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El Camino Youth Symphony 2017-18 Auditions
Musicians ages 6-18 are invited to audition for El Camino Youth Symphony
Palo Alto-based El Camino Youth Symphony (ECYS) invites musicians ages 6-18 to audition for the 2017-18 Season. Led by an internationally renowned faculty, including Maestro Jindong Cai, Music Director and Conductor of the Senior Symphony, ECYS offers six orchestras/ensembles for students at all levels of musical ability. Start your musical journey in the entry-level orchestra Chamber Players or challenge yourself in the prestigious Senior Symphony!
ECYS has openings at all levels for the 2017-18 Season!
The Senior Symphony Orchestra, ECYS’s premiere ensemble conducted by Dr. Jindong Cai, performs professional-level repertoire and hosts internationally recognized guest artists. The group holds an August retreat and tours ever other summer. Maestro Cai, who also teaches at Stanford University, was recently named Artistic Director of the National Youth Orchestra of China (NYO-China).
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The Sinfonietta Orchestra, led by John Eells, prepares advanced string, wind, and brass players for the Senior Orchestra. They perform concerts throughout the Bay Area, including Flint Center in Cupertino! They play full symphonies and works by composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and more!
The El Camino Wind Orchestra, Dr. Richard Roper, conductor, challenges woodwinds, brass, and percussionists with classical and modern repertoire. Students at this level have typically had 3+ years of lessons.
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The Galbraith Honor Strings, with conductor Mariya Borozina, is an intermediate, all-string group that, in addition to ensemble training, offers talented young violinists, violists, cellists, and bassists special sectional coaching to develop technique and musicality.
The Camerata Orchestra, under direction of Dr. Michail Gelfandbein, is a beginning-intermediate full orchestra for winds and string players who are still learning, but have had 2+ years of lessons and previous ensemble experience.
The Chamber Players Orchestra, Dr. Michail Gelfandbein, conductor, is the perfect first orchestra for beginning strings and wind players with 1+ years of lessons.
ECYS is accepting applications now! Apply online to join the ECYS family! Auditions are held in March/April for the season that begins in August/September. Applications online at www.ECYS.org . Call ECYS at 650-213-7111 for more information.
