Program
Rossini: Il signor Bruschino: Overture
Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Op. 11
Elgar: Pomp & Circumstance March No. 4,
Florence Price: Adoration
Tchaikovsky: Marche slave, Op. 31
Campus Philharmonia Orchestra, Section AFLUTE Keaton Aldrich, Master's of Education: Curriculum and Instruction, Chelsea, MI Keila Uchimura, Biochemistry, Issaquah, WA Hana Sugihara, Biochemistry & Public/Global Health, Bellevue, WA Nate Widmann, Undeclared, Puyallup, WA PICCOLO Hana Sugihara, Biochemistry & Public/Global Health, Bellevue, WA Nate Widmann, Undeclared, Puyallup, WA OBOE Tressa Paulson, Undecided, Gig Harbor, WA Marrakesh Beaner, Global and Regional Studies, Fort Collins, CO CLARINET Benjamin Yang, Computer Science, Vancouver, WA Ramona Moon, Environmental Sciences, Olympia, WA BASSOON Pascal Lovre, Chemistry, Seattle, WA Sam Shin, Computer Science, Vancouver, WA HORN Sydney Jackson, Aerospace Engineering, Chicago, IL Matthew Maffeo, Neuroscience & Electrical Engineering, Redmond, WA Ethan Fang, Information Systems, Woodinville, WA Dhruv Ashok, Informatics and Mathematics, Kirkland, WA I-Tung Chen, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hsinchu, Taiwan TRUMPET McKenna Sweet, EEC Biology and Journalism, Woodstock, IL Felix Chao, Environmental Science, Los Angeles, CA TROMBONE Peter Lin, ACMS, Taipei, Taiwan Dion Archer-Roll, Physics: Teaching, Vancouver, WA BASS TROMBONE Toby Jay, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Seattle, WA TUBA Foster Patterson, Music Education, Aberdeen, WA TIMPANI PERCUSSION nc Krantz-Fire, Non-matriculated student Charlotte Greene Delanie Montoya, Community Member, Aztec, NM HARP Carly Miller, Chemistry, Prosper, TX VIOLIN I Scott Li, Electrical Engineering, Spokane, WA Katie Chiu, MCD Biology, Camas, WA Eric Yeh, Computer Science, Bellevue, WA Olivia Wang, Comp. Science & Music Theory, Issaquah, WA Scotia Ouellette, MCD Biology, Sammamish, WA Felicia Poynter, Chemical Engineering, Puyallup, WA Anthony McKeirnan, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Walla Walla, WA Kate Tseng, Engineering, Undeclared; Los Altos, CA Paige Monsod, MCD Biology, Cupertino, CA Baker Wong, Physics, Seattle, WA Kohei Tamura, MCD Biology, Bellevue, WA Gary Guo, Computer Engineering, Seattle, WA Amrutha Srikanth, Computer Science, Redmond, WA Delaney Wu, Informatics, Sammamish, WA Hugo Yu, Earth and Space Sciences – Geoscience, Leawood, KS Wenjun Jiang, Undecided, Xi’an, China Phoenix Davis, Biochemistry, Logan, UT Julian James, Electrical Engineering, Monroe, LA VIOLIN II John Paul Custodio, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Richland, WA Claire Li, Computer Science, Bothell, WA Emma Wong, Anthropology, San Mateo, CA Emma Lee Freeman, Political Science, Gaithersburg, MD Ellie Anderson, Economics and Global Studies, Park City, UT Snigdha Mahankali, Computer Science, Woodinville, WA Cora Taylor, Mathematics, Bothell, WA Andrew Gladnick, Engineering,Undeclared; Seattle, WA Gabrielle Morris, Pre-Sciences, Auburn, WA Sabrina Hwang, Electrical Engineering & Biochemistry, Olympia, WA Eric Ye, Pre-Sciences, Sammamish, WA Kendra Del Rosario Arias, Pre-Sciences, Bellevue, WA Winifred Tan, MCD Biology, Edmonds, WA Abigayle Cariño, Environmental Studies and LSJ, Vancouver, WA Ammara Touch, Community Member/Staff, Kent, WA Karien Tadros, Business Administration - Accounting & Finance, Mukilteo, WA Armand Meyer, Computer Science, Bellevue, WA Mia Grayson, Biochemistry, Boulder, CO VIOLA Josephine Meier, Plant Biology, Bainbridge Island, WA Allison Fron, Master's of Science- SEFS, New Lenox, IL Shea Lee, General Biology, Santa Rosa, CA Lucia Lin, Environmental Science, Monte Sereno, CA Joseph Young, Biochemistry, Vancouver, WA Madeline Baulch, Interaction Design, Tampa, FL Laura Vonessen, Missoula, MT Thao Nguyen, Computer Science, Olympia, WA Colin Watson, Undecided, Tacoma, WA Hibbah Khan, Computer Science, Brier, WA Careu Tapang, Mechanical Engineering, Bellevue, WA Pranathi Ramesh, Physics and Astronomy, Redmond, WA Andrew Fan, Neuroscience, West Windsor, NJ Catalina Lemus, LSJ & Political Science, Auburn, WA CELLO Mitchell Kluesner, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Minneapolis, MN Victoria Chen, Biochemistry and Psychology, Bothell, WA Shannon Hamilton, Accounting, Veradale, WA Sophie Heeter, Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health, Sammamish, WA Aileen Laubach, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Ames, IA Lauren Chenoweth, Linguistics, Bellevue, WA Laura Schladetzky, Global Studies and Economics, Bellevue, WA Aubrianna Hohmann, English, Pre-law; Salt Lake City, UT Ainsley Powell, Biochemistry and French, Edmonds, WA Bardia Nasrulai, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bothell, WA BASS Ethan Park, Biology, Mercer Island, WA Campus Philharmonia Orchestra, Section B
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Conductor Biographies
Daren Weissfisch has conducted professional and student ensembles in the United States, Mexico, and Europe for over a decade. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Washington under the tutelage of Dr. David Alexander Rahbee where he is the conductor of the Campus Philharmonia Orchestras, the assistant conductor of the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra, and conductor of the University of Washington Modern Music Ensemble and Opera Theater Works Orchestra. Daren was recently named House Conductor of the Tacoma Opera and he previously conducted the University of Washington’s opera production of Vinkensport by David T. Little and Joseph Haydn’s opera Philemon und Baucis. Daren has also served as cover conductor for the Harmonia Orchestra Seattle and the Issaquah Philharmonic Orchestra. From 2013 to 2019 Daren was the Artistic Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Esperanza Azteca Sinaloa, which is an El Sistema based youth orchestra and choir in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. While in Mexico he was the assistant director for the 2016 production of Charles Gounod’s opera Romeo and Juliet with the Orquesta Sinfónica Sinaloa de las Artes under Sinaloense conductor Enrique Patrón de Rueda and the same year he collaborated with French guitarist Jean Bruno Dautaner to record the guitar concerto Tres en Raya by Spanish composer Antonio Ruíz Pipó under the AdLib MusicMX record label. In 2017 Daren conducted the Sinaloa premier of Horizontes, a work by Mexican composer Samuel Zyman, again with the Orquesta Sinfónica Sinaloa de las Artes, and for the 2017 Sinaloa Cultural Festival Daren founded the ensemble Sinaloa Players which presented Stravinsky’s masterpiece Histoire du Soldat in collaboration with renowned Mexican choreographer Mauricio Nava. Daren was a conducting student of Michael Jinbo at the Pierre Monteux Festival and School for several summers and he also studied with many notable conductors including Ludovic Morlot, Donald Schleicher, Kensho Watanabe, Lior Shambadal, Edward Cumming, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Gábor Hollerung, Linus Lerner, Carlos Spierer, Sandro Gorli, Glen Adsit and Timothy Salzman among others.
Daren is also an oboist and was the second/assistant principal oboist of the Orquesta Sinfónica Sinaloa de las Artes in Sinaloa, Mexico from 2010-2019 as well as soloist playing oboe concertos by Mozart, Strauss and Bach. He is also a substitute player in the Seattle area with the Bainbridge Island Symphony Orchestra, Harmonia Orchestra Seattle and the Lake Union Civic Orchestra among others.
Ryan Dakota Farris has quickly become one of the most exciting and in-demand conductors in the Pacific Northwest. Ryan was recently appointed as Music Director of both the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra and the Bainbridge Island Youth Orchestra. He also serves as assistant conductor for Lake Union Civic Orchestra and frequently guest conducts groups across the region, including the Issaquah Philharmonic, Octava Chamber Orchestra, and Seattle Festival Orchestra. This past summer Ryan was one of two conductors from across the country invited to be a fellow at the Bellingham Festival of Music’s inaugural conducting institute.
Currently pursuing his doctorate in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Washington in Seattle, Ryan serves as conductor of the Campus Philharmonia Orchestras and assistant conductor of the University of Washington Symphony. In recent years Ryan has worked as cover conductor for professional orchestras across the country, including the Auburn Symphony in Washington and the Boulder Philharmonic in Colorado. He has also served as assistant conductor for Colorado MahlerFest and the Greater Boulder Youth Orchestras, and as a sectional conductor for Seattle’s Harmonia Orchestra & Chorus.
Ryan was a proud student of the late maestro Michael Jinbo at the Pierre Monteux School and Music Festival in Maine for five summers. He has studied with many notable conductors including Ludovic Morlot, Mercelo Lehninger, David Alexander Rahbee, Donald Schleicher, Kensho Watanabe, and Tiffany Lu.
Off the podium, Ryan has performed as principal cellist with the Boulder Opera Company, Seattle Philharmonic Strings, and the University of Washington Symphony. He appeared as a featured concerto soloist with the South Puget Sound College Orchestra in 2019, and regularly performs in chamber music groups across the region. Before moving to the Pacific Northwest, he played regularly with some of Colorado’s best orchestras, including the Boulder Philharmonic, Fort Collins Symphony, and Colorado MahlerFest. Ryan also composes his own music, performs regularly on period instruments such as baroque cello & viola da gamba, and busts out the traditional Irish fiddle with acclaimed Seattle-based Celtic band Cavort.