Natalie Min

Natalie Min, age 13, is an 8th grader at Memorial Middle School. She started playing violin in the Frostwood Fiddlers at the age of 6 with Padua Canty and later Katie Hemphill. She studies under Hannah Watson and currently studies under Dr. Mauricio Oliveros. For 2 years, she participated in Houston Youth Symphony. She is playing violin in the Chamber Orchestra and viola in the Symphony Orchestra at Memorial Middle School which had previously been under Megan Saavedra and Bethany Prindle, and later under Kevin Ray and Bethany Prindle. In both 2020 and 2021, she was awarded STAR Student in Memorial Middle School. In 2021, she ranked fourteenth chair in TMEA Region 27 Symphony Orchestra. In early 2022, she received outstanding performances in UIL Ensembles. Outside of orchestra, she enjoys year-round swim team, drawing digitally, and hanging out with friends.