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​GPYO Latest News and Events
Audition for GPYO's 2022-2023 Season!
Sign up to Audition by May 20th.  Audition videos due on June 3rd. 
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Masterclass with Violinist Charles Yang
Saturday, April 2, 2022   3:00 - 6:00 pm
Hillman Hall, Westminster Conservatory of Music
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We are pleased to partner with Westminster Conservatory in presenting a masterclass with violinist Charles Yang!
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Recipient of the 2018 Leonard Bernstein Award, Juilliard graduate Charles Yang has performed as a soloist with orchestras and in concert in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Russia, China, and Taiwan, and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. On June 9, 2005, the Mayor of Austin presented Mr. Yang with his own "Charles Yang Day.”  In 2016 Mr. Yang joined the crossover string-band, Time for Three.
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Mr. Yang's improvisational crossover abilities as a violinist, electric violinist, and vocalist have led him to featured performances with a variety of artists in many festivals, including as The Aspen Music Festival, The Ravinia Festival, The YouTube Music Awards, The Moab Music Festival, and TED and onstage at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera House.
​Read more about Charles Yang here.

Download the event flyer.
​For information on attending the masterclass, contact ops@gpyo.org.


Welcoming Two New Staff Members 
GPYO welcomes two new staff members to our team!
Music Director, Jessica Morel, a
nd Preparatory Strings Ensemble Conductor, Blair Cunningham. Read more about them here. 

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​New Rehearsal Venue
GPYO is excited to announce our new rehearsal venue for 2021-2022:
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton - 50 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton
Click here for more
information on our rehearsals.
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GPYO Open Rehearsals 
​May 16  & May 23
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Concerto Competition 2021-2022
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Both Elise and Nikhil are members of our Symphonic Orchestra, and long-time GPYO members. We look forward to to our Spring Concert when Elise will be performing the third movement of the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26, and Nikhil will be performing the third movement of the Mozart Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 417. The concert is currently planned for June 12, 2022 at Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium. Stay tuned for details.

We are grateful to Judith Morse and Sung-won Hwang who served as competition judges on January 23. Both of these fine performer-educators serve on the faculties of the Westminster Conservatory of Music and Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Thanks to all of the musicians who competed in the GPYO Concerto Competition in January. We encourage all GPYO students to keep developing their skills both as soloists and as ensemble players, and we are already looking forward to hearing next year’s competitors!

GPYO-Westminster Conservatory Partnership
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GPYO has joined forces with Westminster Conservatory of Music to increase opportunities for our members to learn and perform music! We look forward to collaborating with their talented and experienced faculty and staff!

Beginning this fall, musicians enrolled in both programs are eligible for a 10% tuition discount on programs at both institutions. Read more here.


Support GPYO This Season
We are so grateful to be back rehearsing and performing in person this year!

We thank the volunteers and donors who have made our programming possible throughout our 60 year history, and those organizations, businesses and individuals who have helped us to navigate the path through the pandemic!

The GPYO is a 501 (c) (3) organization. Donations to GPYO are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.  GPYO is eligible for corporate matching and United Way funds.

If you would like more information about making a donation, please contact:
Executive Director Wendy Norris.
Each year, student tuition covers only a portion of the cost of paying our talented artistic staff and guest artists, renting our rehearsal and performance venues, and providing training opportunities for our members. 

If you are able, please consider  making a donation &/or naming us as your preferred charity when you place online orders through Amazon Smile .

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SPRING 2021 CONCERT VIDEOS ​
2021 ARTIST SHOWCASE VIDEO
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About Us

The Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra is proud to be celebrating over 60 years of delighting audiences and providing exciting and unique educational opportunities to our young musicians.
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Concert Season
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2021-2022


​GPYO Spring Concert
Sunday, June 12, 2022 

Preparatory Strings - 3:00 p.m. 
Chamber Winds - 3:00 p.m.
Concert Orchestra - 7:00 p.m.
Symphonic Orchestra - 7:00 p.m. 


Richardson Auditorium
Princeton University

GPYO Winter Concert
Sunday, December 12, 2021

Preparatory Strings Ensemble - 2:30 p.m.
Concert Orchestra - 3:30 p.m.
Symphonic Orchestra - 4:30 p.m.


Princeton High School
Performing Arts Center
​​151 Moore Street, Princeton, NJ  08540
​FREE ADMISSION  (Reserve in advance)

Auditions

Auditions for the 2022-2023 season are now in progress. 
Deadlines:
Sign up to audition by May 20, 2022.
Submit audition video by June 3, 2022.
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GPYO in the News

  • July 22, 2021 - A Tempo with Rachel Katz (WWFM) - "Youth Ensembles Enjoy Return, Look Ahead"
  • July 16, 2021 - New Jersey Stage - "Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra Announces Forward-Looking Changes for 2021-2022"
  • June 10, 2015 - Princeton Town Topics (6/10/2015) – “GPYO Concludes Season in Full Symphonic Fashion”
  • June 11, 2014 – Princeton Festival Performance
  • June 6, 2013 – Town Topics Review of Spring Concert
  • June 28, 2012 – The Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra
  • June 23, 2012 – Performance at Lincoln Center
  • June 9, 2012 – Orchestra Opens Princeton Festival With Orchestral Majesty

Support Us

The Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra is a nonprofit educational organization that receives much of its support from donors and lovers of classical, opera and symphonic music.
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If you are unable to attend a scheduled rehearsal, please complete our absence report form. Please note that absences are subject to the GPYO attendance policy.
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