• National Youth Orchestra
    of the United States of America

    In the summer of 2013, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute brings together 120 of the brightest young players from across the country to form the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. Following a comprehensive audition process and a two-week training residency with leading professional orchestra musicians at Purchase College, State University of New York, these remarkable teenagers embark on an international tour to some of the great music capitals of the world. On their journey, the members of NYO-USA will shine a light on the extraordinary talent of young American instrumentalists and serve as dynamic musical ambassadors for the US.

    For NYO-USA’s inaugural season, famed maestro Valery Gergiev leads the orchestra to Washington, DC, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and London.



  • Conductor Valery Gergiev offers his thoughts to young musicians on the opportunity to be part of the new NYO-USA.

  • Important funding for the launch of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America has been provided by Joan and Sanford I. Weill and The Weill Family Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and Ann Ziff.