New York Youth Symphony

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The New York Youth Symphony is a tuition-free youth orchestra based in New York City. Its members range from 12 to 22 years of age. The orchestra plays three programs per year, each of which are performed at both Queens College Colden Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall. The programs are unique among both youth orchestras and professional orchestras in that every program includes a new work commissioned for the orchestra.

1 Music director
2 Alumni
3 Organization and programs
4 Reviews
5 References
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Music director

The current music director is Ryan McAdams who, in the fall of 2007, became the New York Youth Symphony's 15th Music Director. Previous music directors have included Leonard Slatkin, Myung-Whun Chung, David Alan Miller, Samuel Wong, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Mischa Santora, and Paul Haas.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Alumni

Alumni include violinists Marin Alsop, Pamela Frank, Cho-Liang Lin, Shlomo Mintz, and Peter Oundjian; trumpeter Gerard Schwarz; flutist Ransom Wilson; and members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Mendelssohn String Quartets, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, the Israel Philharmonic, the London Symphony, and other major ensembles throughout the world.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Organization and programs

The orchestra is under a parent organization of the same name, which also runs a chamber music program, a big band program, a composition program entitled Making Score, a program/competition to commission new musical works entitled First Music, and a program design competition entitled First Art. During its 44th season, the New York Youth Symphony instituted a choral program entitled Symphony Singers.^{[citation needed]}

It was founded in 1963 by Martin Riskin [www.jussibjorlingsociety.com/advisors.html].In 2005, the museum was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.^[1] ^[2]

[edit] Reviews

The New York Sun has proclaimed it "America's best youth orchestra."^[3] The New York Times has given several favorable reviews of the New York Youth Symphony.^[4]