YOUTH ORCHESTRA, CYCNY
E-mail
address: youthorch8@aol.com and/or patsychen@aol.com
For
Immediate Release
Contact: Patsy Chen
T.718-834-8904
E-mail: Patsychen@aol.com
Youth
Orchestra, CYCNY 20011-12 Audition News Release
The Youth Orchestra, CYCNY,
a Queens-based youth orchestra, is pleased to announce its 2011-12 audition for new members,
age 11-18, who has been learning an orchestral instrument with a private
teacher for at least 2-3 years, and who are interested
in our bilingual repertories of Western and Eastern music. The audition date is on
Saturday, September 17, from 12 noon-4pm at Middle School 158
(46-35 Oceania Street, Bayside, NY
11361).
For more information please
contact: Artistic Director Patsy Chen at 718-834-8904.
E-mail: patsychen@aol.com, or
Executive Director
Rosalind Chia at 718-454-7181 e-mail: chia.rosalind@gmail.com, For more information
please visit
the website of: www.youthorchestra.com.
The audition instruments
will be: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba, Violin,
Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Harp and Percussion. The audition requirements are:
1. One solo piece of the
applicant’s choice (No accompanist
needed)
2.
2. Two octaves scales
3. Sight-reading
Youth Orchestra, CYCNY had
just successfully completed its 6th Asia Concert Tour to Yilan,
The
recent Annual Concert at the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center
was on May
22, 2010, at
this concert, Taiwan Center Chorus and Taiwanese American Association of New
York Chorus were invited to perform with this orchestra
under the conducting of Dr. Jeffrey Liang and Dr. Ping H. Chen. Both the Asia
Tour and Lincoln Center Concert were attended and received.
Youth Orchestra, CYCNY was
founded in 1996 and registered with
The uniqueness of this youth orchestra is
the cosmopolitan repertories of Classical, Popular, Jazz, Film, Broadway,
American, Latin and Asian music.
The orchestra meets for
rehearsal on each Saturday from 1-4PM at Middle School 158 in
Bayside,
Annually, the orchestra
presents all members and faculty to perform in two full-length formal
orchestra
concerts. A Holiday Concert around mid-December at Ms. 158
in Bayside, Queens, which is open to the public with free admission, and it has
been a tradition in Queens since 1998; a charity Holiday Concert to perform at Silvercrest Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in
Briarwood, Queens, the upcoming Annual Spring Concert at Alice Tully Hall of
Lincoln Center will be on June 18, 2010. And a Father’s Day Concert
will take place at
The
outstanding faculty members are graduates from
Some projects of Youth Orchestra, CYCNY are made possible
with the funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Queens Council on the Arts, New York State
Council on the Arts, JPMorgan Chase,
Photo:
Youth Orchestra, CYCNY,