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* KEY DATES for 2011-2012 SEASON: (A full calendar will be distributed at the parent meeting) Winter Concert, December 4; Chamber Concert, March 11; Spring Concert, May 6; Symphony Sunday Concert, June 3. Mark your calendars now for our concerts!
* The WVYSO EUROPEAN TOUR to Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Austria, planned for June 12-June 21, 2012, still has openings for interested students who are in Youth Strings or Youth Orchestra. Currently we have 32 students, plus an additional 12 adults/chaperones, registered so far. We have a particular need for trombones, oboes and percussion. The last date to join our tour is March, 2012.
If you have news about musical honors our students have received, please email them to Marjorie Cooke
Congratulations to 2012 All-State Musicians
All-State Orchestra:
Violin I
Olivia Hay,
Andrew Sivaprakasam, Brandon Brown, Michael Terranova, Nathan D.
Shin,
Viviana Nguyen
Violin II
Alena Oates (first chair), Ann Larsen,
Jay Ta. Kenneth Redillas, Kylie Joins
Viola
Kiefer Kirk (first chair),Maher Shamman, Olivia Boughton
Cello
Parker Boughton
Bass
Landon Simpson (first chair)
Flute I - Aryana Misaghi
Clarinet I - Alexis James-Joyce
Clarinet II - Conor Lannan
Bassoon I - Claire Wayne
Horn III - Chelsea Morrison
Trumpet I - Adam Gillespie
Trombone III - Shawn Cochran
Tuba - Zach Crouch
Timpani - Chad Terry
Percussion - JC White
All-State Band:
Flute - Laura Wright
Clarinet - Donald Forman,
Zack Neville
Trumpet - Ranga Munasinghe
Horn - Samuel Montgomery,
Mikayla Hovis
Bone - Kelton George
Tuba -
Levi Ferrebee
European Tour 2012
We are very excited to announce the third European concert tour of the West Virginia Youth Orchestra which will take place in June, 2012. This tour will feature a visit to Charleston's charming sister city, Banska Bystrica (pronounced b-street-sa) in the heart of Solvakia, and a joint performance with the Conservatory of Music there. The tour begins in Budapest and ends in Vienna with trips in between to Krakow, Poland, and Eisenstadt, Austria. Details about the tour will be available by the end of January, 2011.
Youth Strings and Youth Orchestra musicians are all invited on the tour. Recent alumni of the Orchestra will be invited to travel and perform as well. We hope to have a strong orchestra to tour internationally!
Download an updated PDF of the itinerary!
(this is a 1megabyte file)
Thanks to our parent volunteers for their help with our recent mailing!
Halloween rehearsal
See more photos on WV Youth Symphony's Facebook page
Members of the WV Youth Symphony performed at the Clay Center
for a gala honoring Helen Lodge and Grant Cooper.
You can view more photos at our Facebook
page
or here
The full West Virginia Youth Symphony with almuni and the Alderson-Broaddus Brass Ensemble onstage at the Clay Center.
You can order a CD or DVD of the event.
CDs $10
DVDs $15
Make your check payable to WV Youth Symphony
View more photos of the event
Congratulations for a great chamber concert
See photos in the Charleston Gazette online
View photos from the rehearsal and concert
Check our Musicians page for forms recently uploaded
The Youth Orchestra in rehearsal for Peter and the Wolf
Photos from the 2009 chamber concert