VYOA History
Trey Anistasio collaborated with the VYOA in Carnegie Hall in 2004 when he was the guitarist of this famous rock band.
What is Phish?
Though the first is popular at graduation ceremonies, VYO is performing the second of these works by Edward Elgar.
What is Pomp and Circumstance March No. 2?
The manager of Vermont Youth Strings, who is also choral director at Burlington High School.
Who is Myriam Bouti?
American composer Chen Yi wrote "Ge Xu" about the antiphonal singing of ethnic minorities in the southern mountains of this country.
What is China?
This instrument plays the part of the duck in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
What is the oboe?
The VYOA toured this country in 2007.
What is China?
The name of the overnight VYO Camp before 2014.
What is Reveille?
The name of the VYO February concert at the Double E Performance Center.
What is Screen Time?
He was the manager of VYP when it was founded in 1999.
Who is Art DeQuasie?
Both the year Mozart died and UVM was founded.
What is 1791?
Dr. Mark Alpízar primarily plays this instrument.
What is the clarinet?
This country was VYOA's tour destination the summer of 2015.
What is Iceland?
VYOA was founded on this year.
What is 1964?
This work by Saint-Saëns was performed without a conductor at the VYOA Terror and Triumph concert.
What is Danse Macabre?
Joe Hisaishi is a composer of film scores for this animation studio founded by director Hayao Miyazaki.
What is Studio Ghibli?
To celebrate the centennial of Rhapsody in Blue, pianist Jeffrey Biegel will join VYO in the Vermont premiere of Rhapsody in Red, White and Blue by this American composer.
Who is Peter Boyer?
2023 alumnus Fisher Irwin played this instrument in VYO, and so did his grandfather.
What is the Tuba?
The VYOA toured this European country in 2009.
What is France?
He was the music director of the VYOA from 1995-2009.
Who is Troy Peters?
Though it was his shortest symphony, this composer wrote the longest work on VYO's season.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
The predominant style of art, design, architecture, and music in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.
What is baroque?
He wrote the Typewriter concerto, Bugler's Holiday, Clarinet Candy, and another famous piece we've been rehearsing.
Who is Leroy Anderson?
Darius Milhaud was the first composer to write a concerto for this keyboard percussion instrument.
What is the Marimba?
In the summer of 2026, VYOA will tour Vienna, Budapest, and this nearby capital city.
What is Bratislava?
This was the original name of the building that is now the Elley-Long Music Center.
What is the Riding Hall?
Though senior soloist Hailey Messier is performing the Grieg Piano concerto in A Minor, she has played this instrument in VYO since 2020.
What is the Bassoon?
The translation of the Russian word "Troika," also a VYOA tradition.
What is "Sleigh Ride?"
This composer, often considered the father of video game music, wrote the original themes to Mario, Zelda, and Starfox.
Who is Koji Kondo?
This is the only percussion instrument used in the symphonies of Brahms besides the timpani.
What is the triangle?
With its beaches, mountains, and quaint architecture, the 2023 VYOA Tour Orchestra liked this Grecian city best.
What is Volos?