Officers
Maestro Federico Cortese
From the moment of his debut in September 1998, stepping in at short notice to conduct Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in place of an ailing Seiji Ozawa, Federico Cortese's work as Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony was widely praised. Serving in that position from 1998-2003, Mr. Cortese led the Boston Symphony several times in Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood. His conducting of Puccini's Madama Butterfly was particularly heralded. Additionally, he has served as Music Director of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras since 1999 and is currently Music Director of the New England String Ensemble and Associate Conductor of the Asian Youth Symphony Orchestra. Other appointments have included Music Coordinator (in lieu of Music Director) and Associate Conductor of the Spoleto Festival in Italy, Assistant Conductor to Daniele Gatti at the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and Assistant Conductor to Robert Spano at the Brooklyn Philharmonic.
Federico Cortese has conducted operatic and symphonic engagements throughout the United States, Australia, and Europe. Recent engagements in the US include, among many others, the Dallas, Atlanta, San Antonio, New World, and Louisville Symphonies; as well as many operatic productions including Mozart's Don Giovanni with the Boston Lyric Opera, Puccini's La Boheme with Opera Theater of St. Louis as well as at with the Yale Opera program, and Previn's Streetcar named Desire with the Washington Opera. In Europe, his opera experience includes conducting productions of Verdi's Il Trovatore in Parma, Italy as part of the Verdi's Centennial Festival; Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail at the Spoleto Festival in Italy; Niccolo Piccini's La Bella Verita at the Teatro Comunale, Firenze, with the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Florentino; and a new production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte with the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki. Recent successes include guest conducting Britain's Opera North, the BBC Scottish Symphony, the Slovenian Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Zagreb Philharmonic, and the Goettingen Symphony, to name just a few. In Australia, he has conducted the Sydney Symphony, the Tasmania Symphony, the Australian Youth Orchestra, the West Australia Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Orchestras, and the production of Madama Butterfly for Opera Australia in Melbourne.
Federico Cortese studied composition and conducting at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome and subsequently studied at the Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna. He has been a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. In addition to music, Mr. Cortese studied literature, humanities and law, earning a law degree from La Sapienza University in Rome.
Violin
Alex Zhou
Andrew Kim
Andrew Lee
Anita Lee
Anna Gong
Austin Kwoun
Brandon Duffy
Caleb Shi
Cherin Lee
Claire Tseng
Diana Wang
Eloise Hodges
Emily Spector
Haemaru Chung
Haeun Moon
Jeremiah Blacklow
Joey Hsia
Jolade Adebekun
Joyce Lu
Ju Hye Mun
Katherine Zhu
Liana Owen
Luzy Guanuna
Nivi Ravi
Odessa Deng
Rachel Chau
Simeon Radev
Tamara Shamir
Viola
Alicia Wu
Eric Zhang
Juliette Duguid
Matthew Garcia
Maya Bharara
Neo Guerrero
Roger Cawdette
Sophie Choate
Soyoun Choi
Sun-Jung Yum
Taeshik Kim
William Lundell
Cello
Camden Archembeau
Christopher Kwon
Danielle Davis
Ethan Cobb
Hayoung Moon
Jack Boettcher
Kaede Ishidate
Michael Arumainayagam
Nathan Le
Patrick Song
Soren Nyhus
Spencer Kim
Clarinet
Erica Wu
Jenny Yoon
Bass
Maurya (JP) Reddy
Ryan Kim
William Swett
French Horn
Grace Chang
Simon Eder
William Hartog
Flute
Allison Chang
Israel Perez
Jenny Wang
Joanna Lau
Peter Bynum
Oboe
Johanna Alstott
Ran Bi
Steve Li
Sunny Tang
Percussion
Brian Tobin
Leigh Wilson
Bassoon
Eli Holmes
Reuben Stern
Steven Ekert
Harp
Elizabeth Yeoh-Wang
Katie Sierra
Trumpet
Avril Saavedra
Caleb Fried
Eliane Grace
Jeffrey Chiu
Trombone
Paul Tamburro
Tuba
Amelia Cossentino
Student
Conductors
Soren Nyhus
Caleb Shi