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KSYO Winter Concert
February 17, 2025 | 7:00 pm
Program
Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestras
Winter Concert
February 17, 2025 | 7:00 p.m.
Tennessee Theatre
 
sponsored by
Rick Fox & Ralph Cianelli
 
PROGRAM:
 
JUNIOR & PRELUDIUM ORCHESTRA
Megan Kehren & Erin Archer, Conductors
 
WILLIAM HENRY MONK (arr. KAMUF)
Eventide
 
BOB LIPTON
Touch of Glass
 

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Cynthia Wright, Conductor
 
 
RICHARD WAGNER (arr. DABCZYNSKI)
Pilgrim's Chorus
 
CHRIS M. BERNOTAS
Sparks
 

SINFONIA ORCHESTRA
Kathy Hart, Conductor
 
W.A. MOZART (arr. HOFFMAN)
"Amadeus!" from Symphony No. 25
 
CHARLES GOUNOD (arr. NEIDHOLD)
March of the Marionette
 
MICHAEL HOPKINS
Incredible Voyage
 

YOUTH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Katie Liaw, Conductor
 
GYULA BELICZAY
Serenade for Strings, Op. 36, in D minor
   I. Moderato ma non troppo
   III. Adagio cantabile
   IV. Allegro con fuoco - Allegretto vivace
 

YOUTH ORCHESTRA
James Fellenbaum, Conductor
 
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
"Finale" from Overture to William Tell
 
EDVARD GRIEG
Piano Concerto, Op. 16
   I. Allegro molto moderato

featuring Nina Bei, piano

CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
"Bacchanale" from Samson et Delilah

The Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestras is a member of the Knoxville Symphony Youth Ensembles, generously supported by the Pilot Company.

2025 Concerto Competition Winner
Preludium Orchestra Roster

VIOLIN I
Mei Mei Ayliffe
Kendall Berry
Karston Budiardja
Stanley Cessna
Victoria Foster
Jacqueline Jiang, concertmaster
Emma Metzdorf
Vinisha Patnaik
Camilla Rodriguez
Molly Schmidt
Simon Schwarzen
Joseph Sun
Bella Yunsan


VIOLIN II
Avery Clayton
Qiqi Dang
Lillian Hamby
June Hay
Emerson Kibler
Jack Lamb
Jerry Li
Emmeline Mendoza, principal 2nd
Audryanna Patton
Feiyang Ren
Katherine Sanchez
Lily Anne Smith
Brenna Watson
Grace Xue


VIOLIN III
Nellie-Kate Brown
Nicholas Carniello, principal 3rd
Stefano Carniello
Han Cheng
Isaac Johnson
Evelyn Lamb
Jude Rahman
Jiwoong Yeom


VIOLA
Julia dos Santos, principal
Emma Jia
Aiden Windham
Teo Yunsan


CELLO
Campbell Bayless
Katya Budiardja, principal
Olivia Cole
Zayda Dougherty
Clare Griswold
Jiyu Jeon
Abigail Li
Taylor Monroy
Claire Roettger

Junior Orchestra Roster

VIOLIN I
Carolina Bogetic
Adelyn Broscious
Samantha Cutler, concertmaster
Gyumin David Jung
Livia LaBroy
Maggie Lapins
Chelsea Lin
Jio Park
Esther Taylor
Sebastian Variego


VIOLIN II
Ava Freeman
Luke Ikpe
Samuel Palma Valdez
Laney Phipps, principal 2nd
Sofia Wilkinson
Jiho Yeom


VIOLIN III
Maisie Barrick Baldwin
Dorothy Du, principal 3rd
Micah Grayson
Leland Green
Sophie Sneck


VIOLA
Isla Burdette
Cameron Hayes, principal
Evelyn Heatherly


CELLO
Denian Noah Ge
Gia Jeon
Malacai McLaughlin
Juniper McNab
Aiden Variego
Liam Williamson, principal


Philharmonia Orchestra Roster

VIOLIN I
Reagan Arnott
Eliana Barker
Vivian Cao
Adyson Ferrell
Maeve Grossman
William Hillis
Lydia Lamb, concertmaster
Miriam Lamb
Trinity Naessig
Zoe Naessig
Zoey Swartz
Jullian Towle
Reagan Waldroup
Alexander Wills


VIOLIN II
John Bales
Patrick Belland
Emberly Broscious
Logan Burton, principal 2nd
Cara de la Pena
Zoe Gil
Karie Elizabeth Hamilton
Molly Kalafsky
Tina Liu
Benjamin Lowery
Lillian Owen
Annelyse Pruitt
Ethan Roettger
Austen Salas
Chayah Shepherd
Max Stamm
Molly Thelan
Cindy Zheng


VIOLIN III
Viktoria Casimiro
Tellico Gilchrist
Anneka Gomatom, principal 3rd
Pippa Lampkin
Charlotte LeRoy
Alina Oculam
Zoe Park
Brielle Phipps
Rika Shinohara


VIOLA
Amy Cao
Tian Tian Cheng
Kindred Patterson, principal
Yousef Sulaiman
Hassan Sulaiman
Tristan Walker


CELLO
Paul-David de la Pena
Brice Hamlin
Carson Hayes
Gyujin Daniel Jung, principal
Braxton Kanko
Caroline Lockwood
Capri Percer
Timothy Powers
Elsie Schmardebeck
David Smith
Addy Wassenaar


BASS
Daniel Ashley, principal
Piper Dixon
Ellie Fulton
Marialys Palmares Cequea
Corine Perez 

Sinfonia Orchestra Roster

VIOLIN I
Scarlett Andrews
Gaby Bainbridge
Kayla Bowes
Tingkai Cao, concertmaster
Ian Finotti
Giovanni Gonzalez
Axel Guzman Fentanez
Chloe Han
Jayden Han
Jayleigh Henderson
Graham Hyatt
Lennox Johnston
Jungi Tim Jung
Gabriel Kilinski
Max Lee
Annie Liu
Abigail Murrell
Reina Park
Sophie Park
Rebekah Plott
Nina Qi
Anders Smith
Kathryn Spencer
Sandrius Strigunas


VIOLIN II
Nina Batista
Sean Chae
Chris Guo
Laura Harris
Cora Jackson
Liam Justice
Cooper Kringen
Olivia Lim
Connor Liuag
Sophia Maynard
Ada McNeil
Jace Neal
Stella Owen, principal
Ella Ozanne
Emma Padgett
Layla Patel
Davis Pride
Nisha Ramanan
Aditi Ramuhalli
Sofia Strigunaite
Arwyn Welch
Ellah Wilhelmi
Ellen Wu
Isabella Xu


VIOLA
Jayden Chen
Lillian Cutler
Graham Darnell
Alexander Easterly
Elliot Gray
Lilyana Helbasko
Phoebe Jahn, principal
Lily Kim
Aaron Thacker


CELLO
Emily Chen
Skylar Chen
Brinlee Kelly
Marguerite MacDonald
Kirsten McFadden
Emmett O’Meara
Roshan Ramanan, principal
Dallas Sikarng
Crystal Su


BASS
Mason Baker
Haden Moore
Elianna Nagle, principal
Anya Withington

Chamber Orchestra Roster

VIOLIN I
Poppy Barrick Baldwin
Mia Burger
Rachel Caldwell
Emma Cathey
Lucy Cooper
Abby Doyle
Lola Gibson
Margy Grubbs
Natalia Grzywacz-Jones
Athena Johnston
Dream Kang
Ava Kelly
Samuel Lee
Michelle Lian
Maggie Neuman
Roseanna Owen
Bella Quilty
Benjamin Rickert
Leah Rowe
Hope Tichon
Caroline Toth
Gracie Wassenaar, concertmaster
Davis Withrow
Eric Zhang


VIOLIN II
Megan Archer
Samantha Archer
Macey Best
Abigail Cutler
Bethany Enders
Layla Fee
Mary Kate Ferraris
Lauren Gimbel
Haidyn Grove
Nathaly Huang
Oscar Huang
Sejong Jin
Gyujin Daniel Jung
Tiffany Lian
Casey Maben
Sophia Martinez
Baolan Ngo
Nazaket Oguz
Judith Owen
Vilina Patnaik
Ana Pulgar
Lauryn Ray
Simone Romain
Birdie Schwarzen
Kristina Taylor
Leah Thelan
Baron Troung, principal
Viola Yang


VIOLA
Christopher Archer
Carson Boekweg
Ryan Hall
Julia Mueller, principal
Carsten Schroeder
Isaac Wilder


CELLO
Jonah Allison
Raegan Boertje
Christopher Carter
Emerson Ferrell
Jiyu Kim
John Mark Schwarzen
Van Tant
Lydia Toth
Julian van Gyzen
Eason Xu
Mabelle Zhang, principal


BASS
Bree Wood, principal

Youth Orchestra Roster

VIOLIN
Eden Alderman
Rebecca Aponte
Sydney Chan
Jocelyn Chang
Sophia Chen
Andrew Coffee
Meira Desai
Thatcher Ella
Peggy Feng
Siri Fukami
Cayden Greenhalgh
Emily Han
Seth Hano
Grace Im
Kaylee Jin
Maxim Johnston
Addison Kim
Hisato Kurasaki
Joanna Lee
Abbie Liu
Jonny Liu
Sophie Lu
Rachel Mao
Thomas Murphy
Lauren Nolte
Jonathan Oen
London Oldacre
Evan Parsons
Linda Peng, principal
Katie Ray
Avani Spanier
DingDing Tan
Karenna Thurman
Simon Weston
Kalen Wilson, concertmaster
Ella Ye
Chloe Yoon
Benjamin Yu


VIOLA
Julius Hao
Eric Liu
Claudia McDonald
Madelin Pendley
Sarah Stockton
Joshua Sudler, principal


CELLO
Brandon Bonamarte
Audrey Dougherty
Edward Escobar
Maddie Gibbs
Riley Goluoglu
Julian Lee
Alex Lewis, principal
Hamilton McDonald
Lydia McFall
Kevin Snyder
Alexander Yan


BASS
Caleb Bringhurst
Jaeli Kanko
Reesie McConville
William McNab
Duncan Rowden
Isaiah Saylor, principal


FLUTE
Nina Bei, principal
Sophia Combs
Diana Gao


OBOE
Mattie Miller, principal
Allison Simpson


CLARINET
Aryan Sharma, principal
Edward Zhao


BASSOON
Nicolas Hoggard, principal
Kaeden Miller


HORN
Gracie Carmichael
Evan Conger
Jack Dillon, principal
Audrey Pitzer
Isabel Ricciuto


TRUMPET
Gabi Glashauser
Keith Kirk, principal
Leyton Lu
Landon Osornio


TROMBONE
Lucas Hinds
Albert Liu
Matthew Natale, principal


TUBA
Jesse Twilla


PERCUSSION
Jenna Easley
Arman Oguz

KSYO Staff
KSYO CONDUCTORS/ADMINISTRATION:
James Fellenbaum
Youth Orchestra Music Director & Conductor
 
Katie Liaw
Chamber Orchestra Conductor
 
Kathy Hart
Sinfonia Conductor; Association Manager
 
Cynthia Wright
Philharmonia Conductor
 
Erin Archer
Preludium Conductor
 
Megan Kehren
Junior Orchestra Conductor
 
 
KSO ADMINISTRATION:
Rachel Ford
Chief Executive Officer
 
Maddie Helbling
Education and Community Partnerships Director
 
Erin Gonzalez
Education and Community Partnerships Coordinator
 
 
ASSISTANTS, COACHES & VOLUNTEERS:
Whitney Alderman, Refreshment Coordinator
Katie Adams, Youth Orchestra Coordinator
Nora Connelly, Rehearsal Assistant
Mason Crowder, Rehearsal Assistant
Colleen d’Alelio, Junior Orchestra Coordinator
Salina Fang, Chamber Orchestra Coordinator
Autumn Larmee, Rehearsal Assistant
Mandy Owen, Attendance Check-in
Ethan Sharp, Rehearsal Assistant
Jackson Sharp, Sinfonia Orchestra Coordinator
Christopher Schwarzen, Attendance Check-in
Laura Thelen, Refreshments
Anna Toth, Rehearsal Assistant
Emily Wankerl, Rehearsal Assistant
 
STUDENT VOLUNTEERS:
Eden Alderman, violin
Christopher Archer, viola
Megan Archer, violin
Samantha Archer, violin
Brandon Bonamarte, cello
Jocelyn Chang, violin
Andrew Coffee, violin
Abigail Cutler, violin
Edward Escobar, cello
Peggy Feng, violin
Logan Franklin, bass
Cayden Greenhalgh, violin
Seth Hano, violin
Addison Kim, violin
Julian Lee, cello
Abbie Liu, violin
Sophie Lu, violin
Judith Owen, violin
Roseanna Owen, violin
Stella Owen, violin
Linda Peng, violin
Avani Spanier, violin
Joshua Sudler, viola
DingDing Tan, violin
Leah Thelan, viola
Gracie Wassenaar, violin
Kalen Wilson, violin
 
YOUTH ORCHESTRA STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE:
Brandon Bonamarte, Cello
Meira Desai, Violin
Jack Dillon, Horn
Gabi Glashauser, Trumpet
Addison Kim, Violin
Keith Kirk, Trumpet
Alex Lewis, Cello
Sophie Lu, Violin
Kalen Wilson, Violin
KSYO Patrons
The Family of Alex Lewis
The Family of Alexander Easterly
The Family of Bella and Teo Yunsan
The Family of Benjamin Lowery
The Family of Charlotte LeRoy
The Family of Chloe Han
The Family of Christopher, Megan and Samantha Archer
The Family of Clare Griswold
The Family of Cora Jackson
The Family of DingDing Tan
The Family of Emma Padgett
The Family of Evelyn Heatherly
The Family of Graham Hyatt
The Family of Haidyn Grove
The Family of Jocelyn Chang
The Family of John Bales
The Family of Julian Towle
The Family of Julian van Gyzen
The Family of Kaeden Miller
The Family of Katie and Lauryn Ray
The Family of Liam Williamson
The Family of Malacai McLaughlin
The Family of Mia Burger
The Family of Phoebe Jahn
The Family of Riley Goluoglu
The Family of Samuel Lee
The Family of Sofia Strigunas
The Family of Sophie and Leyton Lu
The Family of Thatcher Ella
The Family of Tristan Walker
The Family of Victoria Foster
The Family of William McNab
The Knoxville Symphony League
Drs. Quyn and Ayaz Rahman
In memory of Wilene Chalmers (donated by Mary Ann Fennell)
The Archer Family
Bin Zhao
Bill Kennedy

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