Anna Mitchell

Each year, students from across the country apply to be members of the U.S. Senate Page Program, in which high school juniors and seniors spend a semester working as staff members in the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. Only thirty students are selected for this incredibly competitive program each cycle—and this fall, one of those students was the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra […]

This February marked the return of one of the Youth Orchestra Program’s favorite annual events: the Side-by-Side concert with the Richmond Symphony and the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra (RSYO), which last occurred in full in February 2020.   Side-by-side concerts are a staple of youth orchestras across the country. In a side-by-side performance, members of a youth orchestra come

Teaching has always been a part of music education major Emily Mullen’s life. A lifelong educator, she taught her first private lesson at the age of nine, and recently began working as a student teacher during her final semester at Shenandoah Conservatory. But after nearly 20 years of devotion to the violin and viola, she

Every summer, rising juniors and seniors from high schools across Virginia apply to and are selected for the Summer Residential Governor’s Schools: seven state- and locally sponsored residential programs offering students advanced study in agriculture, engineering, mathematics, and more and operated by the Virginia Department of Education. This year, two Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra (RSYO)