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Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival (BAYOF) Hope Concert

Young People's Symphony Orchestra

Join six of the Bay Area’s Youth Orchestras as their 575 musicians and six conductors as they come together for a celebration of music in our vibrant community with a special concert hosted by Veteran Bay Area broadcast news anchor, Emmy and Peabody award winner Wendy Tokuda. Proceeds from the concert will benefit six organizations, one within each orchestra’s local community, that provide resources to underserved and homeless youth.

Each orchestra will take its turn on the stage of Davies Symphony Hall and play approximately 10 minutes of music. For the encore, 110 selected members from all six orchestras will play together as the Festival Orchestra under the direction of Young People Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director/Conductor, David Ramadanoff.

The participating youth orchestras include: California Youth Symphony, Oakland Youth Orchestra, Peninsula Youth Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Young People’s Symphony Orchestra.

The program:
Richard Strauss’ Dance of the Seven Veils from “Salome,” California Youth Symphony, Leo Eylar, conductor
Arturo Marquez’s Danson no. 2, Oakland Youth Orchestra, Bryan Nies, conductor
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko, Peninsula Youth Orchestra, Mitchell Sardou Klein, conductor
Alberto Ginastera’s Estancia Suite, San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, Donato Cabrera, conductor
Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony no. 8, 1st movement, Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra, Richard Loheyde, conductor
Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1, 4th movement, Young People’s Symphony Orchestra of Berkeley, David Ramadanoff, conductor
Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Rome, Third and Fourth Movements, Festival Orchestra, David Ramadanoff, conductor.

The concert will benefit charitable organizations that serve homeless youth throughout the Bay Area, including Covenant House California of Oakland, DrawBridge of San Francisco, Students Rising Above of San Francisco, Sunday Friends of San Jose, The Valley of the Moon Children’s Foundation of Santa Rosa, and YEAH! of Berkeley. Homeless youth and representatives from each charitable organization will be in attendance at the concert. The proceeds from the concert will be equally divided among all the beneficiary organizations.