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(617) 353-3359 sleaf@bu.edu
BOSTON – April 19, 2010...Two of the groups that comprise the Boston Youth Symphony
Orchestras (BYSO) will perform a free concert on Sunday, May 16, 2010 at the Granoff Music
Center at Tufts University. The Young People’s String Orchestra (YPSO), conducted by Marta
Zurad, and the Preparatory Winds (PW), conducted by Janet Underhill, will present this concert at
3 pm. A list of the players, with their hometowns and schools follows.
For tickets call the Granoff Music Center at
(617)627-3679. For more information about BYSO, call (617) 353-5353 or visit www.BYSOweb.org.
Young People’s String Orchestra
Marta Zurad, Conductor
Concert repertoire to include:
TCHAIKOVSKY Chanson Triste
BRUCE CHASE Ragtime Fiddles
HENRY PURCELL Overture from “The Tempest”
Y oung People’s String Orchestra (YPSO), conducted by Marta Zurad, is known as one of the finest children’s orchestras in the New England area. This young orchestra performs major repertoire from the standard string orchestra literature while learning the skills needed for excellent orchestral playing. It is an energetic and collaborative ensemble emphasizing teamwork and leadership development. YPSO has performed at such venues as Symphony Hall and
Boston University’s Tsai Performance Center.
Preparatory Winds
Janet Underhill, Conductor
Concert repertoire to include:
CATEL Overture for Winds

ORFF Der Mond
The Preparatory Winds (PW), directed by Janet Underhill, is the newest ensemble of BYSO, and began its first season in 2006-2007. PW is designed to teach young wind players fundamental skills necessary for successful orchestra playing. As members of PW, students will develop basic techniques of ensemble participation, which help prepare them for future orchestra membership.
About Marta Zurad
Ms. Zurad assumed the position of Conductor of the Young People's String Orchestra and the
Intensive Community Program at the BYSO in the 2009-2010 season. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from New England Conservatory and her Graduate Diploma and Master of Music degree from Longy School of Music. She also attended the Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland.
Her violin teachers have included Wieslaw Kwasny, Valeria Kuchment, and Erik Rosenblith.
She is a very active chamber musician, and is a past participant of Yellow Barn Music Festival and Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival. She plays regularly with a number of local chamber groups, both as a violinist and a violist. She is a member of the Lexington Symphony and has performed with many other orchestras in the Boston area.
Ms. Zurad conducts the Longy Concertino and the Longy Youth Sinfonietta and has been on the string faculty there since 1993. She is also a faculty member and the founder of Summer Festival for Strings at Winchester Community Music School. She serves as an adjudicator for various local concerto competitions.
About Janet Underhill
Janet Underhill, Conductor of the Preparatory Winds, is a bassoonist, teacher and arts administrator in the Boston area. Currently she is the Director of Winds, Brass & Percussion and
Private Lessons for St. Mark’s School of Southborough, MA. She also serves as a bassoon instructor at Boston College, South Shore Conservatory, and Community Music Center of Boston.
Ms. Underhill is a founding member of Arcadian Winds, a woodwind quintet specializing in contemporary music, which has commissioned and premiered more than 50 works. Also interested in archival projects, she has developed a cataloguing system for ethnic recordings with composer Martin Bartlett, and has organized Gunther Schuller’s personal collection.
About Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
The BYSO consists of approximately 420 students representing more than 120 communities from the New England area. The BYSO is widely regarded as one of the country’s finest youth orchestras and is recognized nationally as a model music and arts education organization. Since its inception in 1958 at Boston University, the BYSO continues to achieve the highest artistic standards and remains committed to musical excellence.

Young People’s String Orchestra roster (alphabetical by hometown)
(Name, instrument, hometown, school, grade)
Nikhil Srinivasan, violin, Acton, MA - Conant School 6 th grade
Isaac Browne, violin, Amesbury MA - Amesbury Elementary School 4 th grade
Patrick Watrous, violin, Andover, MA - Pike School 7 th grade
Audrey Reuman, cello, Auburndale, MA - Windsor School 6 th grade
Andrew Xiao, violin, Auburndale, MA - Burr Elementary School 6 th grade
David Wang, violin, Bedford, NH - Mckelvie Middle School 7 th grade
Stephanie Zhang, violin, Belmont, MA - Daniel Butler Elementary 5 th grade
Natalia Jean McDermott , cello, Billerica, MA - Marshall Middle School 7 th grade
Sarah Elizabeth McDermott, violin, Billerica, MA - Dutile Elementary School 4 th grade
Ifenna Chukwujama, viola, Boston, MA - John. W. McCormack Middle School 7 th grade
Elliot Parlin, violin, Boston, MA - Fenn School 5 th grade
Isabel Seguin, viola, Boston, MA - Windsor School 6 th grade
Maeva Veillard, viola, Boston, MA, Mother Caroline Academy 7 th grade
Yuhi Chang, violin, Braintree, MA - Montessori School of Quincy 5 th grade
Sarah Hough, violin, Brookline, MA - Devotion School 6 th grade
Keshav Prabhu-Schlosser, violin, Brookline, MA - Devotion School 7 th grade
Lexi Scheer, violin, Brookline, MA - Maimonides School 6 th grade
Ananya Mahalingam-Dhingra, violin - Brookline, MA - Windsor School 8 th grade
Ari Benkler, cello, Cambridge, MA - Belmont Day School 5 th grade
Sammy Gourabou, cello, Cambridge, MA - Graham and Parks School 7 th grade
Adrienne Conza, violin, Canton MA - The Winsor School 6 th grade
Katherine Travisano, violin, Carlisle, MA - Carlisle Public Schools 6 th grade
John Rogler, cello, Dedham, MA - Home-school 9 th grade
Raven Whyles, cello, Dorchester, MA - The Advent School 4 th grade
Conor McCoy, bass, Hyde Park, MA - Field School 4 th grade
Angela Ojimba, bass, Hyde Park, MA - Boston Latin School 6 th grade
Chad Kaplan Polk, cello, Hyde Park, MA - Learning Project Elementary School 5 th grade
Alexandra D'Amico, viola, Jamaica Plain, MA - Neighborhood House Charter School 7 th grade
Lenora Davis, cello, Jamaica Plain, MA - Curley Elementary School 4 th grade
Jeana Choi, violin, Lexington, MA - Maria Hastings School 5 th grade
Mark Cui, violin, Lexington, MA - Clarke Middle School 7 th grade
Somerset Gall, violin, Lexington, MA - William Diamond Middle School 6 th grade
Samuel Huang, violin, Lexington, MA - Clarke Middle School 7 th grade
Afareen Jaleel, violin, Lexington, MA - Harrington Elementary School 5 th grade
Arjun Khandelwal, violin, Lexington, MA - Clarke Middle School 7 th grade
Sahana Srinivasan, violin, Lexington, MA - Diamond Middle School 7 th grade
Charlotte Wong Labow, violin, Lexington , MA - Jonas Clarke Middle School 7 th grade
Michael Yang, violin, Lexington, MA - Estabrook Elementary School 6 th grade
Genevieve Lefevre, viola, Mattapan, MA - Southfield School 7 th grade
Aidan Cook, bass, Medfield, MA - Blake Middle School 6 th grade
Anna Schmidt, violin, Melrose, MA - Winthrop Elementary School 5 th grade
Christine Bourdeau, bass, Milton, MA - Tucker School 5 th grade
Benjamin Ernest, violin, Milton, MA - Brimmer & May School 3 rd grade
Abigail Hannah Jean-Baptiste, violin, Milton, MA - Milton Academy 4 th grade
Gabriele Castelli, violin, Natick, MA - Lilja School 4 th grade

Michelle Tan, violin, Needham, MA - Pollard Middle School 6 th grade
Maria Chabelis Byamana, viola, Newton, MA - Buckingham Browne & Nichols 6 th grade
Shira Lehmann, cello, Newton, MA - Jewish Community Day School 8 th grade
Justin Lin, violin, Newton, MA - Horace Mann Elementary School 5 th grade
Jason Lob, cello, Newton, MA - Day Middle School 8 th grade
Zephaniah Chang, violin, Newton Highlands, MA - Suzuki Institute of Boston 7 th grade
Kayla Chang, violin, Newton Highlands, MA Suzuki Institute of Boston 5 th grade
Yunji Koo, violin, North Andover, MA - North Andover Middle School 6 th grade
Celeste McGinty, cello, Norwood, MA - Oldham Elementary School 5 th grade
Treasa Casey, cello, Pepperell, MA - Country Day School of the Holy Union 7 th grade
Jeanay Andrea Pierre, violin, Randolph, MA - Pope John Paul Academy-Mattapan 5 th grade
Charli Francine Klowden, viola, Roslindale, MA - Rivers School 8 th grade
Angelica Samonte, violin, Roslindale, MA - St. Theresa School 4 th grade
Kristen Adams, violin, Roxbury, MA - Tenacre Country Day School 7 th grade
Francis Adams, cello, Roxbury, MA - Tenacre Country Day School 5 th grade
Miranda Waltz-Peters, violin, Rutland, MA - Central Tree Middle School 6 th grade
Phillip Lo, violin, Shrewsbury, MA - Advan.Math & Science Academy Charter School 7 th grade
Marina Phillips, bass, South Boston, MA - Cathedral School 7 th grade
Declan Healey, bass, Southborough, MA - Trottier Middle School 8 th grade
Gregory Derecho, violin, Sudbury, MA - Curtis Middle School 7 th grade
Emily Liang, violin, Sudbury, MA - Curtis Middle School 8 th grade
Rohan Shankar, viola, Sudbury, MA - Curtis Middle School 7 th grade
Andrew Chen, violin, Wayland, MA - Wayland Middle School 7 th grade
Jonathan Qu, violin, Wayland, MA - Wayland Middle School 7 th grade
Lauren Barnard, cello, Wellesley, MA - Wellesley Middle School 7 th grade
Jean Pierre Samonte, violin, West Roxbury, MA - St. Mary Elementary School 6 th grade
Jessica Le, violin, Westborough, MA - Mill Pond School 6 th grade
Tommy Chen, cello, Westford, MA - Stoney Brook Middle School 7 th grade
Jennifer Der, violin, Westford, MA - Abbot Elementary School 6 th grade
Angela Lee, violin, Westford, MA - Crisafulli Elementary School 6 th grade
Rena Shi, violin, Westwood, MA - Downey School 4 th grade
Cameron Rohall, cello, Winchester, MA - McCall Middle School 8 th grade
Preparatory Winds roster (alphabetical by hometown)
(Name, instrument, MA hometown, school, grade)
Victoria Chen, flute, Acton, MA - R. J. Grey Junior High School 7 th grade
Anton Kulinich, trombone, Acton, MA - Gates Elementary 6 th grade
Lily Wu, flute, Acton, MA - R. J. Grey Junior High School 8 th grade
Rosalyn Boyang Chen, flute, Andover, MA - Doherty Middle School 8 th grade
Nicolas Ploteau, bassoon, Arlington, MA - International School Boston 8 th grade
Julian Littlefield, horn, Boxborough, MA - Blanchard Memorial Elementary School 6 th grade
Jonah Pearl, oboe, Brookline, MA - Devotion School 8 th grade
Noam Benkler, trumpet, Cambridge, MA - Belmont Day School 7 th grade
Alexandra Conza, flute, Canton, MA -The Winsor School 8 th grade
Thomas Salemy, horn, Carlisle, MA - Carlisle Public Schools 6 th grade
Brianna Lynch, bassoon, Duxbury, MA - Duxbury High School 9 th grade
Allison Lee, oboe, Lexington, MA - Clarke Middle School 6 th grade
Anna Menkis, clarinet, Lincoln, MA - Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School 9 th grade
Ryan Chiasson, trumpet, Maynard, MA - Fowler Middle School 8 th grade
Erin Muir, clarinet, Needham, MA - Pollard Middle School 8 th grade
Madeleine Jacks, horn, Newton, MA - Bigelow Middle School 7 th grade
Elie Lehmann, oboe, Newton, MA - Maimonides School 9 th grade

Ryan Spatz, clarinet, Newton, MA - Brown Middle School 8 th grade
Jon Asgeirsson, trumpet, Reading, MA - Coolidge Middle School 8 th grade
Kevin Zhang, clarinet, Sharon, MA - Sharon Middle School 8 th grade
Connie Jiang, flute, Stow, MA - Nashoba Regional High School 9 th grade
Bailey Carlisle, horn, Wellesley, MA - Wellesley Middle School 8 th grade
Anthony Adario, bassoon, West Roxbury, MA - Boston Latin School 9 th grade
Alexandra Palocz, bassoon, Weston, MA - Weston Middle School 7 th
Stephen Good, bassoon, Westwood, MA – Indian Hilll 5 th grade
grade
Victor Rivera, trombone