Seventeen high school students from Pittsford Central School District were selected to be members of the 2023-2024 Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra (HYSO), the highest-level youth orchestra in the Hochstein School’s four-tier youth orchestra program. Students compete annually for a seat in the orchestra, performing professional repertoire in at least three concerts throughout the school year. The HYSO’s first concert of the year was Sunday, November 12 at 2 p.m. in the Hochstein Performance Hall.

The concert program includes the Overture to Verdi’s opera “La Forza del Destino;” Romance in Eb for strings by Gerald Finzi; the well-loved Mars and Jupiter movements from Holst’s “The Planets;” and Tchaikovsky’s fantasy for orchestra, “Capriccio Italien.”

Congratulations to our 2023-24 Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra students!

Mendon High School

• Aria Banks, viola
• Evan Dai, violin
• Marina Foley, viola
• Omika Patel, violin
• Benjamin Saunders, double bass
• Youyou Wu, violin
• Leon Ye, trumpet
• Emily Yu, violin

Sutherland High School      

• Zachary Canning, trombone
• Shuwen Ding, cello
• Claire Kazmierczak, violin
• Ryan Kunze, percussion
• Grace Lee, violin
• Keegan Matzky, violin
• Matthew Xie, violin
• Lina Yang, flute/piccolo
• Shu Shu Wu, violin