CCM Philharmonia performs Jennifer Higdon's Viola Concerto w/ soloist Gabriel Caal (Oct. 17, 2025)

Описание: The CCM Philharmonia is joined by undergraduate viola student Gabriel Caal for a performance of Higdon's Grammy Award-winning Viola Concerto. Winner of the CCM Viola Concerto Competition, Gabriel Caal is a student of CCM faculty member Catharine Carroll Lees. Graduate conducting student Alfonso Keller-Casielles lead the ensemble.

CCM welcomed Higdon for a three day residency in October 2025, which included a variety of public performances and a Composition Symposium for CCM students, faculty and staff. More than 300 students were involved in the festival's performances, which featured Higdon's compositions for orchestra, wind band, choral, opera, percussion and chamber music.

"When you have this many people involved in performances, it's such a spectacular display of the talent at the conservatory," Higdon said. "It's really impressive — not a lot of places could pull this off."

View program details at https://www.uc.edu/content/dam/refres...

This performance is part of CCM's "Symphonic Brilliance: The Music of Jennifer Higdon" concert, which was originally presented in CCM's Corbett Auditorium on Oct. 17, 2025. The video was produced by CCM Recording Productions.

CCM Philharmonia Roster
Mark Gibson, music director and conductor

Violin I
Kerrigan Mandrell, concertmaster
Karissa Brath, assistant
Rain Go
Karis Kharmawirya
Eli Schrubbe
Edgar Lucena
Rafael Roig-Francoli
Hyunwoo Park
Riki Nagai
Yiyi Suo
Olivia Szor
Joel Peterson

Violin II
Lauren Geerlings, principal
Emily Gladstone, assistant
Rachel Elfman
Emily Beckner
Andrew Smeader
Liliana Fata
Josiah Mendenhall
Ziqi Wu
Peilin Jiang
Carlos Avendaño

Viola
Gabriel Caal, principal
Lauren Wilson, assistant
Hinami Koyama
Lila Reeser
Solange Gallina
Lily Clark
Jeremy Egerton
Cuong Diep
Anqi Jiang
Margaret Lytle
Yufeng Lin

Cello
Andres Celis, principal
Ada Ortan, assistant
Elliott Watras
Kanyun Li
Yinchen Feng
Jamie Clark
Krish Subramanian
Zhixu Cheng
Adalus Low-Mancini

Double Bass
Fischer Friend, principal
Jo Arnold, assistant
Jack Kotchka Smith
Jane Hanneman
John Mason Copeland
Elizabeth Liotta
Bailey Amspoker
Wendell Rosa

Flute/Piccolo
Laura Lin, flute/piccolo 2
Reice Hudson 1
Elva Tang 3

Oboe
Pyunghwa Cho 3
Maxx Mejia
Dylan Reynallt 1

English Horn
Pyunghwa Cho

Clarinet
Yi Dong 2
Liangjun Li 3
Vicente Pedroza
Chrisian Rucinski, clarinet/bass clarinet
Cindy Wang
Huai Xuan 1

Bassoon
Alek Prok, contrabassoon/bassoon
Erik Traheim
Ethan Surles, contrabassoon/bassoon 1
Saejin Park

Horn
Michael Calvin 1
Ben Humphries 2
Duoran Wang
Alyssa Webb
Michael Zelinski 3

Trumpet
Gabriel Curtis 3
Jae Dong Kim 1
Jazzmine Van Veld 2

Trombone
Sean LaRoy 1,3
Sean Small 2

Bass Trombone
Carter Cantrell

Tuba
Tianyu Wang

Timpani
Liang Dong 1
Matt Hanson 3

Percussion
San-Lou Wei 1
Matt Lawson 1,2
Liang Dong 2,3
Josiah Jobe 1,3

Graduate Assistants
Carlos Avendaño-Garcia
Yuval Barak
Alfonso Keller-Casielles
Sz Tsit Selena Liu
Juan Vasquez
Xiaohe Yang

Orchestra Librarians
Liam Gibb
Citlalmina Hernandez-Toro

1 denotes principal player in SkyLine
2 denotes principal player in Viola Concerto
3 denotes principal player in Harp Concerto