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Audrey L
White,
Artistic
Director,
Worcester Youth
Orchestras
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Audrey L White,
Worcester native
and Artistic
Director of the
Worcester Youth
Orchestras will
be leading the
Youth Symphony
Orchestra in
their 2009-2010
Season. Ms.
White,
international
performer
and
educator,
completed
her dual
graduate
degrees
in
Conducting
and
Viola
Performance
at the
University
of
Massachusetts
at
Lowell.
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While completing
her
undergraduate
studies at the
New England
Conservatory of
Music in Boston,
Ms. White began
teaching in
Boston's Roxbury
and Dorchester
neighborhoods
and later went
on to found the
Intensive
Community
Program of the
Greater Boston
Youth Symphony
Orchestras where
she also
conducted the
Preparatory
String Orchestra
(PSO).
Ms. White began
her study of the
violin at the
age of four and
went on to be
accepted as one
of the first
participants of
the Boston
Symphony
Orchestra's
Project S.T.E.P.
She is also a
graduate of the
GBYSO program as
well as the New
England
Conservatory of
Music, where she
studied viola
with Marcus
Thompson and
received her
Bachelor's in
Viola
Performance.
Ms. White holds
a silver medal
from the NAACP's
NEC-ACTSO
competition and
was awarded the
position of
Graduate Fellow
at the
University of
Massachusetts
Lowell for three
years in a row.
She has studied
conducting with
Kay George
Roberts and has
studied and
performed in
Japan with Dr.
Shinichi Suzuki.
More recently,
Ms. White has
been appointed
conductor of the
Boston Citywide
String
Orchestra, an
ensemble of the
Boston Public
Schools. Ms.
White is a
regular
performer with
the
Massachusetts
Symphony
Orchestra and
freelances
throughout the
New England
region.
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