About this Artist

UCLA PHILHARMONIA is the flagship orchestra of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and one of Southern California’s premiere training orchestras. Since 2005, Philharmonia has been led by Professor and Director of Orchestral Studies Neal Stulberg. Highlights of his tenure have included performances of Mahler, Bruckner, Nielsen, Honegger, Lutosławski and Dutilleux symphonies; Duke Ellington’s Harlem; a concert/lecture co-sponsored by the UCLA Departments of Music and Evolutionary Biology titled Messiaen’s Birds: The Greatest Musicians, featuring Grammy Award-winner and UCLA faculty pianist Gloria Cheng; a gala performance of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus at Los Angeles’ historic Wilshire Boulevard Temple; Royce Hall birthday tributes to famed guitarist Kenny Burrell; biennial Schoenberg Hall concerts in collaboration with the Hear Now festival featuring programs of works by Los Angeles-area composers; annual appearances on the Sundays Live series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theater; a Getty Center revival of Edward Curtis’ ground-breaking 1914 silent film In the Land of the Head Hunters with its restored original score, annual productions with Opera UCLA and three commercial CDs: a Yarlung Records release of previously-unrecorded orchestral works by Viennese émigré composer Eric Zeisl; a world-premiere Sono Luminus recording of Mohammed Fairouz’s Symphony no. 2 (Poems and Prayers) and his clarinet concerto, Tahrir; and a Naxos CD of Ian Krouse’s Armenian Requiem.

FIRST VIOLINS
Ally Cho*
Jason Chen
Brian Cheng
Rubani Chugh
Gabriel Esperon
Kenneth Guo
Jonathan Han
Janice Hu 
Nina Huang
Jamily Lee 
JJ Liao
Nathan Robinson 
Mana Tatsuki
Kelly Tsai
Helen Wang 
Mingye Wang 

SECOND VIOLINS
Isaac Visoutsy*
Mattin Aframian  
Ariana Chin
Alex Collins
Ethan Cotta
Honor Frisco 
Alisa Gukasian 
Matheo Irazabel 
Jimin Koo 
Makiba Kurita 
Kayla Lee 
Lyndsey Lypscomb 
Andrew Dela Penna
Erin Tsui 
Jerimiah Youngblood

VIOLAS
James Renk*
Zara Amendt
Johannes Eberhardt
Panithi Kachinthorn
Stefan Kosmala-Dahlbeck
Ellen Lozada
Daniel Oviedo
Layla Shapouri
Isaac Tin-Long
Jerry Wang

CELLOS
Kaya Ralls*
Holly Chen 
Kayson Chen
Leon Cho 
Sarah Clark
Isaac Fromme 
Kayleen Kim 
Edward Li
Annabelle Lo 
Naohiro Nadahara 
Candace Oh
Dylan Renk
Aerie Walker 
Aiden Woodruff

BASSES
Leon Simmans*
Abe Gumroyan
Luca Lesko
Terence Malloy
Aiden Neuman
James Shogren
Alan Wang

FLUTES
Katlyn Lang
Sohee Park
Nayeon Cho
Emily Park

PICCOLOS
William Adams 
Nayeon Cho
Emily Park

OBOES
Cayden Bloomer
Kate Fallon 
Khuyen Hyler 
Adelle Rodkey 
Emma Crawford

ENGLISH HORNS
Khuyen Hyler 
Adelle Rodkey

CLARINETS
Nicholas Kim
Max Kaminsky
Esther Kim

E-FLAT CLARINET
Yijin Wang 

BASS CLARINET
Devin Walsh

BASSOONS
Davis Lerner 
Aaron Colon 
Daniel Torrero
Matthew Rasmussen
CONTRABASSOON
Dani Santana

HORNS
Aziel Ressler 
Vincent Jurado
Nathan Jones 
Michelle Yang 
Noah Arst
Em Ellis
Abraham Zaman
Vasili Magaziotis
Season Yuan

TRUMPETS
Emma Breen
Andrew Smith
Remy Ohara 
Saúl Gutierrez
Nick Washburn
Sean Zender 
Cyrus Alva 

TROMBONES
Ryan Heisinger
Jason Bernhard
Spencer Mar 

BASS TROMBONE
Sebastian Martinez

TUBA
Daler Babaev

TIMPANI
Frankie Peacock
Xavier Paul

PERCUSSION
Madison Bottenberg*
Kobe Sanders 
Viraj Sonawalla 
Alex Lee 

HARPS
Jillian Lopez
Brian Molina
Alaina Stark
Nina Zipnick

CELESTA
Isabelle Ragsac

* = principal