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NEW YORK STRING ORCHESTRA KICKS OFF ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY
WITH TWO CONCERTS LED BY JAIME LAREDO 

NYSO Alumni and Special Guest Artists Join the Orchestra for Celebratory Performances:
조진주(Jinjoo Cho), Pamela Frank, Bella Hristova, Kyoko Takezawa,
and Yefim Bronfman on December 24;
Joshua Bell and Karina Canellakis on December 28
 
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Celebrating its 50th year, the New York String Orchestra Seminar (a program of the Mannes School of Music) presents its two annual holiday concerts in December, led by conductor Jaime Laredo, who is concurrently celebrating 26 years with NYSO. This year’s orchestra is comprised of 64 musicians (ages 16–23), selected after a rigorous audition process, hailing from more than 20 US states as well as Canada, Australia, China, Korea, and Taiwan. They are joined on stage at Carnegie Hall by notable guest artists and more than 20 NYSO alumni to celebrate and kick off the program’s milestone anniversary.

On Christmas Eve—Monday, December 24 at 7:00 p.m.— the young musicians are joined by notable NYSO alumni, including violinists Jinjoo Cho, Pamela Frank, Bella Hristova, and Kyoko Takezawa for Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins and Orchestra in B Minor, Op. 3, No. 10. Pianist Yefim Bronfman joins the orchestra as soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, on a program that also features Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides Overture.

NYSO’s second program on Friday, December 28 at 8:00 p.m. features violinist Joshua Bell joining Mr. Laredo and the orchestra for Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77. The program also includes George Walker’s Lyric for Strings—led by guest conductor and NYSO alumna Karina Canellakis—and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, which features alumni musicians hailing from top orchestras across the country performing side-by-side with the young musicians of NYSO.

“Little did I know when I started the New York String Orchestra Seminar in 1969 that we would be here 50 years later celebrating the accomplishments of our 2,300 alumni who have become leaders in every area of the music world,” said Frank Salomon, Artist Manager and Founder of the New York String Orchestra Seminar. “Our goal was that Alexander Schneider and, later, Jaime Laredo, together with their chamber music coach colleagues, would open new doors for the country’s most gifted young musicians at a formative stage of their development. The annual Carnegie Hall concerts, miraculously created in less than ten days with musicians of widely-varying degrees of experience who have never played together before, strive for a special musicality, expressiveness, warmth, and joy. It’s what I was taught music is about. The freshness and creativity of these concerts each year gives us hope.”

Since 1969, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, co-founded by Frank Salomon and Alexander Schneider, has provided professional training and performance opportunities to some of the most promising young musicians in the United States. Jaime Laredo succeeded Mr. Schneider as conductor in 1993 and has continued to lead NYSO’s annual concerts at Carnegie Hall during the holiday season, which have become a festive tradition in New York City and have inspired generations of musicians to pursue professional careers in the arts. 

Program Information
Monday, December 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
NEW YORK STRING ORCHESTRA

Jaime Laredo, Conductor
Jinjoo Cho, Violin
Pamela Frank, Violin
Bella Hristova, Violin
Kyoko Takezawa, Violin
Yefim Bronfman, Piano

FELIX MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides Overture
ANTONIO VIVALDI Concerto for Four Violins and Orchestra in B Minor, Op. 3, No. 10
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58

This concert is made possible, in part, by an endowment fund for young artists established by Stella and Robert Jones.
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Friday, December 28 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
NEW YORK STRING ORCHESTRA

Jaime Laredo, Conductor
Joshua Bell, Violin
with
Karina Canellakis, Guest Conductor

GEORGE WALKER Lyric for Strings
JOHANNES BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, "Pathétique"

Ticket Information
Tickets, priced $32–$70, are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street, or can be charged to major credit cards by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or by visiting the Carnegie Hall website, carnegiehall.org.

 
NYSO 2018 Orchestra Roster
*Prior NYSO Member

 

Alabama
Charles Renneker, timpani
Cleveland Institute of Music
Birmingham, AL

Haeun Honney Kim, violin*
Indian Springs School
Birmingham, AL

Arizona
Robert Nunes, oboe
The Juilliard School
Phoenix, AZ

Australia
Tetsuya Lawson, trumpet
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University
Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Rachel Siu, cello*
The Juilliard School
Sydney, NSW, Australia

California
Angela Jiye Bae, violin*
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University
Los Angeles, CA

Aileen Chung, violin
New England Conservatory
Irvine, CA

Albert Gang, violin
Colburn Music Academy
Irvine, CA

Ethan Moffitt, bass
University of Southern California
Glendale, CA

Andy Park, viola
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
South Pasadena, CA

Toby Winarto, viola
Manhattan School of Music
Los Angeles, CA

Canada
Rachel Côté, horn
Glenn Gould School
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Emily Rekrut-Pressey, viola
Schulich School of Music, McGill University
Winnipeg, MB, Canada

China
Wenqi Ke, violin
Colburn School
Shanghai, China

Chun Sum Wong, flute
The Juilliard School
Hong Kong, China

Liyuán Xie, violin
New England Conservatory
Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Colorado
Josef Fischer, viola
Peabody Institute
Niwot, CO

Kelcey Howell, cello*
University of Denver
Denver, CO

Delaware
Conor McAvinue, viola
Cleveland Institute of Music
Wilmington, DE

Dominican Republic
Juan Esteban Martinez, clarinet
Yale School of Music
Santo Domingo, DR

Florida
Joey Lavarias, bassoon
The Juilliard School
Daytona Beach, FL

Laura Liu, viola
Randsom Everglades Upper School
Miami, FL

Georgia
Hannah Culbreth, horn
New England Conservatory
Atlanta, GA

Illinois
Nathan Walhout, cello*
University of Michigan
Wheaton, IL

Kansas
Emily Shehi, violin*
Curtis Institute of Music
Olathe, KS

Kentucky
Skye Park, violin
Homeschool
Lexington, KY

Anne Richardson, cello
The Juilliard School
Louisville, KY

Korea
Jakyoung Olivia Huh, cello*
New England Conservatory
Seoul, Republic of Korea

Danny Yehun Jin, violin
Curtis Institute of Music
Seoul, Republic of Korea

Dongyoung Shim, violin
New England Conservatory
Seoul, Republic of Korea

Maryland
Kimberly Ellen Bill, violin
Boulder College of Music, Colorado University
Lakeshore, MD

Silvio Guitian, clarinet
Shepherd School of Music, Rice University
Baltimore, MD


Massachusetts

Samuel Andonian, violin
New England Conservatory
Lincoln, MA

Julia McLean, viola*
The Juilliard School
Boston, MA

Mari Nagahara, cello*
New England Conservatory
Andover, MA

Michigan
Joseph Skerik, viola
Cleveland Institute of Music
Interlochen, MI

Minnesota
Mary Alice Hutton, violin
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

New Jersey
Abigail Hong, violin*
New England Conservatory
Cherry Hill, NJ

New York
Melissa M. Aleles, flute
Manhattan School of Music
Tappan, NY

Alex Bickard, bass
The Juilliard School
Brentwood, NY

Drew Cone, cello
The Juilliard School
Buffalo, NY

Brian Isaacs, viola
Yale University
Forest Hills, NY

Gabriel Polinsky, bass
The Curtis Institute of Music
Hewlett, NY

Ohio
Isabelle Durrenberger, violin*
Cleveland Institute of Music
Columbus, OH

Joshua Elmore, bassoon
The Juilliard School
Shaker Heights, OH

Ann Yu, violin*
Cleveland Institute of Music
Hudson, OH

Oregon
Kiarra Saito-Beckman, violin
Cleveland Institute of Music
Bend, OR

Pennsylvania
Isabella Egawa, violin
Carnegie Mellon University
Bala Cynwyd, PA

Lena Goodson, bass
The Curtis Institute of Music
York, PA

Alan Tolbert, trumpet
Temple University
Shippensburg, PA

South Carolina
Josh Liu, violin
Wade Hampton High School
Greenville, SC

Taiwan
Hsi-yuan Elisabeth Chang, cello
Los Gatos High School
Yang-mei, Taiwan

Kate Huang, cello
Cleveland Institute of Music
Tainan, Taiwan

Wei-An Hung, cello*
Cleveland Institute of Music
Changhua, Taiwan

Yu-Ming Andrew Ma, violin*
Cleveland Institute of Music
Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Texas
Jillian Kouzel, oboe
University of Michigan
San Antonio, TX

Jacob Medina, horn
University of Houston
Pearland, TX

Johnathan Wu, violin
Cleveland Institute of Music
Plano, TX

Christine Wu, violin*
The Juilliard School
Plano, TX

Utah 
Rebecca Epperson, viola
The Curtis Institute of Music
Layton, UT

Suni Norman, violin*
Indiana University
Salt Lake City, UT

Joel Rodeback, horn
Indiana University
American Fork, UT

Washington D.C.
Michael Romans, violin
University of Michigan
Washington, DC

Washington
Attila Kiss, bass*
The Juilliard School
Lynnwood, WA