“Having already formed the National Youth Orchestra of the USA (NYO-USA) in 2013 for musicians ages 16 to 19, Carnegie Hall is now founding the 80-piece NYO2 for students 14 to 17,” writes David Patrick Stearns in Friday’s (7/10) Philadelphia Inquirer. Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute will launch NYO2, a summer program for young instrumentalists, in summer of 2016. “As many as ‘several dozen’ Philadelphia [Orchestra] musicians will act as both as coaches and side-by-side players, said Philadelphia Orchestra President and CEO Allison Vulgamore. The actual work will happen in late June and early July at Purchase College, State University of New York, in Westchester County, though the culminating 2016 concert will be in Philadelphia…. The Philadelphia Orchestra’s NYO2 arrangement, which adds a national partnership to the existing local and international ones, is expected to encourage local teenage musicians to apply. Participation is free…. Applications will be accepted from Sept. 8 to Dec. 18.” Vulgamore noted that both the Philadelphia Orchestra and Carnegie Hall “are committed to growing a larger footprint … in the engagement with classical music…. So diversity as well as age is important.”
Posted July 10, 2015
Pictured: David Robertson leads the National Youth Orchestra of the USA at Purchase College, SUNY, July 2014.
