Several highly qualified contenders participated in the Annual YOBC Concerto Competition. Here are the selected students. Each will be performing with a YOBC ensemble this season.

Shereya Visvanathan (Violin)
Fall 2026
Symphony Orchestra Concert

Violin Concerto no. 5, first movement
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Shreya Visvanathan is a junior at West Windsor Plainsboro High School South. She has been with YOBC since 2023, starting off as a Philharmonia player, and progressing to the Symphony Orchestra, where she is also the Teaching Intern and a Student Advisory Board member.

Shreya has been playing the violin since elementary school, serving in different capacities over the years including as a concert master and section leader of her high school orchestra. She also loves playing the piano and composing music. She participates regularly in music competitions, individually and as part of an ensemble, and has performed multiple times at Carnegie Hall, both on the violin and the piano.

Outside of music, Shreya enjoys tutoring kids in math and representing her school in speech and debate competitions as well as in fencing meets as a varsity épée fencer.  

Tina Ramberg-Michael (Cello)
Spring 2027
Philharmonia

Cello Concerto, no. 2, third movement
Joseph Haydn

Tina Ramberg-Michael is a junior at Cheltenham High School who began playing cello with her school’s music program in fifth grade and auditioned for YOBC at the end of the following year. She has studied with Cassia Harvey for six years. Throughout her cello playing career she has performed as a member or accompanist of the Montgomery County Chorale and Orchestra, Philadelphia Sinfonia Players, Commonwealth Youth Choir, her school’s select choirs and orchestras, and the PMEA District 11 orchestra. Since the 2025-2026 season, she has played as the cellist in YOBC’s honors strings quartet. 

In addition to cello, Tina is heavily involved with poetry, having served as Montgomery County’s Youth Poet Laureate for 2025-2026 and having performed in venues across the greater Philadelphia area. In 2026 she published her debut chapbook Chai, which told and reframed the stories of Holocaust survivors and victims, through the national fellowship program Kol Koleinu for which she now serves as a teen leader. After high school, she plans to pursue international studies and focus on humanitarian work abroad.

Zach Peckman (Violin)
Spring 2027
Symphony Orchestra

Violin Concerto no. 1, 2nd movement
Max Bruch

Zach Peckman is a senior at New Hope-Solebury High School. He has been playing viola since third grade and started playing violin two years ago, studying privately with Adrienne Walsh. Having joined YOBC in ninth grade, Zach has performed with the YOBC Honors String Quartet on viola and violin for the past three years and serves as a member of the YOBC Student Advisory Board. Zach has participated in various orchestras in the Pennsylvania Music Educators’ Association festivals such as District 11 and Region VI, and in 2026, he was named Principal Violist in the All-State Orchestra. Zach is also the Concertmaster of his high school orchestra. 

When not performing, Zach’s other passion is athletics. He is a four-time Grand National Champion in speed jump rope and holds three U.S. records. As a member of the U.S. National Jump Rope Team, Zach recently competed at the World Jump Rope Championships in Japan and is scheduled to compete at Worlds again in Norway in 2027.