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April 11, 2024
Activating Artistry to Improve Youth Outcomes
Join us for a 2½-hour interactive session with accomplished teaching artists Eric Booth and Hassan Anderson sharing their expertise in successful creative youth development through the tools of quality teaching artistry.
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February 24, 2023
Putting Youth First
Whether your orchestra provides a one-time educational concert or an intensive instrumental training program, watch a 60-minute webinar designed to assist you in helping your students reach their full creative potential.
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July 15, 2021
Opening Ears: New Music for Young Musicians
Research tells us that early experiences – including what young musicians hear and perform – "stick," but historically, repertoire for young musicians has not included contemporary works, especially not works from composers of diverse backgrounds.
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November 10, 2025
Spotlight on Youth Orchestras
The League wants to hear from you! We’re spotlighting youth orchestras in League communications throughout the 2025-26 season. Share photos, stories, and short video of your orchestra for our social media campaign through a simple online form.
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October 20, 2025
The Betty Utter Community Impact Award
The Betty Utter Community Impact Award celebrates the unsung changemakers who make youth orchestras thrive—the parent volunteers, board members, teachers, and community leaders whose dedication echoes the spirit of Betty Utter, founder of the Youth Orchestra Division.
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October 17, 2025
Composing Our Tomorrow: A Celebration of the League’s Youth Orchestra Division at 50
This nationwide project will spotlight youth orchestras as powerful champions of new music. The initiative is designed to be broad and inclusive, encouraging as many youth orchestras as possible to participate by commissioning, performing, and sharing new works.
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December 16, 2020
Youth Orchestras
The League of American Orchestras plays an important role in the development of the field by offering specific training, support, information, advice, and networking opportunities to this constituency throughout the year.
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December 11, 2020
YOD Directors
The mission of the Youth Orchestra Division of the League is to promote youth orchestras as essential musical, educational, and cultural assets and to provide resources to help all youth orchestras build and maintain artistic and organizational excellence.
