The Youth Orchestra, CYCNY, a Queens-based youth orchestra since 1996 is pleased to announce the 2013-14 audition for new members, age 10-18, who has been learning an orchestral instrument with a private teacher for at least 2-3 years, and are interested in our bilingual repertories of Western and Eastern music.

The audition date is on Saturday, September 14, from 12 noon-3:30 pm at Middle School 158 (46-35 Oceania Street, Bayside, NY 11361).

For more information please contact: Artistic Director Patsy Chen at 718-834-8904. E-mail: patsychen@aol.com, or Executive Director Jason Chang at 347-306-2511 mdjchang@verizon.net,

For more information, please visit the website: www.youthorchestra.com.

The audition instruments will be: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba, violin, viola, cello, bass, harp and percussion. Scholarship will be available for viola, bass, horn and bassoon. The audition requirements are:

1. One solo piece of the applicant’s choice (No accompanist needed)

2. 2. Two-octave scales

3. Sight-reading

Youth Orchestra, CYCNY was founded in 1996 and registered with New York State as a non-profit organization in 1997.

The uniqueness of this youth orchestra is the various repertories of Classical, Popular, Jazz, Film, Broadway, American, Latin and Asian music.

The orchestra meets for rehearsal on each Saturday from 1-4PM at Middle School 158 in Bayside, Queens from late September to early June.

In 2013-14, the orchestra presents all members and faculty to perform in two full-length formal concerts. A Holiday Concert on December 15, 2013 at Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, which is open to the public with free admission, the concert has been a tradition in Queens since 1999; two charity concerts to perform at Silvercrest Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on December 8, 2013 and on June 1, 2014, as well as Concert at Florence E. Smith Senior Center in Corona, Queens on December 7, 2013.

The Annual Spring Concert at Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center will be on May 24, 2014.