Michael Seybold, a senior at Grafton High School, has played trumpet in MYSO for the past six years and is currently a member of MYSO’s Senior Symphony. He plays trumpet and electric bass in the band and jazz programs at Grafton High School, and sings bass in vocal ensembles and the theater program. Michael has
2021 Senior Symphony Concerto Competition Winner Cecelia Santiago has been playing violin for ten years and is a junior at West Allis Central High School, where she plays in her school’s orchestra. Cece has been an active member of MYSO for six years, during which she has been named a Concerto Competition winner four times.
Zackary Munoz is a freshman at Greenfield High School and has been playing the flute for three years. In that time he has proven himself an extremely talented musician, earning a spot as principal flute in the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Wind Ensemble and a member of the Chamber Flute Ensemble. He performs in Greenfield
2021 Flute Chorale Concerto Competition winner Jordin Sun, 11, is a sixth grader at Wisconsin Hills Middle School. She has been studying the flute with Andrea Snavely for three years and also plays the piano. If she is not playing flute, she can often be found in a dance studio. Jordin would like to thank
by Ron Oshima Composer, computer scientist, educator, lawyer, musician, physician, recording engineer…these are some of the careers that MYSO alumni typically pursue. Olympic Gold medalist never appears on that list…but it eventually did for Gwen Jorgensen, Olympic Gold winner in the triathlon in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Gwen became the first American triathlete, man
Philharmonia French hornist Brooke Wisniewski is the winner of the first annual Joanne W. Hulce Merit Scholarship, a full scholarship to the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, created to support gifted and talented MYSO musicians who have demonstrated the capacity to succeed in the exceptional opportunities made possible at the Interlochen Arts Camp High School Music
by Michelle Hoffman From Western to traditional East Indian to jazz music, 14-year-old MYSO flutist Rhea Karnick, of Waukesha, has charged head first into studying different musical styles. Her exploration led to a debut performance last summer in Bangalore, India. Rhea is currently in her second year of MYSO, playing flute in both the Wind
by Michelle Hoffman Now 24, Progressions grad and MYSO alumna Mariah Weddle has dedicated her career to service to her community. In 2003, Mariah, then a third-grader, was honored to learn that her school principal had recommended her for Progressions for its inaugural season. She says even then, she “knew that being in the first
by Ron Oshima Come fly with me, Let’s float down to Peru In llama land, there’s a one-man band… Come Fly with Me, crooned by Frank Sinatra, was Lucas LaBeau’s audition piece for MYSO’s Jazz Studies program three years ago. His mother, Milagros, had been taking him and his older brother to Peru every summer
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