PRELUDE STRING ORCHESTRA (Formerly ESO)
CARLA KOUNTOUPES - Conductor

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REGISTRATION: Saturday, September 9, 2017; 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.; SFYSA Office, 422 Medico Lane
CLASSES BEGIN: September 11, 2017
MEETS ON: Mondays from 5:45-7 P.M.
LOCATION: Acequia Madre Elementary
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Target Age Group: Late elementary school (approximately grades 4-6)
ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA
The Prelude String Orchestra is the most advanced level of SFYSA's Elementary Strings program. Its purpose is to introduce very young string-instrument students to the High Art of the Orchestra. Students will play in a mixed-instrument setting consisting of violins, violas, cellos, and basses, and learn to follow a conductor while listening to members of their own section as well as those in other instrument-sections. PSO performs at the December Elementary Strings concert, and at the May Orchestras concert. The Prelude String Orchestra occupies a unique position in being both the cap-stone of the Elementary Strings program and the first stepping-stone of the Orchestras program.

ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR
Carla Kountoupes is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Oberlin College (Violin Performance/English Literature). She is a member of the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, Arizona Opera Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, and the Piazzolla da Camera Piano Trio. An active freelance musician, she has toured and performed in orchestras and chamber ensembles in Central America, Taiwan, Germany, and all over the United States. She has previously been a member of the New Century Chamber Orchestra and the Costa Rican National Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician she frequently performs with the UP Quartet as part of the Chatter Chamber Music Series in Albuquerque, NM. She just recorded a CD for Centaur Records with the Piazzolla da Camera Piano Trio in July 2016 (due for release in 2017) and will be touring this year. Carla also enjoys performing and recording Latin, alt-rock, and jazz. A dedicated music educator, Carla holds a Master of Music degree in Music Teaching. She has taught private violin lessons to children and adults for more than 20 years and directs a thriving orchestra program in the Santa Fe Public Schools. In the summers she teaches and performs at the renowned Sitka Fine Arts Camp in Sitka, Alaska. She is honored to be joining the staff of the Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association as the conductor of the Elementary String Orchestra in the fall of 2017.
PSO  Performs Stoudemire's "Barn Dance" at the St. Francis Auditorium, May 2015
PSO Performs Sheinberg's "Celebration" at the St. Francis Auditorium, May 2015