NYO Jazz 2024 Roster
Meet the Band
Woodwinds
Alto Saxophone
Miriam Goroff-Behel
Wilmette, ILIsaac Hanson
Mahomet, ILTenor Saxophone
Gustavo Cruz
Cornelius, NCPaloma Ximena
Carmichael, CABaritone Saxophone
Ethan Kasparian Weisman
Lexington, MABrass
Trumpet
Preston W. Rupert
Oviedo, FL *Skylar Tang
San Francisco, CA *Trombone
Jordan Klein
Agoura Hills, CAPriyanka Magavi
West Hartford, CTBishesh Paudel
Houston, TXBass Trombone
Ava Siu
Chicago, ILRhythm
Piano
Carter Bryan
Guilford, CTJasper Zimmerman
Hastings-on-Hudson, NYGuitar
Vincent Maclauchlan
Oakland, CA *Miles Oppinger
Houston, TXBass
Ruby Farmer
Brooklyn, NY *Rayah Thomas
Durham, NCDrums
Ethan Oliver
Garner, NCBenjamin Schwartz
Maplewood, NJ ** Prior NYO Jazz member
NOTE: Ages are as of July 1, 2024
Lead Donors: Hope and Robert F. Smith, The Kovner Foundation, and Beatrice Santo Domingo.
Global Ambassadors: Michael ByungJu Kim and Kyung Ah Park, Hope and Robert F. Smith, and Maggie and Richard Tsai.
Major support has been provided by Veronica Atkins, Mercedes T. Bass, Ronald E. Blaylock and Petra Pope, Clive and Anya Gillinson, Melanie and Jean E. Salata, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, and Joyce and George Wein Foundation, Inc.
Additional support has been provided by the Alphadyne Foundation, Sarah Arison, Stella and Robert Jones, Martha and Robert Lipp, Beth and Joshua Nash, and David S. Winter.
NYO Jazz is made possible, in part, by an endowment grant from the Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Foundation.