The Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon opens its 2023-2024 Concert Season with a 3PM performance at the Collier Center’s Craterian Theater on Sunday, November 5, 2023. The concert will showcase the accomplished young musicians of the Youth Symphony and the Youth Orchestra playing works by Richard Wagner, G.F. Händel, Felix Mendelssohn, and others.

Fall Concert Series repertoire includes Variation on a Theme of Haydn by Johannes Brahms (arr. Leidig), Franz von Suppe’s Light Cavalry Overture, Sinfonia No. 2 in D Major by Felix Mendelssohn (arr. Moss), an arrangement of Richard Wagner’s March of the Meistersingers, the Overture and La Rejouissance from G.F. Händel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, among other works. The two orchestras will be led by music director and conductor Cynthia Hutton, D.M.A.

Founded in 1988, the Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon is a regional organization offering high-level, challenging orchestral music opportunities, a competition for advanced players, and solo and chamber music experiences. Participation in the YSSO develops technical, interpretive, and performance skills, cultivates lifelong friendships, and nurtures workforce skills such as empathy, focus, discipline, and teamwork. A Youth Symphony alumnus observed the YSSO offers an opportunity to “be part of a group where every person’s sound contributes to the music.”  The Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon engages hearts, hands, and minds and connects young people, families, and communities through music. Musicians from throughout the Rogue Valley and college musicians are selected to participate each year.

Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon
Fall Concert Series Performance
November 5, 2023, 3:00 p.m.
Craterian Theater at the Collier Center, Medford