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AUDITION RESULTS:

FINAL LIST OF NEW VIOLIN PLAYERS FOR LYS, 2008-2009: Carina Berkowitz, Lexa Black, Emily Ediger, Ben Eigbrett, Amy Fischer, Eajan Hsu, Evan Hughes, Shyamaly Premaraj, Jessica Qiu, Jingyi Sun, Nick Vuchetich, and Jennifer Zumwalt. Thank you to all who auditioned. These were very difficult decisions.

WOODWIND PLAYERS INVITED TO JOIN FOR 2008-2009::

Flute - Krista Baade, 3rd flute part (maybe some 2nd)

Oboe - Rosa Egge, Principal

Samantha Karnes, 2nd

Kyle Holz Alternate (3rd oboe if needed, depending on music selected)

Clarinet - Tae-Woo Kim, 3rd clarinet (maybe some 2nd)

PERCUSSION: Eric Shuman

Results of other string auditions follow.

BASS: Ben Fischer; CELLO: Erich Gebers, Greg Lepard, Caitlin Lukin, Adam Schwimmer, Robert Specht, and Rylie Wyman; VIOLA: Max Oehlertz and Rebecca Simley

BRASS Players for LYS, 2008-2009: Trumpet- Johnny Knoche, Brian Barnes, Jimmy Lee. Trombone - Adam Salistean; Alternate: Danielle Hardesty. Horn - Curtis Dlouhy, Hannah Rice. Tuba - Ramsey Steinkamp

Audition Information for 2008-2009 Season

Audition information is here. Audition Information for 2008-2009 Season.

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!

LYS Policies

Click here for information on LYS Policies.

Click here 07-08 Roster for a membership list for the 2007-2008 season.

Rehearsal Schedule 07-08

Click here Rehearsal Schedule 07-08 for a tentative rehearsal and performance schedule for the 07-08 season. This schedule will be updated and and a final schedule will be passed out to students andparents at the first rehearsal in September.

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.

Lincoln Youth Symphony
2006-2007

The orchestra's extensive travel history has included visits to Austria, Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Budapest, Hungary. 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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