Category: Profiles

Siddharth Nadkarni is a senior at Arrowhead High School. He began his musical career at age five with piano lessons, playing the cello at age eight, and music composition lessons at age ten. He was a member of MYSO for seven years. Siddharth’s love for music has taken him on different paths of exploration in

Armarion Julien is assistant principal viola of MYSO’s Senior Symphony. He is a junior at Pius XI Catholic High School and has been playing viola for seven years. Starting in String Orchestra North, he has been in MYSO for five years. In sixth grade, he began studying with Marvin Suson, and he currently studies with

2021 MYSO String Orchestra Concerto Competition winner Kevin Mi, 9, is a third grader at Swallow School in Hartland. He has been studying the cello since the age of five with Lindsay Patterson of Hartland Music. This is his first year in MYSO, and he is currently a member of String Orchestra West. This year

2021 MYSO String Orchestra Concerto Competition winner Ava Larsen is a homeschooled eighth grader. This is her first year in MYSO. Ava began playing the cello at age eight and is a proud student of Peter Thomas. Outside of music, she enjoys reading, art, and baking. Ava would like to thank her family and friends

2021 MYSO String Orchestra Concerto Competition winner Charlotte Kojis is a fourth grader at Oriole Lane Elementary School in Mequon. She has played the violin with Mrs. Janet Dixon since second grade. She also plays the flute. This is her first year in MYSO, and she enjoys String Orchestra North/Central as a first violinist.

Isabella Nichols is a junior at the Kettle Moraine High School of Health Sciences and a member of MYSO’s Senior Symphony. She plays violin and piano in addition to composing music, and hopes to study composition in college. When not playing music, Isabella can be found hiking the Ice Age Trail or advocating for social

Maliq Veal has played the trombone since the sixth grade. He has studied under the tutelage of Jim Kelly, faculty at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and Mark Hoelscher, professor of trombone at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and currently studies with Megumi Kanda, principal trombonist of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. A senior at Ronald Reagan

Violist and 2021 Sinfonia Concerto Competition Winner Kate Flint has been a member of MYSO since 2018. She has spent much of the pandemic zooming into lessons and studio classes and performing outdoor concerts for neighbors. Kate is a seventh grader at Whitman Middle School in Wauwatosa where she is a member of the state

2021 Sinfonia Concerto Competition Winner Madison Koo is a sixth grader at Steffen Middle School in Mequon. Madison began her violin studies at age 5 with Ms. Colleen Fitzgerald at Barcel Suzuki String Academy. This is her second year in MYSO and is currently a member of Sinfonia. She recently received a 1 rating for