NYO Jazz 2021 Roster
Meet the Band
Strings
Violin
Woodwinds
Alto Saxophone
Ebban Dorsey
Baltimore, MD *Connor MacLeod
Plano, TXEmre Tekmen
Raleigh, NCTenor Saxophone
Ephraim Dorsey
Baltimore, MDMatthew Garcia
Denton, TX *Baritone Saxophone
Noa Zebley
Concord, CABrass
Trumpet
Trombone
Braxton Hart
Memphis, TNDenali Kauffman
Tucson, AZOliver Tuttle
Oakland, CAKenji Wagner
Seattle, WA *Bass Trombone
Darien Baldwin
Atlanta, GARhythm
Piano
Tyler Bullock II
Nashville, TNHannah Mayer
El Cerrito, CA *Guitar
Kai Burns
Los Angeles, CABass
Aidan McCarthy
Oakland, CA *Ryoma Takenaga
New Providence, NJDrums
Colman Burks
Plano, TXKoleby Royston
Piscataway, NJ* Prior NYO Jazz member
Lead Donors: Hope and Robert F. Smith, Marina Kellen French and the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, The Kovner Foundation, and Beatrice Santo Domingo.
Global Ambassadors: Hope and Robert F. Smith, and Maggie and Richard Tsai.
Major support has been provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Clive and Anya Gillinson, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, and Joyce and George Wein Foundation, Inc.
Additional support has been provided by Sarah Arison, Bank of America.