Last edited: 07/04/2008

PYS Auditions

Training Programs Produce Excellence

 

May 12-16, 2008

Phoenix Youth Symphony

All Brass & Woodwinds

Flutes/Piccolo

Flute Call Backs

 

May 19-21, 2008

Symphonette Orchestra (strings)

String Orchestra

Percussion

 

Phoenix Youth Symphony provides for talented, dedicated young musicians, one of the finest and most comprehensive Orchestral Training Programs in the nation, through the Phoenix Youth Symphony, Symphonette Orchestra, Symphonic Winds,  and String Orchestra.  Conducted by young, professional musicians, renowned for their expertise in conducting and developing orchestral skills, these groups rehearse Wednesday evenings at Central High School, offering select students outstanding learning and performance opportunities in a professional orchestral setting.  To be accepted by PYS’s Orchestral Training Program, a student must be a member in good standing of his/her school’s instrumental group if one exists in the school curriculum.   PYS has need-based scholarships available to PYS orchestral training program students.

 

Sandy Rutledge, Auditions Chairman

(623) 825-4334

 

Stacey Page, Orchestral Training Manager

(602) 242-1077

 

 

Audition Requirements

 

All Groups

 

AUDITION FEE: $20 non-refundable

 

ENSEMBLE PREFERENCE: Must meet ensemble music level of difficulty and scale requirements for the first ensemble listed that you check on your application.

 

ALL GROUPS  MAY BE ASKED TO SIGHT-READ.

 

SCALES: All groups will be required to play scales as specified below.  Scales need to be memorized and played in eighth notes (quarter note = 60).

 

EXCERPTS:  Phoenix Youth Symphony will audition on an excerpt.  Excerpts will be mailed on April 17, 2008