Concerto Competition

Adam Bueno, from Brooklyn, fell in love with the flute when he was eight years old after hearing a performance of a flautist playing Mozart. 

Adam has studied with Ms. Frances Brodeur since 2016. Now a senior at the Special Music School (SMS) High School in Manhattan,

Adam has been involved with ISO at Third Street since 2021 and is currently the principal flautist of the ISO at Third Street Symphonic Band, under the direction of Mr. Paul Corn. 

He also participated in “Kids on Stage” with The New York Pops and was selected for a conducting apprenticeship in 2024. Adam attended French Woods for the Performing Arts in Hancock, NY, for three summers and is a proud Eagle Scout with Troop 187 in Brooklyn. 

Adam enjoys archery, camping, Broadway musicals, Gilbert and Sillivan, and playing Dungeons & Dragons. This fall, Adam is planning to study electrical engineering and is looking forward to continuing to play his flute with the university orchestra.

Anna Koontz started playing viola at the age of ten and has studied with Elise Frawley for seven years. She has been part of the ISO at Third Street community since 2018 and is currently principal violist of the ISO at Third Street Symphony Orchestra. 

For the past two summers, Anna participated in the Lyra Music Festival, developing a love for chamber music. In 2024, she performed under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel as a member of the New York Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. 

Anna is a senior at the Bronx High School of Science. She enjoys helping out in her school garden, writing for her school newspaper, and exploring New York City with her friends.

Ella Legasto is a 3rd grader at PS 340 and has been part of the Third Street community since 2021, studying piano with Yvonne Lau. 

She has previously played at Symphony Space as part of Third Street’s Eda McFarlane Clark Piano Certificate Program, receiving High Honors. Ella has also won first place in the American Protege International Music Talent Competition and was invited to play Burgmuller’s Ballade, Op. 100, No. 15 at Carnegie Hall. 

Ella has been a recipient of the Royal Conservatory of Music State Award for New York for the past two years.

In 2023, Ella began studying violin with Chiu-Chen Liu and recently joined Third Street Overture Orchestra with conductor Steven Rochen. Her favorite part of learning music is getting to perform with other musicians. Beyond her love of music, she enjoys playing with her friends, ice skating, reading mystery novels, and eating soup dumplings.

Hannah Lyons was born and raised in NYC.  She started playing cello with Jane Pae at Silver Music when she was 6 years old.  During middle school, she studied with Margalit Cantor at the Bloomingdale School of Music. She is currently a student of Alex Croxton at the School for Strings.

Hannah has spent three summers playing chamber music at the Berkshire Summer Music camp in Massachusetts. She began to play with the ISO at Third Street Symphony Orchestra in 2023 and is now the principal cellist.

Hannah is a junior at the Geneva School of Manhattan, and takes voice lessons at the Geneva Conservatory of Music.  In her free time, she enjoys baking, crocheting, thrifting, and playing board games with her two younger brothers.