philadelphia youth orchestra Louis Scaglione, President & Music Director 2015 gala dinner and concert celebrating our 75th anniversary season with art show and sale by studio incamminati Friday • March 20 • 2015 The Union League of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia Youth Orchestra is especially grateful for the generous support of our sponsors, subscribers and contributors. We extend our thanks to The Union League of Philadelphia for hosting our annual event and Studio Incamminati for sponsoring the art show. 01 Distinguished Service Awards The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra’s Distinguished Service Awards were created to recognize outstanding support of and contribution to the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra organization. The awards are presented each year at the annual Gala. Individuals Foundations 2005 Megan and Mark Nicoletti 2005 The Philadelphia Foundation 2006 Alison and Ravi Kothare 2006 The Presser Foundation 2007 Jung Ja Kwon and Rick Touhill 2007 Ethel Sergeant Clark 2008 Joni and Elie Antar Smith Memorial Fund 2009 Trude Haecker and Robert Day 2008 Maguire Foundation 2010 Frances and James Maguire 2011 The CHG Charitable Trust 2011 Alice and Walter Strine, Esqs. 2012 McGinley Family Foundation 2012 David McShane 2013 Judith Haskell Brewer Foundation 2013 Joseph DiMauro 2014 H.O. West Foundation 2014 Virginia T. Lam Corporations Volunteers 2005 The Haverford Trust Company 2007 Theresa E. James 2006 Citizens Bank 2008 Dawn Karlyn 2007 The Union League of Philadelphia 2009 Robert Kugler 2008 Realen 2009 Joseph DiMauro 2009 Pizzica Health Systems 2010 David Michie 2010 Cozen O’Connor 2010 Rick Touhill 2011 Winans–McShane 2012 Lori Goldfinger 2012 Republic Bank 2013 Diana & John Geisler 2013 David Michie Violins, LLC 2014 MaryTeresa Soltis, Esq. 2014 Parkway Corporation 02 03 Philadelphia Youth Orchestra 2015 Gala Sponsors Presenting Sponsors Bronze Sponsors The Haverford Mr. & Mrs. James & Jayne & Walter Garrison Trust Company Frances Maguire Sarah & Zachary Johns, Esq. Mr. & Mrs. Herbert O. Henze Mr. David R. McShane J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc. Walt & Joanne Jenkins Alice & Walter Strine, Esqs. Mr. Leroy Kean Ms. Jean Joka Mr. & Mrs. James & Mr. & Mrs. Donald Kenzakowski Platinum Sponsor Susan Matour, Esqs. Jeanette Kozloff Dorothy & Republic Bank Frank Giordano MaryTeresa Soltis, Esq. Avanthi & Srin Kuchibotla Mrs. Amy Lee Dr. Charles William Lentz Gold Sponsors Friend Sponsors Henri & Deborah Levit Blank Rome, LLP Colleen M. Hood Drs. Yuan Liu & Nancy Moses & Drs. Trude Haecker & David Gerhold & Myron Bloom Robert Day Ms. Helen Gerhold, Denise Houghton, Esq. & Drs. Donna Murasko & PYO’14 (Harp) Kenneth Blank David Michie Mr. John May & Family Karen & David Smith, Esqs. McGinley Family Susan Ng & Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Earnest Smith Andrew Maidment Louis Scaglione Dr. & Mrs. Michael Warhol Dr. Laura Picciano Dr. Harry Rosenthal Silver Sponsors Subscribers Leslie & Frank Skilton Dr. & Mrs. Joseph DiMauro The Adebekun Family Denise Valmé-Lundy, Esq. H.E.L.P. ® Foundation Catherine Baggiano, Esq. & Sarah & Sean Williams Dr. Philip & Joseph Milewski Mrs. Renée Johnson Susan Bleiman-Soll & Contributors Jung Ja Kwon & Adam Soll Ms. Jill Aschkenasy Richard Touhill Susan & Dave Bravo Mr. & Mrs. Harold & Anne Callahan & Margery Bleiman Charles Croce Lisa Brody & Steven Bizar Lisa Canoura & Michael Brookshire, Jodi Goldstein & PYO ‘90 (Percussion) Buzz Miller JoAnn Chernis & Mohammad Hossain Joseph Lepak Barbara Mitnik Dr. Reginald & Wendy Trowel Mrs. Kathy Foy Heather Giampapa Ms. Sandra Goldberg Patron list complete as of March 9, 2015 04 Congratulations… Maestro Louis Scaglione, exceptional PYO Artists, and creative PYO Team for providing us with the region’s most outstanding and exciting youth orchestral performances! Best wishes for continued success and growth. • Walter and Alice Strine 05 2015 gala dinner and concert celebrating our 75th anniversary season Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Louis Scaglione • President & Music Director The Union League of Philadelphia Friday • March 20 • 2015 6:00 PM • Reception & Art Show and Sale • Meade Room 7:00 PM • Dinner • Grant Ballroom 8:15 PM • Concert • Lincoln Hall 9:30 PM • Dessert Reception & Art Show and Sale • Meade Room PROGRAM Overture to William Tell Gioacchino Rossini Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra Rosalind Erwin • Conductor Allegro for Orchestra Shinichi Suzuki Gavotte for Orchestra Arcangelo Corelli Tango Traditional Romance Anonymous Heidenröslein Franz Schubert Tune Up Philly Paul Smith • Conductor Jericho Clangor Darin Kelly Kyrie Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Arranged by Ehren Valme As a courtesy to the performers and fellow concert-goers, please silence all cell phones prior to the performance. 06 PROGRAM City of Light Patrick Hoffman Bravo Brass Paul Bryan • Conductor Serenade for Strings, Op. 48 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky I. Pezzo in forma di Sonatina Arranged by Gosman & McAlister PRYSM Gloria dePasquale • Conductor Tzigane Maurice Ravel Francesca dePasquale • Violin Festive Overture, Op. 96 Dmitri Shostakovich Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Louis Scaglione • Conductor As a courtesy to the performers and fellow concert-goers, please silence all cell phones prior to the performance. 07 Congratulations to the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra on its 75th Anniversary. • Best Wishes, The McGinley Family Foundation 08 Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra • 2014–2015 Rosalind Erwin Director & Conductor Violin I Viola Clarinet Johnny May, Zebadiah Yusef Coombs * Kaitlyn Boyle Concertmaster William Wang Jun Choi Esther Kim Isabella Maloney Robin Y. Choi Jenna Kim Michael D’Amico Sung Kwang Oh * Kathryn Song Yuuma Tasaki Elizabeth S. Qian Andrew Samuel Pai Isabelle D’Amico Sophia Mei Maloney Amanda Ragar Bassoon Victoria Smith Kendall Scott Kaitlyn Anderson *+ Olivia Brody-Bizar Shauna Morrisey + Portia Maidment Violoncello Shua Kim Shizhuo Duan * Cayley Hang Hoffman French Horn Issac Stephen Gaston Libby Ando + Melody Yu Sabine Jung Grace Wei Caleb Burboa + Sasha He Jordan Blake Robinson * David Yang Jessica W. Zhang Kevin Do Kamran Foy Steven Zhang Nicholas Edward Vottero Trumpet Michelle Deng Xu Shangen Lu Benjamin Kenzakowski Shannon Quinn Zachary Fung Erik Larson Ramya Muthukrishnan Roselind Ni Todd Oehler * Jason Tan Violin II Katherine Quinn Trombone Andrew Yen-Jong Chen * Eric Fei Jon Hutchings Jolade Adebekun Nathan Kim Ehren Lemir Valme * Evan Dillon Johnson Carly Bess Soll Double Bass Tuba Boglarka Kearney Luke John Mottola * Carolyn Tillstrom # Cecilia Rabayda Hannah Perron Helen Hu Austin Gentry + Percussion Eric Zhao Camille Donoho Jennifer Guo Heidi H. Chu * Alexander Feng Lee Alan Herbst Emily Ai Flute/Piccolo Rebecca Kim Hayley Allport Harp Heidi Suh Betty Ben-Dor * Willow Swidler Notte * Anna Park Hannah Silverberg Daniel Lee Katherine Emily Xu Zihui Zhu * Section Leader Anne Sophie Biello Oboe # Alumni Melissa Kim Phillip Jinho Choi + Intern Gia Angelo Kaitlin Kan * Winds, brass, percussion Elisa Macera rotate seating. 09 Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra • 2014–2015 Rosalind Erwin Director & Conductor A flexible, creative and highly accomplished As Music Director of the Pottstown conductor, Rosalind Erwin is welcome on Symphony Orchestra, Erwin elevated the podiums both in the USA and abroad. orchestra to exceptional artistic heights, Born in Great Falls, Montana, Rosalind expanded educational outreach via collabo- Erwin began her musical studies on the ration with other arts organizations and clarinet and piano, and made her conduct- brought contemporary music into concert ing debut at age 13. She received her programming. Erwin commissioned and pre- Bachelor’s Degree in Performance from the miered the overture simple by Guggenheim New School of Music in Philadelphia and Fellow Robert Maggio, as well as Alabanza her Masters in Performance from Temple by Philadelphia composer Kile Smith. University. At Temple she studied with Highly acclaimed as an educator, Erwin has Anthony Gigliotti, Principal Clarinet of the conducted Pennsylvania and New Jersey Philadelphia Orchestra and was appointed Music Educator Associations’ All-State, Resident Conductor of the Composition Regional and District Festival Orchestras. Department. As clarinetist, Erwin has Erwin is the former Music Director and appeared soloist with the Pittsburgh Conductor of the Delaware County Symphony and has performed with the Youth Orchestra, Luzerne Music Center Philadelphia Orchestra. She has studied Orchestras and Settlement Music School with and been mentored by conduct- Chamber Orchestra. Erwin has served ing greats Riccardo Muti, Leonard Slatkin, as guest lecturer for Arcadia University’s David Zinman, Joseph Barone and William Community Scholars program, and Guest Smith. She has been honored by the Lecturer and Celebrity Guest for the Leopold Stokowsky Memorial Conducting Philadelphia Orchestra Lecture/Luncheon Competition sponsored by the Rittenhouse Series. Square Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Guest conducting engagements have included orchestras in Portugal, the Czech Erwin was the founder and creative force Republic and Bulgaria, as well as throughout behind Musica 2000 – The Symphony the USA. She was featured conductor dur- Orchestra. Erwin commissioned works by ing American Music Week with the Sophia emerging American composers, present- Philharmonic in Bulgaria and guest conduct- ing world premieres both in the USA and ed Sinfonijski orkestar Hvratska vojske. abroad. Erwin was named Director and Conductor of the Philadelphia Young Artists