About this Artist

Now in its 21st season, the Colburn Orchestra is the flagship ensemble of the Colburn Conservatory of Music. Under the direction of Music Director Yehuda Gilad, the Colburn Orchestra performs across Southern California venues, including Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Ambassador Auditorium, Royce Hall, The Soraya, Soka Performing Arts Center, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, The Wallis, BroadStage, and Segerstrom Concert Hall, as well as on the Colburn campus in Zipper Hall. Dedicated to serving the greater Los Angeles community, the Colburn Orchestra performs for schools in neighboring communities every year, giving five concerts in a one-week period to schoolchildren of all ages.

Since its inception, Gilad and the esteemed Colburn faculty have invited leading guest artists to perform with the Colburn Orchestra to mirror a professional orchestral experience. Previous visiting conductors include James Conlon, Gustavo Dudamel, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Nicholas McGegan, Ludovic Morlot, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, head of the school’s Negaunee Conducting Program and the Maestro Ernst H. Katz Chair in Conducting Studies. Acclaimed artists such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Itzhak Perlman actively worked with the orchestra during its inaugural year. The ensemble made its UK debut at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2018, followed by a performance in Dublin.

Colburn Orchestra recordings include a live performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, led by guest conductor Gerard Schwarz (Yarlung Records); an album of works by Menachem Wiesenberg (Live Classics), featuring Ronald Leonard in Wiesenberg’s Cello Concerto; If You Love for Beauty (Yarlung), featuring works by John Adams, Chausson, Handel, and Mahler with mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke; and Paul Chihara: Viola Concerto & Music for Viola (Bridge Records).

The Colburn Orchestra is generously underwritten by Eva and Marc Stern.

Colburn Orchestra at LA Phil Mahler Grooves Festival

FIRST VIOLINS
Alena Hove***
Kingston Ho**
Hyeon Hong
Duncan McDougall
Ray Ushikubo
Wenlan Jackson
Wei-Lin Chen
Kyoka Misawa
Yvette Kraft
Eunice Lee
Ellen Zhou
Rintaro Kikuno
Ethan Mayer
Sophia Ayer
Muyan Yang
Amelia Sze

SECOND VIOLINS
Zi Yang Low*
Jason Moon
Kaia Selden
Christy Kim
Kailey Yun
Hayeon Suh
Dawid Kasprzak
Kate Lee
Steven Lu
Ari Han
Rebecca Beato
Micaela Chyu
Bianna Bell
Adriel Sloss

VIOLAS
Yuri Santos*
Lan Cao
Zechariah Mo
Yi-Chia Chen
Tom Mantel
Valeria Serrano
Itsuki Yamamoto
Hope Hyink
Grace van der Sloot
Diana Nazarenko
Arian Cázares
Samuel Tatsuki
 
CELLOS
Yejin Hong*
Sieun Park
Ye Un Park
Tessa Nysetvold
Keina Satoh
Amelia Zitoun
Mei Hotta
Serge Kalinovsky
Hannah Jeong
Jiayi Lu

BASSES
Michael Banks*
Zachary Marzulli
Bryan Bailey
Alexis Schulte-Albert
Chloe Yu
Gabriel Rodriguez Martinez
Isabella Drumm

FLUTES/PICCOLOS
Eric Bergeman*
Martha Chan
Dabeen Kim
Reina Shim
 
OBOES
Jini Baik*
David Kwon
Luca Ortolani
Eder RiveraA
 
ENGLISH HORNS
Luca Ortolani
Eder RiveraA
 
CLARINETS
Bence Bubreg*
Elad Navon
Pablo López Ortega
Andrea Caputo
Louis Milne‡
 
E-FLAT CLARINETS
Andrea Caputo
Louis Milne
 
BASS CLARINET
Pablo López Ortega
 
BASSOONS
Jordan Farber*
Shenghao Wang
Nate Centa
Hank Yin
 
CONTRABASSOONS
Nate Centa
Hank Yin
 
HORNS
Gabriella Sá*
David Holtgrewe
Graham Lovely
Aurora Kuo
Hayden Joyce
Steven Phan‡
Grace Kim‡
Andrew Bain
Elizabeth Linares MonteroA
Jessica Vicente‡
Malik Taylor‡
 
TRUMPETS
Anna SeokYoung Ahn*
Luke Fox
Joshua Harris
Sean Alexander
Richie Francisco‡
Aric Kline‡
Michael Remish
Katie Hillstrom‡
Remy Ohara‡
Emma Breen‡
 
TROMBONES
Han Yun (Jonathan) Liang*
Minjae Kim
Spencer SchafferA
 
BASS TROMBONE
Caden Wolfe
 
TUBA
Charles Pollard*
 
TIMPANI
Peyton Esraelian*
Jeremy D. Sreejayan
Edric Salazar
 
PERCUSSION
Tennison Watts*
Lisandro Atencio
Edric Salazar
Sean Xiao
 
HARPS
Yun Chai Lee*
Joshua Ho
 
ORGAN
Jaebon Hwang‡
 
ORCHESTRA LIBRARIAN
Caitlyn Chenault
 
ORCHESTRA MANAGER
Chris Cho
 
STAGE MANAGER
David Mencos
 
KEY
*** Concertmaster
**   Assistant Concertmaster
*     Principal
‡     Guest Musician
A       Alumnus

COLBURN CHOIR
SOPRANOS
Lal Besir
Lucy Glazier
Gianna Jiménez
Luna Kup
Athena Wankum
 
ALTOS
Bibi Ciment
Natalie Garcia
Ella Rodriguez
Ashley Tohom
Daisy Vaquero
 
TENORS
Alex Gonzalez
Ezra Huang
Jeremy Rhee
Bejay Villanueva
 
BASSES
Nicholas Chi
Henry Chung
Ricardo Dominguez
Wesley Hoffer
Sean Kang
Dilan Patton