2024-2025 Auditions are coming!

Spring auditions are for all of our groups YCO, YSE, WMC and YACP!

*Young Artist Chamber Players*

Auditions for YACP are by appointment only

This is our only audition for the 2024-2025 year for our most advanced orchestra, YACP

Registration must be submited by Friday, April 12th. 

To register for an audition for this group, please follow this YACP registration link:

Audition registration link for YACP

*You will be emailed an audition time a week after registration is completed.

Auditions for YACP will be held on Monday, May 6th at Highland High School

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*Wasatch Mountain Camerata*

*Youth String Ensemble* 

*Youth Chamber Orchestra*

Auditions for WMC, YSE and YCO are by appointment only

Registration must be submitted by Friday, April 12th.

To audition for placement in one of these three orchestras, please follow this registration link:

Audition registration link for WMC, YSE, YCO

*You will be emailed an audition time a week after registration is completed.

Auditions for WMC, YSE and YCO will be held on Monday, May 13th at Highland High School.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Placement auditions are for new students or returning students who wish to change orchestras (It is not an expectation that students advance each year). 

Returning students in YACP, WMC, YSE, and YCO are automatically members of that same orchestra in the new season, and do not need to audition again. 

Auditions for YACP are held once a year in May.  Auditions for WMC, YSE and YCO are held in May and again in August.

Rehearsals will begin in September and are held each Monday afternoon from September through November and from January through April at Highland High School.

Students auditioning should be prepared to:

Sight read

Play a three-octave scale

Play 2 minutes of your best piece

*Violinists auditioning for Youth Chamber Orchestra should be playing at the level of the Vivaldi Concertos in Book IV to Book V in the Suzuki Method. Violists and cellists should be at the level of Book IV.

Youth Chamber Orchestra, conductor, Alice Coulam

Intermediate players from elementary school age to early Jr. High

Monday: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.  

Tuition is $160.00 per year.

*Violinists auditioning for the Youth String Ensemble should be playing at the level of Book VI in the Suzuki Method. Violists and cellists should be in Book V.

Youth String Ensemble, conductor, Jack Ashton

Intermediate players from late elementary school to Jr. High

Monday: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.  

Tuition is $160.00 per year

*Students auditioning for Wasatch Mountain Camerata should be playing at the level of late Book VII and Book VIII or above for violin, and Book VI and above for viola and cello.

Wasatch Mountain Camerata, conductor, Paul Watson

Advanced players from Jr. High to High School

Monday: 4:00 – 5:45 p.m.  

Tuition is $180.00 per year

*Students auditioning for the Young Artist Chamber Players should be prepared to sight read, play a three-octave scale (in legato 16th notes, 4 to a bow, at the speed of 72 - 90 = 1/4 note), and to play 2 minutes of a concerto showing his or her level of technical skill. We will specifically be looking for the ability to shift easily and correctly through 5 positions, producing vibrato easily and widely, with a beautiful, full sound, astute counting and sight reading, and strong bowing skill in martale, detache, and spiccato style. We will also have a quartet at auditions. Each student will "play in" with the quartet and be graded on blending and sight-reading in an ensemble. 

Young Artist Chamber Players, conductor, Jack Ashton

Our most advanced players—Freshmen to Seniors in High School

Monday: 4:00 - 5:45 p.m. at Highland High School

Tuition is $210.00 per year

Questions concerning our orchestras should be directed to Stephanie.  Please email her at manager@yacporchestras.org 

For more information about any of our orchestras, go to:

www.youngartistchamberplayers.org

We are looking forward to seeing you at auditions!