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Staff On Site This Weekend
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Stephanie Foster Bonifas and Max Carreon will be on site this weekend for rehearsals.
Come say hi!
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Traffic Alert for September 30, 2017
Wind Symphony parents may park at the Fleet Science Center parking lot or on Park Blvd. Alternately, parents may drop off their students at Village Place.
AIDS Walk - September 30, 2017 7:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Events and road closures on Village Place, Cabrillo Bridge, Balboa Drive, Marston Loop, Park Blvd., 6th Avenue
There will be intermittent access at Village Place from the northbound Park Blvd from 7:00 am - 9:30 am.
At Village place parents will also be able to do a u-turn onto Park Blvd southbound because it is not closed from Village place and south.
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Free Tickets to the San Diego Symphony
The San Diego Symphony has offered SDYS 50 tickets to attend the season-opening concert on Saturday, October 7 at 8:30pm.
A HERO'S LIFE
A Jacobs Masterworks Concert
Edo de Waart, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
WAGNER: Prelude to Die Meistersinger (Friday only)
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major
R. STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Date: Saturday, October 7 at 8:30PM
Venue: Copley Symphony Hall (750 B St, San Diego 92101)
Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and are non-transferable. The respondents for the first 50 tickets will be notified via email. Once the limit is reached, including a waiting list, the link will stop working. Please note that we will be unable to offer any future free tickets to those who sign up but do not attend the actual performance.
Sign up for tickets:
Deadline to sign up for tickets is Wednesday, October 5, 2017
Thank you and we hope you can take part of this special opportunity!
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Concert Tickets Now On Sale
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SDYS Concert Tickets Now Available
We are making concert tickets available for purchase online now, so you won't have to worry about buying tickets at the door! Read about our special offers below.
All 2017-18 Season Concerts are on sale now through our website at www.sdys.org or by clicking here.
Special Offer
: Purchase 2 (or more) adult tickets, and receive 2 (or more) free tickets, no limit! (For example, if you purchase 3 adult tickets, you may receive up to 3 free tickets, etc.) Free tickets must be requested at the time of ticket purchase. To reserve your free tickets on line, please use the Promo Code:
SDYSFAMILY.
Celebration of Music Education Concert
Sunday, November 19 2017
California Center for the Arts, Escondido
Reserved Seats
- California Center for the Arts, Escondido, requires reserved seating (not general admission). When purchasing your tickets online, you will choose your seats from the seat map. Tickets/seats cannot be changed once purchased.
Music Educators may request up to 2 complimentary tickets
, so please invite your favorite music educators to attend! Music educators can request their free tickets and choose their seats online with Promo Code: ME2017. If ordering a ticket for a Music Educator, please c
omplete the order with the Music Educator's name and contact information.
1:00 pm concert:
Featuring Overture Winds, Overture Strings, Symphonic Strings, Wind Symphony and Sinfonia
6:00 pm concert:
Featuring Concert Orchestra, Concert Winds and Symphony Orchestra
For questions regarding concert ticketing, please contact
Terry Williams at
[email protected]
or 619-233-3232 x115.
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2017-2018 T-Shirt Design Contest
Are you artistic and creative? Submit your artwork for a chance to be featured on the back of our 2017-2018 SDYS T-Shirt!
San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory students are invited to get creative for this year's contest.
SDYS invites our students to design the 2017-2018 SDYS T-shirt. The competition is open to students from all ensembles until
Sunday, October 22, 2017.
For submission guidelines and details on the selection process, please click here.
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Musical Artstops at San Diego Museum of Art
Would you like an opportunity to perform at the San Degio Museum of Art, learn about the connections between art and music, and engage with museum goers?
In collaboration with the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA), students in
Sinfonia, Wind Symphony, or Ovation Program are eligible to apply for Musical ArtStops.
Students will have the opportunity to present a 15-minute performance centering around works of art at SDMA. SDYS and SDMA staff members will provide training for students.
Training will include an overview of
the music as it relates to the artwork as well as
etiquette while
engaging a group
of museum visitors.
Saturday, October 14, 2017 - Deadline for Application
Saturday, October 21, 2017 - Training session at SDMA at 1:15pm
Saturday, October 28, 2017 - Deadline to submit the title of art selections to Brenna at [email protected]
Sunday, Novermber 5, 2017 - Performance at SDMA at 2:00pm and 2:30pm
Apply by October 14, 2017
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SDYS Concerto
Competitions
SDYS offers two separate yearly Concerto Competitions to further its individual members' opportunities at the highest level. One competition is for Showcase Program musicians and the other is for Ovation Program musicians.
Winners perform their solos accompanied by a large ensemble.
Candidates for the Ovation competition must select either a movement from a multi-movement concerto or a complete concerto in one movement. Candidates for the Showcase competition must select a movement from the approved list of concertos.
The competitions take place in two rounds. The preliminary round is for all candidates; however, a limited number of candidates will advance to a public performance final round.
Showcase Competition
Preliminary Round: Sunday, October 22, 2017.
Please note, preliminary rounds are NOT open to the public.
Location: TBD
Final Round: Friday, November 3, 2017. Ticketed event. Public welcome!
Location:
University Christian Church, 3900 Cleveland Ave., San Diego, CA 92103
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Showcase Competition Applications are available here.
Ovation Competition
Preliminary Round: Sunday, October 8, 2017.
Please note, preliminary rounds are NOT open to the public.
Location:
University Christian Church, 3900 Cleveland Ave., San Diego, CA 92103
Final Round: Friday, October 20, 2017. Ticketed event. Public welcome!
Location:
University Christian Church, 3900 Cleveland Ave., San Diego, CA 92103
Ovation Competition Applications are closed.
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Inspiration and Showcase Concert
DVDs
Showcase and Inspiration students from the 2016-17 season:
Our concerts at Copley Symphony Hall on Saturday, June 10 were recorded, and DVDs are now available for purchase on our website!
DVDs are $15 each if picked up at our office in Casa del Prado or $20 if mailed to your home. Our office is open
Monday-
Friday,
9am-5pm. DVDs will also be available for sale at the Season's First Downbeat on
Saturday August 26 and at all rehearsals in September.
Ovation students: A DVD of the Sunday, June 11 Ovation performance will be available for purchase at rehearsal this weekend. A link will be provided next week for online purchases.
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We're Hiring!
Early Childhood Teaching Artist
The Teaching Artists for SDYS' early childhood music will teach small groups of our Baby and Me Music classes for children 0-4 years old and their caregivers, as well as teach early childhood music to small groups of preschools at contracted sites. Our team begins to build musical skills, creativity, movement, and social-emotional skills for young children.
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Do you have an extra musical instrument
lying around that you no longer use?
Why not donate it
to SDYS?
We are accepting wind and string instruments that will all be going to conservatory and community students that need them. You can drop them off Monday - Friday during regular business hours, or on the weekends during rehearsals.
For any questions regarding instrument donations please email
Stephanie Foster Bonifas at
[email protected]
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Share your exciting news about substantial musical achievements.
We'll post them in the weekly update to inspire others.
Please submit your recent music-related accomplishments by email to [email protected].
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General Information, Other Events, and Opportunities
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The events listed below are for information only.
They are not sponsored or evaluated by, and do not have a connection with SDYS.
Musicians are not allowed to exceed the maximum permitted absences according to the Musician's Handbook
by participating in any events listed below.
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Service Academy Information Night
Monday, October 9, 2017 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Eastlake High School's cafeteria
This event will provide an opportunity for interested students to learn more about service academies.
Students interested in attending service academies will be able to hear from each institution. The U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, and U.S. Coast Guard Academy will have representatives at the event to answer questions.
High school seniors planning to apply to a service academy or join an ROTC program are encouraged to attend. This is a public event open to any high school students who have an interest in learning more about Service Academies and their families. No RSVP necessary.
You can find more about this event
here.
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YoungArts' National Arts Competition
YoungArts is now accepting applications for its
2017 national arts competition
, which offers students up to $10,000 in cash awards, mentorship and professional support, and opportunities to take master classes taught by accomplished artists. U.S. student artists, ages 15-18, working in a wide-range of disciplines - including dance, theatre, visual arts and writing, among others - are eligible to apply.
The deadline for applications is October 13, 2017.
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The President's Own
Application Deadline: November 15, 2017
"The President's Own" United States Marine Band, in conjunction with the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, is pleased to announce its annual concerto competition for high school woodwind, brass, or percussion musicians. The winner will appear as a guest soloist with the U.S. Marine Band and receive a $2,500 scholarship from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. The runner up will receive a $500 scholarship.
Click here to apply.
For more information, please visit http://www.marineband.marines.mil/Educational/
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From The Top's Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award
Apply for the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award
It's more than a scholarship.
Since 2005, From the Top and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation have awarded more than $2 million in scholarships to exceptional young musicians with financial need. In addition to providing these young artists with an opportunity to perform on From the Top's national broadcasts, recipients are awarded up to $10,000 to help offset the often prohibitively expensive costs of studying classical music at a high level. Each year, From the Top chooses approximately 20 exceptional pre-collegiate musicians ages 8-18 to receive the Award.
For application and details on how to apply, click here.
Application deadlines
Students may apply for the scholarship at any time, but applications will be reviewed in three cycles throughout the year according to the below deadlines. All recipients are notified on a rolling admissions basis in accordance with our 2017-2018 taping season.
2017-2018 Deadline I: October 2, 2017
2017-2018 Deadline II: January 8, 2018
2017-2018 Deadline III: March 5, 2018
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National Youth Orchestra of the United States
NYO
Ages 16-19
Application Deadline: November 15, 2017
Each summer, Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute brings together the brightest young players from across the country to form the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. Following a comprehensive audition process and a three-week training residency with leading professional orchestra musicians, these remarkable teenagers embark on a tour to some of the great music capitals of the world to serve as dynamic music ambassadors. In 2017, the orchestra traveled to Latin
America with conductor Marin Alsop and performed a program that includes a new Carnegie Hall-commissioned work by Gabriela Lena Frank and Mahler's Symphony No. 1. In 2018, NYO-USA will return to Asia for a tour with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
NYO2
Ages 14-17
Application Deadline: December 15, 2017
In 2017, Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute brings together outstanding young American instrumentalists ages 14-17 to form NYO2, a summer orchestral training program with a particular focus on attracting talented students from groups underserved by and underrepresented in the classical orchestral field. Running in conjunction with NYO-USA's annual
summer residency at Purchase College, SUNY, NYO2 offers an opportunity for participants to play alongside exceptionally talented peers and learn from a world-class faculty. NYO2 aims to expand the pool of young musicians across the country equipped with the tools to succeed at the highest level, particularly those who will bring greater diversity to classical orchestral music and/or those who have not had access to highly selective training opportunities through major youth orchestra programs, summer festivals and camps, or similar experiences outside of their local community. NYO2 is free for all participants, including room and board, and all rehearsal, teaching, and performance activities.
NYO Jazz
Ages 16-19
Application Deadline: February 1, 2017
In the summer of 2018, gifted young jazz musicians from across the country will come together to study with and learn from world-class jazz musicians during the inaugural season of NYO Jazz. NYO Jazz gives young musicians the opportunity to perform as cultural ambassadors on an international stage and share a uniquely American musical genre with cultures around the world through an international tour each summer. Trumpet player Sean Jones, who is one of the field's outstanding
performer-composer-educators, will be the soloist and
bandleader for NYO Jazz's Carnegie Hall debut and inaugural European tour.
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Traffic Alerts
Every week SDYS will post Balboa Park events that exceed 1,000 people so you can plan your travel accordingly.
AIDS Walk - September 30, 2017 - 7:00 AM - 9:30 AM
-Events and road closures on Village Place, Cabrillo Bridge, Balboa Drive, Marston Loop, Park Blvd., 6th Avenue
Maker Faire - October 7-8, 2017 - 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
- Park Event - Traffic and parking will be extremely busy
Diwali Festival of Lights - October 14, 2017 - 3:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Free Park Event - Traffic and parking will be extremely busy
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Exhibits & Performances
in Balboa Park for September
Please click
here to see a list of arts events in Balboa Park in September.
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Sincerely,
Brenna Casey
Conservatory Program Coordinator
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