Empire State Youth Orchestra

Empire State Youth Orchestra

Infobox musical artist
Name = Empire State Youth Orchestra
Img_capt = The Empire State Youth Orchestra performing at Carnegie Hall
Background = classical_ensemble
Origin = flagicon|USA Capital District, New York, United States
Genre = Classical
Occupation = Symphony orchestra
Years_active = 1979-"present"
URL = [http://www.esyo.org/]
Current_members = Music Director
Helen Cha-Pyo

The Empire State Youth Orchestra (ESYO) was founded in 1979 by a group of dedicated parents and music educators. Based in Albany, New York, the orchestra is composed of talented and musically advanced high school students from New York State, western Massachusetts, and southern Vermont. The orchestra is considered one of the premier youth orchestras in the United States, and regularly performs concerts at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Ozawa Hall at the Tanglewood Music Center, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City. To date, the orchestra has undertaken four international tours, traveling to Austria and Hungary in 1989, to Spain in 1994, to Germany and the Czech Republic in 2000 and most recently to Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria in 2008. This 2008 tour was particularly distinguished as the Youth Orchestra premiered American composer, Samuel Adler's piece "A Bridge to Understanding"- a piece that Adler was commisioned to compose by the Youth Orchestra's director Helen Cha-Pyo. Helen Cha-Pyo has served as Music Director and Conductor of the orchestra since September 2002.

The ESYO organization consists of two full orchestra (the advanced Youth Orchestra and the intermediate Repertory Orchestra), a Wind Orchestra, a String Ensemble, two Jazz Ensembles, three Percussion Ensembles, along with a City Strings Training Program.

ESYO holds an annual fundraiser at Crossgates Mall. The Youth Orchestra also performs an annual series of holiday concerts at Proctor's Theatre known as the "Melodies of Christmas" which support the Center for Childhood Cancer & Blood Disorders at the Children's Hospital at Albany Medical Center.

In June 2008, Empire State Youth Orchestra won the first prize for Adventurous Programing from League of American Orchestra's Award, and also the Award for American Programming on Foreign Tour from The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), which is an award seldom granted, save to a Youth Orchestra.

Alumni

Ken Olsen- Cello
David Odenkirchen- Horn
Stefon Harris- Percussion

Previous conductors of the orchestra have included Victoria Bond, Eiji Oue, Paavo Järvi, Francisco Noya, Jin Kim, and Burton Kaplan.Current condcutor of the orchestra Helen Cha-Pyo

External links

*http://www.esyo.org


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