Percussionist

CYS returns to Hertz Hall at UC Berkeley on March 30th with the Senior Orchestra performing a stellar program that features the US premiere orchestral performance of Ukrainian composer Sergei Golovko’s Colombian Marimba Concerto. We are thrilled and honored to present this magnificent work, which will be performed by CYS’s own Apple Gao, winner of the Young Artist Competition for the 2024-25 CYS Season. The Colombian Concerto takes us on a Latin American voyage complete with drum set, electric guitar, jazz piano, as well as the supremely virtuosic solo marimba as they make use of Latin American dances, rhythms, harmonies, and melodies. It is a work that is guaranteed to please everyone!

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Spring Concert 2025

University of California, Berkeley

Maestros Eylar and Kyme close the CYS String Ensembles and CYS Associate Orchestra Seasons with a program guaranteed to please and dazzle listeners. Maestro Kati Kyme will direct the Junior and Intermediate String Ensembles, with musicians ranging in age from 7-16, in exciting performances from Vivaldi, Holst, Borodin, Haydn, and others! The Associate Orchestra will feature Evelyn Wang, our flute soloist winner of the Associate Orchestra Concerto Contest, who will perform Cécile Chaminade’s evocative and impressionistic Concertino for flute and orchestra. We will also be spotlighting AO percussionist Apple Gao, who will be performing the rarely heard Russian Marimba Concerto by Sergei Golovko, a tour-de-force of virtuoso writing for both soloist and orchestra. The orchestra will close the season with selections from Prokofiev’s masterpiece ballet Romeo and Juliet, the ever-popular Danzon No. 2 by Arturo Márquez, and Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain.

Percussionist

Apple Gao

Events

Past events

Mar 30, 2025

Spring Concert 2025 · California Youth Symphony

Jun 5, 2022

Season Finale - String Ensembles and Associate Orchestra · California Youth Symphony

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