KMEA All-State Full Orchestra

All-State Full Orchestra
Century II Concert Hall
Sat - Feb. 24, 2024 - 11:15 AM

Jason Seber
2024 KMEA All-State Full Orchestra Conductor
Jason Seber is known for his inviting and engaging approach on and off the podium. A strong believer in the eclectic experiences which today's symphony orchestras offer their communities, he strives to make music of many genres and styles accessible, relevant, and meaningful to diverse audiences across the country.

Seber has conducted many leading American orchestras, including the Charleston, Colorado, Detroit, Duluth Superior, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Nashville, National, San Diego, Santa Fe, and St. Louis Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Louisville Orchestra, among others. Upcoming performances include debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Cincinnati Pops, as well as return engagements with Buffalo, Detroit, Kansas City, Louisville, Nashville, and St. Louis. Seber has had the pleasure of performing with a wide range of artists including Patti Austin, Mason Bates, Andrew Bird, Boyz II Men, Ashley Brown, Jinjoo Cho, Melissa Etheridge, Ben Folds, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Paul Jacobs, Wynonna Judd, Lyle Lovett, Natalie Merchant, Brian Stokes Mitchell, My Morning Jacket, Leslie Odom Jr., Aoife O'Donovan, Pink Martini, Doc Severinsen, Conrad Tao, Bobby Watson, and Joyce Yang. This past summer he led orchestras across the country in Lyle Lovett and His Large Band's summer tour.

Seber served as associate conductor of the Kansas City Symphony from 2016 to 2022. In this position he led the Symphony in over 300 performances on the Classical, Pops, Classics Uncorked, Family, Film + Live Orchestra, Education, and Christmas Festival series. He also served as co-host for the Symphony's podcast, "Beethoven Walks into a Bar." Prior to Kansas City, Seber was the education and outreach conductor at the Louisville Orchestra from 2013 to 2016 and music director of the Louisville Youth Orchestra from 2005 to 2016.

A passionate advocate for music education, Seber has led the Honors Performance Series Orchestra in concert at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, and Royal Festival Hall in London. He is a frequent guest conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra each summer and he has served as the All-State Orchestra conductor for Georgia, Missouri, and Pennsylvania, and upcoming in 2024, Kansas.

2023-24

Violin I
  1. Maho Gibbs, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  2. Aaron Tseng, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  3. Sophie Thiessen, Andover
  4. Edward Jiang, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  5. Joseph Park, Olathe-West
  6. Will Suh, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  7. Kianna Ayala, Lawrence-Free State
  8. Julie Kong, Lawrence-Free State
  9. Shreyas Krishnan, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  10. Isabel Franz, Prairie Village-Kansas City Christian
  11. Laura Ward, Wichita-East
  12. Andrew Mitchell, Shawnee-Shawnee Mission Northwest
  13. Drew Harrison, Lawrence-Free State
  14. Omar Hamarshi, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  15. Evelyn Holmes, Shawnee Mission-East
  16. Jun Brewer, Lawrence
Violin II
  1. Caleb Park, Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest
  2. Ryan Byun, Andover-Central
  3. Arianna Snell, Manhattan
  4. Joshua Shin, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  5. Mingcheng (Bobby) Guo, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  6. Aiden Ayala, Lawrence-Free State
  7. Ivanka Joshi, Overland Park-Blue Valley West
  8. Michelle Ge, Olathe-East
  9. Alyanne Jones, Derby
  10. Jiyeon Kim, Manhattan
  11. Peter Todorov, Wichita-Collegiate
  12. Yoseph Negash, Olathe-East
  13. Elijah Tamano, Olathe-Northwest
  14. Daniel Chang, Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest
  15. Eva Pickering, Manhattan
  16. Ben Ding, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  17. Jarvin Gomez, Manhattan
  18. Allison Kovach, Maize-South
Viola
  1. Matthew Lee, Olathe-Northwest
  2. Rishi Venkatesh, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  3. Wolfgang Sell, Shawnee-Shawnee Mission Northwest
  4. Armando Duran, Salina-Central
  5. Alexis Chang, Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest
  6. Christianne Shannon Sebastian, Maize
  7. Audrey McCoy, Olathe-West
  8. Jasper Kim, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  9. Hazel Ecklund-Johnson, Shawnee Mission-East
  10. Isabella Glasow, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  11. Leandre Carlos, Olathe-East
  12. Lindsay Jordan, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  13. Taryn Dale, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  14. Alex Velasco-Crates, Lawrence
Cello
  1. Sylvia Brown, Shawnee Mission-South
  2. Solomon Wu, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  3. Rony Castro, Dodge City
  4. Ethan Wessley, Wichita-East
  5. John Lee, Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest
  6. Kyle Cho, Wichita-East
  7. Caleb Jung, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  8. Mason Bounds, Wichita-East
  9. Rebekah Pickering, Manhattan
  10. Andrew Anderson, Topeka
  11. Henry Wright, Lindsborg-Smoky Valley
  12. Bennett Addink, Kansas City-Sumner Academy
Bass
  1. Andrew Bowles, Olathe-Northwest
  2. Brandon Lewis, Olathe-Northwest
  3. Ansh Singh Gugnani, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  4. Ethan Steiner, Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest
  5. Gabriel Decker, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  6. Sawyer Janssen, Lawrence-Free State
  7. Nithish Aravinthan, Wichita-East
  8. Rawlan Cave, Olathe-Northwest
Bass (1234A Band)
  1. Heidy Gomez-Calderon, Shawnee Mission-West
Bass (56A Band)
  1. Joaquin Miranda Diaz Gill, Pittsburg
Harp
  1. Daniel Cho, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
Placement of winds/percussion is managed by the All-State Band chairs.
Piccolo
  1. Danielle Turner, Derby
Flute
  1. Jacqueline Chang, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  2. Lindsay Cho, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  3. Scarlett Pfister, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  4. Anna Peery, Goddard
Oboe
  1. Miles Wilson, Wichita-East
  2. Mollie Domoney, Overland Park-Blue Valley West
  3. Elliese Thurlby, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest
  4. Monte Asisian, Lawrence
Bassoon
  1. Henry Monahan, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  2. Henry Wheat, Olathe-South
  3. Alexa Rieder, Gardner-Edgerton
  4. Leonard Schneider, Andover-Central
B-flat Clarinet
  1. Claire Heigele, Olathe-East
  2. Aileen Ng, Overland Park-Blue Valley West
  3. Angel Samano, Olathe-North
  4. Branden Xiao, Overland Park-Blue Valley West
Horn
  1. Brandon Beal, Derby
  2. Blaine McVey, Topeka-Washburn Rural
  3. Deacon Whitmore, Maize-South
  4. Ben May, Olathe-Northwest
  5. Angelina Naseem, Tecumseh-Shawnee Heights
  6. Aidan Oberholtzer, Olathe-South
  7. Grant Parcell, Wichita-East
  8. Eli Johnson, Olathe-Northwest
Trumpet
  1. Max Zhang, Overland Park-Blue Valley North
  2. Noah Moore, Olathe-Northwest
  3. Aeden Gray, Manhattan
  4. Andrew Sharber, Overland Park-Blue Valley
Trombone
  1. Miles Gelman, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  2. Rhys Savage, Olathe-Northwest
  3. Alex Piezuch, Shawnee Mission-South
  4. Eilidh Aitken, Wichita-East
Tuba
  1. Beau Bedene, Pittsburg
Timpani
  1. Iason Wilson-Brown, Shawnee Mission-South
Percussion
  1. Rylan Cobos, Overland Park-Blue Valley
  2. Emerson Prather, Olathe-East
  3. Ellie Piezuch, Shawnee Mission-South
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