The Harvard Pops Orchestra: Leadership

Co-Presidents

Diana Chen
Diana is a sophomore in Lowell studying Integrative Biology. Other than playing the oboe in Pops, she enjoys baking anything with chocolate, watching sitcoms, and saying hi to every dog she sees.

Hazel Koh
Hazel Koh is a sophomore in Dunster concentrating in Government and French. In addition to playing her favorite movie music with Pops, she loves going to the BSO, visiting art museums, finding good eats, and facetiming her dog Bijou (the love of her life).

Treasurer

Brooke Newbury
Brooke is a sophomore from Rhode Island living in Winthrop House. She plays percussion, so if you hear a tambourine jingling in the Yard, that’s Brooke on her way to rehearsal! She is concentrating in Applied Math, and is a research analyst with the Harvard College Economics Labs. When she is not doing psets (but she is always doing psets!), she enjoys working out at the MAC and eating her way through Harvard Square.

Student Conductor

Michael Pak
Michael Pak is a senior at Harvard studying economics. He plays violin and percussion in Pops and is also involved with the Institute of Politics and Harvard Model Congress. When he’s not doing something Pops-related, you can find him jamming to ‘80s music or one of Prokofiev’s avant-garde symphonies or continuing on his quest to visit every building on Harvard’s campus before he graduates.

SOcial chair

Ashley Lee

Ashley is a sophomore in Eliot.

Samantha Vitale
Sam is a sophomore in Currier House concentrating in Neuroscience. She plays the viola because in third grade she made the decision that the violin sounds "too painful" and is sticking to her gut. When Sam's not playing her instrument she is spending a copious amount of time in Currier dhall, listening to a ridiculous variety of music, or exploring Cambridge and the world beyond.

SNACK SENSEI

Lara Zeng
Lara is a senior from Belmont, MA. She loves playing violin for Pops and wandering through H-Mart looking for snacks to feed the orchestra.

Ticket Manager

Eve Crompton
Eve is a junior from Maryland living in Winthrop House. When she’s not playing violin with POPS, Eve can be found napping, rock climbing at the QRAC, or struggling with Chem 17 psets (always on that pre-med grind). There is always a kettle boiling on her stove for her next cup of coffee or Earl Grey tea.

Publicity CHAIRs

Camilla Martinez

Camilla is a freshman violinist.

Jang Choe

Jang is a freshman violinist.

Skye Park
Skye is a junior in Mather concentrating in Government with a secondary in Music. Though she is from Kentucky and spent two years riding, she does Not identify as a horse girl. Other character traits besides playing violin include: coloring Maya's Pops emails, listening exclusively to Philadelphia Orchestra recordings, watching sunsets at the Weeks Bridge, and having her life consumed by Pops!

Ari Firester
Ari is a sophomore from New York living in Pforzheimer and will most likely concentrate in Mechanical Engineering. While not doing homework he left to the last minute, he enjoys doing the NYT crossword, hiking, rock climbing, and making terrible puns. As well as being an endlessly zealous advertiser of the Pops, he is also in the Gilbert and Sullivan Players pit orchestra and plays Klezmer tunes in his free time.

Program Manager

Evelyn Tjoa
Evelyn is a sophomore from Austin, Texas studying Economics and Statistics with a citation in Spanish. She lives in Dunster House and plays the oboe in the Pops Orchestra. She loves coffee, travel, cheering on her favorite sports teams, and jamming to Taylor Swift or Bad Bunny. Please ask her about anything Formula 1 or Taylor Swift; she's dying to talk about it!

Librarians

Catie Thai
Catie is a sophmore in Quincy House who plays violin. She is concentrating in chemistry because she likes drawing hexagons and shooting crystals with lasers. When she is not running all of the science center printers out of paper/toner/color printing music or letting Josh roll the music cart to and from rehearsal, she can be found bringing her tiger plushie everywhere she goes, drawing cats on every white/chalk board she sees, and taking detours by the GSD and Prescotts in the hopes of finding Remy the Harvard cat (please let her know if you see him).

Joshua Park
Josh is a sophomore in Currier House from Honolulu, Hawaii. While Josh does play the violin, that is far from his primary role in Pops. Instead, Josh has the ever so important task of rolling the cart of music to and from rehearsal and remembering the combination to the locker. Under the careful guidance of Brian and Catie, Josh has perfected his craft, and does not break the cart (on expectation). In his free time, Josh likes to collect keychains and eat cherry tomatoes.

Brian Ham
Brian is a sophomore in Dunster from Seoul, South Korea who plays violin. He loves Pops as it is orchestra but only with the fun parts. He intends to concentrate in computer science if he survives this semester's classes and spends all his time competing with friends on Word Hunt, futsal, and the NYTimes mini. Brian would appreciate any tips on his fantasy football team.

Henry Kuo

Alumni Liaison

Justin Xu
Justin, a sophomore and Cabot-turned-Lowell resident from Delaware, studies Applied Mathematics in Engineering and Government. A violist, he originally started on violin but switched when a learned about supply and demand. He enjoys traveling and taking in the tranquility of the Charles in his free time.

Creative Team Leader

David Peters
David is a sophomore in Mather House concentrating in Chemistry. He plays Violin II in the orchestra, and he is a lifelong musical theater kid who loves to perform on stage! You can count on him quietly singing along to the theatre medleys in each concert. David enjoys video editing and stop animation, and his favorite board game is Chess (which is both a great game and a great musical). He loves dreaming up wacky scenes with the Creative Team and bringing theatricality to Pops!

Webmaster

Henry Kuo

Attendance Manager

Stage Manager

Isabella Cao

Isabella is a freshman percussionist.

Historian/Purveyor of the Past

Eion Chua
Eion is a sophomore from the Philippines currently living in Currier House. When he's not playing piano for Pops, he can be found taking 4-hour-long wellness breaks the night before a Chem pset is due, attempting to create the perfect tea blend, or making music one can only generously describe as jazz.

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