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YPSO Winter Concert
Berkeley's Young People's Symphony Orchestra (YPSO) Winter Concert will feature two winners of the orchestra's 2015-16 Concerto Competition, music director/conductor David Ramadanoff, and 95 young musicians in a program of Nielsen's Helios Overture, Handel/Casadesus' Viola Concerto, Katherine Brown, viola, Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, Sofie Kanayama, violin, and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances.
Each season, YPSO offers all members who have been in the orchestra for at least one full season the opportunity to enter the Concerto Competition to compete for the opportunity to play one movement of a concerto with the orchestra at a regular concert. Katherine Brown and Sofie Kanayama are two of the orchestra's five Concerto Competition winners for the 2015-16 season.
Katherine Brown, age 16, began playing violin at age three and began studies in viola at age 15 with Heghine Boloyan. She has been a member of numerous honor orchestras including All-State in both junior high and high school. Brown is in her third season with Young People's Symphony Orchestra in Berkeley where she plays viola. As a violinist, she has recently been appointed to her second year as the Concert Master of the String and Symphony Orchestras at College Park High School, where she is a junior. She has been a featured violin soloist with the Pacific Boychoir Academy, Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir, Contra Costa Children's Chorus, and the Vallejo Choral Society. Brown has received multiple awards, honors and scholarships including First Prize Senior Division Berkeley Etude Club, Top Honors Walnut Creek Scholarship Competition, and Finalist Northern California Junior Bach. In addition to her instrumental career, she sang with the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir for six years. She has toured nationally and internationally including to Finland, Estonia, Germany, Bratislava and Austria.
Sofie Kanayama, age 13, an eighth grader at The Crowden School, took up the violin at the age of nine upon entering the school in fourth grade. Prior to joining YPSO, Kanayama was a member of the Berkeley Youth Orchestra for one season. She currently studies under YPSO violin coach Heghine Boloyan. This is her second season with YPSO, where she now serves as a second violinist. In addition to being a part of a symphony and a soloist, she also loves to play chamber music, earning honorable mention in the Sacramento State Chamber Music Competition. Kanayama has performed in ensembles, choral groups, and chamber orchestras for The Crowden School and the Junior Bach Festival. She has recently received masterclasses from quartets and artists including the Cavani String Quartet, Kronos Quartet, and Telegraph Quartet.
Celebrating his 27th season as Music Director/Conductor, David Ramadanoff conducts 95 YPSO young musicians who range in age from 12 to 18, represent 38 schools, and hail from 32 Bay Area cities in eight counties.
Founded in Berkeley in 1936, YPSO is the oldest youth orchestra in California and the second oldest in the nation. The 2015-16 season is the 79th season since violinist and conductor Jessica Marcelli founded YSPO at the suggestion of Clarabelle Bell, an amateur harpist and Berkeley resident, who got the idea after hearing a youth orchestra on a trip to Portland, Oregon.
Program:
Carl Nielsen - Helios Overture
George Frediric Handel/Henri Casadesus - Concerto in B Minor for Viola and Orchestra, First Movement, Allegro moderato, Katherine Brown, Viola
Edouard Lalo Symphonie Espagnole, First Movement, Allegro non troppo, Sofie Kanayama, Violin
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances
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LocationLesher Center for the Arts (View)
1601 Civic Drive
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 5 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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