2019 New York Big Apple Music Festival, Faculty: Cassandre McKinley
2019 New York Big Apple Music Festival UN Choir
2019 New York Big Apple Music Festival: cellist: Qianci Liu
The New York International Symphony Orchestra (NYISO) was founded in 2016 by the Paulus Hook Music Foundation, with its orchestra comprised of talented musicians from esteemed institutions such as The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes School of Music, and other prominent music schools in the New York area. Operating under the executive direction of Ms. Qianci Liu, NYISO is dedicated to enriching the cultural landscape of New York City through the vibrant performance of classical music.
Its mission encompasses showcasing the works of emerging composers, collaborating with distinguished instrumental soloists and vocalists, and providing a prestigious platform for talented young musicians from around the world to demonstrate their artistic achievements on some of the world’s most recognized stages.
The orchestra made its debut performance in Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall in 2016, marking a significant milestone in its history. Beyond its regular concert season, NYISO actively engages with the community through chamber music ensembles, bringing classical music to local communities, schools, and churches. Committed to nurturing future generations of music enthusiasts, NYISO also provides educational programs for local youth.
Since its inception, NYISO has garnered enthusiastic support from the music community, renowned musicians, discerning music lovers, and regional media. Driven by a profound passion for classical music, NYISO strives to share its transformative power with audiences far and wide.
Conductors:
Elias Miller
Music Director of the Apollo Ensemble of Boston since 2018, Elias Miller has established a reputation as a leading young conductor and orchestra builder. Recent highlights include a critically acclaimed series of outdoor concerts with the Apollo Ensemble in Massachusetts state parks, a duo of children’s concerts and a concert of concertos at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, a production of Philip Glass’ La Belle et la Bête, which Miller co-conducted at the University of Houston’s Moores Opera Center, and a staged production of Wagner’s Die Walküre (Act I) and the U.S. premiere of Ittai Shapira’s Magyar: Concerto for Two Violins with Festival Theater Hudson, a new professional opera company. Miller serves as a regular cover conductor with the Minnesota Orchestra and has also covered concert cycles for the New York Philharmonic, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Albany Symphony. Conductors he has assisted include Juanjo Mena, JoAnn Falletta, Scott Yoo, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Paul McCreesh, Christoph König, Gemma New, Ruth Reinhardt, Erina Yashima, and David Alan Miller.
An active conductor of opera and oratorio, Miller led the Harvard Early Music Society in several premieres of works between 2016 and 2019. These productions included the Boston premiere of J.A. Hasse’s Alcide al Bivio in collaboration with the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, the North American premiere of Telemann’s 1745 Johannespassion, a production that featured famed countertenor Charles Humphries and earned Miller an enthusiastic preview in the Boston Globe, and the North American premiere of J.A. Hasse’s Sanctus Petrus et Sancta Maria Magdalena. Miller has also conducted performances of operas by Gluck (Orfeo ed Euridice, Independent Opera Production), Stravinsky (The Rake’s Progress, Harvard College Opera), William Grant Still (Minette Fontaine, Graduate Students at the University of Michigan), and Gilbert & Sullivan (Ruddigore, Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players). Other ensembles he has conducted in the past include the Pro Arte Orchester in Vienna, Austria, the Hudson Festival Orchestra, the University of Michigan’s Symphony, Philharmonia, and Campus orchestras, the Ann Arbor Camerata, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Chamber Players, the Weston Wind Quintet & Friends, the Medomak Festival Orchestra, and the Chromos Collaborative Orchestra. Miller has also served as the assistant conductor for Opera Saratoga, the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, and the Boston Chamber Symphony.
A distinguished pianist and cellist, Miller has performed solo recitals in the United States and in Europe on both instruments and has served as a vocal coach and rehearsal pianist for many operatic productions. He holds degrees from Harvard University (A.B. in Music, summa cum laude) and the University of Michigan (M.M. in Orchestral Conducting) and completed his postgraduate studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Miller’s teachers and mentors include Mark Stringer, Scott Yoo, Kenneth Kiesler, Federico Cortese, and his father, David Alan Miller.
Elias Miller (埃利亚斯·米勒) 是活跃于当今乐团的美国杰出的年轻指挥家与乐团创建者之一。2018年，他参与创建了Apollo Ensemble of Boston （波士顿阿波罗合奏团），并且至今担任首席指挥和音乐总监。2022年，米勒加入Upbeat New Hampshire Youth Orchestra (新罕布什尔州青年交响乐团)，并连续两年担任首席指挥。米勒的指挥经验丰富且曲目广泛，他近期一系列重要的指挥活动包括带领阿波罗乐团连续在马塞诸塞州举办了多场室外音乐会，获得听众和评论家的广泛好评和高度赞扬。 他曾在科罗拉多学院举办的夏季音乐节中成功的指挥了两场少儿音乐会和一场协奏曲音乐会。米勒还曾受到休斯顿大学穆尔歌剧中心的邀请，合作指挥了当代作曲大师Philip Glass (菲利普·格拉斯) 的《美女与野兽》反响非常热烈。此前，米勒也曾受邀指挥Wagner（瓦格纳）的歌剧《行者歌》（第一幕）的舞台制作, 并与新成立的专业歌剧团体Festival Theater Hudson（哈德逊节日剧院）合作且指挥了Ittai Shapira（伊泰·夏皮拉）的作品《玛雅尔：双小提琴协奏曲》完成了美国首演。米勒现担任Minnesota Orchestra（明尼苏达乐团）的常任助力指挥， 同时曾受邀做为New York Philharmonic（纽约爱乐乐团），Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra（布法罗爱乐乐团）和Albany Symphony（奥儿巴尼交响乐团）音乐会的助理指挥。米勒先后协助并受到众多世界知名指挥家的指导，包括Juanjo Mena, JoAnn Falletta, Scott Yoo, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Paul McCreesh, Christoph König, Gemma New, Ruth Reinhardt, Erina Yashima, 和David Alan Miller。
除交响音乐会之外，米勒也活跃于指挥大量的歌剧和神剧。 2016年至2019年期间， 他曾带领Harvard Early Music Society（哈佛早期音乐协会）举办了多次西方音乐史上各个时期的代表作品的首演， 包括与Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra（哈佛巴洛克管弦乐团）合作进行的波士顿首演的德国歌剧作曲大师J.A. Hasse（哈塞）的《阿尔西德·阿尔·比维奥》，并与著名男高音Charles Humphries（查尔斯·汉弗莱斯）合作演出了Telemann（泰勒曼）1745年《约翰受难记》的北美首演，该演出当时获得了波士顿环球报的高度评价，以及哈斯的《圣彼得与圣玛利亚·玛达莲》的北美首演。与此同时， 米勒也参与指挥了许多歌剧演出，其中包括其独立组织演出的格鲁克的《奥菲欧与欧丽底西》，与哈佛大学歌剧团合作演出的斯特拉文斯基的《败德者的进程》，在密西根大学演出的威廉·格兰特·斯蒂尔的《米内特·方丹》，以及与Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players合作的吉尔伯特与沙利文的《鲁迪哥尔》等。他也曾受邀与许多其他国家和地区的乐团合作并担任指挥。他曾经登台指挥过维也纳的管弦乐团Pro Arte Orchester，位于纽约哈德逊的Hudson Festival Orchestra，密西根大学不同规模的交响乐团以及校园乐团，位于安娜堡的Ann Arbor Camerata，哈佛大学的Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Chamber Players，位于波士顿的Weston Wind Quintet & Friends 和Chromos Collaborative Orchestra， 以及在缅因州举办的Medomak Festival Orchestra 等。2020年，米勒受邀担任Opera Saratoga（萨拉托加歌剧团）的助理指挥， 2023年，他受邀担任Colorado College Summer Music Festival（科罗拉多大学夏季音乐节）的助理指挥。 此前， 他还担任过Boston Chamber Symphony的助理指挥。
米勒是位杰出的钢琴家和大提琴家， 他曾在美国以及欧洲等地多次举办过两种乐器的独奏演出， 并担任过众多歌剧作品的声乐教练和排练钢琴师。他曾就读于哈佛大学学习音乐，并以summa cum laude最优异成绩毕业，随后他在密西根大学完成两年指挥学习并获得硕士学位。在此之后，米勒受Mark Stringer之邀赴维也纳学习，并于University for Music and Performing Arts（维也纳音乐与艺术表演大学）完成了研究生学习。并先后受教于Mark Stringer, Scott Yoo, Kenneth Kiesler, Federico Cortese ，以及他的父亲，David Alan Miller。出色的音乐天赋以及优越的音乐教育为米勒的艺术生涯奠定了坚实的基础，使他能够在不断的成长中，迅速成为有所成就的指挥家。
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New York-based musician Kyle Ritenauer enjoys a many-faceted career as a conductor, percussionist, and Teaching Artist. Kyle serves as a Teaching Artist for the Bridge Arts Ensemble, a teaching artist organization that serves over 45 schools districts annually, and has a roster made up of over 70 of NYC’s most talented musicians. As a performer Kyle is known for his wide-spanning knowledge of repertoire and his collaborations with other art forms, leading him to found the New York City based orchestra, Uptown Philharmonic. In June of 2016, Mr. Ritenauer led the Uptown Philharmonic, in collaboration with RIOULT Dance NY, in premiering Richard Danielpour’s ballet, Cassandra’s Curse, with four performances at The Joyce Theater.
Kyle has studied with numerous conductors and was recently selected by Maestro Leonard Slatkin to be one of two conductors for the Manhattan School of Music/Detroit Symphony Conductors Project. Kyle’s studies also included an intensive week with Maestro Kurt Masur, studying the music of Anton Bruckner and Richard Wagner. Kyle was one of the conductors selected by Maestro Masur to lead a performance of Bruckner’s 7th Symphony with the Manhattan School of Music Symphony. Kyle has also worked with Maestro Tito Munoz in an intensive workshop with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn. From 2010-2014, Kyle studied at the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians where he served as one of the Assistant Conductors from 2012-2014. Kyle was selected to lead the 100th anniversary reading of Le Sacre du Printemps at the Pierre Monteux School.
A passionate advocate for the music of today, Kyle has premiered over 50 works in the past 4 years and enjoys personal collaborations with living composers. In 2015, Kyle led the 12 performance World-Premiere run of the opera A Certain Quiet by composer Haim Elisha. He also led the developmental workshop for the new opera Cities of Salt by Zaid Jabri. Due to Kyle’s extensive work with young composers in New York City, the President of the Manhattan School of Music created the Contemporary Conducting Program, where Kyle studied with the leading conductor of contemporary music, Maestro Jeffrey Milarsky. Kyle graduated with his Masters Degree in May of 2015.
As a percussionist, Kyle has served as the Principal Percussionist of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic in Poughkeepsie, NY since 2011. Kyle has also performed with several other orchestras including extensive work with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In addition to orchestral percussion, Kyle performs frequently on Broadway in shows such as Pippin and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.
Mr.Ritenauer joined the New York International Symphony in 2016.
New York-based musician Kyle Ritenauer enjoys a many-faceted career as a conductor, percussionist, and Teaching Artist. Kyle serves as a Teaching Artist for the Bridge Arts Ensemble, a teaching artist organization that serves over 45 schools districts annually, and has a roster made up of over 70 of NYC’s most talented musicians. As a performer Kyle is known for his wide-spanning knowledge of repertoire and his collaborations with other art forms, leading him to found the New York City based orchestra, Uptown Philharmonic. In June of 2016, Mr. Ritenauer led the Uptown Philharmonic, in collaboration with RIOULT Dance NY, in premiering Richard Danielpour’s ballet, Cassandra’s Curse, with four performances at The Joyce Theater.
Paulus Hook Music Foundation 