The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) is an organization comprising six orchestras, a chamber music program, and a community program. Formerly known as the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, it changed its name in March 2007. Members include student musicians of elementary and secondary school age. The orchestras are in residence at Boston University's College of Fine Arts but perform at a number of locations including Boston's Symph...
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The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) is an organization comprising six orchestras, a chamber music program, and a community program. Formerly known as the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, it changed its name in March 2007. Members include student musicians of elementary and secondary school age. The orchestras are in residence at Boston University's College of Fine Arts but perform at a number of locations including Boston's Symphony Hall, Sanders Theater at Harvard University, the Hatch Memorial Shell, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music.
Its members audition every year, regardless of previous acceptance. The BYSO discourages the typical system of seating an orchestra's string players by "rank" (proficiency at one's instrument) commonly found in other youth and professional orchestras; instead, the organization rotates its seatings frequently to encourage non-competitiveness, even the principal (section leader)...
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