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Caleb Endres
Fellow, John Downey Creation Project

Caleb Endres is currently a senior at Oak Creek High School and a member of MYSO’s Senior Symphony and Chamber Orchestra. This is his second year in MYSO and second year participating in the John Downey Creation Project. He has played violin for 9 years, and has played piano for 11 years. Caleb has performed with Oak Creek’s pit orchestra, concert band, marching band, and jazz band, and the UWM Youth Wind Ensemble on French horn which he has studied for 8 years. He has also performed in the WSMA Honors Orchestra at both middle and high school levels, and Knight Club, Oak Creek’s competitive a cappella group.

Caleb has previously premiered pieces with MYSO’s Metropolitan Symphony and the Oak Creek High School Bands. He has also submitted pieces to the WSMA Student Composition Project in 2019, 2020, and 2021, winning first place and honorable mention concert band/orchestra and second place instrumental ensemble. In addition he won first place in the high school division of the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers Composition Contest. He plans to continue studying composition in college, and is especially interested in composing for media. 

Starlight Overture for symphony orchestra was mainly inspired by the idea of outer space, its vastness, and the millions of stars in the night sky. The piece opens with a bold statement of the main theme by the full orchestra, immediately followed by a cello solo, calling to mind the stark contrast between a single person and the size of the universe. From there, the piece explores this main theme, alternating between sections of peaceful tranquility, gazing into the night sky, and shocking turbulence and uncertainty, sparking cosmic collisions and sending the orchestra into a frenzied spiral. The piece delves into the far corners of space before ending grandly with another statement of the main melody in all of its glory, finishing like it started.

Caleb would like to thank his private instructor Loree Simuncak, school band director Guy Gregg, composition mentor Rick Walters, and MYSO for their guidance and for this great opportunity.

 

Caleb Endres
Fellow, John Downey Creation Project

Caleb Endres is currently a senior at Oak Creek High School and a member of MYSO’s Senior Symphony and Chamber Orchestra. This is his second year in MYSO and second year participating in the John Downey Creation Project. He has played violin for 9 years, and has played piano for 11 years. Caleb has performed with Oak Creek’s pit orchestra, concert band, marching band, and jazz band, and the UWM Youth Wind Ensemble on French horn which he has studied for 8 years. He has also performed in the WSMA Honors Orchestra at both middle and high school levels, and Knight Club, Oak Creek’s competitive a cappella group.

Caleb has previously premiered pieces with MYSO’s Metropolitan Symphony and the Oak Creek High School Bands. He has also submitted pieces to the WSMA Student Composition Project in 2019, 2020, and 2021, winning first place and honorable mention concert band/orchestra and second place instrumental ensemble. In addition he won first place in the high school division of the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers Composition Contest. He plans to continue studying composition in college, and is especially interested in composing for media. 

Starlight Overture for symphony orchestra was mainly inspired by the idea of outer space, its vastness, and the millions of stars in the night sky. The piece opens with a bold statement of the main theme by the full orchestra, immediately followed by a cello solo, calling to mind the stark contrast between a single person and the size of the universe. From there, the piece explores this main theme, alternating between sections of peaceful tranquility, gazing into the night sky, and shocking turbulence and uncertainty, sparking cosmic collisions and sending the orchestra into a frenzied spiral. The piece delves into the far corners of space before ending grandly with another statement of the main melody in all of its glory, finishing like it started.

Caleb would like to thank his private instructor Loree Simuncak, school band director Guy Gregg, composition mentor Rick Walters, and MYSO for their guidance and for this great opportunity.