The Group

Alexander Oh (President)

Alexander is from New York, NY. While he does have a bent endpin on his cello, the only reason is that he thinks it looks cool. In addition to admiring the beauty of his cello, he also likes sleeping and eating copious amounts of Sriracha. Fun fact: he can also make 1-minute rice in 58 seconds.

Nicholas Boettcher (Co-Music Director)

Born and raised in Naperville, IL, Nicholas started cello at age 4. He later picked up the bass because the cello was too easy to travel with. You can spot him on campus trying to wrangle a bass, cello, and backpack on his way to the nearest practice room. He also likes food.

Norah Fong (Co-Music Director, Social Media)

Norah is from Torrance, California. In the fifth grade, she discovered she had perfect pitch: now, her friends ask her what note the doorbell, elevator, and microwave make. When she isn't playing the cello, Norah likes writing music, painting, and spending time with her friends.

Vien Le (Business Manager)

Vien is a tiny name for a tiny person from the tiny town of Canton in the tiny state of Connecticut who plays the tiny bass. People think she joined her school’s band as a percussionist because her school did not have an orchestra, but the real reason is because she wanted to hit a gong. Vien has a weird obsession with frogs, and is prone to laughing attacks, especially after the hour of 8 pm. 

Madeline Buchowski (Tour Manager)

Madeline Buchowski ‘27, from St. Louis, Missouri, started taking cello lessons at the age of five and has been learning how to enjoy practicing since. While she knows very little rock music, you can often find her playing cello karaoke to Taylor Swift songs on Youtube. In the near future, Madeline aspires to do the splits, find a perfect way to make a dorm room with Yale furniture look cute, and determine the perfect Low Strung sticker placement on her cello case.

Mateo Vidali

Mateo is from Holden, Massachusetts. When he was 5, he picked up the cello. In the 5th grade, he started yo-yoing. Now he is Yo-yo Mateo. He also claims the title of most bent endpin in Low Strung history.

Laec Lorentzen

Laec is from a city you haven't heard of in Canada. His hobbies include listening to loud music, making loud music, and not sleeping. If you ever see him without headphones on, he probably lost them (again). He's either not as cool as he seems, or much cooler than he seems. His least favorite colour is chartreuse.

Gregory Llewellyn

Greg started violin at the age of 2. He retired at age 4 after a long and successful career. Retirement was not for Gregory; he began a second career as a cellist a year later. Despite his advanced age, he is still going strong. Gregory is known for disappearing into the forests of New England at the most inconvenient times.

Joonhee Park

Joonhee hails from Flavortown, USA. When he’s not cooking up soulful melodies on his custom-built 1999 StradFierius cello, you can find him cruising around downtown New Haven looking for the juiciest BBQ in town. Ka-chow!

Daniel Choi

Daniel is from Bellevue, Washington. His mom tells him that he started the cello out of a love for its fruity sound. Outside of his passion for cello, Daniel enjoys playing basketball in his abysmal shooting form and eating meals with friends.

Christian Phanhthourath

Christian is from Marietta, GA, a suburb of Atlanta, and started the cello at the age of eight, even though no one in his family had ever touched an instrument. He is currently on his sixth hair color and doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. When he’s not actively frying his hair, Christian enjoys sipping overpriced matcha at cute cafes and filming lifestyle vlogs for his YouTube channel.

Lishore Kumar

Lishore (think Lebron but with “shore”) is from Tomball, TX. When he was six, Lishore tried to play the oboe and viola but hated the taste of reeds and didn’t hate himself, respectively. Thus, he settled on the obvious compromise: cello. When he’s not playing, you’ll find Lishore doomscrolling Tiktok or studying with Subway Surfers in the background.

Alumni

David Rector* (founder), Hermes Huang (founding manager), Peter Aronoff, Devon Breton-Pakozdi*, Sam Brickman Raredon, Noah Capurso, Sofia Checa*, Jennifer Chen, Dayle Chung, Agnes Coakley, Emily Cornett, Harry Doernberg*, Francis Fedora, Susanna Ferguson, Eric Fishman*, Benji Fleischacker*, Laura Gaynon, Giacomo Glotzer*, Jacqueline Gosnell, Anna Graber, Yuan He, John Heroy*, Walter Hsiang, Matthew Johnson, Sarah Kabay, Max Lauring*, Dimitri Lippe, Megan Lim*, Geoffrey Litt, Maria de Leon*, Dan Lewis, Jaja Liao*, Ian Marpuri, Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma, Kirill Miniaev, Nicolas Vivas Nikonorow, Allison Park, Olivia Pavco-Giaccia, Tess Ryckman, Ezra Seltzer, Isaac Selya, Henry Shapard, Leo Singer, Claire Solomon, Soren Sudhof, Han-ah Sumner, Matthew Udry*, Veronica Wallace, Henry Wilkin, Johnny Xu*, Niu Niu Zhang, Chloe Zhou, Jerry Zhou

*Arrangers