Jericho High School Student Wins Concerto Competition

A Jericho High School student will be a featured soloist in the June 8 Long Island Youth Orchestra concert at the  Walt Whitman High School’s Performing Arts Center in Huntington Station at 2 p.m.

Concertmistress Kaitlyn Shin is among three winners of LIYO’s solo competition. She will perform the 3rd movement of Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No. 3. Pianist David LoNigro, of East Meadow will perform the 1st movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Clarinetist Ethan Usoskin of Port Washington will perform the 1st movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.

LIYO Music Director and Conductor Scott Dunn will conduct. In addition to the featured soloists, the concert will include Nicolai’s Overture to the Merry Wives of Windsor, Glazunov’s March, Op. 76 and Sibelius’ Finlandia.

Shin has been the Concertmistress of the Long Island Youth Orchestra since the fall of 2012.  She has participated in consecutive LISFA and NMEA All County music festivals for 7 years, has been a member of the Long Island Youth Orchestra for five years, and was assistant principal violinist of the most recent New York All State Symphonic Orchestra.

Currently a student of Nam-Sook Choei Lee, Kaitlyn was accepted into the pre-college division of the Manhattan School of Music in 2012, where she studied under Julie Becker for a year. In the summer of 2011 Kaitlyn was the winner of the Festival Concerto Competition at the LIU Post Chamber Music Festival and performed as a soloist with the Festival Chamber Orchestra at Tilles Center.

While she practices her violin, which she started playing from the age of six, she also keeps herself busy following her numerous academic passions as an outstanding student. She attended Columbia University’s Science Honors Program for three years, won various local, state, and national science research competitions throughout high school, and most recently was named as one of forty nationwide finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search, in which, with the other finalists, she had the honor of meeting President Obama. Currently in her senior year at Jericho High School, Kaitlyn plans to attend Stanford University.

The Long Island Youth Orchestra, which was founded by Martin Dreiwitz in 1962, has nearly 100 outstanding talented teenage players representing nearly 40 Long Island communities from Nassau and Suffolk counties. The Long Island Youth Orchestra, which is in residence at LIU Post, rehearses weekly and presents a series of four concerts each season. Susan Deaver is LIYO's principal guest conductor and executive director.

Tickets priced at $15 for Adults and $10 for Students/Seniors will be available one hour prior to the concert in the lobby of the Walt Whitman High School’s Performing Arts Center.  To reserve tickets in advance, please e-mail LongIslandYouthOrchestra@gmail.com For further information call (516) 299.3174, or visit the orchestra’s website at www.liyo.org