12/18/16 Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland 7:00 pm BOYER COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DANCE

TABLE x CONTENTS TRYPO Board & Staf — 2 Tales of Faraway Places Program — 5 Tales of Faraway Places Program Notes — 6 Artist Biographies — 12 Symphonette Roster —17 Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance offers a diverse Andrew Wickesberg Biography — 19 curriculum, wide array of degree programs and exemplary faculty, preparing students for careers as educators, performers, composers and scholars. Young Peoples Orchestra Roster — 20 John Wilcox Biography — 23 > Degree programs in instrumental studies, jazz studies, education, theory, therapy, choral conducting, keyboard, composition, history, Acknowledgments — 26 voice and opera.

> Annual orchestra and jazz band performances at Lincoln Center, TRYPO provides well-rounded music education programs Carnegie Hall and Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. and performance opportunities for young people to foster lifelong passion, appreciation and support of > Distinguished faculty includes members of The Philadelphia Orchestra music. Performances are brought to the community in as well as many other noted recording and performing artists. part by generous support from the Allegheny Regional Asset District and corporations, foundations and > Additional ensemble performance opportunities in early music, jazz, individuals throughout our community. TRYPO receives fully-staged opera productions, wind symphony, contemporary music, state arts funding support through a grant from the collegiate and marching bands. Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. > Alumni hold positions with major orchestras, have successful recording and touring careers and are educators in music classrooms around the country.

CONTACT ADVERTISE trypo.org To advertise in For more information, please contact: 412.391.0526 the program, 215.204.6810 or [email protected] [email protected] contact Ana Díaz: temple.edu/boyer 212 9th St, Ste. 601 [email protected] Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-391-0526. facebook.com/boyercollege @boyercollege TALES OF FARAWAY PLACES | PAGE 1 BOARD & STAFF

Paul Evans board of directors administrative YPO PERCUSSION COACH Rebecca Stephan staff Marylène Gingras-Roy PRESIDENT Lindsey Nova YPO VIOLA COACH Dr. Paul F. Doerksen EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Rhian Kenny VICE PRESIDENT Ana María Díaz YC2 COACH Erika Deiseroth PROGRAM MANAGER Michael Lipman TREASURER Laurie Cunningham YC2 COACH 2 Melissa StephenS YC AND SPECIAL PROJECTS Kathleen Melucci SECRETARY MANAGER YC2 COACH Traci Davis James Nova Dr. Kimberly Cruz OFFICE COORDINATOR YPO BRASS COACH Andy Whitt Bernard Z. Goldberg Dennis O’Boyle PASSION PROGRAM ASSISTANT AND Stephen Kostyniak YPO VIOLIN COACH, LIBRARIAN YC2 COACH Beth Ober Jennifer Orchard Dr. Natalie Ozeas YC2 COACH EMERITUS artistic staff John Wilcox David Premo Ted Ruscitti MUSIC DIRECTOR AND YPO YPO CELLO COACH Thomas Walters CONDUCTOR Amanda Rice-Johnston Dr. Cyril H. Wecht Andrew Wickesberg SYMPHONETTE BASS COACH Jodi Weisield SYMPHONETTE James Rodgers CONDUCTOR, Christopher J. Wiker YPO WOODWIND COACH, SYMPHONETTE VIOLA YC2 COACH Ashley Woods COACH, YC2 COACH Jennifer Steele Jeremy Black YC2 COACH YPO VIOLIN COACH, co-founding YC2 COACH Aaron White YPO BASS COACH directors Kate M. Black Bernard Z. Goldberg YC2 COACH Rachel White Phyllis B. Susen * SYMPHONETTE VIOLIN Irene Cheng COACH *DECEASED SYMPHONETTE VIOLIN COACH, YC2 COACH Katie Wickesberg YC2 COACH WHERE ARTISTRY + Michael DeBruyn YC2 COACH INNOVATION SHARE Laura Evans CENTER STAGE SYMPHONETTE CELLO COACH music.cmu.edu Application Deadline: December 1 PAGE 2 | 2016-2017 SEASON TALES x FARAWAY PLACES Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 7:00 pm Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland

Symphonette X| Edward Leonard, Guest Conductor Edvard Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (1843-1907) Le Coeur blessé [Heart’s wound] Dernier printemps [Last Spring] Johann Strauss Pizzicato Polka (1825-1899) A competitive edge John Rutter Suite for Strings (b. 1945) A’Roving I have a bonnet trimmed with blue for a competitive field. O waly waly Dashing away INTERMISSION As a student of the UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS • Bachelor of Music in Performance Young Peoples Orchestra | John Wilcox, Conductor/Music Director Mary Pappert School • Bachelor of Music in Music Technology • Bachelor of Music with Elective Studies in Business Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35 of Music, you’ll earn • Bachelor of Science in Music Education (1844-1908) The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship • Bachelor of Science in Music Therapy The Kalendar Prince a degree backed by • Bachelor of Arts in Music The Young Prince and the Young Princess Festival at Baghdad skills and experiences GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS Jeremy Black, Guest Concertmaster • Master of Music in Performance Original Narration text by John Wilcox Student Narrators: Justin Dreyer, that will help you • Master of Music in Sacred Music Edgar O’Connell, Roshie Xing, build a successful • Master of Music in Music Technology Maighread Southard-Wray • Master of Music in Music Education career in a highly Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Suite from The Nutcracker, Op. 71a MINOR, CERTIFICATE, AND DIPLOMA PROGRAMS (1840-1893) Ouverture miniature competitive field. • Artist Diploma in Music Performance Marche • Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Music Education Danse de fée-dragée • Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Music Therapy Danse russe trepak Proud home of TRYPO • Minor in Music Danse arabe Danse chinoise Danse des mirlitons Valse des leurs For more information, visit Student Narrators: Kristen Appleman, duq.edu/music Lillian Arnold Mages, Wesley Madge, Josephine Arnold Mages, Emily Bedeck, Katherine Elizabeth Stanton, Sarah Voigt, Julien Strandberg-Houzé

TALES OF FARAWAY PLACES | PAGE 5 is this the last one? All that the spring presented to me Let it be so: much that was waited and even the lowers I plucked, in life I have enjoyed; And I thought it was the ancestral spirits PROGRAM I have received more than I deserved that danced and sighed, and all may fade. And so between birch and ir tree I found N NOTES N Once I was myself, in the full low of spring a mystery in the spring; that ills my sight, And so the sound of the lute that I cut Two Elegiac Melodies by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Once I wanted to ind myself a home seemed full of tears. and convivial company. nce upon a time (in 1880), Edvard sat in his favorite window seat in his house. The music would not come today… again. He It occurred to Edvard that these poems in themselves were a melody! He read through was reading a book of his favorite poems them again and started to hear a soaring string line. He leaned back and closed his eyes to by Aasmund Olafsson Vinje. There was something listen to this new melody… special about these poems! Edvard felt like he …And as he listened, the melody got louder and louder. Eventually, it almost seemed and Aasmund were cut from the same cloth, that like Edvard could hear actual violins and cellos, it was so real! He opened his eyes and looked Aasmund could see what he saw. Edvard suddenly around, surprised to ind himself sitting in the balcony of a beautiful theater. On the stage, exploded with a gut-wrenching cough. This last he saw a group of about 50 children clad in black and white… playing the very melody he round of illness seemed to last for months and he had just heard in his head! Perplexed, but entranced, he sat back to listen to a heartfelt had felt like he hadn’t been able to write a thing. It performance by such talented young musicians… inally seemed like it was tapering of and Edvard felt like a cloud was starting to lift. Aasmund’s poems certainly helped! There were two of the Pizzicato Polka by Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899) poems in particular that were speaking to him today. nce upon a time (in 1869), Johann sat across from his brother Josef. The Wounded Heart The Last Spring Johann was absent-mindedly By A.O. Vinje By A.O. Vinje (tr. by William Jewson) (tr. by Roy Helge Rasmussen) plucking a few notes. Josef picked up his violin and started plucking along. Once again I have seen the winter Before the brothers knew it, they were My heart has been in the strife of life, give way to spring; plucking out a new little melody and started and many wounds it has sufered The wild cherry trees in full bloom, to go faster and faster. Their improvisation it lay sick and wounded I saw once again. session ended with them exploding into in so many struggles Once again I saw the ice laughter. Suddenly Johann turned to his but yet it has, until this very time break free from the land, brother and said, “Josef, this would be a away from it all, alive escaped. Saw the snow melt perfect little piece for our upcoming tour and the foam of the river to Russia!” Josef smiled and the brothers But scars upon scar, swirl and rage. went into the back room to start writing. The after wounds upon wounds And the plants and lowers once again candle had gone out so they stumbled into there are on every page I saw them bloom; the dark looking for the desk… and up they break every spring, And again I heard …And suddenly the brothers realized they when trees are leaing the spring song of the birds were walking down a dark hallway and not and the ice is breaking expectant of sun and summer. in their home at all! They walked into a grand and the cuckoo sings in the hills. And I was privileged to see lobby with gold and green accents. There were dancing on the spring hillsides, strangely dressed individuals everywhere But lowers bloom in these scars, Butterlies luttering and litting they looked. Josef and Johann shrugged and and blooming lower is tearful among the garlands of lowers. followed the crowd into a grand theater That is how it is with earth too: All the life of the spring I saw again where they took seats with everyone else. The lights dimmed and they were When rain and dew falls from the sky, that I so missed. surprised to see a group of young musicians walk onto the stage... Then lowers grow in the wound. But I am weary and I ask myself:

PAGE 6 | 2016-2017 SEASON TALES OF FARAWAY PLACES | PAGE 7 Suite for Strings by John Rutter (b. 1945) The little girl sang louder and louder. She sang with her eyes closed and belted out with all her might. nce upon a time (in 1971), the little …Soon she realized that she had accompaniment! She opened her eyes and realized she girl sat in the park in Cambridge, was no longer in the park and she was not alone! She was looking at a stage full of children England. She was sitting nearby her age holding instruments and playing the exact melodies that she was just singing! She a bench where a young man sat clamped her mouth shut and sat back to listen… reading a book. She was singing to her doll the songs she had heard her grandmother sing to her over the years. There was the one Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) about the roving fair maid, and the one about the blue bonnet, and then the one with the nce upon a time (in pretty melody that always made her grandma 1887), a composer named sad, and then the one about chores. The little Nikolai was sitting in his girl didn’t like doing chores, but the melody studio working. It was was so fun, she sang it anyway. Suddenly winter and the studio was cold. the little girl realized the man on the bench He held his fountain pen in his wasn’t reading his book anymore, he was hand and squinted again at the listening to her! So she started to sing a little scribbles from an outline of an louder, now that she had an audience! opera called Prince Igor written by his dear friend Alexander Borodin. Nikolai still could not believe that Alexander was gone, and so O waly, waly, but love be bonnie, suddenly. Nikolai considered it A’ r o vin g A little time while it is new, I’ll go no more a-rovin’, with you fair maid. a personal responsibility to take But when ‘tis auld, A-roving, A-roving, these sketches by Alexander and it waxeth cauld, since roving’s been my ru-i-in, turn them into something that And fades away like the morning dew. I’ll go no more a-roving, with you fair maid. could be premiered! Gone too O wherefore should I soon. Nikolai put the pen down busk my heid? and rubbed his tired eyes. There I have a bonnet trimmed with blue Or wherefore should I I have a bonnet trimmed with blue was something about Prince Igor kame my hair? Do you wear it? Yes, I do. that was getting under his skin. For my true love has me forsook, I will wear it when I can, Nikolai had done quite a bit of And says he’ll never love me mair. Going to the ball with my young man. composing in his time, but had been experiencing a dry spell as My young man has gone to sea, Dashing away ‘Twas on a Monday morning of late. But when he comes back he’ll play for me. When I beheld my darling Nikolai leaned back in his chair and tried to clear his mind. He thought of the stories Tip to the heel and tip to the toe She looked so neat and charming of 1,001 Arabian Nights. Convinced he could never be happy, a malevolent Sultan married And that’s the way the Polka goes. In every high degree a new bride every day and had her executed the next morning so she could never betray She looked so neat and nimble, O him. When the young princess Scheherazade was chosen as his next bride, that night she O waly waly A-washing of her linen, O told the Sultan a story of such adventure and intrigue that he was enthralled! Cleverly, O Waly, waly up the bank, she ended the story with so much suspense that the Sultan postponed her execution And waly, waly doun the brae, Dashing away with the smoothing iron one day to make sure he could hear what came next. Scheherazade carried on this way And waly, waly, yon burn-side, Dashing away with the smoothing iron for 1,001 nights with 1,001 stories, forestalling her execution one day at a time, until the Where I and my love wont to gae. She stole my heart away. Sultan became convinced of her faithfulness and rescinded his decree. Nikolai started I lean’d my back into an aik, to hear a low, grumbly melody in his mind – he realized it was the Sultan! Then a soaring I thocht it was a trusty tree; violin melody appeared as he thought of the young princess Scheherazade. Suddenly he But irst it bow’d, felt that addicting magical energy as the ideas began to flow again! He quickly brushed and syne it brak, aside Prince Igor for the time being and pulled out a stack of blank paper. He sketched as Sae my true love did lightly me. he heard the waves break through the cello section; he heard Scheherazade weaving her

PAGE 8 | 2016-2017 SEASON TALES OF FARAWAY PLACES | PAGE 9 tales for the sultan in the flutes and oboes; he heard the ship crash against the rocks in the The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) brass section. For the next few months, Nikolai worked tirelessly at the piece which would become, nce upon a time (in 1892), the arguably, his most famous work. The night before the premiere in St. Petersburg in 1888, young ballerina Stanislava Nikolai was restless. He was going to conduct the premiere himself and was anxious was in her room staring at her for the concert to go well and for the piece to be well-received. He finally drifted off to reflection in the mirror. She sleep… looked at her face this way and that. …Suddenly, Nikolai found himself stumbling into a strange concert hall that seemed Even though she was only 12 years old, halfway across the world! Surrounded by dark wood, he sat down in a hard, creaky chair. The she felt very much like an adult. Just lights dimmed and he saw… teenagers walk out onto the stage! He sat up in his chair – surely a few nights before, she had starred children would not be able to play this piece!? He thought of the incredibly difficult brass in a professional ballet at the Imperial parts, and those raucous, rolling cello lines. He thought of the hours he spent perfecting the Mariinsky Theater! She loved studying harp and viola notes… those woodwind chords and demanding percussion parts! Not to at the Imperial Ballet School and could mention the violin and trombone solos! He looked up at the stage terrified for these young not believe when she was chosen to musicians. But they smiled at him with such confidence and excitement, he found himself play Clara in this brand production with relaxing in his seat and smiling back at them as the first notes of the Sultan’s grumbly melody music by Mr. Tchaikovsky. Stanislava resounded through the Carnegie Music Hall… had heard Mr. Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty two years prior and it was one of her favorites. Stanislava didn’t know why the critics didn’t particularly like the ballet; she thought it was magical! One writer said that the choreography was confusing and amateurish. Another one said that Stanislava’s hero, Ms. Dell’Era as the Sugarplum Fairy was “corpulent.” Another one could not understand why children featured so prominently. However, everyone agreed that 9 the music was something very special. Stanislava’s mother didn’t try to hide the critics’ harsh comments from her – her mother believed that Stanislava needed to learn how to deal with hard things at an early age. Stanislava had another production coming up soon and she was trying to make sure that Clara was still alive and well inside her mind. She stood tall in front of the mirror and jutted her chin at an angle she hoped would convey the confidence she didn’t necessarily feel. Her feet naturally gravitate towards their angled starting position of her first entrance. She closes her eyes, thrusts her chin forward a little further and she allows herself to be whisked away into Clara’s world… …She is Clara. She has just received the gift of the beautiful nutcracker doll from her uncle! And oh how angry she is at her brother who carelessly breaks her new toy! Her uncle promises her that if she places the broken doll under the Christmas tree, in the morning he will be whole. She is heart-broken but does as he suggests. Her dreams are vivid that night as the Nutcracker comes to life! They battle a mouse king and mouse army. They visit the Land of Sweets and meet the Sugar Plum Fairy who orchestrates an impressive performance by dancing sweets from all over the world. Clara and the Nutcracker realize it’s time to leave, however rather than returning to her home, Clara finds herself walking hand in hand with

the Nutcracker into a large theater. They sit down next to a man in his 40’s with a long, fluffy

grey beard and mustache; he is wearing a suit and round-framed glasses. The man is looking 9 around him strangely like he doesn’t know where he is. He seems bewildered to see a young girl in a nightgown and a walking nutcracker doll but he shrugs and introduces himself to them and says, “Hello, my name is Nikolai…” X

PAGE 10 | 2016-2017 SEASON TALES OF FARAWAY PLACES | PAGE 11 5 5 EDWARD LEONARD JEREMY BLACK GUEST CONDUCTOR GUEST CONCERTMASTER Violinist Jeremy Black was applauded for his “musical ire” and “efortless technique” by the Chicago Tribune for his debut performance with the Chicago Symphony at age 12. More recently, his “fabulous tone” and “polished, reliable virtuosity” were noted by the Pittsburgh

Tribune-Review in his “sensational” solo

debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony 9 Orchestra.

Black has been a member of the

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s irst violin section since 2002, and 9 concertmaster of the Grant Park Edward Leonard was accepted on full premieres of new works. He is currently Orchestra in Chicago since 2005. He has scholarship to study with Juan Pablo in his ifth season as Music Director of also performed as a guest concertmaster Izquierdo at Carnegie Mellon University the Pittsburgh Philharmonic where he with the Minnesota Orchestra, the where he earned his Master’s Degree in has introduced innovative programming, University concerto competitions, Orchestral Conducting and completed the sparked audience growth, and brought National Symphony Orchestra, the Bufalo Philharmonic and the Blossom Festival the Society of American Musicians Performance in Residency Program. While the performance of the orchestra to new Orchestra, and in the violin sections of Competition, the Nordic Musical Arts there he worked extensively the Carnegie heights. the Chicago Symphony and Cleveland Competition and the Fischof International Mellon ensembles, such as the Carnegie Equally at home in traditional as well Orchestra. He began his professional Chamber Music Competition. Mellon Philharmonic, Contemporary as new music, he has been featured as the A native of Evanston, Illinois, Black Ensemble, and Repertoire Orchestra, not Principal Guest Conductor of the OvreArts orchestral career in 2000 as a irst violinist in the Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago. studied with Mark Zinger, currently only in conducting his own programs, but New Music Ensemble, the Savoyards As a chamber musician, he performed professor emeritus at DePaul University preparing them for conductors such as Pittsburgh, and the Eclectic Laboratory and recorded the world premiere of and a former student and colleague Sir Andrew Davis, Erich Kunzel, Thomas Chamber Orchestra. He is also a full-time Eugene O’Brien’s Algebra of Night with of David Oistrakh. Black’s secondary Baldner, David Efron, and others. For ive accompanist at the Pittsburgh Ballet the 21st Century Chamber Consort in education began in 1996 at Case Western summers, he attended the prestigious Theater, Choir Director and Organist at Washington, D.C., and has performed Reserve University where he studied with Pierre Monteux School for Orchestral the Christian Church of Wilkinsburg, and numerous recitals throughout the Linda Cerone at the Cleveland Institute of Conductors in Maine as one of only a maintains a piano studio. Pittsburgh region, including Carnegie Music. After graduating, he moved to Ann handful of participants from throughout Edward has also worked extensively Mellon, Chatham and Duquesne Arbor, Michigan, to pursue his master’s the world to study with Maestro Michael with youth orchestras in Pittsburgh and Universities, West Liberty State College, degree with Paul Kantor at the University Jinbo. For four seasons he served as an abroad. Recent engagements include the and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. of Michigan. In addition to private lessons, Orchestra Assistant there. Pittsburgh Youth Chamber Orchestra, In addition to multiple performances he coaches chamber music and leads As a conductor, pianist, and teacher Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras, with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Black has sectionals for both Three Rivers Young Mr. Leonard maintains a busy schedule in and The Brass Symposium and Festival in appeared as soloist with the Grant Park Peoples Orchestra and the Pittsburgh the Pittsburgh area. He is the founder and Ambato, Ecuador. He also conducted and Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Live Youth Symphony Orchestra. Music Director of The Chamber Orchestra coached the Youth Chamber Connection Chamber Ensemble and in subscription Black resides in Pittsburgh’s Highland of Pittsburgh, a non-proit ensemble Orchestra at the Chautauqua Institute this concerts with the Chicago String Park neighborhood with his wife, Kate, currently in their third season specializing past summer. Ensemble and Evanston Symphony. and their two sons. He plays a violin made in the greatest works of the chamber by Lorenzo and Tommaso Carcassi, orchestra repertoire including the He won irst prizes in the University of Michigan and Case Western Reserve dated 1783. PAGE 12 | 2016-2017 SEASON TALES OF FARAWAY PLACES | PAGE 13 SCHOOL OF An Eastman MUSIC education forges the highest levels of artistry and scholarship VIOLIN OBOE Federico Agostini Richard Killmer with deep musicianship skills and Juliana Athayde* CLARINET entrepreneurial savvy. Eastman Bin Huang Kenneth Grant Renée Jolles Jon Manasse graduates emerge as leaders in their Mikhail Kopelman Oleh Krysa SAXOPHONE respective disciplines, have created Robin Scott* Chien-Kwan Lin their own professional opportunities, VIOLA BASSOON George Sakakeeny and are shaping the future of music. Carol Rodland George Taylor HORN Phillip Ying* W. Peter Kurau Where future educators are performers CELLO TRUMPET Steven Doane James Thompson and aspiring performers are artists. Alan Harris Douglas Prosser* David Ying* DEGREES IN: TROMBONE BASS Mark Kellogg Music • Music Education • Music Performance James Van Demark Larry Zalkind Music Education & Performance • and many possible double majors HARP TUBA Kathleen Bride Don Harry Over 25 expert faculty to work with you FLUTE PERCUSSION Bonita Boyd Michael Burritt For more information, contact *part-time Dr. Daniel Perttu, Chair, at [email protected] or 724-946-7270 For application information visit esm.rochester.edu/admissions New Wilmington, PA | 724-946-7100 | westminster.edu/music 7 We are Pittsburgh’s children and SYMPHONETTE

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TALES OF FARAWAY PLACES | PAGE 17 5 ANDREW he Danish String Quartet Monday, February 6, 2017, 7:30 PM WICKESBERG SYMPHONETTE CONDUCTOR

he Jerusalem Quartet Monday, March 20, 2017, 7:30 PM

2016-2017 he Paciica Quartet Subscription Series Monday, April 17, 2017, 7:30 PM Carnegie Music Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Oakland Metropolitan Opera Soloists: Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano;

Tickets and Information Rafael Figueroa, cello; Nathan Hughes, oboe;

412-624-4129 Ken Noda, piano www.chambermusicpittsburgh.org Monday, May 15, 2017, 7:30 PM 9

Andrew Wickesberg came to Pittsburgh Center at Duquesne University. A resident in 2008 to join the viola section of the of Pittsburgh’s historic Mexican War Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, having Streets neighborhood, Mr. Wickesberg previously held a viola fellowship at the is President of the Allegheny City Central New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Association, the Community Development FL. Mr. Wickesberg received Bachelor’s Corporation for Pittsburgh’s Central degrees in Violin and Viola Performance Northside neighborhood. Mr. Wickesberg from Indiana University, and a Master’s enjoys teaching, renovating his home, and Bachelor of Arts in Music degree in Viola Performance from the exploring the many icons of Pittsburgh. Bachelor of Arts in Music New England Conservatory. He is an with a Double Major active faculty member of City Music Bachelor of Music Education Bachelor of Music in Performance

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TALES OF FARAWAY PLACES | PAGE 19 Caitlin Croston Ellie Tiskus Maya Waller QUAKER VALLEY HIGH OAKLAND CATHOLIC HIGH NORTH ALLEGHENY SENIOR 7 SCHOOL SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL YOUNG PEOPLES Yunshu Tina Li Roshie Xing CARSON MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH ALLEGHENY Trumpet Mirra Rasmussen INTERMEDIATE HIGH SCHOOL Aiden Magley ORCHESTRA CHARTIERS VALLEY HIGH PITTSBURGH CAPA 6-12 SCHOOL Oboe Kevin Skinkis Sofia Salgado Kirsten Haddox BALDWIN HIGH SCHOOL 8 SENECA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL Violin I Violin II Viola BETHEL PARK HIGH SCHOOL Everest Yan * Liam Botos † Sarah Hepfl † Lincoln Alkind Genevieve Scanlan Geofrey Madge FRANKLIN REGIONAL SENIOR FOX CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL BUTLER SENIOR HIGH TAYLOR ALLDERDICE HIGH QUAKER VALLEY HIGH CHARTIERS VALLEY HIGH HIGH SCHOOL ‡ Kevin Lu SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL NORTH ALLEGHENY ‡ Mei Hommes ‡ Nora Caballero Clara Turner INTERMEDIATE HIGH SCHOOL PITTSBURGH URBAN WINCHESTER THURSTON MT. LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL Trombone Clarinet Lukas Helsel Jifeng Yu CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SCHOOL Patrick Upton David Choi AVONWORTH HIGH SCHOOL MT. LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL Ziya Xu Hannah Litz NORTH ALLEGHENY SENECA VALLEY MIDDLE Matthew Tanczos Charlie Burton FOX CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING INTERMEDIATE HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY, WINCHESTER THURSTON Hanna Wang ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL Zechary Wu Sydney Ellison TRYPO MENTOR SCHOOL NORTH ALLEGHENY Seowon Thomas Chang TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING Joe Van Dine Margaret Chen INTERMEDIATE HIGH SCHOOL PETERS TOWNSHIP MIDDLE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY, PETERS TOWNSHIP HIGH Mark Appleman SCHOOL Bass Meghan Johnson TRYPO MENTOR SCHOOL SHADY SIDE ACADEMY Sarah Baldwin † James Boston UPPER ST. CLAIR HIGH Samuel Ding SENIOR SCHOOL FOX CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL UPPER ST. CLAIR HIGH SCHOOL Percussion UPPER ST. CLAIR HIGH Emily Arnold Mages Aria Eppinger SCHOOL Abby Loutzenhiser SCHOOL PA CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL WINCHESTER THURSTON Jim Conkle Henry Hilf LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING SCHOOL DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY Jeremy Gu Rachel Bina ENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL Madilyn Doty SEWICKLEY ACADEMY INGOMAR MIDDLE SCHOOL Madeleine Mortimer SCHOOL Alex Redling THE ELLIS SCHOOL LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING Tess E. Hancock Ethan Chen Reilly Jackman FRANKLIN REGIONAL SENIOR ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL NORTH ALLEGHENY SENIOR MARSHALL MIDDLE SCHOOL Zeynep Ozkaya WINCHESTER THURSTON HIGH SCHOOLS HIGH SCHOOL Ashley Chung FOX CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL Justin Dreyer UPPER ST. CLAIR HIGH Emma Hoover NORTH ALLEGHENY Alex Thorpe Anna McClain SCHOOL OAKLAND CATHOLIC HIGH INTERMEDIATE HIGH SCHOOL MT. LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL Bassoon THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH Mitchell Dubin SCHOOL Justin Guo Olivia Wagner SCHOOL Colby Hill PITTSBURGH CAPA 6-12 LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING Nicole Jani NORTH ALLEGHENY MT. LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL Edgar O’Connell Gustav Liden ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL SHADY SIDE ACADEMY INTERMEDIATE HIGH SCHOOL Jacob Worst PITTSBURGH CAPA 6-12 POST-HIGH SCHOOL Zach Mathes SENIOR SCHOOL Tanvi Meringenti LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING Rose Lischner DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY Zachary Lakkis FOX CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL FOX CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL Harp Claire Shao Skyler Moon Renee Long MARSHALL MIDDLE SCHOOL * CONCERTMASTER Cello ST. GREGORY SCHOOL SHADY SIDE ACADEMY Danielle Sobkin † Matilda LaBranche French Horn † PRINCIPAL MIDDLE SCHOOL MARSHALL MIDDLE SCHOOL THE ELLIS SCHOOL Jessica Greb ‡ ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Flute/ Piccolo LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING Jeferson Mei Nella Tsudis ‡ Maighread Southard-Wray BOLD: GRADUATING SENIOR MARSHALL MIDDLE SCHOOL Charles Broussard ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL, SEWICKLEY ACADEMY HOMESCHOOL MT. LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL TRYPO ALUMNA Chad Slater Jacob Wei Noah Hertzman MT. LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL Elizabeth Salgado Rana Jurjus FRANKLIN REGIONAL SENIOR FOX CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL SENECA VALLEY MIDDLE Nathanael Turner HIGH SCHOOL Christopher Lee Abby Mirra SCHOOL LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING NORTH ALLEGHENY Amanda Zeng MT. LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL INTERMEDIATE HIGH SCHOOL ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL SHADY SIDE ACADEMY Ami Shaw Olivia Burik FRANKLIN REGIONAL SENIOR Yumeng Zhang SENIOR SCHOOL Graham Ulery NORTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL MT. LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL

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John Wilcox is now Professor Emeritus years and Concertmaster of the Warren at Youngstown State University and Chamber and Philharmonic Orchestra for continuing as needed on an Extended thirty years and currently is irst violinist Teach Service contract. He was professor with the Chamber Players String Quartet. of violin/viola and string area coordinator In 2008 he was awarded sabbatical for thirty ive years and conductor leave to research laser measurements of the Dana Symphony and Chamber and acoustical proiling interactions via Orchestras for the bulk of that time. computer modeling in conjunction with Previous to his hire with YSU in 1979 he the YSU Center of Excellence in Industrial was a six-year member of the National Metrology & 3D Imaging Research and Symphony Orchestra of Washington M+7 Technologies. In 2010 he received the DC, four years under the direction of Distinguished Professor Award in Teaching Antal Doráti and two years as a irst from YSU. Mr. Wilcox joined Three Rivers violinist under Mstislav Rostropovich Young Peoples Orchestras in the fall performing with many great musicians of 2006. of that era. He served as Concertmaster of the Youngstown Symphony for seven

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PAGE 26 | 2016-2017 SEASON TALES OF FARAWAY PLACES | PAGE 27 Lillian Kampas Krishna Meringenti and Celia Soehner Robert and Margaretha Ujjwala Krishna Kumar Carl Solomon Kanters Ellen Missry Liane and Larry Stillman George Kapusta Elizabeth Mortimer Gayle Strandberg Mary Ann and John G. Anne M. Moskal Peter Sullivan Kaufman Laura Motchalov David Swigon Dr. Janice Kelly Kristi Nangle Barbara S. Thompson, in Juyun Kim and Jinwoo Ahn JingJiang Nie and Qinyan memory of Don Evans Jean Kirk Tang Matilda Thompson TRYPO is pleased to continue our collaboration with the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra George Knight Marina Nielsen and Robert Jay and Bethany Thornton and Duquesne University’s City Music Center ofering chamber music education, enrichment, Dr. Edward Kocher Lauver John and Susan Thornton and performance opportunities for our members through the Youth Chamber Connection [YC2]. Dirk and Nancy Krot North Hills Music Club Richard Thorpe and Linda Sixty students enrolled our inaugural year 2015-16, and we’ve grown to 85 students, comprising 21 Sharon LaBranche Anesti and Elizabeth Nova Stares ensembles for 2016-17 - including 26 current YPO members, 11 current Symphonette members, and 25 Michelle Lally, in honor of Ipek and Ibrahim Ozkaya Katherine Tomlinson TRYPO alum! Jacob Gerszten Heejun Park and Ran Kim Richard Tompkins Coaches from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra, and Edward Leonard Susanne Park Albert Tse professional music educators meet weekly with students before or after orchestra rehearsal. Barbara Lewis The Pittsburgh Cultural Joseph Tuttle Enrichment activities include chamber nights, master classes, summer camp opportunities, and Aiping Li and Shan Shao Trust Carl and Eleanor Urban community engagement concerts. YC2 students have performed in the lobby of Heinz Hall, Carnegie Music Hall, and Synod Hall; at the Governor’s Mansion in Harrisburg and for the PA Supreme Court; Paul Liang and Linda Hsu Charles Powers Celia Valerio on WQED-FM and the Saturday Light Brigade radio show; and for dozens of non-proit organizations Michael Lipman Lisa Rasmussen Goetz Veser across Western Pennsylvania. Kim Litz Artie Reitmeyer and Junko Nathan Wetzel YC2 ofers both an education track (for beginning and intermediate students), and a Higashibeppu Isaac Loding and Irene Peter Williamson, in honor performance track (for advanced students). All young musicians are welcome, please contact YC2 John and Eva Resnik Gathuru of Melissa Stephens Manager, Laurie Cunningham, at [email protected] for more information. Yun Long and Jue Zhang Jerome Rosenberger David and Deborah Wood Ying Lu and Hongying Brigitte and John Savchik Dan Worst Current TRYPO members participating in YC2 2016-17: Cheng Eleanor Marie Scanlan Renee and Brian Worst Peter and Mary Luley Sue Schaefer Duane Wray Lincoln Alkind Ella Gardner Chad Slater Jennifer and Craig Madge, Alan Scheller-Wolf Peter and Yijen Wu Mark Appleman Emma Gardner Maeve Southard-Wray in memory of Don Evans Kamie Schoonhoven Erin Yanacek Liam Botos Sarah Hepl Maighread Southard-Wray Charles Broussard Jonah Hertzman Etienne Strandberg-Houze Emily Mazur Michael and Julia Shaw Jun Zhao and Xueliang Olivia Burik Noah Hertzman Aiden Thornton Pamela Feltes-McCurdy Sisters of the Divine Christine and Neal Zundel Bridget Meacham Providence Max Burrell Mei Hommes Stella Thornton Anonymous (13) Charlie Burton Tillie LaBranche Clara Turner Diane Skinkis Harry Burton Gustav Liden Nathanael Turner Nora Caballero Hannah Litz Maya Waller Will Caballero Abby Loutzenhiser Jacob Worst TRYPO would like to express its heartfelt gratitude to our incredibly Emma Chothani Geofrey Madge Ziya Xu of Duquesne University generous hostof Duquesne venues: University the Mary Pappert School of ofMusic Duquesne University of DuquesneMitchell University Dubin Soia Salgadoof Duquesne University of Duquesne University at Duquesne University for hosting our Saturday rehearsals, Sydney Ellison Genevieve Scanlan and the Catholic Charities for providing TRYPO’s oice space as well as space for Sunday chamber music rehearsals. CITY MUSIC X CENTER We could not do what we do without the generosity of our community! youthchamberconnection.org Consider making a donation to our Annual Fund at trypo.org. [email protected]

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