NSO Education
NSO Youth Fellowship Program
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Youth Fellowship Program will be enhanced with a Chamber Music Component, open to talented high school musicians, grades 9-12, including those who study with teachers outside of the NSO. See application for instrument eligibility.
- Download the Application
- For more information please call (202) 416-8820.
- Application deadline: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
- Auditions: Saturday, June 2, 2012
The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Youth Fellowship Program is an orchestral training program for students in grades 9-12. [Younger musicians (gr. 6-8) may be considered on a special case-by-case basis.] Past NSO Youth Fellowship participants have gone on to achieve great success with orchestras throughout the country including Philadelphia, Atlanta, Cleveland, Houston, and our own National Symphony Orchestra. The program is intended for serious music students interested in pursuing orchestral music as a career. Open by audition only, this full-scholarship program provides students in grades 9-12 in the Washington, DC metropolitan area the opportunity to study with a National Symphony Orchestra musician*; Chamber Music coaching by a member of the National Symphony Orchestra; observe rehearsals and attend concerts; and participate in master classes and discussions with musicians, conductors, guest artists, and NSO/Kennedy Center management. This is a monitored, performance-oriented program, designed to encourage students to become professional orchestral musicians. Participation by ethnic minorities is encouraged. Priority is given to students entering 9th and 10th grades in order to provide as sustained a training as possible.
*Note: Students may opt instead to continue their private study with their current non-NSO teacher. Lesson fees with non-NSO musicians will not be covered by the Program.
David and Alice Rubenstein are the Presenting Underwriters of the NSO.
The NSO Youth Fellowship Program is made possible in part by the generous support of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and Sandra K. and Clement C. Alpert.
Additional support is provided by Sylvia K. Brown, The Charles Engelhard Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Mays, the Myra and Leura Younker Endowment Fund, and through the generosity of the National Symphony Orchestra musicians.
Gifts and grants to the National Symphony Orchestra Education Programs are provided by The Clark Charitable Foundation; Ms. Diane Lipton Dennis; Mr. and Mrs. Jerold H. Gilbert; John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation; Mr. and Mrs. Noel Levine; The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc; Linda and Tobia Mercuro; National Trustees of the National Symphony Orchestra; Park Foundation, Inc.; Ms. Beverly Walcoff; Mrs. Irene Pollin; Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Small; and The Theodore H. Barth Foundation, Inc.
