Concertos

Announcing the winners of this year's concerto auditions, and which concert they will be featured in:

November 2021 Concert:

Hugues Herpin Lemonnier, Violin concerto no. 3 by Camille Saint-Saens

February 2022 Concert:

Tanner Chipman, Horn Concerto No. 2 by Richard Strauss

April 2022 Concert: 

Alexis Jensen, Concerto for Oboe and Strings by Vaughan-Williams

Congratulations on all your hard work! You are each an inspiration! 

Julie

Concerto Audition Deadline

Just a quick reminder that today is the concerto audition registration deadline. If you are working on a piece and even possibly planning to audition, you must let me know by the end of today. 

Here is the concerto audition page with rules and past winners. 

Hope you're having a happy summer! The page will be complete soon - I'll let you know!

Don't forget the recruiting competition - see below!

Julie

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Julie Gardner | NUYS Managing Director

www.NorthernUtahYouthSymphony.org

Concerto Auditions

Dear fellow musicians,

I can only imagine you've had a long day waiting for this. Can I just tell you how wonderful it was to see you and to listen to you play this morning? Wow! I'm sure we could not count the hours that went into your preparation for this morning, but as a fellow musician, I do have some idea.

The decision by our judges today has been based on overall performance in the audition itself. This result is a reflection of having to judge musical performances. Since music is so subjective and judging has to somehow be objective, the judges have to take into consideration just what they see that day, including accompaniment etc, even though they might know other details that affect your journey.

That said, you are all spectacular! Every year we wish we could choose everyone. 

But we can't. And this year might be even stranger, because we are choosing people and then hoping to have everything work out so there will be performances. 

Disclaimer: If you "won" today, you still won, even if something gets in the way of putting on a concert and you don't get the expected prize of performing with the orchestra. 

We are doing everything we can to make it happen, however! 

Our winners who should expect to perform with the orchestra this year are... 

Elizabeth Archuleta

Kai Bowen

Honorable mention (possibility for performing) 

Talmage Kay

Since we have to wait and see how many people and what kind of instrumentation we have in the orchestra, we have not planned which concert you will each be performing on. Natalie Nef will also be performing this year since she won last year and would have played the April concert. 

Thank you for your understanding. 

🎶🌹

Julie 

Concerto Audition Results

Congratulations to all who auditioned for concertos this year! 

It is always such an inspiring morning to hear and see how hard everyone has worked over the summer. Music is such a blessing!

Our concerto soloists this year will be:

Natalie Nef, Violin

Rebecca Hales, Violin

Ashley Montgomery, Clarinet

We have not assigned your individual concert, but dates will be assigned in the next few weeks. 

You will be receiving in the mail an after-audition packet (that I meant to hand to each of you today!) and comments from our adjudicators. 

We so appreciate your time and effort! You are all amazing!

Julie Gardner

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Membership and Concerto Auditions

Greetings!

This is going out to last year's list, so if you've graduated, forward this to a friend! It's also going to a few people who have called and requested notification.

Membership Auditions:

Just letting you know that the NUYS Audition Page is mostly updated. We don't have new excerpts up yet, but everything else is functional, including our membership form (to be filled out every year), and time slots for auditions on August 24th! Also, please let me know if you see anything that needs to be corrected. 

Concerto Auditions: 

I've heard rumors of different people preparing for concerto auditions, but I only have one person on my list so far. If you're preparing a concerto for our August 17th audition, please check with me! Maybe you told me but I missed writing it down. 

Here is the link to the rules and past winners.

Hope you are all having a great summer!

Julie :)

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Symphonic Sampler -- Upcoming Concert

Northern Utah Youth Symphony and Chamber Orchestras will present their first concert of the 2017-2018 Season, Saturday, November 18, 2017, 3:30 pm at Ogden High School. Admission is free, thanks to our sponsors including Classical Strings and On Track Counseling (Aaron Gardner - Psychotherapist and Neurofeedback).

The Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Nathan West, will open the concert with a Latin-Themed program including Christopher's Fiesta for Strings, Yradier's La Paloma, Graf's arrangement of Yellow Bird, and Hall's Dancing in the Street.

The Northern Utah Youth Symphony, conducted by Conrad Dunn, will then take the stage to perform Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, Highlights from "Wicked", A Canadian Brass Christmas, and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto featuring Sarah Francis, a long-time member of the youth symphony.

Northern Utah Youth Symphony and Chamber Orchestras are projects of Lake Bonneville Symphonic Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization supported in part by the George S and Dolores Dore Eccles foundation, and the Utah Division of Arts and Museums with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sarah Francis has been studying violin with Elissa Krebs for 11 years, and has been a member of Northern Utah Youth Symphony for the past five years. She is a junior at Ogden High School, where she has been serving as concertmaster of the Camerata Orchestra for two years. She currently tutors orchestra students at Mount Ogden Junior High School. While at Ogden High School, she has participated in All State Orchestra, and received superior ratings at regional and state solo and ensemble festivals, and, she was the concertmaster for the 2017 Weber State University Honor Orchestra. She loves chamber music. One of her favorite experiences has been participating in summer chamber music camps coached by the Fry Street Quartet and Lee Trio. She currently plays in a violin trio with the Junction City Music School. She has enjoyed participating in master classes and workshops with violinists Sarah Tasker, Chloe Trevor, and Jenny Oaks Baker. She is a volunteer for the Ogden Symphony Ballet Association Youth Guild, and also a member of the National Honor Society. She enjoys participating in musical theater productions, fiddling with friends, attending seminary, storytelling, and teaching piano.

Not a ticketed event.

Concerto Auditions

Greetings!

We are pleased to announce a new Concerto Audition schedule. This will make it possible to include one concerto for each concert, depending on who auditions.

If you are interested in auditioning this year and were expecting auditions to be in November, please audition anyway, even though the audition is in August instead.

The Concerto Audition page on the website has been updated with all the new information. 

Deadlines, in a nutshell: 

Audition Sign-up: August 10 (reply to this email or call Julie 435.740.4335)

Auditions, time and location TBD: August 23

Please also note that students wanting to audition on a non-orchestral instrument are not required to be in the orchestra, but students auditioning on orchestral instruments need to be members of LYS/LYCO.

We are still working on the name-change. 

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Concerto Auditions Application Deadline

Lincoln Youth Symphony Concerto Auditions Application Deadline is coming up quickly.

September 30 is the deadline for applying to get music approved for this year's November 2 concerto auditions. Please contact me (Julie Gardner) if you are interested in auditioning (or have your interested student contact me) at LincolnYouthSymphony@gmail.com, or via telephone @ 435.723.8262.

The concerto audition page on the Lincoln Youth Symphony website has been revised and updated. If you soloed with us last season, you will not be eligible this year, but we'd love it if you would tell your friends about the opportunity.

Here is a link to the new and improved concerto audition page. Please read through it and let me know if you have any questions.
http://www.lincolnyouthsymphony.com/p/concerto-night.html

Please pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested.

Julie Gardner, Managing Director
Conrad Dunn, Conductor
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LYS Announcements!

Important Stuff here... Please read the whole email. Please. :)

Here is the announcement you've all been waiting for:

We are NOT changing any of the schedule! Yes, there will be a few people who miss Saturday Morning at the retreat for the ACT, but they can still come FRIDAY! We tried to change things, but it just wasn't working out - we would have missed about the same number of people the following week & would have had to change concerto auditions, into the bargain.

Here is the schedule for the next few weeks:

October 13

8:30 - 11:00 am, Rehearsal including sectionals & section specialists

11:15 am - 12:00 noon, Parent Meeting

Reminders: Bring the Payment & Acceptance form. Bring it with your payment on Saturday to the parent meeting. This was handed out today, and is also attached to this email, along with the Membership Information mentioned in the Acceptance form. :)

October 20

UEA Weekend

Practice Like Crazy; No Rehearsal

October 26-27

Retreat at Camp UTABA - Detailed schedule will be sent at later date, but please fill out permission form, even if you're only coming for part of the retreat.

(Information and Permission form ATTACHED to this email; please print, fill out, and bring next week.)

November 3

8:30-11:00 am, Regular Rehearsal 

Concerto Auditions 11:15 am (This will be addressed in a separate email for those preparing to audition.)

November 10

8:30-11:00 am, Rehearsal including sectionals & section specialists

November 17

CONCERT DAY!

8:30-11:00 am, Rehearsal on stage @ Box Elder Middle School, 18 South 500 East, Brigham City

5:00-6:30 pm, Concert! (Admission: $3 Adults, $2 Students/Seniors, $12 Families)

November 24

Thanksgiving Weekend! 

No Rehearsal.

December 1, 8, 15

8:30-11:00 am, Regular Rehearsals!

Well, then, Fabulous! We were incredibly blessed to have our section specialists today. Thank you Jesse, Amber, Becca, Catherine, Marianna, and Keri for your support! Sectionals next week, folks, so be sure to practice & come with questions. 

Thank you, Sam, for performing the Dynamics Speech today. I laughed so hard I cried. I will never think about Dynamics the same again. 

Julie Gardner

Sam Runolfson

PS If you are reading this as a post on the blog and need the forms mentioned as attachments, please contact me at LincolnYouthSymphony@gmail.com. I will be happy to send you the forms in PDF format via reply email. 

2012-13 Information Letter

For a better copy of this letter,
please contact me
(Julie Gardner, LincolnYouthSymphony@gmail.com). 

I can email you a pdf!

Come Play With Us!

LYS: Concerto Auditions

Concerto Auditions are open to all youth through high school age regardless of membership in Lincoln Youth Symphony, although non-members are asked to make a $20 donation to the organization at the audition. 


There are several dates to remember in regards to Concerto Auditions & Performance Opportunities:


September 29, 2012: Music Approval Deadline -- please submit to Julie Gardner by this date. The music you want to perform must be available and playable, and we can't know if you don't ask!


November 3, 2012: 11:15am @ Promontory School: Concerto Auditions


If you are selected to perform with the Lincoln Youth Symphony, you may be included in either of two concerts, depending on how the programming works out:

February 9, 2013 or April 20, 2013

What a great year it's going to be!

LYS - Nov 12 Rehearsal Time Change - Please read to the end! :)

Greetings!

Thanks for a good rehearsal last week. It's going to be great to have everyone involved in the play back at rehearsal again.

Concerto Auditions

A big congratulations to all the students who auditioned for the Concerto Night concert. It takes a long time and a lot of work - and diligent practice - to prepare a concerto. I'm sure you see that as you watch Krystell prepare for her performance! She is a great example to all of us. (If this is something you are interested in doing in the future, please talk with Rob or me and let's choose a piece together that will work well for the orchestra -- before you spend a year learning it!)

Our concerto night performers will be 

Joshua Musselman, from Logan, playing the first movement of Piano Concerto No 1 by Liszt

Ryan Stocks, from Brigham City, playing the first movement of Cello Concerto No 1 by Saint-Saens

Andrew Johnson, from Perry, playing the third movement of the Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn

These are three of the pieces we will be diligently learning for our next concert! I'm excited because they are all FULL orchestra pieces --  not that we don't love the Accolay, but it's only scored for Strings! :)

Volunteers needed - if you have a sense that either of these might be something you can help with, please step forward! 

I no longer have a van to haul percussion, and I need someone with a large enough vehicle to fit a few timpani & other various pieces of equipment. I can NO LONGER do this myself, so I need a volunteer to meet me at ACYI on Saturday, Nov 12, at 7:15 am. We load percussion, haul it to the Middle School, and leave it there for the day. Preferably, the same volunteer would then haul the percussion equipment back to ACYI after the concert (at about 6pm). It's a good deed to help a stranded symphony manager! Let me know if you'd like to help! :)

Still looking for someone to video the concert -- if you don't have a good camera, I have one that works really well and records the sound very nicely. Let's get together on it, K?

November 5 Rehearsal

This Saturday, November 5, is our last rehearsal before we go to the auditorium for the dress rehearsal. We have a lot of work to do, and Rob is going to be out of town for a wedding. Actually, he loves us so much that he tried to get out of going, but in the end he really needs to be in Boise, so he has created an elaborate schedule for us. We will be having sectionals (split into smaller groups) for the first hour, and then running through pieces during the second hour + 15 minutes. Please be on time, and come ready to work! :)

November 12 Rehearsal

This is the one with the big change, and it only involves the strings: The strings will be starting rehearsal on Saturday November 12 at the Middle School Auditorium (18 S 500 E, Brigham) at 8:00 am. Yes, you read that right. Woodwinds & Brass will join us at 9:00 am, the regular time. Rehearsal will be over by 11:00 or 11:15 am and LYCO will begin their rehearsal as soon as we are done. If you think you're going to die, bring a snack! :)

November 12 Concert

Remember we have changed our concert time to 4:30pm. Please arrive at 4:00pm dressed for the concert. We perform after LYCO. I have posted the press release (with the non-silly photos) on the website. Click here to read it. Hopefully the papers will publish it! 

Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for students, and $12 for all family under one roof.

Why is there is an admission charge to the concert? (I wish it were free!) If someone wants to take the banner of finding sponsors for our concerts, we would be able to do away with admission, but at this point, it covers the cost of the hall and also supplements some operating expenses. Please come talk to me or a member of the board if you would like to carry this banner!

Concert Dress -- a reminder that you need to get your wardrobe ready.

Extra Extra: Don't find yourself frantically searching thrift stores for black clothing the day of the concert! 

• Male: Black tux or equivalent suit (*this includes black slacks and a black jacket), white dress shirt, black bow tie, black socks, black shoes. 
• Female: Black dress, formal trouser suit, or blouse & skirt, midriff covered, conservative neckline, skirts & dresses at least tea-length, slits no higher than knee, black stockings, black shoes, accessories & trim in black.

Thanks for everything - especially all your support! You are all awesome!

Julie Gardner

Robert Bott