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CYS.ORG program Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn...... Let it Snow INTRODUCTORY WIND ENSEMBLE ROSITA AMADOR, DIRECTOR

Leroy Anderson...... Sleigh Ride WIND ENSEMBLE ROSITA AMADOR, DIRECTOR

Modest Mussorgsky...... Hopak from “The Fair at Sorochinsk” JUNIOR STRINGS ENSEMBLE KATI KYME, DIRECTOR

Antonín Dvořák...... Finale from “American” Quartet INTERMEDIATE STRINGS ENSEMBLE KATI KYME, DIRECTOR

Joe Hisaishi/Arr. Yo Goto...... Studio Ghibli’s “Anime March Medley” My Neighbor Totoro | Laputa: Castle in the Sky | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind WIND SYMPHONY PETE NOWLEN, DIRECTOR La Réjouissance (The Joy) from George Frideric Handel...... “Music for the Royal Fireworks” WIND SYMPHONY • ASSOCIATE ORCHESTRA PETE NOWLEN, DIRECTOR

Yoko Shimamura/Arr. Ralph Ford...... Kingdom Hearts from “Video Games Live” ASSOCIATE ORCHESTRA PETE NOWLEN, INTERIM DIRECTOR

Alan Silvestri...... Suite from Back to the Future SENIOR ORCHESTRA PETE NOWLEN, INTERIM DIRECTOR

John Williams...... “Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas” from Home Alone MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS CHORUS RYAN MURRAY, DIRECTOR SENIOR ORCHESTRA PETE NOWLEN, INTERIM DIRECTOR bios MUSIC DIRECTOR LEO EYLAR Leo Eylar is in his 31st year as Conductor and Music Director of the California Youth Symphony. He is also Professor Emeritus at California State University, Sacramento where he served on the full-time faculty for 30 years directing the symphony orchestra, as well as teaching music theory, history, and composition. Eylar has guest-conducted extensively throughout Europe and Asia, including prestigious music festivals in Japan, Austria, France, and Australia. He is also a composer of international renown whose works have been performed on five continents and at many of the world’s most prestigious venues. His Dance Suite for Trumpet and String Orchestra was recorded by the Seattle Symphony and his Rhapsody for Orchestra (1994) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Recent commissions have included a Sonata dedicated to well-known German bassoonist Frank Forst and a large-scale percussion duo titled Two Klee Sketches. Eylar recently completed a work based on the Orpheus legend, scored for large symphonic wind ensemble, that was premiered on June 1, 2018 at the Mondavi Center by the UC Davis Concert Band under the baton of Pete Nowlen. bios WIND SYMPHONY & ORCHESTRAS PETE NOWLEN One of Northern California’s busiest musicians, Co-Director Pete Nowlen has been the California Youth Symphony Brass Coach since 1992 and summer camp co-director since 2007. He was appointed Wind Symphony Director in 2019. Pete is the Director of Concert Bands and Horn Instructor at UC Davis, where he joined the faculty some 30 years ago, and was, until 2016, the Horn Instructor at CSU Sacramento. Pete also serves as the Artistic Director of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, Symphony d’Oro - Rancho Cordova, and Camerata California Chamber Choir and Orchestra. bios STRING ENSEMBLES K ATI KYME Kati Kyme’s dedicated association with the California Youth Symphony has been a joyous and inspiring exchange. The String Ensembles Program has expanded to encompass two full string orchestras totaling to 150-180 players and continues to fully prepare these musicians for advanced placement in the Associate and Senior Orchestras of CYS. She is also Music Director of Berkeley Baroque Strings. As a violinist, Kati is often concertmaster of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the American Bach Soloists. One of her most treasured accomplishments is the formation of the New Esterházy Quartet which specializes in the music of Haydn and his contemporaries and performs concerts in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Palo Alto many times a year. Her discography is impressive. She can be heard in over 100 recordings of music from 1650-2015. bios WIND ENSEMBLES ROSITA AMADOR Rosita Amador has performed as soloist with several local orchestras as well as a being a freelance professional clarinetist in Bay Area operas, musicals, orchestras and bands such as the Monterey Bay Symphony Winds. She has given clarinet master classes locally as well as at the Music Conservatory in Peru, South America. She is also a founding member of the Klarinet Kapers Quartet. Ms. Amador has been teaching instrumental music in the Berryessa Union School District and directing the California Youth Symphony Wind Ensembles for over 20 years. She has a private clarinet studio in Saratoga. bios PERCUSSION ARTIE STORCH As an active Bay Area free-lance musician, Artie Storch is a regular extra percussionist for the San Francisco Symphony, Silicon Valley, Oakland and Marin Symphonies, and has performed with ensembles ranging from Masterworks Chorale to Metallica. He is a frequent player in the Bay Area theater scene, where he has performed in numerous shows including White Christmas, Beautiful (The Carole King Musical), and the long-running Phantom of the Opera. As principal percussionist for The Skywalker Symphony, his recording credits include playing drums and/ or percussion for movies, television, commercials, records, and video games. He teaches privately and is on the faculties of California State University East Bay and Chabot College where he teaches percussion and directs the percussion ensembles. bios MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS RYAN MURRAY Ryan Murray is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Music in the Mountains, the Associate Conductor of the Modesto Symphony and the newly appointed conductor for the Sacramento Youth Symphony’s premier orchestra. An award-winning opera conductor, Ryan is the Music Director of Opera Modesto and directs the orchestra and opera at CSU Sacramento. He is the past Music Director of Fresno Grand Opera, and previously worked as a conductor for BASOTI and The Opera Academy of California in San Francisco. Ryan is a past winner of the Vienna Philharmonic’s Ansbacher Fellowship for Young Conductors, was the winner of the 2017 American Prize in Opera Conducting, and he has recently been awarded second place for the American Prize in Professional Orchestral Conducting. Ryan holds degrees, summa cum laude, in Bassoon Performance and Voice Performance from CSU Sacramento and also holds a master’s degree, with distinction, in Music Business from the Berklee College of Music. he Music in the Mountains Chorus is an Musical Arts Association. The chorus has since Tauditioned community chorus under the grown into one of the top community choirs organization Music in the Mountains, made in the Sierra foothills. Many of the founding up of about 80 singers from the Sierra Nevada members are still part of today’s choir. Recent foothills region. They perform several times a performances include an array of great choral year, sharing their love of great choral music works, such as Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, with the community. The chorus has its roots Mozart’s Requiem, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ in the Golden Chain Chorale of the 1970s, a Toward the Unknown Region, Gilbert & Sullivan’s group of 20-40 members, part of the Sierra H.M.S. Pinafore, and Faure’s Requiem.

• INTRODUCTORY WIND ENSEMBLE • ROSITA AMADOR director

FLUTE 1 CLARINET 1 Jiatong Hou Linda Chang Arjun Surendar Saanvi Pemmaraju CLARINET 2 Timothy Wei FLUTE 2 Carolyn Wei Emma Xia Ayelet Dickman Ameera Ramzan • WIND ENSEMBLE • ROSITA AMADOR director

FLUTE 1 BASSOON 1 ALTO SAXOPHONE 1 TROMBONE 1 Olivia Park Albert Wang Ethan Hong Elliott Chen Isabella Yuen Clay Carson BASSOON 2 ALTO SAXOPHONE 2 TROMBONE 3 Seoyoung Hwang Anthony Paul Siddharth Chidambaram Thomas Futral

FLUTE 2 CLARINET 1 TRUMPET 1 PERCUSSION Ishaan Chandra Varun Nair Sahana Ganesan Artie Storch Jonathan Luo Sophie Chi Elliot Yang Cecilia Huang Kai Doitel CLARINET 2 OBOE Ishan Katpally TRUMPET 2 Jason Doyle Aniruddha Iyengar Justin Yang

CLARINET 3 TRUMPET 3 Joshua Liu Kyle Chen Richard Wan • JUNIOR STRINGS ENSEMBLE • KATI KYME director

V I O L I N 1 V I O L I N 2 V I O L I N 3 Sundaresan Lily Ashcraft Vikram Devaru Balachandran Jessie Cao Olivia Dovey Irene Chang Xinyi Chen Ava Geng Ryan Cheng James Doyas Minkyul Kim Olivia Cho Maple Fan Minseo Kim Alek Ding Samuel Fung Ojas Rao Maxwell Gan Cheryl Gu Catherine Wang Joohee Kim Anson Ho Amelia Yi Ella Li Jessie Ko Xiyue Zhang Joyce Li Saanvi Kotha Justine Liu Jessica Li CELLO Evan Lu Silas McBee Sylvia Chen Tanisha Pilapakam Nidhi Nadgir Jason Chien Juhi Raghavan Jessica Nguyen Isaac Ho Sunayna Singh Kevin Pei Allison Jackson Alexandra Vee Masaharu Seno Ellen Kim Yichen Wu Ananya Singh Ellia Kim Xiyan Xue Robert Wang Ava Li Tina Zhang Ashley Xu Charlotte Midwinter Kelly Zhu Nicole Xu Seoyeon Moon Sophie Yeh Maggie Scott Neil Yeung Matthew Yuen • INTERMEDIATE STRINGS ENSEMBLE • KATI KYME director

V I O L I N 1 V I O L I N 2 Brigitte Au Richard Liu Savan Bollu Teresa Sun Maggie Cai Wendy Liu Polina Borodikhina Eric Tao Jocelyn Chang Owen Lu Jonathan Cheng Jakko Yang Natalie Chang Avi Marwah Candace Chiu Gavin Ye Koey Chen Ashley Mo Gena Fang Brandon Yea Sixue (Susie) Chen Vanessa Seah Yena Han Hanness (Han) Yeung Vickki Lynn Chiong Runze (Tiantian) Shan Kyra Hong Rachel Yim Jolene Chu Claire Sim Raphael Kissell Sophia Zhang Brandon Gao Shweta Surendar Corey Leung Annie Gu Ryan Tan Grace Li Cecilia (Cici) Guo Han-Nha Tiet Abhinav Malviya Jina Han Chenghui (Sophia) Wang Gautam Pilapakam Irene Hong Madeline Zhang Vinay Siva Brianna Lee Sarah Zuo Matthew Lin • INTERMEDIATE STRINGS ENSEMBLE • KATI KYME director

V I O L I N 3 V I O L A CELLO Chloe Chen Eleanor Gil Emerson Chang Tevin Ding Steven Jeon Bella Dachille Rishav Dutt Landon Kim Arielle Fan Claire Jeon Jia Lee Eunseo (Ruby) Lee Edden Li Mia Liu Araceli Lublinerman Jun Seo Oh Purva Marfatia Eddie Ma Anika Raman Ronith (Rony) Raha Colin Smith Jaylyn Sheet Kabir Ramzan Adam Stevens Ayumi Terlizzi Anthony Wang Avanija Vangala Maya Zankowski Grace Wang Megan Yang • WIND SYMPHONY • PETE NOWLEN director

P I C C O L O BASSOON ALTO SAXOPHONE Aarohi Gupta Milena Synek Luke Flees Principal 1st Johnathan Mo F L U T E CLARINET Tarun Nair Ashley Ko Grace Yan Principal 2nd Principal 1st Principal 1st Nisheet Panda Naomi Jansson Shai Dickman Sathvik Sriram Nandini Ravi Seohee (Lena) Choi Anastasia Savastio Principal 2nd Principal 2nd Timothy Chen Aarohi Gupta Principal 3rd Hunter Bauman Chloe Cui Avi Verma

OBOE Eliane Juang BASS CLARINET Principal Andrew Sun Eunsu Cho • WIND SYMPHONY • PETE NOWLEN director

TRUMPET H O R N T U B A Brady Phan Aryaditya (Adi) Lankipalle Ryan Dong Co-Principal 1st Principal Anton Serina Alon Doitel PERCUSSION Co-Principal 1st Ethan Ye Alex Vastano Thomas Jewett Co-Principal 1st Alan Zhao David Kim TROMBONE Aaron Zhou Principal 2nd Brandon Sun Tommy Koh Ivan Lin BASS TROMBONE Zachary Cheng Natalie Colegrove Principal 3rd Erika Chang E U P H O N I U M Alexander He Rohan Venkatesan Principal Matthias Fallon • ASSOCIATE ORCHESTRA • PETE NOWLEN interim director

V I O L I N 1 V I O L I N 2 V I O L A CELLO Claire Kwon Harry Kang Jazlyn Ho Bryan Xiong Co-concertmaster Principal Principal Principal Ryan Lee Aaron Chang Harshini Chaturvedula Allyson Dinh Co-concertmaster Isabelle Chen Connor Chin Jenna Galant Audrey Amblard Felix Chuang Charlize Chiu Yanqi (Ryan) Gao Zachary Cheng Ray Chuang Emily Jeon Evelyn Hsu Claire Choi Jiyun Guo Derrick Liu Yutae (Albert) Jung Joshua Han Hannah Huang Annabelle Yang Rachel Kim Selina Hsieh Kayla Lee Stanford Yu Arissa Lee Grace Huang Jason Rhee Aya Sugaya Sophia (Sophie) Chantale Tso Alexander (Alex) Tsai Hughes Helen Wang Jaclyn Wang Makaila Kim Welton Wang Sophia Kim Joshua Yin B A S S Emily Koo Albert Tam Catherine Li Madison Lin Robert (Bobby) Lipsett Alexandra Ren Carolyn Ren Jeremy Wang • ASSOCIATE ORCHESTRA • PETE NOWLEN interim director

F L U T E CLARINET TRUMPET PERCUSSION Kristine Huang Sean He Diogo Feldman Benjamin Arnett Principal 1st Co-principal 1st Principal Andrew Chang Joycelyn Sheet Jessica Taddeo Anirudh Srikanth Apple Gao Co-principal 1st Asst. Principal Evelyn Wang David Hsieh Principal 2nd Weijing Chen Leonard Chiu Isaac Lee Siran Wang Principal 2nd Serena Kher Katelyn Lee Amanda Huang Samuel Ha Daphne He HARP Judy Liu OBOE TROMBONE Carson Yang BASSOON Mackenzie Duan Principal 1st Donovan Tong Ethan Wolff Zing Li Cindy Chou Natalie Colegrove Angela Hu Principal 1st H O R N TUBA Katherine He Theodore de Swiet Noah Vincent Principal Joline Edwards-Heaivilin Paul Yoon Ethan Serina • SENIOR ORCHESTRA • PETE NOWLEN interim director V I O L I N 1 V I O L I N 2 V I O L A Julia Wang Minji Kim Christopher Oh Co-concertmaster Co-principal Principal Melody Choi Yuli Choi Sihyun Jeon Co-concertmaster Co-principal Asst. Principal Erica Liu Marcus Au Max Wang Asst. Concertmaster Kira Bayer Asst. Principal Brian Hwang Anahita Hassan Asst. Concertmaster Sarah Chang Bryony Crawford Emily Kim Celine Chien Alexandra Phan Noah Ghosh Gloria Hsieh Rebecca Ma Annie Shin Jenna Kang Andrew Song Christy Kim Jennifer Song Natalie Uren Rebekah Sung Jennifer Kim David Tang Jimin Koo Anthony Wang David Wang Kelly Yang Victoria Lam Esther Zhang Katherine Lin April Zhang Esther Luan Claire Zhu Serin Myung Stephen Nishi Aaron Park Joy Xu Amy Zheng • SENIOR ORCHESTRA • PETE NOWLEN interim director CELLO B A S S P I C C O L O CLARINET Katherine Lee Agatha Shi Eileen Hung Frank Jiang Co-Principal Principal Co-principal 1st Samuel Wong Rochelle Li Jasper Wang Co-Principal OBOE Asst. Principal 1st Jennifer Mori Joshua Lee Sebastian Sanso Asst. Principal F L U T E Co-principal 1st 1st & Eb Ellie Chae Diana McGrory Ernest Chau Tiffany Hwang Principal 1st Co-Principal 1st Principal 2nd Evan Chin Karolyn Cheng Quentin Swindells Sarah Chung Trevor Woo Avery Chen Aileen Liao Matthew Kim Andrew Hart Principal 2nd Principal 2nd Evelyn Ho Joyce Chen Mito Funatsu Joonha Hwang Allison Cheng Franklin Wang Brandon Kang Eileen Hung Tony (Haoran) Li E N G L I S H H O R N Hsi-Er Liu Franklin Wang Clara Schultz Justin Sheet Jade (Ji Won) Son Elaine Xiao • SENIOR ORCHESTRA • PETE NOWLEN interim director BASSOON TRUMPET T U B A Jack Liu Ichiro Ng Noah Vincent Principal 1st Co-principal 1st Max Yeh Sylvia Khouri Asst. Principal 1st Co-principal 1st PERCUSSION Fisher Li Dorian Lemarchand Christina Cheng Principal 2nd Arohee Bhoja Luke Hsiao Jacob Maggard Jacob Wang Austin Xiang TROMBONE H O R N Ethan Wolff Jonathan Yuen Eve Zeng Principal 1st Principal Thomas Yu H A R P Mingkuan Yan Asst. Principal Judy Liu Asst. Principal Harry Guan Ryan Yang Asst. Principal P I A N O Max Dai BASS TROMBONE Victoria Lam Natalie Colegrove Michael Yang Michael Zhao • MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS CHORUS • RYAN MURRAY director

SOPRANO I A LT O I ALTO II T E N O R I B A S S Janet Bellavia Julia Amaral Judith Ciphers Karen Brown Rick DeGruccio Amy Butler Patty Biasca Madeline D’Andrea Alan Gaines Rod Fivelstad Jennifer Dahlgren Valarie Bush Nancy Donahue Kevin Guerrero Brian Fry Yvonne Fuller Hilda Chavez Hilary Hodge Judy Kenney Chris Kane Ginny Kaul Katie Chilton Nancy Kendrick Clarence McProud Joy Perry-Thistle Joan Clappier Helen Lay T E N O R I I Dean Metzner Lois Robinson Marilyn Darlington Rosalie Opperman Aron Bors Stephen Tassone Molly Shine Jenny Jane Primrose Terry Brown Bill Vicars Judy Van der Veen Darlington-Person Ruth Ann Riese Jeff Thomsen Linda DeMartini David Wallace Marie Emerson SOPRANO II Chris White Julie Austin Nancy Moyer Keith Wilson Ruth Bertaccini Jean Poff Baritone Beverly Erickson Joslin Quist John Darlington Ingrid Holman Betsy Wagner Stan Thomas-Rose Kathryn Jechura Gayle Wilhelm Joan Mosley Phyllis Wong Ginny Roberts Erin Thomas-Rose credits

O VIDEO PRODUCTION OMID ZOUFONOUN REED MEANS Palm Tree Shoe Productions

AUDIO ENGINEER STEPHEN BINGEN Living Sound

LIVE PRODUCTION WILLIAM MARTIN Steamproav

O PHOTOS/VIDEO ALLAN KUO PHOTOGRAPHY AUDIO PRODUCTION GROUP PHOTOMOMENTO RICHARD BLAIR PHOTOGRAPHY VICTOR ABALOS ALVIN JEE HON LEE coaching staff

FORREST BYRAM RYAN MURRAY

LUCAS CHEN PETE NOWLEN

YUEH CHOU BAKER PEEPLES

RICHARD DUKE DAVID RIDGE

CANDACE GUIRAO STEVE SANCHEZ

MICHAEL HERNANDEZ LAURIE SEIBOLD

ANNA KRUGER DEBORAH SHIDLER

DAN LEVITAN WILLIAM (BILL) SKEEN

ADAM LUFTMAN ARTIE STORCH

CHRISTINA MOK ANNA WASHBURN W I N D ASHLEY KO FLUTE SYMPHONY EUNSU CHO OBOE/BASSOON TARUN NAIR SAXOPHONE

ARYADITYA (ADI) LANKIPALLE HORN

BRADY PHAN TRUMPET/TROMBONE

ALAN ZHAO PERCUSSION A S S O C I AT E JESSICA TADDEO PRESIDENT ORCHESTRA KATHERINE HE VICE PRESIDENT SELINA HSIEH VIOLIN 1

JIYUN GUO VIOLIN 2

HARSHINI CHATURVEDULA VIOLA

ALBERT JUNG CELLO/BASS

ANGELA HU WINDS

DIOGO FELDMAN BRASS

DAVID HSIEH PERCUSSION S E N I O R ELLIE CHAE CO-PRESIDENT ORCHESTRA MELODY CHOI CO-PRESIDENT DIANA MCGRORY CO-VICE PRESIDENT

QUENTIN SWINDELLS CO-VICE PRESIDENT

VICTORIA LAM SECRETARY

CHRISTY KIM VIOLIN 1

BRYONY CRAWFORD VIOLIN 2

ANAHITA HASSAN VIOLA

JOONHA HWANG CELLO/BASS/HARP

ERNEST CHAU WINDS

NATALIE COLEGROVE BRASS

JACOB WANG PERCUSSION staff

JAMES HOGAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

CHINGYING PANG OFFICE MANAGER

JUDY CHAN ASSISTANT OFFICE MANAGER

CARMINA EYLAR ORCHESTRA MANAGER

LEONE RIVERS TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS ASSISTANT

FRANCIS TSENG ATTENDANCE COORDINATOR

LORA WATTS GRAPHIC DESIGNER board of directors, officers & key volunteers

DAVID MORLEY PRESIDENT AUDREY JEE

LI LI TREASURER D.C. KIM

CHERYL CHO-PHAN SECRETARY KRISTIE KIM

SHARON CHAU ERIN LO

ANN DALTON JOHN McGRORY

BARBARA FRITSCHEN DIANA SAVASTIO

YVONNE HO LOUISE TSOI

YOKO HUGHES specialNATALIE COLEGROVEthanks BLAISE GASSEND

CHRIS HEWES

CHRISTINA MOK

RYAN MURRAY

WILLIAM (BILL) SKEEN

ANNA WASHBURN

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