Carnegie Hall will present “World Orchestra Week,” a festival celebrating youth orchestras, beginning on August 1.

Hundreds of teen instrumentalists from around the globe will come together in New York City for World Orchestra Week, a celebration of international youth orchestras, presented by Carnegie Hall from August 1 to 7. Inspired by the Hall’s three American youth ensembles—the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA), NYO2, and NYO Jazz—the international initiative brings five youth orchestras from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America to New York for high-level music making with renowned artists plus cultural exchange activities among the orchestras over the course of one week. The seven ensembles in the 2024 festival include: the National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela; the Africa United Youth Orchestra; the Beijing Youth Orchestra; the European Union Youth Orchestra; the Afghan Youth Orchestra, plus Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the USA and NYO2. Each orchestra will perform in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in collaboration with artists including conductors Teddy Abrams, Marin Alsop, Gustavo Dudamel, William Eddins, Iván Fischer, Lü Jia, and Tiago Moreira da Silva, and soloists Andrew Brady, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Goitsemang Lehobye, Anthony McGill, Demarre McGill, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Titus Underwood, and Wu Man. In addition to public performances at Carnegie Hall, the young musicians will take part in cultural exchange and communal music-making. Click here for full information. https://www.carnegiehall.org/events/world-orchestra-week