Mariana Corichi Gomez

Conductor, President Emerita

Mariana is the conductor of the ensemble. She has served as Assistant Director of the William Trego Singers, and co-conductor in Princeton Contrapunctus XIV. She is concert manager in the Princeton Glee Club and sings in Chamber Choir and vocal consort, Decem. Outside of Princeton, Mariana has worked as a Teaching Artist at Morse Chorale as part of the Yale School of Music, Music in Schools Initiative. She has studied flute for 10 years, during which she played principal flute in the Harrisburg Youth Symphony Orchestra, and performed in the Interlochen Summer Festival and British Isles Festival.

Mariana is a music major from Mexico City, with certificates in conducting performance and Latinx studies. She studies under Steph Tubiolo, Gabriel Crouch, and Michael Pratt. Mariana has served as assistant conductor in the Miami Music Festival under Thomas Bagwell, and participated in a masterclass with Gustavo Dudamel in 2019.

Adrian Rogers

President

Adrian is the president of Camerata, and a sophomore from the Bronx, New York. He plays the violin, and in high school was the assistant concertmaster of the New York Youth Symphony. Additionally, he was a member of the National Youth Orchestra in 2018. Adrian is also an avid conductor who studied conducting at the Manhattan School of Music, and served as an assistant conducting fellow at the New York Youth Symphony.

Outside of Camerata, Adrian is a member of the Princeton University orchestra, a graphic designer and spread creator for Business Today, a volunteer violin teacher for the Trenton Youth Orchestra, and the tournament director chair for the Princeton Collegiate Taekwondo team. He is an economics major who is pursuing certificates in finance, history and diplomacy, and music performance.

Claire Schmeller

Publicity Chair

Claire Schmeller is a rising sophomore from Medina, Ohio. She is a violinist and a publicity chair in Camerata and serves as treasurer, in addition to playing violin, in the Princeton University Orchestra. She played in the Akron Youth Symphony and, most recently, in the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra for two years, as well as on their 2019 tour through Central Europe. She studied with Alan Bodman prior to her time at Princeton..

Currently, Claire intends to study History, with a certificate in American Studies. She taught swim lessons at Dillon Gym last year. She is also an undergraduate fellow in the James Madison program and an Outdoor Action leader. She is always down to go on a run and loves connecting with people, especially at Princeton!

Emily Liushen

Librarian

Emily is a composer and clarinetist from Louisville, KY. She has written for/is currently writing for Princeton Camerata, the New York Youth Symphony, Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra, Premiere Division Ballet, and numerous chamber and solo mavericks. Her current fetishes are the rhythm of memorized speech, bionic sounds, and the pursuit of beautiful chaos. She is intrigued by the social effects of the ecosystem in which she hopes to work.

Emily began playing the clarinet around a decade ago and has premiered music by other living composers as well as performed music by many dead ones. A notable exception is J. S. Bach, whom she hopes to do good by one day performing his solo violin and cello repertoire on clarinets. She is a student of Jo-Ann Sternberg; previously she studied with Angela Soren.

This is Emily's second year as music librarian for Camerata. Outside of music she loves to read and make coffee.

Kevin Polanish

Social Chair

Kevin is a junior from Bayport, NY and is returning as co-social chair and cellist for the 2020-21 Camerata season. Over the years, Kevin has played in groups across the New York and Long Island area, including the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York.

In addition to playing cello, Kevin is a History major pursuing certificates in Finance as well as inRussian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. He is also a member of Partners in Health Engage and is chair of the Climate Change Committee for Princeton’s chapter of UNA-USA.

Roshini Balasubramanian

Webmaster

Roshini Balasubramanian is from Naperville, IL and maintains Camerata's website. She has played oboe/english horn for over ten years in various ensembles and venues across the Chicagoland area, including the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. Roshini previously studied with Deb Stevenson.

A junior in the Operations Research and Financial Engineering department, Roshini plans to pursue certificates in Computer Science, Statistics & Machine Learning, Engineering & Management Systems, and Global Health & Health Policy. She is a member of the oboe section in the Princeton University Orchestra and Camerata, a Peer Acadmic Adivser, and involved with a few health/wellness and entrepreneurial groups on campus.