Caleb Endres is currently a junior at Oak Creek High School and a first year member of MYSO’s Metropolitan Symphony and Chamber Orchestra. He has played violin for eight years, and has played piano for ten. He has performed with Oak Creek’s pit orchestra, concert band, marching band, and jazz band on trumpet and french horn which he has played for seven years. He has also performed in the WSMA State Honors Orchestra at the Middle and High School levels and Knight Club, Oak Creek’s competitive a cappella group, which recently competed in Varsity Vocals International Championship of High School A Cappella  finals in New York City.

Caleb has also submitted pieces to the WSMA Student Composition Project in 2019, 2020, and 2021, winning first place and honorable mention for concert band/orchestra and second place for instrumental ensemble. He has also won first place in the high school division of the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers Composition Contest. He hopes to continue studying composition in college, and is especially interested in composing for media. 

Voyages for Symphony Orchestra is a cinematic piece heavily influenced by modern film scores. It seeks to depict not only a voyage to another place, but also to a different world altogether. The piece begins mysteriously, with fragments of the main theme echoing into darkness, on the brink of the unknown, until the piece jolts into a faster section, with the theme stated as a heroic brass fanfare. From there, the piece explores the corners of this new world, sometimes soaring and exhilarating, sometimes dark and furious, culminating in a brilliant finale. Voyages is Caleb’s first large-scale piece to be performed live, and he would like to thank his band director Guy Gregg, private instructor Barb Ahlf, composition mentor Dr. Christian Ellenwood, and MYSO for their guidance and for this wonderful opportunity.