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Saturday, May 11
We celebrated 50 years of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra (ASYO) with a very special celebration. We began with a special performance by our ASYO alumni, led by the founding Music Director of the ASYO, Michael Palmer, and Jere Flint, who led the ASYO for 35 years. We then welcomed our current ASYO members to the stage to perform the 2024 Finale Concert.
May 7, 2023
This finale of the ASYO season shows exactly how far these talented young musicians came this season under ASYO Music Director Jerry Hou's direction. The program featured a suite of music from Bizet's L'Arlésienne – incidental music written to accompany a play about a young man torn between two lovers – and from Stravinksy's (in)famous ballet, Rite of Spring.
March 25, 2023
This second concert in the ASYO's 2022/23 season begins with American composer Alvin Singleton's Across Differences, which the composer notes "can refer to the differences between cultures, but it also refers to my thought process." The program also includes a movement of Erich Korngold's Hollywood-flavored Violin Concerto in D Major, and the first part of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring – the opening of which once scandalized all of Paris.
November 12, 2022
Led by ASYO Music Director Jerry Hou, the program features a work by Atlanta Symphony Orchestra member Michael Kurth as well as Mahler's First Symphony, nicknamed "Titan" for its heroic themes.
July 3, 2022
The ASYO and Alumni celebrated Independence Day with a performance on July 3 at Centennial Olympic Park, as part of Look Up Atlanta.
May 14, 2022
The third and final concert of the ASYO's season opens with Bizet's Carmen Suite No. 1. The program also includes two pieces featuring our Concerto Competition winners.
February 27, 2022
This second concert in the ASYO's season begins with Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte. Originally written for solo piano, this piece is based on the pavane, a slow processional dance from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and pays tribute to Spanish customs.
November 6, 2021
The Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra opens its 2021/22 season with an eclectic program, created by ASYO Music Director Jerry Hou, that shows off the depth of talent within these promising musicians.
