Triangle Youth Orchestra

Triangle Youth Orchestra
Tim Kohring
 Conductor,
Triangle Youth Orchestra

Tim Kohring, Conductor,
Triangle Youth Orchestra

Tim Kohring is looking forward to another fantastic year as the Triangle Youth Orchestra director. He was excited to return back to his musical roots in the Philharmonic Association in 2008, having played in TYP and TYS during his years at Leesville High School. Mr. Kohring received his Bachelor's Degree in Music Performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he also studied conducting with Mr. Tonu Kalam and Dr. Michael Votta. He then completed a Master's in Arts in Teaching from the UNC-CH School of Education. Mr. Kohring began his first year at North Garner Middle School in 2009 where he teaches concert band classes and jazz band ensembles, and enjoys the benefits and challenges to teaching in a year round school. He can be seen from time to time playing with various community ensembles as a tuba player. 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 has substituted with the North Carolina Symphony and currently performs with many area performing ensembles. She has been a member of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra for the last 25 years. Ms. Lorber has been teaching privately for over 25 years. She has also taught at the Catholic Southern University and College of Charleston.

2009-2010 Personnel

Violin I

Elena Pokowitz, Concertmaster
Andrew Kenyon
Hannah Chow
Samuel Zhu
Andrew Brewster
Yebin Park
Jody Miller
Ben Mygatt
Ariel Chien
Svetak Sundhar
Ayman Bejjani
Brandon Koluch
Sanjay Kannan
Justin Chang
Karyn Hladik-Brown
Hal Lin
Shania Khoo
Sumati Sridhar
Jerry Pan

Viola

Laura Frisone, Co-Principal
Sarah Frances House, Co-Principal
Zachary Tripp
Jessica Tawade
Parker Perry
Sara Park
Molly Merritt
Brooke Wilson
Sarah Zelasky
Sarah Michalak
Olga Isabel Monroe
Tomisin Ogunpipe
Rebecca Wolfe

Violin II

Melissa Ortega, Principal
Anna Coles
Charlotte Cox
Kyrsten Le
Zachary Jacobs
Shantan Krovvidi
Paige Huguely
Stanley Wu
Esha Thakkar
Nia Sallie
Alice Wang
Maria Barreto
Caroline Jesalva
Sarosh Krishnan
Katherine Huber
Malvika Nadkarni
Zachary Schwartz
Michael Hughes

Cello

Myriah Luke , Principal
William Pashby, Assistant Principal
James Lyman
Jae Young Jung
Gregory Izatt
Tiffany Shin
Benjamin Izatt
Matthew Park

Bass

Miles Lambert
Sam Shaw
Jake Landsberg

Flute
Angela Deng
Katerina Koloustroubis
Julia LaFond
Polly Payne

Oboe

Emily Hodges
Haley Sotack


Clarinet

Allan Jiang
Justin Marr
Ian Mckenzie
Shiaomeng Tse
Bassoon
Corinne Crowley

French Horn

Halle Michalak
Philip Norris
Elizabeth Putnam

Trumpet
John R. Chappell, V
Jeffrey Ord

Percussion

Matthew Park


 

NOTES:
The Woodwind and Brass Sections Rotate
- NC Symphony Young Strings of the Triangle
- Community Music School

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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)