Lincoln Youth Symphony

Welcome to the Lincoln Youth Symphony!!!

The Lincoln Youth Symphony was organized in 1957 by the Lincoln Public Schools in order to give talented musicians the opportunity to extend their orchestral music performance. Membership is available to students in grade 9-12 in the City of Lincoln and is by audition only. The orchestra rehearses once each week for two and a half hours during the school year. Past orchestra conductors Bernard Nevin, Eugene Stoll, Orville Voss, June Moore, Harold Levin, Brian Moore, Michael Swartz, Huadong Lu and Bob Krueger have produced outstanding musicians and orchestras.

Rehearsals are at Park Middle School, 855 So. 8th St.

REPERTOIRE for the first concert: Borodin: On the Steppes of Central Asia; Moncayo: Huapango; Quantz: Concerto for Flute in G with Elisabeth Wismer; and Prokofiev: Lt. Kije Suite.

2009-2010 REHEARSAL SCHEDULE

PERFORMANCE DATES 2009-2010: Nov. 8; Feb. 7; Apr. 18.


2009-2010 ROSTER

WOODWINDS - Flute: Elisabeth Wismer, principal; Krista Baade, 2nd/piccolo; Sam Guyer, 2nd/3rd; Morgan Mallum, alternate. Oboe: Rosa Egge, principal; Kyle Holz, 2nd; Karena Nyberg, alternate. Clarinet: Anna Fangmeier, principal; Tae-woo Kim, 2nd; Alex Pieloch, alternate. Bassoon: Isaac Waswick, principal; Elliott Morris, 2nd.

BRASS: Horn: Curtis Dlouhy, Meredith Lee, Eric Marrow and Hannah Rice; Nick Steffensmeier, alternate. Trumpet: Taylor Cobb, Taylor Klucas and Jimmy Lee; David Stephens, alternate. Trombone: Paul Dorenbach, Tim Madvig and Adam Salistean; Danielle Hardesty, first alternate; Kyle Pearcy, 2nd alternate. Tuba: Cory McGarvie.

PERCUSSION: Monroe Mallum and Anne Wallace. Two more to be named soon.

STRINGS: Bass: Noah Brubaker, Ben Fischer, Christian Luedke, Ben Merliss and Ian Wright. Cello: Natalie Anderson, Melissa Frohberg, Erich Gebers, Rebekah Hawkins, Justin Lepard, Kelsey Marshall, Samantha Noonan, Loy Root, Robert Specht, Maddie Witters, Rylie Wyman and Albert Zhou. Viola: Leah Bernhardson, Emily Lamberty, Kristina Miller, Max Oehlertz, Tanner Pfeiffer, Advaith Rau, Rebecca Simley and Sam Whipple. Violin: Maia Behrendt, Carina Berkowitz, Noemi Berkowitz, Preston Bradley, Sonia Chen, David Deemer, Nolan DeVries, Helen Dowd, Emily Ediger, Ben Eigbrett, Amu Fischer, Liz Frohman, Artemis Gogos, Eajan Hsu, Evan Hughes, Alana Hux, Nick Lehnert, Darrin Lim, Shyamaly Premaraj, Jessica Qiu, Victoria Shum, Breanna Thornton, Nick Vuchetich, Lisabeth Wissink, Malika Wilson and Flora Zempleni. ALTERNATES: Chris Duerschner, Clark Jensen, and Henry Sipp.

Specific information about auditioning is here: 2009-2010 auditions


LYS Policies. Please read these carefully.


SENIOR SOLO AUDITION WINNERS! Elisabeth Wismer, flute;Tim Madvig, trombone. Possible alternates: Anna Fangmeier and Rylie Wyman. Congratulations to all participants!!!

50th ANNIVERSARY: A Yahoo Group has been established by Mr. Corwin Moore, known as "Corky" when he was the tuba player in the inaugural 1957 ensemble. To subscribe to the group, send an email to lys_50-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to find out information about other alumni and LYS history. Perhaps you have something to add to our knowledge of this history!

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Lincoln Youth Symphony
2006-2007

The orchestra's extensive travel history has included visits to Austria, Prague, Budapest, and, in 2009, Rome. It has also appeared at national music conferences in Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. Recently, the Orchestra has been involved in international performances and cultural exchanges with youth orchestras in Mexico City, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou, China. As part of the Chinese exchange, LYS and the orchestra from Guangzhou gave a joint performance in Kimball Recital Hall in the fall of 2000. LYS completed a successful performance trip to Beijing, China, and performed a concert at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in March, 2003. In the spring of 2005 the orchestra toured Austria, playing concerts in Vienna, Graz, and Bad Ischl with additional visits to Salzburg and Innsbruck.


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