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BYSO ALUMNA, ROSE LOMBARDO ('06) NEW PRINCIPAL FLUTIST OF THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY

The San Diego Symphony has named Rose Lombardo principal flutist. She succeeds Demarre McGill, who left the San Diego Symphony at the end of last season to join the Seattle Symphony as its principal flutist.

“The opportunity to live in such an amazing city, playing with such a great orchestra, is really rare,” said Lombardo, 23, “So I’m very excited that I get to do it now.”

A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music who is currently completing an artist diploma at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, Lombardo has studied with Jeffrey Khaner (principal flutist with the Philadelphia Orchestra) and Jim Walker (former principal flutist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic).  Native of Boston and former member of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Lombardo is a frequent performer at summer music festivals (including the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan and the Spoleto Music Festival USA in Charleston) and in chamber and new music concerts (including the Colburn Chamber Music Society series, AXIOM and the New Juilliard Ensemble).

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BYSO ALUMNA, EMI FERGUSON (BYSO '05) PERFORMS ON 9/11 ON GROUND ZERO
BYSO alumna Emi Ferguson '05 performed "Amazing Grace" at the September 11, 2011 memorial service at Ground Zero, along with distinguished musical guests Yo-Yo Ma, Paul Simon and James Taylor.
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GABRIEL LEFKOWITZ (BYSO '05) , NEW CONCERTMASTER KNOXVILLE ORCHESTRA
Congratulations to Gabriel Lefkowitz (BYSO '05), the new Concertmaster of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (KSO).
KSO Music Director Lucas Richman says: "All of us on the audition committee were enchanted not only by Gabriel's performance at our Masterworks concert and in his solo recital, but also by the immediate rapport he established with our audiences. We count ourselves as being very fortunate and honored to be able to welcome him as our new concertmaster-I'm really looking forward to our collaboration and everything else that Gabriel will bring to the KSO!"
Lefkowitz hails from Newton, MA. He holds a Bachelors degree from Columbia College in New York City and a Masters in Violin Performance from the Juilliard School. While at BYSO, on July 26th 2004, Gabriel replaced Yo-Yo Ma at the Democratic National Convention, performing in front of an audience of thousands and on national TV.
He studied with Masao Kawasaki and Joel Smirnoff.


Alumnus & Former Staff Member, Daniel Chetel, appointed Music Director of the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra
Daniel Chetel, 2002 alumus, played clarinet with BYSO for four years. During the 2008-2009 season Daniel worked as Program Coordinator for BYSO's Intensive Community Program and soon thereafter moved to Kentucky to pursue a his DMA in conducting. We wish Maestro Chetel the best of luck as he begins the 2011-2012 season as Music Director of the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra!


HONORING DR. MARVIN RABIN
During our 50th Anniversary, we paid special tribute to our founding conductor, Dr. Marvin Rabin -- a man who not only had a vision for a premeire youth orchestra, but a man that has made a tremendous human impact on so many BYSO memberS.
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