Fall music is now available! Visit the Fall 2024 Music page and enter the password. The password for this page was sent out to all enrolled students via the primary email address listed on your account (typically the parent/guardian) on Thursday, September 19. Email admin@byso.org if you need the password resent.
Rehearsals will be held on Monday evenings from 6:15 pm – 8:45 pm. Musicians are expected to arrive and be prepared to rehearse 15 minutes prior to start time.
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!
About
Youth Symphony is the most advanced ensemble in the Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra organization. The typical student in Youth Symphony has had significant private instruction as well as school and extra-curricular ensemble experience. Youth Symphony members must have a high degree of technical proficiency and must enjoy challenge.
Youth Symphony provides a chance for advanced students to tackle the works of the great masters as well as new music composed especially for them. Past works performed include Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique.
Recent Performance of Youth Symphony
Conductor: Matthew Salvaggio
Conductor Matthew Salvaggio is a dynamic artist dedicated to exploring and promoting new music, reimagining diverse orchestral performance experiences, and creating equitable access to music education.
He founded Cleveland Repertory Orchestra in 2021 to explore thebreadth of the orchestral repertoire, with an emphasis on new music and music by historically excluded voices. Additionally, the 2023/24 season marks his first season as Music Director and Conductor of the Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra, where he conducts the top-tier Youth Orchestra and manages a team of eight conductors responsible for leading the other BYSO ensembles.
Committed to increasing access to music education, in 2022 Matt announced an initiative to expand the Erie Junior Philharmonic’s Prelude program for beginning students to include opportunities for beginning woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments. In 2019, he established the Tom Baker Young Artists Competition with the Euclid Symphony Orchestra. The annual competition, which has attracted students from throughout the Midwest, awards the winner a concerto performance opportunity with the ESO and a cash prize.
An advocate for new music, Matt has commissioned works for band and orchestra with his ensembles, and his artistic collaborations include members of the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Erie Philharmonic, and more.
Upon the conclusion of the 2022/23 season, Matt completed several successful Music Directorships, including six seasons with the Euclid Symphony Orchestra, six seasons with the University Heights Symphonic Band, and two seasons with the Erie Junior Philharmonic. He has previously served on the faculty at Mercyhurst University, Hiram College, and Lakeland Community College. Learn more.
Fall Quarter (Sunday, November 24, 2024)
Richard Wagner: Overture: Die Miestersinger von Nürnburg
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
Winter Quarter (Sunday, March 16, 2025)
TBD: Concerto Competition Winner
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Spring Quarter (Sunday, May 18, 2025)
J.S. Bach/Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Frank Ticheli: An American Elegy
Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 1 “Nordic”
Seating Audition Results
Dear Youth Students,
Thank you for a great retreat! Please find the results from seating auditions in the document below.
Seating Auditions
All excerpts are from Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9. Prepare all excerpts listed for your instrument. All excerpts are included in PDF format below and bracketed in red. Tempo markings are listed at the top of each excerpt.
Flutes
Flutes
Excerpt 1: mvt. II, rehearsal 40 to rehearsal 42
Excerpt 2: mvt. III, rehearsal 50 to 51
Excerpt 1: mvt. I, rehearsal 15 to rehearsal 16
Excerpt 2: mvt. I, rehearsal 27 to the end of the movement
Excerpt 3: mvt. V, 4 measures before rehearsal 94 to 4 measures after rehearsal 96
Excerpt 1: mvt. IV, rehearsal 67 to measure 10
Excerpt 2: mvt. IV, rehearsal 68 to measure 22
Excerpt 3: mvt. V, pickup to rehearsal 94 to rehearsal 95
Excerpt 1: mvt. I, 1 measure after rehearsal 16 to 4 measures after rehearsal 17
Excerpt 2: mvt. III, rehearsal 55 to 4 before rehearsal 57 (play top divisi)
