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Schenectady
High School
May 31
2010
Two Schenectady
High School Students Perform at Carnegie Hall
Brooks and Kipniss will perform with youth orchestra one
last time
Nathan
Kipniss and Aden Brooks outside Carnegie Hall in New
York City on May 22. The two Schenectady High
School seniors performed with the Empire State Youth
Orchestra. |
Aden Brooks and
Nathan Kipniss. both seniors in Schenectady High School's Sayles
School of Fine Arts, recently performed with the Empire State
Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
On May 22, under
the direction of Helen Cha-Pyo, the orchestra performed a
challenging program of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet and
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. The group received
a standing ovation.
It was an exciting
performance and trip for Brooks, a trombone player, and Kipniss,
a cello player, both noting this was the first time either of
them stepped into Carnegie Hall.
Both students will
perform with ESYO one last time at Seiji Ozawa Hall in
Tanglewood, Massachusetts. Brooks and Kipniss have played
with ESYO for seven and five years respectively. They are
both active in the Schenectady High School arts program and take
advantage of the array of arts opportunities available at the
school. Kipniss is valedictorian and Brooks is ranked
tenth in the Class of 2010 which includes 504 students.
About Empire
State Youth Orchestra, Inc. (ESYO):
As a regional organization, ESYO
attracts students from over 75 public and private schools
throughout eastern New York State, western Massachusetts, and
southern Vermont. Returning and potential members must pass a
competitive audition for their positions. The nine performing
ensembles rehearse weekly with professional musicians as
conductors and coaches. A season's schedule includes over 30
public concerts and benefit performances, requiring over 600
hours of rehearsal time. The most advanced orchestra, the Youth
Orchestra, regularly performs throughout the Capital Region, at
Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, and at Carnegie Hall in New York
City. For more information,
please visit
www.esyo.org.
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