NYO Jazz 2025 Roster
Meet the Band
Strings
Violin
Woodwinds
Alto Saxophone
Nola Gooch
Foxboro, MAHarry Jo
Pleasanton, CATenor Saxophone
Brandon Fu
Weston, MAChloe Madrak
West Hartford, CTBaritone Saxophone
Sam Chung
San Juan Capistrano, CABrass
Trumpet
Allie Molin
Mission Viejo, CADiego Quiñones
Albany, CATrombone
Kysen Ellis
Dallas, TXJordan Klein
Agoura Hills, CA *Chloe Langford
Mundelein, ILBass Trombone
Jack Keefe
Colleyville, TXRhythm
Piano
Ben Collins-Siegel
Maplewood, NJElena Weng
Sunnyvale, CAGuitar
Ryu Chan
Miami, FLEzra Moran
Brooklyn, NYBass
Braxton Headley
Fort Wayne, INSofi Longa
Miami, FLDrums
Ethan Oliver
Garner, NC *Enzo Pulley
Miami, FL* Prior NYO Jazz member
** Will appear on Carnegie Hall concert only
NOTE: Ages are as of July 1, 2025
Lead Donors: Hope and Robert F. Smith, The Kovner Foundation, and Beatrice Santo Domingo.
Global Ambassadors: Michael ByungJu Kim and Kyung Ah Park, Hope and Robert F. Smith, and Maggie and Richard Tsai.
Major support has been provided by Veronica Atkins, Mercedes T. Bass, Ronald E. Blaylock and Petra Pope, Clive and Anya Gillinson, Pershing Square Philanthropies, Melanie and Jean E. Salata, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, Joyce and George Wein Foundation, Inc., and the Victor and William Fung Foundation.
United Airlines®, Airline Partner to the National Youth Ensembles.
Additional support has been provided by the Alphadyne Foundation, Sarah Arison, Mary I. and John E. Hull, Stella and Robert Jones, Martha and Robert Lipp, Beth and Joshua Nash, and David S. Winter.
NYO Jazz is made possible, in part, by an endowment grant from the Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Foundation.