Youth Orchestra of Bucks County Presents Fall Concerts

The Youth Orchestra of Bucks County (YOBC) returns to the stage on Saturday November 19th and Sunday November 20th, 2022. All YOBC ensembles will share their talents and hard work through an exciting concert weekend.

YOBC offers exceptional music education programs for students in grades 3-12 and includes young musicians from over 14 school districts in Bucks and the surrounding counties. Five YOBC ensembles will be performing on Saturday, November 19th at 2pm at Holland Middle School. The Saturday concert will feature YOBC’s three string ensembles and the Wind Symphony, followed by the Philharmonia, performing Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, K. 550, Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman, and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major.

Sunday’s performances include the YOBC Percussion Ensemble, Concert Winds and YOBC’s flagship Symphony Orchestra. These ensembles will be sharing the Sunday, November 20th concert, held at 4pm at Delaware Valley University’s Life Sciences Auditorium. This concert is not to be missed, as two YOBC students, Rena Xu and Lea Rubenstein, will be featured as the winners of the annual Concerto Soloist Competition. In addition to the student solos, the Symphony Orchestra will also be presenting Dvorak’s famous Symphony no. 9, “From the New World.”

Tickets - $20 for adults and $10 for students and seniors – can be purchased online at yobc.org/tickets. Founded in 1991, YOBC creates opportunities for young musicians to achieve artistic excellence through enriching classical music experiences. YOBC is currently accepting auditions and will be enrolling new students for the January 2023 semester. Students must be in grades 3-12 and play a strings, brass, woodwind, or percussion instrument. For information on YOBC, its music programs, audition requirements and international concert tours, visit yobc.org.