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The Musical Arts Youth Orchestra offers a full symphonic orchestra experience to young musicians in south central indiana. MAYO also offers chamber music coaching through its Chamber music Program and jazz combo experience through its Jazz Program.

The MAYO mission is to provide musical training to a wide array of students of all levels and backgrounds, to promote excellence while fostering individual development, and to prepare students not just as musicians but as community members.

Students of all ages, from grade school through college, are welcome to audition for MAYO. Financial assistance is available for any who may need it. Musicians are expected to participte in their school music programs and to study their instruments seriously.

Concert News

The iMAYO 2009 International Youth Orchestra Festival, held in Bloomington April 12-20, was a huge success. Young players from Austria, France, and Germany, as well as from California and Louisiana and from the Indianapolis area, joined colleagues in Bloomington for a week of rehearsals, concerts and master classes. They performed chamber concerts in Bloomington and Indianapolis, and a full orchestra concert at Bloomington’s IU Auditorium on April 19. Audience enthusiasm was at an all-time high, as was the enthusiasm shown onstage.

Among the outstanding pedagogues who offered their expertise were violinists Mauricio Fuks, Alexander Kerr, Barnabas Kelemen, Jose Valencia, and Michel Zaitzeff; cellists Thomas Loewenheim, Susan Moses, and Janos Starker; hornist Jeff Nelson; trumpeter Albert Lilly, and bassoonist Catherine Marchese.

MAYO STARS - NOVEMBER 2008

MAYO members performed remarkably well at two performances, Friday, November 21, 7:30pm, Bedford North Lawrence Performing Arts Center with members of the Bedford North Lawrence Orchestra and on Saturday, November 22, 7:00pm, Bloomington High School North. The program included performances by concerto competition winners, Young Hoon Koh and Brian Allen.

Concerto Competition Winner Brian Allen concerto competition winner young hoon koh

Brian played the first movement of the Mendelssohn E minor violin concerto, while Youn Hoon played the Kol Nidrei by Max Bruch. Their solos rounded out a program that also included the second symphony by Howard Hanson (the "Romantic") and the overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein.

MLK Day Composition Spectacular -- MAYO Orchestra

The MAYO Composition Competition Playoffs on Monday January 19 resulted in the production of some very cool pieces by some very young audience members AND yielded a competition winner: Through Doorways Between Dreams, by Christopher Renk.

The orchestra played all four pieces that had made it into the finals of the competition. Audience members were invited to weigh in on the results via ballot. With the help of professors Don Freund and David Dzubay, of the IU Jacobs School of Music composition department, the decision was rendered.

Musical Arts Youth Orchestra
Composition Competition Finalists:

Max Grafe: Fresco
Clint Needham: Radiant Nation
Christopher Renk: Oblique Strategies
Chris Serena: Giant Scorpions!! Ate My Brain!!

Congratulations to all! The winning piece was performed by the iMAYO Festival Orchestra at the IU Auditorium on Sunday April 19 at 4:00pm.

Participants

Online Survey (closed)

Member Rules and Regulations

Concerto Competition Application (winners for 2008 have been selected - watch for 2009 guidelines)

Composition Competition (winner: Chris Renk, Through Doorways Between Dreams)

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