Youth Orchestra of Bucks County Presents Spring Concerts

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — The Youth Orchestra of Bucks County (YOBC) returns to the stage on Saturday, March 25 and Sunday, March 26. 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, March 25th 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 Brahms’s Hungarian Dances Nos. 5 & 6, Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus Overture and Rossini’s William Tell Overture.

Sunday’s performances include the YOBC Percussion Ensemble, Concert Winds and YOBC’s flagship Symphony Orchestra. These ensembles will be sharing the Sunday March 26th concert, held at 4pm at Delaware Valley University’s Life Sciences Auditorium. This concert is not to be missed, as YOBC student Eva Houlton, one of the winners of the Concerto Soloist Competition, will be performing Camille Saint-Seans’ Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor. Eva, a senior at New Hope-Solebury High School, has been praised for their expressivity and maturity throughout their music career. Eva has previously acted as Assistant Principal Cello in the Bucks County Symphony Orchestra, participated in master classes and clinics, and has performed at venues across the Northeast including Carnegie Hall. The YOBC Symphony Orchestra will also be presenting Tchaikovsky’s famous Symphony No. 5 and Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor.

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 2023-2024 season. 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.