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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.