Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival
YPSO participates in the Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival (BAYOF), a bi-annual event in Davies Symphony Hall which includes many of the bay area’s top young orchestras. During this day-long event, the young musicians have the chance to perform, socialize and to learn from each other. Several musicians from each orchestra join together to create a combined Festival Orchestra.
California Festival
YPSO also proudly participated in 2023 in the California Festival, a two week celebration of new music with the goal of showcasing multiple forms of musical expression and honoring California’s unique place in music and culture. The festival was created through a collaboration by the San Francisco Symphony, LA Philharmonic and San Diego Symphony, and featured over 100 arts organizations across the state presenting pieces composed within the past 5 years. YPSO performed “Rhapsody On a Windy Night,” a piece commissioned for YPSO’s 85th Anniversary by our composer-in-residence, Jeremy Cavaterra.