NJSO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS
José Luis Domínguez, Artistic Director
NJSO ACADEMY ORCHESTRA
José Luis Domínguez, conductor
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Henry Kao, conductor
STRING ENSEMBLE
Naomi Youngstein, leader
TRAINING ENSEMBLE
José Luis Domínguez, conductor
The Training Ensemble performs at 12:30 pm; the Academy Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra and String Ensemble perform at 4 pm.
Don’t miss the season finale concert of the NJSO Youth Orchestras, featuring the program’s four ensembles, as well as a dazzling performance by the 2019 Henry Lewis Concerto Competition winners! Honor this year’s senior class and celebrate musicianship, friendship and fun. The Training Ensemble will be joined by the NJPAC Symphonic Band. The two ensembles are part of the MANY partnership.
Led by Domínguez, the Academy Orchestra also performs “Hoe-Down” from Copland’s Rodeo and the Overture from Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila.
Conductor Henry Kao, an NJSO violist, leads the Chamber Orchestra in the Overture from Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3; Dvořák’s Serenade, Op. 22, and Mozart’s Divertimento in D Major, K. 136.
The String Ensemble, led by NJSO violinist Naomi Youngstein, performs Newbold’s “Country Hoedown,” Vivaldi’s Concerto for Strings in C Major, RV 113, and Copland’s “Story of Our Town” (arr. Fagin).
The Academy Orchestra performance features solo appearances by the co-winners of the NJSO Youth Orchestras’ annual concerto competition. Concertmaster Caleb Shi performs the first movement of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, and violinist Yoo Jin Kang performs the first movement of Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21, with the orchestra. Shi, 17, is a senior at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, and Kang, 13, is an eighth grader at Robert R. Lazar Middle School in Montville.
The Youth Orchestras are part of the NJSO Academy.
