NEWS FROM THE CYS PARENT GUILD Preparations for the 62nd season are off to a great start! The role of the CYS Parent Guild is critical to the operations of the Carolina Youth Symphony. The Parent Guild is composed of the parents and guardians of all the students in the Repertory Orchestra, PAID ofnote Concert Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra. Our goal is to support CYS by helping US POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 19 NO. PERMIT at concerts, providing concert ushers, staffing the ticket and CD tables, aiding in GREENVILLE, SC NONPROFIT ORG. NONPROFIT CELEBRATING 62 YEARS OF MUSIC • OCTOBER 2017 fundraising, serving refreshments to the musicians before concerts, coordinating receptions after concerts and much more. We encourage and appreciate any help from all friends of the orchestras. The Parent Guild also provides financial support for Camp, summer scholarships and sectional instructors. Current fundraisers are Yankee FROM THE CONDUCTOR Candle and Honey Baked Ham for student accounts. We are pleased Phil and Veda We are very pleased to announce our opening concert for the 62nd Bickley, CYS alumni parents, have agreed to make a limited number of a 7th in a series season of the Carolina Youth Symphony. Our students are primed to of hand blown glass ornaments. We will begin our 62nd concert season with all three present another exciting season of great music making for our audiences. orchestras performing at the Peace Center on Sunday, October 29, 2017. For our first concert, we are once again privileged to be performing at Our Greenville Little Theatre benefit performance will be held on November 7, 2017. the Peace Center in downtown Greenville. This is a world-class concert This event is a wonderful evening of theatre, good food, friends, music and the best hall and it is a real treat for our students to play in this facility. Orchestra deal in town at a cost of only $30. The evening begins at 7:00 pm with hors d’oeuvres, members from the Greenville Symphony Orchestra will also join us for our annual “Side by Side” concert. This is a great experience for our students a cash wine bar and music, followed by the performance at 8:00 pm. Dessert and LESLIE W. HICKEN coffee will be served at intermission. This year’s production is: performing alongside these accomplished professional musicians. MUSIC DIRECTOR We are very proud to present as our guest soloist my colleague at Furman Over the River and Through the Woods A hilarious and warm hearted family fiasco about a young man trying University, Professor of Clarinet Dr. Cecilia Kang. She will be featured as a to move away from his family. soloist on a performance of the alluring composition Snake in the Garden for clarinet and orchestra by American composer, Paul Richards. This We look forward to seeing you there. piece paints a picture of the events that transpired in the Garden of Eden. John and Kathryn Heeney, Parent Guild Co-Presidents You can imagine what part the clarinet plays in all of this. The remainder of the program will feature an eclectic collection of music

and composers. We open our program with a selection by American composer, Aaron Copland. His composition An Outdoor Overture was

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GREENVILLE, SC 29602 by French composer Emmanuel Chabrier and Edvard Grieg’s energetic season with a weekend at Camp Greenville in THESE CONCERT CONCERT THESE setting of Norwegian Dances. MANY THANKS TO TO THANKS MANY

the South Carolina Mountains. Long considered Violins of House Bernhardt KEMET Goldsmith, PA Elmore Consulting Sweeney McCallum to Nexsen you big thank A and Rosenfeld LLC Pruet, their for Einstein the sponsorship of continued CYS Camp T-shirts. a staple in the Carolina Youth Symphony’s Our concert at the Peace Center will begin by featuring both our commitment to building a cohesive orchestra, Repertory Orchestra led by Ginger Greer, and our Concert Orchestra the weekend was attended by over 200 conducted by Jim Kilgus. people including musicians, staff and fabulous Please come and share with me the music making of our talented young parent chaperones. Camp culminated in a musicians as we begin our concert season. We will look forward to seeing concert in the Airnasium on Sunday featuring you at all of our performances throughout the year. all three orchestras. With 240 students in the ofnote CYS program from 90 schools and 41 cities in VOLUME XXI • ISSUE 1 • OCTOBER 2017 two states, it is Published biannually by the Carolina Youth Symphony clear that CYS is a geographically diverse group. Since Leslie W. Hicken so many of the CYS family are from different schools and SUSAN ROBBINS, Editor different cities, the Camp Greenville weekend provides an opportunity to get acquainted with fellow orchestra CRAWFORD STRATEGY, Design CYS/GLT PRESENT OVER THE RIVER members and to make new friends before the season starts. Rehearsals followed by fun activities including LESLIE W. HICKEN, Music Director and Conductor, CYS Symphony Orchestra AND THROUGH THE WOODS s’mores Friday night; square dance Saturday night; team This year our Carolina Youth Symphony/Greenville Little Theatre benefit performance JAMES F. KILGUS, Conductor, CYS Concert Orchestra building exercises and a choice of canoeing, hiking and fundraiser will be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at the Greenville Little Theatre. This is swimming make camp an exciting beginning to the season GINGER GREER, Conductor, CYS Repertory Orchestra a wonderful evening of theater, good food, friends and music. The event will begin at 7:00 for students, staff, and chaperones. pm, with hors d’oeuvres, a wine cash bar and music followed by the performance at 8:00. A big thank you to Nexsen Pruet, LLC and Rosenfeld LEE ELMORE, Executive Director Dessert and coffee will be served at intermission. This year’s production is Over the River and Einstein for their continued sponsorship of the CYS Camp Through the Woods–A hilarious and warm-hearted family fiasco about a young man trying T-shirts. BEV BRESETTE, Executive Assistant to move away from his family. The ticket price remains $30 - clearly one of the best deals in town for a wonderful evening. KEITH BRADFORD, Operations Director

LOGAN CAMPBELL, SAM SHERER, ALYSSA JOURET, JORDAN CHASE, Furman University Interns

WADE KOLB, Board President

carolinayouthsymphony.org FURMAN/CYS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM CECILIA KANG PERFORMS WITH THE CYS LEE ELMORE CELEBRATES 20 YEARS Each year Furman University and the Carolina Youth SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ON OCTOBER 29 AS CYS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Symphony sponsor Furman music students who work as interns during the year with the CYS. The interns attend The Soloist in the October 29 Concert, Clarinetist Cecilia Kang, is a recipient of Lee Elmore has served as Executive Director of the Carolina Youth rehearsals and concerts and work with the CYS students notable awards from the Canadian Music Competition, the Montreal Symphony Symphony for 20 years, providing wonderful leadership, stability, organization, and a “Three Musketeer” attitude, helping the staff in various capacities. This year there are four interns. Orchestra Standard Life Competition, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in The Furman interns, pictured left to right in the photo, work together for the benefit of all students. Washington DC, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Metropolitan Arts Council. are: A Native Greenvillian, Anna “Lee” Elmore received her Bachelor’s Logan Campbell: Wind Intern - Logan Campbell is a As a concert clarinetist, she has performed at The Chamber Music Festival of Arts degree and her Juris Doctorate from the University of senior music education student at Furman University (Denmark), IMPULS Contemporary Music Festival (Austria), Castleton Music Festival South Carolina. She is a certified civil mediator and has long where he studies Music Education with primary been active on community arts and social services boards in instruments of voice, oboe, and bassoon. He is in the (USA), Luzerne Music Center (USA), Collingwood Music Festival (Canada), Banff Furman Paladin Regiment, Wind Ensemble, Furman Centre for the Arts (Canada), International Clarinet and Saxophone Festival (China) Greenville County. Through her position as Executive Director, Singers, Phi Mu Alpha Music Fraternity, Pauper Players, and the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest in 2014 and 2016. she has provided musical support for events benefiting the McCall Palmetto Boys State and sings as a choral scholar at First Hospice House; the St. Francis Festival of Trees; the Rose Ball; the Baptist Church of Greenville. He returns to CYS for his final year after having been abroad A highly sought-after artist, teacher and clinician, Dr. Kang has Heart Ball; the Meals on Wheels fund raiser and the Art Museum in Germany with the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals for the presented master classes throughout North America, Europe as well as the Greenville Little Theatre. During her tenure with CYS, the orchestra has grown from 120 to 260 musicians; added a third orchestra and a third conductor; added 2016-2017 year. He plans on pursuing a Masters in Orchestral Conducting and potentially and Asia. She has also presented at conferences hosted by the moving back to Germany to seek conducting jobs and performance opportunities. an annual weekend trip to YMCA Camp Greenville; performed at the Brooks Center Music Educators Association, the College Music Society, and the in Clemson; Twichell Auditorium at Converse College; the Porter Center of Brevard Sam Sherer: Percussion Intern - Sam Sherer is a classical and jazz percussionist and International Clarinet Association. This December, Dr. Kang has been College; the Peace Center in Greenville; annual guest artists for the Furman Lakeside instructor based out of Greenville, SC. A student at Furman University, he is pursuing a invited to present a clarinet pedagogy workshop at the Midwest Concert series; received the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner award for an Arts Organization and degree in Percussion Performance, and participates in many ensembles including Band, Clinic International Band, Orchestra and Music Conference and completed six life changing trips with the orchestra to New York to perform at Carnegie Orchestra, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, and Jazz Combos. As an educator, Sherer Hall. She is currently on the board of the Greenville Little Theater; is a sustaining has worked with the James F. Byrnes High School Marching Band and the Travelers Rest perform with the Hong Kong Symphonic Youth Band as a featured CECILIA KANG High School Golden Regiment as a front ensemble instructor, as well with private students. soloist for the Interflow Music Festival in Hong Kong. member of the Greenville Junior League and a member since 2008 of Greenville Women Sherer currently serves as the Percussion Intern for the Carolina Youth Symphony. Giving. Ms. Elmore has worked as Executive Director of the Carolina Youth Symphony since 1998 when her daughter Marguerite joined as a percussionist. He has had the benefit of studying with some of the best percussion educators in the Dr. Kang joined the music faculty at Furman University in 2015. She earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan, a Master of Music degree country, including Dr. Omar Carmenates, Dr. Lucas Bernier, and Dr. Brian Nozny. In addition, Ms. Elmore’s unique skill set has been an invaluable asset to the Carolina Youth Sam has studied with the famed marimbist Leigh Howard Stevens at his annual marimba from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Symphony during her twenty years with us. She has the mind of a highly trained and seminar. His select performances include masterclasses at both the Leigh Howard Stevens University of Toronto. Dr. Kang is a Vandoren and Buffet Crampon Performing Artist experienced lawyer coupled with the golden heart of a mom who truly cares for the Marimba Seminar and the Emory Percussion Symposium for Dr. John Parks IV of Florida and Clinician. For more information, please visit www.kangcecilia.com. welfare of her students. It has been an honor and a privilege to work with such a State University. Sherer is originally from Dickinson, ND, where the rest of his family still talented and caring individual. - Les Hicken resides. Alyssa Jouret: String intern - Alyssa Nicole Jouret is a classical violinist and cellist studying Everyone knows that Ms. Elmore is an amazing executive director, but what I appreciate under Dr. Thomas Joiner at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She is a member most is her true concern and compassion for each CYS family. When our son was in the of the Furman University Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of both Gladden hospital, she visited multiple times and stayed in close contact with us. She went well and Hartness Quartets. After graduation in 2019, she plans to attend graduate school for REMAINING CONCERTS beyond the call of duty to assure us that we were loved and cared for by everyone at violin performance before attending medical school to study pediatric oncology. 2017-2018 SEASON CYS. We love Ms. Elmore! - Teresa Moore Jouret started playing violin with the Suzuki program at age 5. She has had the wonderful How fortunate the kids are to have Lee Elmore at the helm. She cares deeply about opportunity to study under Catherine McGlasson, Suyuen Jung-Yuen, and Nancy Chang. Fall Concert Sunday, October 29, 2017 5:00 pm Jouret is a recipient of the prestigious Walker’s Rising Stars Scholarship, and the Young Artist’s them as musicians and more importantly, as people. We so appreciate the tremendous Award, as well as Furman’s Bell Tower Scholarship, the Furman Strings Scholarship, and the Cecilia Kang, clarinet soloist amount of effort Lee has put in for so many years to make CYS an unforgettable Lennie Lusby Scholarship. Side by side with Greenville Symphony Orchestra experience for our kids. We love Lee! - Jamie & John Michala Peace Concert Hall, Greenville, SC Jordan Chase: Brass intern - Jordan is a junior Music Education major, French horn player, (All Orchestras) Lee Elmore’s contribution to CYS over the past twenty years has been invaluable. She is from Prosperity, South Carolina. Though he did not come through CYS as a musician, our ambassador in the community, our chief grant writer and fundraiser, and a relentless he found out about it when he came to Furman and loves working with the students and advocate for our musicians, conductors, and staff. While orchestra members, board conductors. Jordan’s ultimate goal is to finish Furman with a music education degree and Holiday Concert Sunday, December 3, 2017 3:00 pm members, and staff have changed from year-to-year, Lee’s nurturing hand over CYS has then go to grad school for horn performance, eventually getting a job in an orchestra and Dorman High School Chamber Singers been steady, leading us to unparalleled success and an enviable reputation among youth teaching private lessons. Angela Lemere, Director orchestras nationwide. - Wade Kolb , CYS Board President Additionally, Jordan and Logan handle most of the CYS library materials. McAlister Auditorium, Furman University The CYS program benefits greatly from the hard work of these interns and the sharing of (All Orchestras) their musical knowledge with the CYS musicians. Repertory and Concert Orchestras Concert Sunday, March 4, 2018 3:00pm CYS/BERNHARDT HOUSE OF VIOLINS Gunter Theatre of the Peace Center CONCERTO COMPETITION OUR YOUTH OUR FUTURE BENEFIT CONCERT Concerto Competition Concert Sunday, March 4, 2018 7:00 pm TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2017 On October 13, 2017, Logan Campbell, Furman University Senior and CYS alumnus and Intern, Featuring the Winners of the CYS/Bernhardt Violins Concerto Competition produced and conducted a concert at Furman using all volunteers, including students of the Gunter Theatre of the Peace Center The 31st annual Carolina Youth Symphony Concerto competition will be held Carolina Youth Symphony, former CYS students and Furman students. The programming of Tuesday, November 21, 2017, at Furman University. Applications must be postmarked the concert was especially thoughtful with an effort to pay homage to all of the arts. To Dance Senior Honors Concert Sunday, May 6, 2018 3:00 pm by Sunday, November 5, 2017. First Place winners will perform with the CYS with the Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker; to the Movies with suites from the Lion King, McAlister Auditorium, Furman University Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at 7:00pm, in the Gunter Theatre at How to Train Your Dragon and Far and Away; to Opera by the extraordinary Sextet from Lucia (All Orchestras) the Peace Center. First place winners will also receive a check for $500. Previous di Lammermoor; to the Visual Arts and Music by the orchestral premiere of JJay Berthume’s first-place winners of this Competition are ineligible in their same performance composition interpreting 3 batik paintings done by local art students. The proceeds from the Lakeside Concert Thursday, June 7, 2018 7:30 pm category. The competition is open to musicians who have not reached age 19 concert will be used to help fund the Arts Programs in Title I schools in Greenville County. Bravo Amphitheater, Furman University by June 15, 2018. Thanks to Bernhardt House of Violins for their sponsorship of this to Logan on a spectacular event! (CYS Pops Orchestra) competition and the concert featuring the winners.