oil painting and spending quality time with her friends and family.
Conductor Troy Peters is Director of the UTSA Orchestra and Music Director of Youth Orchestras of San Antonio. Formerly Resident Conductor of the San Antonio Symphony, he has guest conducted many orchestras, including the Oregon Symphony, San Antonio Philharmonic, West Virginia Symphony, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and Round Rock Symphony. Musical America featured him named him one of their 2016 professionals of the year. He was previously Music Director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra and Montpelier Chamber Orchestra and conducted orchestras at Texas State University and Middlebury College. He has often worked with rock musicians, including Blind Pilot, Buttercup, Jon Anderson (of the band Yes), and Trey Anastasio (of the band Phish), with whom he recorded two albums on Elektra Records.
Among the soloists with whom Peters has collaborated are Branford Marsalis, Midori, Jaime Laredo, Edgar Meyer, Time for Three, and Richard Stoltzman. His work has been covered by CBS Sunday Morning, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, and The New Yorker Peters is also active as a composer, where his hono rs 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.
VIOLIN I
Joseph Buechner, co-concertmaster
Jessica Lara, co-concertmaster
Josie Garcia
Harmony Skinner
Keith Beene
Jennivie Bui
Karyl De Guzman
Isaac Cortez
Nicholas Ruiz
Evelyn Escalon
Isabella Christian
Daniel Rocha
Zachary Presl ey VIOLIN II
Monica Carlos, co-principal
Nicholas Garza, co-principal
Mailyn Armijo-Trinidad
Alyssa Perez
Jake Garcia
Malachi Landin
Adrian Vergara
Lacey Elrod
Jamal McLamb
Idalina Esquivel
Akemi Nunez-Martinez
Elise Flores
Cynthia Elias Nuñez
VIOLA
Bryan Echeveste, co-principal
Joaquin Gomez, co-principal
Victoria Schneider
Guadalupe Lopez
Jadyn Dvorak
Abraham Abrego
Marcus Baker
Luke Alvarado
CELLO
Katherine Beebe, co-principal
Isaiah Valdez, co-principal
Natalie Esquivel
Ethan Barrera
Ben Wood
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE OF LIBERAL AND FINE
ARTS SCHOOL OF MUSIC
UTSA Orchestra
Troy Peters, conductor
BASS
Heri Ayma, co-principal
Demtric Williams, co-principal
Moses Serna
Damien Peters FLUTE & PICCOLO
Brianna Martinez
Jazmine Dearlove
OBOE
Logan Odom
Samuel Coleman CLARINET
Kenedy Lerma
Ethan Aguilar BASSOON
Jaime Villejo
Benjamin Parsons CONTRABASSOON
Jared Worman HORN
Andrew Ramirez
Francis Maille
Brandon Bayer
Myrna Ramirez TRUMPET
Gustavo Medrano
Raymon Saldaña
Ivan Lorduy-Camargo TROMBONE
Jayden Zunker-Treviño
Bradley Bolton BASS TROMBONE
Javier Lopez
TUBA
Matthew Bruns TIMPANI & PERCUSSION
Charles Settles
Juan Martinez
Lisa Huerta
Gregory Felter
