Youth Symphony Messages – Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra

2026-2027 Youth Symphony Season Repertoire

Fall Quarter (Monday, November 23, 2026, 7:00 PM at Meydenbauer Center)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 “Pathetique”

Winter Quarter (Sunday, March 14, 2027, 6:30 PM at Meydenbauer Center)

TBD: Concerto Competition winner
Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 2 “The Four Temperaments”

Spring Quarter (Monday, May 17, 2027, 7:00 PM at Meydenbauer Center)

Steven Bryant: TBA – new piece commissioned in memory of Christine Gero
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1

Welcome to Fall Quarter!

I’m so excited to welcome you to Youth Symphony! This season is all about Exploring Possibility.

This season’s Youth Symphony is larger and collectively more talented than at any point in my last four seasons as Music Director. That means this season is an opportunity for us to stretch what we’re all capable of. It will require you to be willing to take risks in rehearsal and to be willing to push your musical abilities.

Exploring possibility together means that by the time we get to the first rehearsal of each quarter, we’ve already spent time with our parts and listened to recordings, and it means we spend time outside of rehearsal each week to bring a clearer, more refined version of our musical ideas into our rehearsal space.

Preparation is what makes the risk-taking possible.

Can’t wait to see you all at our first rehearsal on September 28!!

Mr. Salvaggio

Seating auditions will take place at our retreats (October 3 in fall, January 9 in winter) and the second rehearsal of spring quarter (March 30). There will be no makeups for students who are absent.

Fall 2026 Seating Auditions
Seating auditions will take place during the first two hours of our retreat on Saturday, October 3. Seating audition spots for fall quarter will be posted in early September.