Minnesota Youth Symphonies
Founded in 1972, Minnesota Youth Symphonies (MYS) is one of the nation’s premier youth orchestra education programs. MYS is dedicated to conservatory-level orchestral training for students offering:
- Three full orchestras and one string orchestra with 400 students participating annually
- Sectional coaching and side-by-side play-ins with the Minnesota Orchestra
- Weekly classes in theory, composition, solfege, and piano
- Annual concerts at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, and at community locations in the Greater Twin Cities
- Retreat weekends for each orchestra
- Summer programs for chamber strings, composition and conducting
- String Studio Program for students at Minneapolis’ Andersen Schools
- Music and Melody Makers and Children’s Concert Club – a hands-on introduction to the instruments of the orchestra and reduced-rate concert tickets for children
Region
MYS holds weekly rehearsals in St. Paul, and its students come from all over Minnesota and western Wisconsin to play in MYS orchestras. While many of our youth orchestra students come from Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Twin Cities suburbs, some are from as far away as Rochester, Hudson, Bemidji, and St. Cloud.