featuring the students of MYSO's Progressions program
Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 6:00 pm, Milwaukee Youth Arts Center.
MYSO gratefully acknowledges the National Endowment for the Arts, the Milwaukee Arts Board, MPS Partnership for the Arts and Humanities, and the United Performing Arts Fund, for their generous support.
In addition, we thank Bader Philanthropies, the Burke Foundation, the Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation, and the Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation for their support of the Progressions program.
Jacques Offenbach, Can-Can
2nd Year Advanced Progressions Orchestra
The Open String Cycle, Warm-up, Bowings, and Tuning
Combined First and Second Year Orchestras
Twinkle Variation
Emaluna Cardenas, cello
Hot Cross Buns (folk song)
Combined Orchestras
Belicia Lira and Fernanda Muñoz, violins
Julius Newman and Jeremy Whilby, violas
D Major Scale Practice - When is a rest not a rest?
Combined Orchestras
D Scale Duets: Master Class Projects
1st Year Cellos and Violas
Gregory Kerkorian, Chorale in D Major
Gregory Kerkorian, Whistler’s Mother
2nd Year Advanced Progressions Orchestra
Paul Rolland, Persian Song
Combined Orchestras, Teachers, and Mentors
Boil Them Cabbage
Sofia Morales, violin
Au Claire de la Lune
Peyden Perine, viola
Good King Wenceslas
Keith Barnes, Jaihun Chawda, Fernanda Muñoz, and Dejnag Xiong, violins
Dayenu
Maroney Vang and Dejnag Xiong, violins
Ellie’s Dance
Ellie Pham, violin
Cripple Creek
Yareli Montenegro, violin
Gregory Kerkorian, Chorale in G Major
2nd Year Advanced Progressions Orchestra
Lightly Row (folk song)
1st year cellos, accompanied by 2nd year orchestra
Au Claire de la Lune
Mia Mathey and Paardhavi Veduruparthi, violins
Rachel’s Repeat
Damian Sanchez, violin
Can-Can
Alan Federico, violin
Luz de la Mañana
Anna Brzezinski, violin
Mary had a Little Lamb
Tessa Mallmann, viola
Shortnin’ Bread
Marely, James, Zayyir, Bailee, and Charles, basses
Scotland’s Burning
Chatter with the Angels
Kayla and Dani, basses
Reuben & Rachel (folk song)
Jim-Casey Pearson, violin
Shinichi Suzuki, Allegro
Yogi Chenneru, violin
Song of the Wind (folk song)
Dariana Garcia Hernandez, cello
Shinichi Suzuki, Allegretto
Sue Wah and Karina Morales, violins
Shinichi Suzuki, Andantino
Isabella Del Razo, violin
Michael Story, Dragon Dance
Andrew Balent, Hand Clap Boogie
2nd Year Advanced Progressions Orchestra
FINALE, FINALLY!
Mozart/Suzuki, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
First Year Progressions Musicians
VIOLIN
Aniya Ayala
Keith Barnes
Janiyah Bent
Jayda Brown
Yasmin Castorena
Jaihun Chawda
Yogendhar Chennuru
Arleth Cruz Hernandez
Noemi Esparza Acevedo
Israel Gnewuch
Gissel Hernandez
Ka'Lee Jackson
Romello Johnson-Smith
Belicia Lira
Isabella Macias
Mia Mathy
Yareli Montenegro
Sofia Morales
Fernanda Muñoz
Inioluwa Oluti
Ellie Pham
Damian Sanchez
Althera Smith
Penelope Sullivan
Anurak Vang
Maroney Vang
Paardhavi Veduruparthi
Eliott Velazquez
Dejnag Xiong
VIOLA
Xyianna Doss
Kassonni Joseph
Danyla Kilpatrick
Tessa Mallmann
Isaiah Morales
Peyden Perine
Sienna Smith
Ryan Sullivan
CELLO
Emaluna Cardenas-Delgado
Charlotte Clementi
Miley Milton-Phillips
Melissa Najera Ramirez
Luis Romero Martinez
Olive Sullivan
BASS
Marely Avila
James Gipson
Zayyir Hodges
Bailee Nicholson
Charles Ray
Second Year Progressions Musicians
VIOLIN
Anna Brzezinski
Isabella Del Razo
Alan Federico
Karina Morales
Jim-Casey Pearson
Sherlyn Sanchez Tiscareno
Sue Wah
VIOLA
Julius Newman
Jeremy Whilby
CELLO
Edna Basurto-Sil
Dariana Garcia Hernandez
Vedale Hill Jr.
BASS
Danielle McKenzie
Kayla
Dr. Janet Jensen, Progressions Director and Progressions Orchestra Conductor
Sonora Brusubardis, Violin Instructor
Tiffany Chang, Violin Instructor
Manuel Landin Lopez, Violin Instructor
Evan Lane, Viola Instructor
Ravenna Helson, Cello Instructor
John Babbitt, Bass Instructor
Tony Lucas, Progressions Mentor
Thank you to our Progressions mentors!
Amber Moreno-Padilla
Emerson LaWall-Shane
Isabella McGinley
Erin Krasovich
Flynn O’Rear
Gabrielle Peck
Jack Cavanaugh
Jurnee Fisher
Lauren Gooden
Shelby Gooden
Progressions, a part of MYSO’s innovative Community Partnership Programs, is an immersive string training program, which provides private instruction and orchestral training in violin, viola, cello, and bass to school-nominated third and fourth grade students who have limited musical experience and live in or attend a school in the City of Milwaukee.
Founded in 2003, Progressions has received national support and recognition. MYSO was named a National Arts and Humanities Youth Arts Program Award Winner for its work through Progressions as well as the 2014 Eureka Award from the Milwaukee Business Journal. The program also received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the League of American Orchestras.
One of the primary aims of Progressions is increased participation in MYSO by students from urban populations that face barriers of access and equity in music study.
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the National Endowment for the Arts, the Milwaukee Arts Board, MPS Partnership for the Arts and Humanities, and the United Performing Arts Fund, for their generous support of this program.
