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The Virginia Youth Symphony Orchestra is a youth orchestra unlike any you have ever heard before!

We only play professional repertoire - and if you close your eyes, you can't tell that it is young people playing!

Not only is the repertoire professional, but so is the playing level and the performance opportunities!

The VYSO (as we are affectionately know) performs at least three main-stage concerts per season, records a professionally recorded and label distributed compact disc, films a video and performs some really cool music - from Classical to Broadway, Pop to Rock, Jazz, Gospel and first-run Movie Scores!

Three summers ago we performed in Italy (for the Pope) - summer before that year we performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Last summer we went to Greece and Turkey. This past summer ... Lincoln Center (NYC) & Toronto, Canada ... and next year - - - CHINA!

What year! Last year we recorded a new CD, performed at LINCOLN CENTER & in Toronto and performances throughout the area. THIS YEAR we performed the historic YELLOW RIVER CANTATA with 150+ singers and soloists in Chicago - and that's just the start!

Virginia Symphony violinist Jorge Aguire joins the VYSO as strings coach and Frank Jones from the Flute Tooter and the VB Symphony joins as winds coach! We welcome their expertise!

The VYSO recently performed at a once-a-decade Gala Performance of the famed YELLOW RIVER CANTATA in Chicago with 150+ singers, soloists to a sold-out crowd. The VYSO was chosen, and won the audition to perform the work from a large field of applicants. The YELLOW RIVER CANATA is an historic work that commemorates the end of World War II. This decade marks the last performance of the work with survivors from the campaign still alive.