Triangle Youth Orchestra

Triangle Youth Orchestra
Tim Kohring
 Conductor,
Triangle Youth Orchestra

Tim Kohring, Conductor,
Triangle Youth Orchestra

Tim Kohring is beginning his first year as the Triangle Youth Orchestra director in the 2008-2009 season. He is excited to return back to his musical roots in the Philharmonic Association. Mr. Kohring has played under both the direction of Hugh Partridge and Tony K. Robinson while participating in TYP and TYS during his years at Leesville High School. He went on to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Music Performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he also studied conducting with Dr. Michael Votta. He then completed a Masters in Arts in Teaching from the UNC-CH School of Education. Mr. Kohring is currently in his third year at Wakefield Middle School where he teaches concert band classes and jazz band ensembles, as well as co-teaches the full-symphony orchestra. He can be seen from time to time working at the Burrage Music Co., with the Millbrook High School marching band, and playing with various community ensembles. Mr. Kohring is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the North Carolina Bandmasters Association, and the North Carolina Music Educators Association.






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Connie Lorber,String Specialist
Triangle Youth Orchestra

Connie Lorber was born in Bronx, NY and grew up on Long Island. She began her viola studies at age eleven in the school string program. Her first studies were with Dorothy Kesner-Elsiha, a student of the famed Leopold Auer. Ms. Lorber continued her early studies with Margaret Pardee, assistant to the celebrated Ivan Galamian. She earned a Bachelor of Music at the Eastman School of Music in New York, where she studied with Francis Tursi . Ms. Lorber received her Master of Fine Arts in viola performance at the University of Iowa . There she studied with William Preucil, Sr., serving as his teaching assistant. Ms. Lorber has also studied with Eric Rosenblith, Jacob Glick, Alan Deveritch, Yizhak Schotten, Hugh Partridge and Donald McInnes. Ms. Lorber speaks fluent Spanish having lived in Mexico for four years. During this time she was principal violist with the Orquesta de Camara de Xalapa as well as the Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico. She has recorded in both the United States and Mexico, received the Rochester National Scholarship and was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda, music society. Ms. Lorber has been a member of the New Orleans Symphony (now known as the Louisiana Philharmonic) and the San Diego Symphony; she has also played with the Rochester Philharmonic and the Buffalo Philharmonic. Ms. Lorber presently substitutes with the North Carolina Symphony and plays with many other area performing ensembles. She has been a member of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra for the last 21 years. Ms. Lorber has been teaching privately for 25 years. She has also taught at the Catholic Southern University and College of Charleston. Currently she is an Instructor of Viola at N.C. State University in Raleigh.

2007-2008 Personnel

Violin I

Ashutosh Singh, Concertmaster

Evan Li, Assistant Concertmaster

Mahati Sridhar

Audrey Fogle

Peter Luo

Hannah Chow

Phenix Byrd

Yash Agrawal

Sooyeon Lee

Cary Wright

Christine Walls

Leah Colbath

Anna Mukamal

Iris Chu

Kabilan Patchamuthu

Rachel Ricks

Sarah Twigg

Jessica Jones

Shannon Pashby

Vickie Wang
Jack Pashby
Ashley Yao

Violin II

Joshua Henderson, Principal

Lyric Lin, Assistant Principal
Nadia Drabick
Amy Xu
Daniel Yu
Ruchita Bhatia
Ariana Kropf
Hinton Edgerton
Kenny Xie
Yelim Lee
Redmond Self
Jansen Barfield II
Sanjay Kannan
Sarah Dickman
Rebecca Li
Melissa Ortega
Scott Pechacek
Rahul Sharma
Sumati Sridhar
Anna Coles
Jared Clayton
Dena Guo


Viola

Tony Li, Co-Principal
Thomas Glancy, Co-Principal
Katlyn Mabry
Helen Meskhidze
Naveen Iqbal

Cello

Albert Feng, Principal

Beth Brown, Assistant Principal
Cedric Nam
Adithya Muralidharan
Emilie Buisson
Briana Wang
Elijah Lacin
Lily Jan
Andrew Yuan


Bass

Gina Barnhouse
Torin Gardner


Flute

Alison Chang
Samantha Gallup
Taylor James
Cindy Kang


Oboe

Carolyn Caggia
Rachel Coates
Sean Norton


Clarinet

Stephanie Austin

Kaste Greczynski

Claudia Meyer
Nirmal Ravirajan

French Horn

Sarah Gymburch

Devon Martin


Trumpet

Michael Elderkin

Chelsea Fuller

Richard Herring


Trombone

Doug Poteat

Ashwin Sridhar


Tuba

Matthew Ahlers


Percussion

Anirwin Sridhar


Harp

Tricia Tanner

The Woodwind and Brass Sections Rotate

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TYO Repertoire
Bach - Kjelland Komm Susser Tod
Bartok - Bauernschmidt Peasant Suite
Beethoven - Leidig Symphony No. 5, First Movement
Beethoven - Leidig Symphony No. 9, Finale
Berlioz - Meyer March to the Scaffold
Bizet - Alshin Carmen, Intermezzo
Brahms - Bauernschmidt Hungarian Dance No. 5
Brahms - Carlin Symphony No. 1, Finale
Dvorak - Isaac Slavonic Dance No. 8
Dvorak - Meyer Symphony No. 9, Largo
Gliere - Errante Russian Sailor’s Dance
Handel - Goldsmith Handel’s Greatest Hits
Johann Strauss, Jr. - Meyer Emperor Waltz
Mahler - Leidig Symphony No. 3, Finale
Mahler - Meyer Symphony No.1, Feierlich und gemessen
Schubert - Lehmeier Symphony No. 8, First Movement
Schubert - Leidig Overture to Rosamunde
Tchaikovsky - Isaac Capriccio Italien
Tchaikovsky - Higgins Triumphant March
Tchaikovsky - Leidig Symphony No. 5, Andante and Vivace
Telemann - Bauernschmidt Overture in g minor
Vivaldi - Bauernschmidt "Winter" from The Four Seasons
Vivaldi - Moore Concerto in D Major for Harp
Wagner - Siennicki Der Meistersinger Excerpts

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Slavonic Dance No. 8
Antonin Dvorak (arr. Merle J. Isaac)