The Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra recently made its podcast debut! At our November 2025 All YOP Ensembles Showcase, the string musicians of RSYO performed the world premiere of Pastoral, which was composed by Claudia Andrade Ayala and was inspired by a poem by Hannah Bonner. RSYO’s performance of Pastoral was included at the end of the Blackbird Literary […]
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Join Dr. Julie Bemis, Vice President of Education & Community Engagement, for an in-depth exploration of the music featured in the 2025–26 Symphony Series! Each session delves into the repertoire of each upcoming Symphony Series concert and welcomes a special guest with a vital role in the performance, ranging from Music Director Valentina Peleggi to
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This February was full of fun for the Richmond Symphony School of Music! A couple of weeks after the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra’s Side-by-Side with the Richmond Symphony at the start of the month, nearly forty different school groups filled the Carpenter Theatre for our Hopkins-Eggleston Discovery Concerts: Carnival of the Animals. Students from all over
Spread the word—audition registration to join our Youth Orchestra Program will go live on Wednesday, March 4! Whether you’re new to the program or a current student hoping to move up to a new ensemble, this is your chance to be a part of our 2026–27 season! Students will have the option to audition in
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It’s not too late to register for our final Hopkins-Eggleston Discovery Concerts of the year: Camille Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals! Discover elephants, lions, and more as you meet the instruments of the orchestra in this beloved concert experience for young audiences. Designed to align with Virginia Standards of Learning, this concert is programmed for
Congratulations to double bassist Peter Yanovitch, winner of the annual RSYO Concerto Competition! Peter is a senior at Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies, where he takes orchestra with Allison Barnes. He is a student of Richmond Symphony double bassist Matt Gold, and a previous participant in our Young Composers Seminar.
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A big welcome to the 6th cohort of our Future Music Educators Symposium (FMES)! Over the course of eight weeks, students will develop and strengthen their teaching skills through a series of online workshops and classes led by Dr. Sandy Goldie, Department Chair and Director of Music Education at VCUarts Music. The ten students participating in
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The Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra’s next concert is just around the corner—and it’s one you won’t want to miss! RSYO will come together with the Richmond Symphony on Tuesday, February 3 for their first side-by-side concert since February 2020, weaving youth orchestra students together with professional musicians in each section of the orchestra. Repertoire will
This season, we’re branching out our social media platforms and the RSSoM newsletter to include stories from our YOP community, both past and present. Whether you played in our program for one year or ten and whether you work in the performing arts or another industry, we’d love to highlight you and your experiences in
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The Richmond Symphony and the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra, our pre-professional youth ensemble, come together in a special side-by-side performance, weaving youth orchestra students with Richmond Symphony musicians in each section of the orchestra. Repertoire will include Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No. 2, and more. Mark the date now for
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