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
  1. Steven Lin, Wichita-East
  2. Evan Nugent, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  3. Elijah Tamano, Olathe-Northwest
  4. Keshav Shivarajan, Olathe-South
  5. Peter Todorov, Wichita-Collegiate
  6. Lyla Lansdown, Maize
  7. Eric Cai, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  8. Shuyun Li, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  9. Fox Logan, Shawnee Mission-South
  10. Andrew Mitchell, Shawnee-Shawnee Mission Northwest
  11. Bisandu Buluwana, Olathe-North
  12. Yu Ting (Ariel) Yeh, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  13. Joshua (Samuel) Burroughs, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  14. Zoe Billau, Tecumseh-Shawnee Heights
  15. Marisela Morales, Olathe-East
  16. Mikayla Neo, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  17. Amy Kim, Overland Park-Blue Valley West
  18. Brodie Stone, Basehor-Linwood
  19. Matt Wu, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  20. Isabella Lee, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  21. Daniel Allen, Olathe-North
  22. Aidan Yang, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
Violin II
  1. Aiden Chowdhury, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  2. Saathwika Anupindi, Overland Park-Blue Valley West
  3. Danbee Kim, Olathe-Northwest
  4. Angie Chen, Lawrence-Free State
  5. Marlena Zuo, Lawrence-Free State
  6. Jack Bowen, Maize
  7. Etina Roelofs, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  8. Ailee McConeghey, Wichita-Classical School
  9. Ashlyn Tang, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  10. Tashvi Prabhakar, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  11. Quinn Hays, Lenexa-St. James Academy
  12. Solveig Chase, Manhattan
  13. Yiqiao Wang, Olathe-North
  14. Eddison Chen, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  15. Lucas Park, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  16. Lily Schloneger, Newton
  17. Cael Harlan, Bel Aire-Northeast Magnet
  18. Luke Howard, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  19. Alexandra Dominguez, Maize-South
  20. Jemma MacNeill, Shawnee-Shawnee Mission Northwest
  21. Graham Anderson, Shawnee-Mill Valley
  22. Bin Miao, Wichita-East
  23. Alt. - Katherine Medina, Basehor-Linwood
Viola
  1. Kathryn Hale, Lawrence-Free State
  2. Audrey McCoy, Olathe-West
  3. Lindsay Jordan, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  4. Tri Lam, Wichita-East
  5. Hailey Maddox, Derby
  6. Victoria Freund, Olathe-East
  7. Lily Meek, Spring Hill
  8. Colin Weaver, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  9. Samuel Gill, Shawnee Mission-East
  10. Zachary Kallman, Goddard-Eisenhower
  11. Lois Xie, Lawrence-Free State
  12. Alina Arceo, Salina-South
  13. Alison Chung, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  14. Taylor Grant, Goddard-Eisenhower
  15. Benjamin Huser, Manhattan
  16. Aidric Smith, Olathe-West
  17. Alt. - Julia Kuhl, Hays
Cello
  1. Bo Lu, Wichita-East
  2. Andrew Southwell, Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest
  3. Celeste Pickering, Manhattan
  4. Mason Toevs, Lawrence-Free State
  5. Varun Kabra, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  6. Grahm Heller, Basehor-Linwood
  7. Noah Doom, Wichita-Classical School
  8. Dominic Marroquin, Olathe-North
  9. Meenakshi Ghosh, Maize-South
  10. Cole Shyver, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  11. John Ravenscraft, Fort Scott
  12. Raya Potter, Topeka-West
  13. Shea Spiess, Lawrence
  14. Milo Ovsak, Lawrence-Free State
  15. Alt. - Nikolas Lipscomb, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
Bass
  1. Xander Zdrojewski, Wichita-East
  2. William Gilligan, Manhattan
  3. Mason Sawyer, Wichita-North
  4. Maddox Dorland, Olathe-South
  5. Taylor Davis, Wichita-Southeast
  6. Janae Dill, Shawnee Mission-West
  7. Atticus Harrold, Olathe-North
  8. Annah Steele, Lawrence-Free State
  9. Alt. - Kathryn Dayley, Maize
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