National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America

Residency

For the initial two weeks of the program each year, NYO-USA will be based at the campus of Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY). Located in Westchester County just north of New York City, Purchase College has outstanding rehearsal, performance, and residential facilities, including a highly regarded performing arts center that will be the center of musical activities during the residency. The residency will include sectional and full orchestral rehearsals, coaching sessions for individual instrument groups, presentations on musical and non-musical topics relating to the repertoire and tour cities, and social/recreational activities, capped by a concert at the performing arts center.
 
James Ross, conductor and associate director of The Juilliard School’s conducting program and director of orchestral activities at the University of Maryland, will lead the NYO-USA faculty. Comprising some of the finest players and section leaders from America’s greatest orchestras and music schools, the faculty will oversee rehearsals during the orchestra’s residency in Purchase and will also conduct master classes, chamber music readings, and other seminars on essentials music skills, all leading up to the NYO-USA tour.

2013 Tour

In 2013, NYO-USA will travel to Washington, DC, for a concert at the Kennedy Center, and then to Russia for concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg, before concluding the international tour with a performance in London. The program will include Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, and a new work by young American composer Sean Shepherd, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall for NYO-USA.

2014 Tour

Summer 2014 will feature NYO-USA's first performance at Carnegie Hall and a coast-to-coast US tour with dynamic conductor David Robertson and virtuoso violinist Gil Shaham.