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 YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF THE AMERICAS

In the Community

2008 - 2009 YOA Access-To-Excellence Programs (see News for individual project reports)

• Montevideo / Punta del Este - Uruguay - July / August 2008

     Isaac Casal - Cello, Panama
     Nhassim Gazale - Double Bass, Chile
     Mary-Elisabeth Brown - Violin, Canada
     Pablo Moreno - Oboe, Colombia
     Yaitza Lopez - Cello, Puerto Rico
     Emilio Argento - Viola, Argentina

Rome, Italy - September 2008

    Mary-Elisabeth Brown - Violin, Canada
    Timothy Lacrosse - Viola, USA
    Gloria Marcela Diaz Dits - Violin, Colombia
    Jorge Vidura Solano Nivar - Cello, Dominican Republic

• Bahia - Brazil - November & December 2008


     Michael Webster - Clarinet, USA *YOA FACULTY*
     Leone Buyse - Flute, USA *YOA FACULTY*
     Ilmari Hopkins - Cello, USA/Norway *YOA FACULTY*
     Gloria Britez Scolari - Viola, Paruguay
    
Ana Drobac - Violin, Canada
     Tyler Belluz - Double Bass, Canada
     Alain Rocha - Piano, Brazil
    
• Naples County - Florida - January 2009

     Craig Mumm - Viola, USA *YOA FACULTY*
     Rafael Betancourt - Violin, Venezuela
     Hector Hernandez - Violin, Mexico
     Aairon Ludwig  - Cello, USA
     Michael Davis - Viola, USA

• Montevideo - Uruguay - Februrary 2009

      Nicolás Giordano Pisano, violín (Uruguay-Holanda) *HOST*
      Mariano Casio Farro, violín (Argentina)
      Herman Ringer, violín (Argentina) 
      Emilio Argento, viola (Argentina-Alemania)
      Mariana Aldana, cello (Argentina-Brasil)
      Nhassim Gazale, double bass (Chile) 
      Olga Bertinat, flute (Uruguay)
      Pablo Alejandro Moreno, oboe  (Colombia) 
      Guillermo Marín, clarinet (Colombia)
      Gabriel Pereira, bassoon (Uruguay)
      Benjamin Browne, trumpet (USA-Uruguay)

• Panama City - Panama - March 2009

     Deborah Wanderley Dos Santos - Violin, Brazil
     Lacey Hays - Trumpet, USA
     Nicolas Giordano - Violin, Uruguay
     Guillermo Marín - Clarinet, Colombia
     Nhassim Gazale - Double Bass, Chile
     Adrián Nájera-Coto - Trombone, Costa Rica
     Matthew Roitstein - Flute, USA
     Anne Lanzilotti - Viola, USA
     Isaac Casal - Cello, Panama
     ASM FESTIVAL - HOST*

• Bahia - Brazil - April 2009

     MaryAnn Mumm - Violin, USA *YOA Faculty*
     Mauro Maur - Trumpet, Italy *YOA Faculty*
     Francoise de Clossey - Piano, Canada *Faculty*
     Marilyn dos Santos - Cello, Brazil
     Angela Viviana Contreras - Double Bass, Colombia

• Panama City - Panama - June 2009

     MaryAnn Mumm - Violin, USA *FACULTY
     Mauro Maur - Trumpet, Italy *FACULTY
     Craig Mumm - Viola *FACULTY
     Francoise de Clossey - Piano *FACULTY
     Erasmos Solerti - Violin, Costa Rica
     Jose Valerio - Violin, Costa Rica
     Lacey Hays - Trumpet, USA
     Mikki Gramoll - Trumpet, USA
     Tim Lacrosse - Viola, USA
     Marisol Taub - Bassoon, Chile / USA
     Isaac Casal - Cello, Panama
     ASM FESTIVAL - HOST*

 

YOA ACCESS-TO-EXCELLENCE PROGRAM

Music education combined with community outreach is the heart of one of the most rewarding aspects of YOA. YOA ACCESS-TO-EXCELLENCE PROGRAM specifically addresses this component of the orchestra's mission by facilitating outreach performance / teaching projects carried out by small groups of combined YOA Faculty and Musicians in underserved communities throughout the Hemisphere.

These 10-day programs offer unique opportunities for YOA musicians to interact with local communities in circumstances they could not imagine possible – in a small church outside Montevideo, at a community center in an impoverished neighborhood of Lima, in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a public park for low-income families on the outskirts of São Paulo, a theater filled with New York public school students from South Bronx and Harlem, in the rural country-side of the Domican Republic.

“In Montevideo, Uruguay, I had the wonderful opportunity to give a trombone class to six young trombone players, all of whom were incredibly eager and excited to learn about their instruments. No one can ever know how much this meant to these children.” Christopher Burns, trombone, USA

In order prepare YOA musicians and faculty to most effectively carry out their role as musical ambassadors in diverse settings, all participants in YOA's annual full-orchestra Residency take part in leadership tutorials from music education and cultural specialists that instill them with the skills they will need as teaching artists. In addition to receiving language courses, YOA musicians gain hands-on experience conducting musical outreach through didactic community performances, workshops and master classes that involve the full-orchestra. Through this outreach experience with the full-orchestra, YOA musicians decelop the skills necessary to work in the chamber performing / teaching teams of 5 - 10 musicians that take part in Access-Excellence programs. Through these programs, YOA musicians not only train the young individuals they work with musically and artistically, but also communicate the discipline, commitment and sense of teamwork required to pursue a career in music.

"In the year 2003, I joined Youth Orchestra of the Americas and my life would never be the same again. YOA helped me to realize that I could live my dream." Isaac Casal, cello, Panamá

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