VIOLIN I
Mingye Wang +
Gabrielle Arreglo
Brian Cheng
Verna Chen
Ben Goldman
Kenneth Guo
Hasti Hedayatiparsa
Matheo Irazabal
David Jang
Alexa Jennings
Faith Kim
Jeannie Kim
Robert Lee
Grace Liang
Spencer Mangan
Kevin Nam
Charlie Russell
Iris Shen
John Yoon

VIOLIN II
Ariana Chin +
Conley Ball
Santiago Cardenas
Zishu Fang
David Gaines
Viviana Hsiao
Yassna Khosravi
Valerie Kuo
Michael Lee
Andrea Liang
Bafi Lina
Siofra Linden
Vanessa Niu
Isabelle Preston
Lizzie Su
Sarah Sung
Trena Tang
Sophia Ting
Anqi Zang

VIOLA
Coleman Hoffner +
Subin Lee
Jared Lewis
Sullivan Rodriguez
Mallika Shah
Jeffrey Shen
Jason Stange
Ariel Villanoya
Sarah Wu
Jason Zhang

CELLO
Zachary Tu +
Kai Dizon
Joshua Ferrer
Yuta Kiami
Alvin Liu
Caroline Ozmun
Savine Mergy
Emma Morrison
Abigail Tsai
Minnie Seo
Camila Wilson
Emma Yim
Charles Zhang

BASS
Dharma Dorazio +
Melissa Heredia
Richard Li

FLUTE
Grace Brandes *
Kayla Pei *
Carina Li *

*Piccolo

OBOE
Daniela Chavez
Laura Hernandez

CLARINET
Tyler Bresnick
Oren Dror
Mia Kuo

BASSOON
Aaron Colon
Dani Santana

FRENCH HORN
Em Ellis
Nury Lee
Vasili Magaziotis
Michelle Yang

TRUMPET
Cyrus Alva
Jackson Bacon
Jesse Chi
Morgan Michalik

TROMBONE
Madison Berchtold
Jason Bernhard
Frankie Ye

TUBA
Peter Wang

TIMPANI
Xavier Paul
Shawronna Sengupta

PERCUSSION
Cody Chang
Ryan Jia
Shawronna Sengupta

Harp
Alaina Stark

Denotes Principal +

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.

Samuel Chung is an orchestral conducting major in the Masters program at UCLA, studying with Neal Stulberg and leading its ensembles, including UCLA Symphony, UCLA Philharmonia, and uclaFLUX.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Boston University, where his primary teachers were Lucia Lin and Jeremy Yudkin. At B.U., he was conductor of Time’s Arrow, the school’s contemporary music ensemble, and also studied with Joshua Rifkin, Steven Ansell, Peter Zazofsky and others. He received a Boston University College of Fine Arts Scholarship in violin performance and its 2023 Departmental Award in Musicology and Ethnomusicology.

As founder and artistic director of the Magari Ensemble, Chung has collaborated on interdisciplinary projects with organizations such as New England Conservatory’s Blind Glass Ensemble and Schönberg Center Vienna.

In recent summers, Chung studied with Gerard Schwarz as a Conducting Scholar at the Eastern Music Festival and was in residence at the 2023 Montecito International Music Festival as conductor of the festival orchestra. He has also assisted and prepared ensembles for conductors including Paul Phillips (Stanford University) and Larry Livingston (USC Thornton). In 2023, Chung was named Finalist of The Respighi Prize in Conducting, issued by the Chamber Orchestra of New York and Comune di Bologna (Italy).

Davide Di Rienzo was born in Brescia, Italy. He began studying piano at the age of 12. In 2011 he was admitted to the Liceo Musicale A. Manzoni in Latina, Italy, where he studied with Grazia Voglino.

He was first prize winner at the International Piano Competition City of Tarquinia and Gian Galeazzo Visconti Competition, and finalist at the “Giovani Musici” competition held at the Sapienza University of Rome. From 2014 to 2018, he studied with M° Ėliso Virsaladze and M° Jacob Katsnelson, in summer masterclasses organized in the Caetani Castle in Sermoneta, Italy.

In 2020 Davide graduated with honors from the Mannes School of Music in New York, under the tutelage of Jerome Rose.

In 2022, Davide received a Master’s degree at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where he studied with Dr. Inna Faliks. He is currently working towards his doctoral degree in piano performance at UCLA, where he is also broadening his knowledge on various research topics, including the music of Southern Italy and the politicization of music.

In recent years, Davide has been fortunate to attend masterclasses and receive guidance from internationally-renowned artists such as Magdalena Baczewska, Geoffrey Burleson, Simone Dinnerstein, and Gilbert Kalish.

Davide Di Rienzo has held numerous concerts and recitals in Europe and the United States. He is also a deeply committed teacher.