YOD Directors

Lindsey Nova, chair

Chair, League of American Orchestra Youth Orchestra Division; Executive Director, Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras; Member, Pittsburgh Youth Chorus Board of Directors. Formerly: Member of Artistic Advisory Council, Pittsburgh Public Schools; Board Member, Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra; Director of Operations, Utah Symphony | Utah Opera; Convention/Editorial staff for CS Music

Randy Wong, vice chair

President & CEO, Hawaii Youth Symphony. Led HYS to international recognition by Fast Company – “Best Workplaces for Innovators” and top honor in Social Good. Former faculty, New England Conservatory. Former program director, Music-in-Education National Consortium. Board member, Center for Musical Literacy-in-Education. Bassist, Hawaii Symphony Orchestra.

Kelly Waltrip, secretary

Executive Director, Denver Young Artists Orchestra & Managing Director, Alliance with DYAO & Colorado Symphony; Treasurer, AMEE (Alliance of Music Education Equity); Ex-Officio Member Colorado Symphony Board; Former Chair Remix: Young Professionals of the Colorado Symphony; Former General Manager, Lexington Philharmonic

Jonathan Colby, nominations chair

President & Artistic Director, Worcester Youth Orchestras; Music Director, Worcester Youth Symphony Orchestra; Music Director, The Keene Chorale; Music Director, Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra; Former Artistic Director, Worcester Winds; Former Music Director & Principal Conductor, College Light Opera Company; Former Conductor & Founder, Pioneer Valley Symphony Youth Orchestra; Former Assistant Conductor, Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra

Norlynn Blocker Price, director

Executive Director, Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program, Member, New Mexico Advisory Council for Arts Education

Dr. LaSaundra Booth, director

Executive Director, Wake Forest Community Youth Orchestra; Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women in Business Scholar; Conductor, Arts Education Consultant, Adjunct Faculty, Shenandoah University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Rebecca Calos, director

Executive Director, Empire State Youth Orchestra, former Director of Education & Training, Hawn Foundation, Board member Discover Schenectady, past Board member Friends of Chamber Music, James Madison Fellow.

Helen H. Cha-Pyo, director

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts, which comprises four programs: the New Jersey Youth Symphony, the New Jersey Youth Chorus, Paterson Music Project, and the Wharton Performing Arts School. Formal Music Director of the Empire State Youth Orchestra (NY)

Amy Chung, director

Colleen Hood, director

Juan Felipe Molano, director

Music Director and Conductor, Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras, Sinfonietta International Musical Festival Morelia Mexico, formerly: Music Director and Conductor, Yucatan Symphony Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles YOLA, BATUTA Colombian National System of Youth Orchestras, Claremont Young Musicians Orchestra, YOSAL Youth Orchestra Salinas; Resident Conductor, American Youth Symphony

Rachel Schultz, director

Chief Operating Officer, Hawaii Youth Symphony

Diana Scoggins, director

Executive Director, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Portland, Oregon

Carter Simmons, director

Artistic and Music Director, Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra; Music Director, Festival City Symphony; Past President, Milwaukee Civic Music Association; Conducted in the United States, China, and Europe in the Royal Concertgebouw; Former students are members of major orchestras and have attended all the finest conservatories and schools of music

Davey Van Beveren, director

Assistant Director of Education & Community Engagement, Richmond Symphony; Formerly: Community Education Manager, Colorado Symphony; Orchestra Manager, Greater Boulder Youth Orchestras; Career & Technical Advisory Board Member, Aurora Public Schools