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Openings Remain
After our very successful spring and summer audition sessions, the DCYO student enrollment is currently 103 students. We now have openings only in our double bass section. Any student who plays the bass and wishes to audition for the 2011-2012 season should please click on the Audition tab at the top of this page and fill in the online audition form. We will be pleased to contact you to arrange an audition. For questions about auditions, please contact Lisa Liem at lisaCliem@gmail.com or Lenora Hume at leehume@comcast.net.
2011 Fall Concerts
The Delaware County Youth Orchestra, celebrating its 40th season in 2011-2012, is a highly selective, full-size symphony orchestra of talented young musicians through senior year of high school. The orchestra rehearses in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania at Proclamation Presbyterian Church, 278 Bryn Mawr Avenue. Its mission is to provide young people of exceptional ability with the opportunity to learn and perform major works from the standard symphonic repertoire, and to teach them the skills and discipline of orchestral performance.
DCYO presents four concerts a year in locations throughout the Greater Philadelphia area. It has also participated in the Festival of Youth Orchestras in the U.S. and Canada. In recent years music director Brad Smith has included works of contemporary composers in the orchestra’s repertoire, most notably award-winning composer Jennifer Higdon’s tone poem blue cathedral, which DCYO performed in its May 2009 concerts. Earlier that spring DCYO had the privilege of rehearsing the piece with the composer, whose insights proved to be invaluable in terms of interpretation and perspective.
Click on “About DCYO” for more information.
2011 Tockwogh Weekend
To view pictures of our students enjoying their annual September weekend of rehearsals and recreation at beautiful Camp Tockwogh in Maryland, please click here.
CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs from our Fall 2011 concerts are now posted.
Go to our Photographs page.
2011 Distinguished Artists Program
At our rehearsal on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, DCYO was honored to have Don Liuzzi, Principal Timpanist, Dwight V. Dowley Chair, The Philadelphia Orchestra, as our 2011 Distinguished Visiting Artist. To begin the evening, Mr. Liuzzi played several timpani solo selections for the students. His performance was followed by an entertaining question-and-answer session, after which he conducted the orchestra in works by Glinka and Mendelssohn for the second half of the rehearsal. The evening concluded with a reception for the students, parents, and board members. This memorable event marked the third in our annual series of invited distinguished visiting artists.
Joining the Orchestra
For information about joining the orchestra, please click on Auditions.
For information about the Delaware Valley Young Musicians’ Orchestra, our younger group of musicians, please click here.
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