Premiere Orchestra

Spring Quarter music is now available for download and printing. Read the BYSO newsletter sent out on 3/23 for the password, then click the following link to access: BYSO Spring Quarter Music.
Click here for Conductor’s Messages

In-Person Rehearsals:
In-person rehearsals follow WA State DOH guidelines for schools. We are watching evolving School District and State COVID guidelines and will make changes accordingly. Click here for complete BYSO COVID Policy and Procedures.

BYSO Spring QUARTER 2023

Spring QUARTER 2023 DETAILS

Rehearsals	Spring Quarter Dates
Mondays from 6:30 – 8:30 pm	March 27 – May 22, 2023 (No rehearsal on 4/10)


Rehearsal Location	Drop Off/ Pick Up
Overlake Christian Church	Please plan on prompt drop off and pick up to
9900 Willows Rd NE	avoid congestion. Note: entrance to building
Redmond, WA 98052	is past a very long parking lot.


Retreat	Fall & Winter Quarters Only
The next BYSO retreats will be
held in the 2023-24 Season.




Spring Concert \| Overture	Sunday, May 21 at 2:00 pm
Meydenbauer Theatre	Call times and more will be posted as we get
11100 NE 6th St	closer to the concert.
Bellevue, WA 98004

Student Checklist

Bring a music stand
Bring a pencil
Print your sheet music prior to first rehearsal (using link at top of this page) and bring with you to rehearsal
Arrive 15 minutes prior to the start of rehearsal to ensure you are in your chair and ready to play at the start of rehearsal
Have fun!

VOLUNTEERS – WE NEED YOU!
Volunteers will be a vital part of a successful Spring Quarter for all of our students. We need volunteers to help with attendance, setting up/tearing down, and supporting our students during their rehearsals. Click here to sign up now!

About

Premiere Orchestra is an intermediate orchestra in the Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra organization. The typical Premiere Orchestra student has had some private instruction and school ensemble experience and is working to improve technical proficiency.

Premiere Orchestra introduces young musicians to full orchestral instrumentation (strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion) with repertoire that appropriately challenges their experience level. Past works performed include Brahms’s Hungarian Dances 5 & 6, Vaughan Williams’s Rhosymedre, and Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 7 in D minor.

Conductor: David Drassal

David Drassal is a Tri-Cities area native, where he attended Southridge High School, playing trumpet in the bands and violin in the orchestra. He began Suzuki violin lessons at age 7 with Melvina Romanelli in Richland, WA and went on to receive a B.M. and M.A. in Music Education from Central Washington University. Mr. Drassal started with BYSO in 2007 as a violin coach for Premiere and has been the director for the Premiere Orchestra since 2013. Mr. Drassal also teaches orchestra at Tyee Middle School in Bellevue. Learn more.

SPRING QUARTER 2023

Great job at your concert this past Sunday! We are seeing and hearing some really nice ensemble playing and musicality this season!

Please print and bring your new music to our first rehearsal Monday, March 27. You will have some time with your coaches to go over fingerings and bowings. We are excited about the spring quarter program and think you will have a lot of fun putting this music together. Find some recordings and listen to the pieces with your music in front of you so that you know what it should sound like.

There is no retreat spring quarter, so it is 7 rehearsals and concert.

Music for Spring Quarter 2023

Hopak, from “The Fair at Sorochinsk”- Modest Moussorgsky

Piano- Daniil Trifonov
Orchestra- Radio France– Our part starts at 4:53 in the video

Haydn’s Military Symphony- 2nd movement- arranged by Edward B. Jurey

March from Carmen- Georges Bizet- arranged by Charles Woodhouse

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