Young People's Symphony Orchestra (YPSO)

Trumpets and Trombones are working on their recording tracks of the virtual orchestra at today's rehearsal. By following the safety protocol of Alameda county, strings and percussions rehearse in-person in chamber cohorts, while brass and woodwinds rehearse online. The recordings will be optimized and put together with all other instruments for the final product as an orchestra!

YPSO alumni highlight Jeremy Cohen, YPSO alum (1972-73) will be performing in a livestream concert THIS EVENING at 5pm!

Our own Sebastian Zamarripa (Bass Trombone) is featured in The Sentinel, the newspaper of Northgate High School! Sebastian plays a crucial part in our virtual performance production.

We've got the video clips from this Monday’s first chamber cohort rehearsal with Maestro Ramadanoff! Due to the safety protocol of Alameda County, they are only half of the strings and percussions.Now can you imagine how this year's YPSO sounds like with entire strings, brass, and woodwinds? We can't wait to share with you the final product!!!

Maestro Ramadanoff is in full swing at our first chamber cohort rehearsal last evening!! Upper & lower strings and percussions played together with the maestro for the first time!

YPSO alumni highlight Jeremy Cohen, YPSO alum (1972-73), is featured in SFCV!!

YPSO alumni highlight YPSO alumna Anna Szakats will perform with Purdue University’s philharmonic orchestra this Friday. It will be live streamed.

YPSO alumni highlightMadeline Olson, YPSO alumnus (2010 & 2011) will appear in a virtual concert! She went to Julliard for Undergrad and Grad and is currently a member of Buffalo Philharmonic.

More pics from the first rehearsal last evening! Currently, YPSO holds rehearsals in a blended model with in-person sectionals & chamber groups (smaller than 14-musicians) and remote with the latest technology.

First rehearsal of the season! YPSO kicked off the 2020-2021 season tonight! It’s so great to play with old friends and welcome new friends.

YPSO alumni highlight Please listen to the resonance of five voices by The Four Hermaneutics, The Herman Family Choir! Four siblings are YPSO alumni. Joshua (cello) and Rebecca (violin) were with YPSO from 2008 through 2013. Joshua was on the piano for the two concertos, and Rebecca played at least one orchestral piece on the piano. Arielle (2011-2015) played viola and harp. Joel (2012-2016) played violin, and he also played the saxophone in The Symphonic Dances. https://www.facebook.com/100326563376507/posts/3255375651204900/?vh=e&extid=pDooBbjbVmBKchr4&d=n

YPSO alumni highlight Ben Esposito, YPSO alum (2013 - 2018), is featured in The Oaklandside! A picture of him playing the drum at a jam session he organized with other jazz musicians down at the Pillars by Lake Merritt is in the article.

Please tune in Now! Our 2nd violin coach, Yuri Kye is playing in.

Happy Birthday, Antonín Leopold Dvoák(1841-1904)! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, YPSO's concert tour to Central Europe this summer was postponed. Although we could not make it to #DvoákHall #Rudolfinum in Prague where we were supposed to perform, we would like to share the Dvoák’s 8th symphony from our Winter Concert on February 29th, right before the Shelter-In-Place order was issued.