VIOLIN I
Rebecca Beerstein, concertmaster
Rubani Chugh
Johannes Eberhart
Honor Frisco
Jimin Koo
Kayla Lee
Alisa Luera
Aleksandra Jasmín Kouznetsov Segura*
Sophia Shih
Sean Takada
Mana Tatsuki
Kelly Tsai
Isaac Visoutsy
Joce Wang

VIOLIN II
Janice Hu, principal
Mattin Aframian
Alex Collins
Ethan Cotta
Jason Chen
Ally Cho
Mateo Irazabel
Zyanya Lorena Fernández Lana*
Nathan Robinson
Bertrand Stone
Erin Tsui
Jeremiah Youngblood

VIOLA
James Renk, Principal
Jorge Aarmando Sabino Escobar*
Johnny Jang
Ian Lee
Ellen Lozada
Daniel Oviedo
Jocelyn Pon
Layla Shapouri
Damon Zavala

CELLO
Dylan Renk, Principal (Holst)
Peter Walsh, Principal (Adams, Strauss)
Leon Cho
Sarah Clark
Isaac Fromme
Isabelle Fromme
Jasmine Lam
Edward Li
Annabelle Lo
Carlos Uriel Morales Lumbreas*
Naohiro Nadahara
Kaya Ralls
Aerie Walker
Aiden Woodruff

DOUBLE BASS
Skyler Lee, principal
Zack Hauser
Erandy Solórzano Hernández*
Dawson Lam
Luca Lesko
Leon Simmans
Atticus Simmons

FLUTE
José Manuel Canché Chan*
Nayeon Cho*
Emily Park*
John Robert Santiago*^
* = Piccolo
^ = Alto Flute

OBOE
Daniela Chavez*
Vicente Briseño Cruz*
Adam Frary^
Adelle Rodkey*
Tina Shigeyama
* = English horn
^ = Bass Oboe

CLARINET
Yul Galvan Coto*
Jacob Freiman*^
Esther Kim
Mia Kuo
Kai Nakkim*
Aria McCauley
Yijin Wang
* = Bass clarinet
^ = Eb Clarinet

BASSOON
Abby Brendza
Aaron Colon
Davis Lerner
Daniela Santana*
Luis Raymond Rios López*
* = contrabassoon

TRUMPET
Olivia Achcet
Kenneth Brown II
Remy Ohara
Carlos Anand Espinosa Sánchez*
Andrew Smith

HORN
Em Ellis
Hannah Lee
Esther Myers
Pedro Alejandro Guerra Rangel*
Aziel Ressler
Michelle Yang

TROMBONE
Diego Uriel Flores Fernández*
Ryan Heisinger
Reuben Molina

BASS TROMBONE
Carlos Castaneda

EUPHONIUM
Diego Vogel

TUBA
Daler Babaev
Jorge Soriano Ramirez*

PERCUSSION
Xavier Paul, principal
Robby Good
Erica Hou
Rodrigo Jéhu Espinosa Jacobo*
Matthew Lefebvre
Frankie Peacock
Viraj Sonawala

HARP
Ginger Rose Brucker
Alaina Stark

PIANO AND CELESTA
Isabelle Ragsac

SYNTHESIZER
Rin Homma

ORGAN
Adam Gilberti

*members of Orqesta Sínfonica Juvenil Carlos Chávez

Heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “. . .a shining example of podium authority and musical enlightenment,” NEAL STULBERG has garnered consistent international acclaim for performances of clarity, insight and conviction. Since 2005, he has served as Director of Orchestral Studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. From 2014 to 2018, he served as Chair of the UCLA Department of Music.

In North America, Mr. Stulberg has led the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta, Fort Worth, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Mexico City, National, New Jersey, New World, Oregon, Pacific, Phoenix, Saint Louis, San Antonio, San Francisco, Utah and Vancouver symphonies, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and New York City Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. A former assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Carlo Maria Giulini and music director of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, he is a recipient of the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award.

Mr. Stulberg’s European appearances have included performances in Germany with the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln and the orchestras of Augsburg, Bochum, Dortmund, Freiburg, Herford, Jena, Münster, Nürnberg, Oldenburg and Rostock. In Holland, he has conducted the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and led the Netherlands Ballet Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, North Holland Philharmonic, Gelders Orchestra and Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam. He has also appeared as guest conductor with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (Norway), Warsaw Chamber Orchestra, Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra (Lithuania), Athens State Orchestra, London Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Barcelona Liceu Orchestra and Norwegian National Opera Orchestra.

International engagements have also included the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Korea Philharmonic (KBS), Queensland, Adelaide and West Australian symphonies, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Israel Sinfonietta and Ra’anana Symphonette.

An acclaimed pianist, Stulberg has appeared as recitalist, chamber musician and with major orchestras and at international festivals as pianist/conductor. His performances of Mozart concertos conducted from the keyboard are uniformly praised for their buoyant virtuosity and interpretive vigor. In 2011-12, he performed the complete Mozart sonatas for violin and piano with violinist Guillaume Sutre at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall and at the Grandes Heures de Saint Emilion festival in France. In 2018, he performed throughout South Africa on a recital tour with saxophonist Douglas Masek and in 2022, appeared as solo pianist in the world premiere of Inclusion, a new work for pianist and chamber orchestra by Hugh Levick.

Mr. Stulberg has conducted premieres of works by Paul Chihara, Mohammed Fairouz, Jan Friedlin, William Kraft, Alexander Krein, Betty Olivero, Steve Reich, Peter Schat, Lalo Schifrin, Dmitri Smirnov, Earl Stewart, Morton Subotnick, Joan Tower and Peter van Onna, among others, and has also led works by UCLA composers Münir Beken, Bruce Broughton, Kenny Burrell, Mark Carlson, Ian Krouse, David Lefkowitz and James Newton. He conducted the period- instrument orchestra Philharmonia Baroque in a festival of Mozart orchestral and operatic works, and has brought to life several silent movies from the early 1900s, including the Russian classic New Babylon, Shostakovich’s first film score. In August 2022, he conducted the North American premiere of Bas-Sheve, a recently rediscovered and orchestrated 1924 Yiddish-language opera by composer Henekh Kon and librettist Moishe Broderzon, at the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto.

Collaborators have included John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Dee Dee Bridgewater, John Clayton, Mercer Ellington, Michael Feinstein, Philip Glass, Morton Gould, David Krakauer, Lar Lubovitch, Peter Martins, Mark Morris, Angel Romero, Cornel West and Christopher Wheeldon. He has conducted Philip Glass’ opera Akhnaten at the Rotterdam Festival and Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face with Long Beach Opera in Los Angeles, and has recorded for Naxos, West German Radio, Donemus, Yarlung Records, Sono Luminus and the Composers Voice label.

Mr. Stulberg has maintained a career-long passion for the training of young musicians. He has conducted and taught at the New World Symphony, Indiana University Summer Institute, Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, New Zealand School of Music, Henry Mancini Institute, Los Angeles Philharmonic Summer Institute, National Repertory Orchestra, Interlochen Arts Academy, American-Russian Youth Orchestra, Turkish Music StateConservatory (Istanbul), National Conservatory of Belarus (Minsk), Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing), Capitol Normal University (Beijing), Shanghai Conservatory of Music and National Taiwan Normal University. In December 2019, he taught and lectured in Israel at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and Haifa University.

A native of Detroit, Mr. Stulberg is a graduate of Harvard College, the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School. He studied conducting with Franco Ferrara at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, piano with Leonard Shure, Theodore Lettvin, William Masselos and Mischa Kottler, and viola with Ara Zerounian.

Chinese-born conductor Gan Xiong has led orchestras including the Case Western Reserve University Orchestra (Cleveland, OH), Tokyo Sinfonia, UCLA Symphony, Miami Music Festival Orchestra, and Bacâu Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), and has conducted student productions of musicals including “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” and “Dear Evan Hansen.” He has led youth orchestras in Shanghai including the Huangpu District Youth Orchestra and Shanghai Kite Youth Orchestra, where he served as faculty in a Baroque summer camp session and conducted its final concert in 2019.

Also a vocalist, Gan was a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus from 2021 to 2022, where he participated in a recording of Shostakovich Symphony No. 3 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in vocal performance from Case Western Reserve University and a Master’s Degree in orchestral conducting from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. His teachers have included Kathleen Horvath, Bruce Hangen, Charles Gambetta, and Ovidiu Balan; he has participated in masterclasses with Mark Gibson, Arthur Fagen, Apo Hsu, Robert Ryker, and John Farrer. He currently pursues a DMA degree in orchestral conducting at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, studying with Neal Stulberg.