KMEA All-State String Orchestra
All-State String Orchestra
Century II Concert Hall
Sat - Mar. 1, 2025 - 10:30 AM
Interview with clinician Mark Dupere

Mark Dupere
2025 KMEA All-State String Orchestra Conductor
Mark Dupere is Associate Professor of Music at Lawrence University, where he is the Director of Orchestral Studies. He currently conducts the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra as well as Philharmonie Austin. As cellist, Mark performed throughout Europe with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Haagsche Hofmuzieck, Anima Eterna and was an apprentice with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London. Mark was a "Emerging Artist" at the Victoria Bach Festival, performed in the Leipzig Bach Competition, and most recently named a national finalist in the American Prize in Conducting. Mark holds degrees in Cello from the University of Texas at Austin, Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, The Netherlands and a Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting from Michigan State University.
2024-25
Violin I
- Steven Lin, Wichita-East
- Evan Nugent, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
- Elijah Tamano, Olathe-Northwest
- Keshav Shivarajan, Olathe-South
- Peter Todorov, Wichita-Collegiate
- Lyla Lansdown, Maize
- Eric Cai, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Shuyun Li, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Fox Logan, Shawnee Mission-South
- Andrew Mitchell, Shawnee-Shawnee Mission Northwest
- Bisandu Buluwana, Olathe-North
- Yu Ting (Ariel) Yeh, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
- Joshua (Samuel) Burroughs, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Zoe Billau, Tecumseh-Shawnee Heights
- Marisela Morales, Olathe-East
- Mikayla Neo, Overland Park-Blue Valley
- Amy Kim, Overland Park-Blue Valley West
- Brodie Stone, Basehor-Linwood
- Matt Wu, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Isabella Lee, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Daniel Allen, Olathe-North
- Aidan Yang, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
Violin II
- Aiden Chowdhury, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Saathwika Anupindi, Overland Park-Blue Valley West
- Danbee Kim, Olathe-Northwest
- Angie Chen, Lawrence-Free State
- Marlena Zuo, Lawrence-Free State
- Jack Bowen, Maize
- Etina Roelofs, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
- Ailee McConeghey, Wichita-Classical School
- Ashlyn Tang, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Tashvi Prabhakar, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Quinn Hays, Lenexa-St. James Academy
- Solveig Chase, Manhattan
- Yiqiao Wang, Olathe-North
- Eddison Chen, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Lucas Park, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Lily Schloneger, Newton
- Cael Harlan, Bel Aire-Northeast Magnet
- Luke Howard, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Alexandra Dominguez, Maize-South
- Jemma MacNeill, Shawnee-Shawnee Mission Northwest
- Graham Anderson, Shawnee-Mill Valley
- Bin Miao, Wichita-East
- Alt. - Katherine Medina, Basehor-Linwood
Viola
- Kathryn Hale, Lawrence-Free State
- Audrey McCoy, Olathe-West
- Lindsay Jordan, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Tri Lam, Wichita-East
- Hailey Maddox, Derby
- Victoria Freund, Olathe-East
- Lily Meek, Spring Hill
- Colin Weaver, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
- Samuel Gill, Shawnee Mission-East
- Zachary Kallman, Goddard-Eisenhower
- Lois Xie, Lawrence-Free State
- Alina Arceo, Salina-South
- Alison Chung, Overland Park-Blue Valley
- Taylor Grant, Goddard-Eisenhower
- Benjamin Huser, Manhattan
- Aidric Smith, Olathe-West
- Alt. - Julia Kuhl, Hays
Cello
- Bo Lu, Wichita-East
- Andrew Southwell, Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest
- Celeste Pickering, Manhattan
- Mason Toevs, Lawrence-Free State
- Varun Kabra, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
- Grahm Heller, Basehor-Linwood
- Noah Doom, Wichita-Classical School
- Dominic Marroquin, Olathe-North
- Meenakshi Ghosh, Maize-South
- Cole Shyver, Overland Park-Blue Valley
- John Ravenscraft, Fort Scott
- Raya Potter, Topeka-West
- Shea Spiess, Lawrence
- Milo Ovsak, Lawrence-Free State
- Alt. - Nikolas Lipscomb, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
Bass
- Xander Zdrojewski, Wichita-East
- William Gilligan, Manhattan
- Mason Sawyer, Wichita-North
- Maddox Dorland, Olathe-South
- Taylor Davis, Wichita-Southeast
- Janae Dill, Shawnee Mission-West
- Atticus Harrold, Olathe-North
- Annah Steele, Lawrence-Free State
- Alt. - Kathryn Dayley, Maize