Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey, based in Plainsboro, welcomes award winning concertmaster David Kim to the winter concert on Sunday, January 23, at 7 p.m. at High School North. Kim, a violinist, has been the concertmaster for the Philadelphia Orchestra for more than 10 years and has traveled all over the world both teaching and performing.
Founded in 1978, YOCJ is a non profit organization that brings together close to 200 instrumentalists between the ages of 9 and 18 from the New Jersey and Pennsylvania area. Their mission is to provide opportunities for talented young musicians to participate in musical performance at a level beyond that which is traditionally offered by school bands and orchestras.
West Windsor and Plainsboro students include Ayza Akhtar, Avilash Bagchi, Apoorva Balaji, Shalini Basu, Andrew Benerofe, Tessa Berger, Sachin Bhide, Katrina Bragat, Lauren Bragat, Ben Brown-McMillin, Brian Chan, Ross Chapman, and Morven Chin,
Also, Radhika Dalal, Kimberly Ding, Akhil Dondapati, Nikhil Dondapati, Anny Fan, Timothy Feng, Molly Fisch-Friedman, Emma Fleming, and Michael Foley. Alan Gan, Eric Gan, Mathangi Ganesh, Angela Gao, Sloane Garelick, Tiffany Ge, Dan Gleim, Kevin Gu, and Annie Guo.
Also, Shwetha Hariharan, Eric Hsu, Whitney Huang, Cari Hunter, Susan Im, Janavi Janakiraman, Samantha Jeng, Belinda Ji, Aneesh Jonelagadda, Zachary Joseph, Kunal Kak, Shrishti Kedia, Kathryn Khaw, Raadhika Kher, Rishi Khera, Brian Kim, Jiwon Kim, Joo Ho Kim, Thomas Klimek, Tatyana Kozina, and Sahil Kulgod.
Also, Philip LaBella, Amanda Lee, Crystal Lee, Daniel Lee, Edison Lee, Jiwon Lee, Ivy Li, Matthew Lichtenstein, Cynthia Lieu, Allison Lin, Michael Lin, Roger Lin, Brandon Ling, and Jonathan Logan. Kevin Maa, Alex Maeda, Angela Mao, Claire Meiers, Aishwarya Misra, and Vishan Nigam.
Also, Yun-Oh Park, Saahith Pochiraju, Ayanna Posipanko, Nitin Ragavan, Joshua Rose, Sharon Ryoo, Mrigank Saksena, Arvinth Sethuraman, Neil Shah, Vrushabh Shah, Aman Sharma, Lisa Sher, Anna Shi, Benjamin Shrager, Suntharam Solai, Arpan Somani, Arnav Sood, Mercy Soong, Avinash Subramanian, Jyotsna Suresh, and Azhad Syed.
Also, Brianna Tagliaferro, Eugene Tang, Rachel Taub, Curren Tipnis, Bethany Tsai, Jasmine Tsai, David Van Dyke, Cassandra Vasiliu, Nikila Venkat, Pranav Venkatraman, Douglas Wallack, Derrick Wang, Elizabeth Wang, Jason Wang, Richard Wang, Matthew Wong, Charles Wu, Julia Wu, Vincent Wu, Walter Wu, Elianna Wydra, Jason Xie, Victoria Xie, Andy Xu, Victoria Xu, Christine Yan, Jeffrey Yao, Brian Yee, Lute You, Viola You, Zhiwei Yue, Eric Zhang, Jason Zhang, and Yinan Zheng,
YOCJ will be holding open auditions for new students on all instruments on Tuesday, January 25. To register or for more information E-mail contactyocj@comcast.net or visit www.yocj.org.
Sinfonietta Nova, an orchestra based in West Windsor, presents “An Enchanting Afternoon of Strauss Operetta and Waltzes” on Saturday, January 29, at 4 p.m. at Prince of Peace Church, 177 Princeton-Hightstown Road, West Windsor. Escape the snow, wind, and ice with selections from Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, as well as two of the composer’s famous waltzes and a polka.
Gail H. Lee of West Windsor is both the artistic director and conductor. West Windsor and Plainsboro musicians include Peter Brooks and Mark Bassett on cello, Geoffrey Fleming on doublebass, and Mike Davis on percussion.
A light reception will be held following the concert. Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 for seniors, and $8 for students. Children under 12 are admitted free. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.sinfoniettanova.org.
