[bright music]
- My name is Indre Raghavan, and I'm a junior
at Middleton High School.
- My name is Lucy Wu, and I am a junior
at Whitefish Bay High School.
- My name is Vivian Van de Sype Cucu,
and I am a senior at the University School of Milwaukee.
- My name is Atticus Coen.
I am 18 years old
and I go to Sun Prairie East High School.
A lot of music just speaks to me.
[jazz music]
I'm really into jazz.
It's really free.
It's one of the most expressive forms of music.
[jazz music]
- Lucy: Although my parents aren't musicians,
we all love music.
My sister is a violinist.
[sister laughing] She's very good.
I love chamber music because it is all about working in a team.
- Okay, good, good, good, good, good.
- Vivian: I really enjoy playing in ensembles.
The viola adds a really unique texture,
and I love to provide that.
[string music]
- Kyle Knox: Okay, beat, ready?
Three and four and...
- I've been a part of WYSO for a little more than eight years.
Now, just feel the quarters together.
- It's a really good opportunity
just to immerse yourself in other types of music
that you wouldn't play alone.
[orchestral music]
- Atticus: I work at Primal Cue.
My whole friend group works there.
Sure, for here or to go?
It's really nice to have something
that's all so different from music,
where it's just straightforward.
- Lucy: I started working at Mathnasium last September.
Hi, Ruby.
And I really enjoy it.
Let's do two more then.
I primarily work with elementary school kids,
and they're just the sweetest people ever.
- Ria Hodgson: Pepp-er-on-i piz-za.
[violin music]
- Indre: I'm a teen teacher for WYSO Music Makers.
It's really cool to work with younger kids
and just kind of take myself back.
They're, like, full of curiosity and I feel like that's so cool.
[string music]
- Vivian: My nonprofit organization,
Musicians for Hope, is a collaboration
between me and a few peers from the Academy.
We try to raise money to bring instruments
and better funded music programs to public schools.
[cello and piano music]
- Lucy: I think music is all about storytelling.
I will be playing the third movement
of the Dvorák Cello Concerto.
This piece is definitely the most intense piece
I've ever played.
I've really enjoyed learning how to approach that.
- Atticus: I will be playing the Gershwin Piano Concerto
in F Major.
[piano music]
It has so much contrast.
The beginning is very introspective.
And then later, it's bouncy and fun and exciting.
- I will be playing the first movement
of the Walton Viola Concerto.
The beginning's really soft,
but it gets really intense as it goes on.
The ending is so wonderful.
It just slowly fades away and it sort of dies at the end.
- Indre: I'll be playing Sibelius's Violin Concerto
in D minor, first movement.
It starts out with, like,
a really icy kind of arctic opening.
It kind of builds and becomes, like, more fiery, more stormy,
and yeah, at the end, it's kind of just like, everything!
[string music]
[piano music]
[applause]