Cornell Symphony Orchestra

Chris Younghoon Kim

Director of Orchestras

Chris Younghoon Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. He has studied conducting with Kenneth Kiesler at the University of Michigan. He has also been a student of Gerhard Markson at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. In the fall of 2004, Chris Kim became the director of Orchestras at Cornell University, where he conducts the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Cornell Chamber Orchestra and guest conducts Ensemble X.

As a proponent of new music Chris founded Brave New Works, a new music group based in Ann Arbor, MI. With BNW, he leads about three residencies per year around the United States. He has guest conducted new music ensembles around the world including Divertimento Ensemble in Italy, BT Ensemble and the Nash ensemble at the St. Magnus Festival in Scotland, The Firebird Ensemble based in Boston, and the International Bartok Music festival Ensemble in Hungary. During the summer months of 2008, Chris took part in the International Conducting Academy at Vendome, conducting the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris in concert.

Takuma Itoh

Orchestra Assistant, Fall

Takuma Itoh spent his early childhood in Japan before moving to Northern California where he grew up. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan (M.M.) and Rice University (B.M.), and is currently a doctoral student at Cornell University, studying with Steven Stucky, Roberto Sierra, and Kevin Ernste. He has had works performed by ensembles such as the Albany Symphony, the New York Youth Symphony with the Shanghai Quartet (at Carnegie Hall), Symphony in C, and the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, and has participated in the Aspen Music Festival and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan.

Jesse Jones

Orchestra Assistant, Spring

Jesse Jones (b.1978) is a DMA candidate at Cornell University, where he studies music composition with Professors Kevin Ernst, Roberto Sierra and Steven Stucky. Jones’s recent awards include Cornell’s Sage Fellowship, Aspen’s Susan and Ford Schumann Fellowship, the Outstanding Scholar in Music Composition Award from the University of Oregon, and Honorable Mention in the 2007 ASCAP: Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. Jones’ compositions have been performed in North America and Europe by the World Youth Chorus, the American Composers Orchestra, the iO Quartet, ECCE, Ossia, and the Oregon Composers Orchestra, among others. Jones’s choral works are published internationally by earthsongs.

The CSO Fall '09 roster is listed below by section, in seating order. Section leaders appear highlighted in orange. The CCO audition results are also available.

Violin I (16)

Name	Academic Major	Class
Alexa Schmitz	Plant Pathology	Grad
Carol Tsang	Economics	12
Thomas Collum	(undecided)	12
Stephanie Chu	Biological Sciences	10
Benjamin Wie	(undecided)	13
Sandra Hwang	Human Biology and Society	13
Laura Schwartz	Government	12
Elizabeth Baker	ILR	10
Soyoung Kim	Health Administration	Grad
Diana Hong	Biology	13
Ciara McAfee	(Ithaca High School student)
Emily Chen	(undecided)	13
Jiyoung Won	(Ithaca High School student)
Alice Cho	(staff)
James Ryder Stroud	Government/Music	13
Olivia Lee	Human Biology Health and Society	13
Kevin Lin	(Alum)

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Violin II (18)

Name	Academic Major	Class
Katherine Bobroske	Engineering	12
Hanna Broback	IARD	13
Crystal Han	Biological Sciences	13
Andrew Chen	Biological Engineering	11
Arthur Zhou	Economics	13
Joanne Chua	Economics	11
Daniel Rothenberg	Atmospheric Science	11
Barbara Bai	Math	12
Kirby Black	Biological Sciences	10
Jonathan Yicon Hsieh	Hotel Management	12
Rebecca Yang	Engineering	13
Harrison Lu	Biology	11
Elaine Zhong	Biology	12
Rebecca Velez	English	12
Collin Chan	Operations Research	Grad

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Viola (9)

Name	Academic Major	Class
Mikhail T. Grinwald	Architecture	12
Andrea Bowring	Material Science Engineering	11
Yoriko Nakamura	Biology and Society	11
Mickey McDonald	Physics	10
Wesley Chao	Biology	12
Lora Ulmer	Material Science Engineering	10
Ellen Cheong	Chemical Engineering	12
Eva Golos	Science of Earth Systems	13
Mahina Wang	Chemical Engineering	12

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Cello (10)

Name	Academic Major	Class
Alissa Sexton	Psychology/French	10
Jonathan Auerbach	Economics	10
Isabelle Cutting	Government	10
Jin-Sung Kim	Engineering/Physics	11
Sarah Smith	Physics/Music	10
Vivian Yang	Biology	13
Adrian Radocea	Material Science Engineering	11
Lindsay Theodore	Biological Sciences	13
Kimberly Yeh	Engineering	13
Steven Ham	Human Biology and Society	13

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Bass (5)

Name	Academic Major	Class
Chris Gerig	Engineering Physics	11
Sam Shuhan	(Ithaca High School student)
Markus Salasoo	Engineering	13
Diana Rypkema	Chemistry	13
Eric Morris	Biology and Society	12
Stewart Schwab	(Dean of the Law School)

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Flute

Name	Academic Major	Class
Miriam Nussbaum	Linguistics	11
Cora Crisman	(Music, Ithaca College)
Andrea Reges	(Music, Ithaca College)

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Oboe

Name	Academic Major	Class
Kit Stone	Science of Natural and Environmental Systems	11
Greg Weisbrod	Music	10
Daniel Polla	Human Biology, Health and Society	12

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Clarinet

Name	Academic Major	Class
Jonathan Felbinger	Electrical Engineering	Grad
Vance Gao	Biology	10
Kevin Giroux	Economics	12
Gyung Hoon Kang	Chemistry	12

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Bassoon

Name	Academic Major	Class
Michael Doliner	Food Science	13

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Horn

Name	Academic Major	Class
William Violette	Science of Natural and Environmental Systems	12
Amanda Esposito	Psychology	12
Saeward Schillaci	IARD	13
Chantal Stieber	Inorganic Chemistry	Grad
Sarah Edythe Dimiduk	Biological Engineering	11

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Trumpet

Name	Academic Major	Class
Eric Nathan	Music	Grad
Robert J. Locker II	Engineering	13
Ethan Urtz	(Music, Ithaca College)

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Trombone

Name	Academic Major	Class
Chris Mayes	(research associate)
Sam Worby	Government	12
Carl Sieber	Chemical Engineering	11

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Tuba

Name	Academic Major	Class
Alec Story	Biology and Computer Science	12

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Percussion

Name	Academic Major	Class
Adrienne Rosenblatt	CRP/Art History	12
Thomas Weber	Aerospace Engineering	Grad
Will Bintzer		10

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Piano

Name	Academic Major	Class
Robert Toha	Biology	12

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Harp

Name	Academic Major	Class
Lacey Seiffertt	(Eastman School of Music, Quest Player)

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