Our student Tevan recently got some exciting news from the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra: He’d been admitted to the organization’s top-tier ensemble on bass trombone.

“We’re so proud,” says our Director of Music Education Julie Carter. “He’s made just extraordinary progress. He’s very dedicated to what he’s doing.”

Tevan, a senior at Powell High School, auditioned in late August. He played a solo from a Derek Bourgeois concerto, an excerpt from Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra and a sarabande from a Bach cello suite.

Though he was a little nervous in the audition room beforehand, Tevan says he felt confident about his playing. Not long after, he got an email from the KSYO saying he’d made the Youth Orchestra. “It’s been really fun so far,” he says. “We’ve been playing since the middle of September, once a week. We’re rehearsing for a fall concert in November.”

Tevan started trombone lessons as a sophomore. He gives a lot of the credit for his speedy improvement to Myron Percy, his volunteer teacher at the Joy of Music School. “He’s a very good teacher,” Tevan says. “He helped me a lot with all my prepared pieces and the solo I did at the audition.”

That may be, Tevan, but it was you alone in the KSYO audition room – and you nailed it. Congrats to you!

 

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