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Tour 2012

 

 


Congratulations to Ahmed Mian, winner of the 2012 WVYS Concerto Competition.

He played C. M. Weber's Concertino for Clarinet.

The next rehearsal is January 30, 2012

6:30pm at Horace Mann Middle School

Youth Strings will rehearse at West Virginia State University
with the River City Youth Ballet, 6:30pm

Youth Strings: Important Ballet information

Cadets and Youth Orchestra: Spring music has been posted for download here
There's also an mp3 file of the new piece, Vandalia and a YouTube link to Tales from the Vienna Woods

Chamber rehearsals at 5:30

Chamber concerts approaching March 4 and 11th.

MAJOR CHANGE: SPRING CONCERT DATE CHANGE. NEW SPRING CONCERT DATE WILL BE MAY 13th at 3:00 pm.

Please call me immediately if you have conflicts. I understand this may be a problem for some.

<-Tour participants: Look at the new Tour 2012 link

Congratulations to All-State musicians


Reminder: your String Card that gets you into WVSO concerts
now also gets you into Chamber Music Society performances!

WVYS members (and alumnus) performed at GoodNight
View WOWK-TV's video coverage

Congratulations for an excellent Winter Concert

Winter 2011 concert

View more photos at our Facebook page
or the full set of images here.

Youth Orchestra Halloween rehearsal

The Youth Orchestra went ape during rehearsal Halloween evening.
See more photos here.

 

We had a great tour meeting Monday night, with our representative from Encore Tours giving a presentation, along with remarks and Q and A with Tom Beal and Bob Turizziani.

Tour presentation

We also had the raffle drawing for the Trip for Two to Paris and the Staycation Basket.

Raffle drawing

Congratulations to

John Stone/Rhoda Gilbert - winners of the Paris Trip

Jessica Pendola - winner of the Staycation Basket

Winning Ticket sold by Juliana Serafin - Isaac Liu's mother

Highest Student Ticket sales - Laura Wright/Gerry Wright selling 64 tickets!

Second Highest Student Ticket sales - Olivia & Parker Boughton/April Robertson selling 29 tickets!

Thanks to all who helped make this raffle a success. Stay tuned for total amount raised!

2011-12 Concert Schedule

WVYS WINTER CONCERT

Sunday, December 4, 2011 – 3:00 pm $10 adults, children free

Scottish Rite Temple

WVYS CHAMBER CONCERT

Sunday, March 11, 2012 – 3:00 pm $5 adults, $2 children

Kanawha United Presbyterian Church

WVYS SPRING CONCERT

Sunday, May 6th, 2012 – 3:00 pm $10 adults, children free

Scottish Rite Temple

WVYS SYMPHONY SUNDAY CONCERT

Sunday, June 3, 2012

University of Charleston


Photos from the 2011 Spring Concert

View the complete set of Spring Concert photos

Cadet Strings
Cadet Strings rehearse on the stage

 


 

2010 Winter Concert

Youth Orchestra in rehearsal

View more Winter Concert photos

The West Virginia Youth Symphony was featured on WOWK-TV (13)
You can view the story online:
West Virginia Youth Symphony Grows Musicians

Mona Seghatoleslami also mentioned us on the WV Pubcast blog, Classically Speaking
A few thousand words (not really!)

 


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