Premiered Friday, February 26, 2021 at 7:00PM

Celebrate ESYO's triumphant return to the stage. Enjoy the best moments from ESYO's Tutti! Virtual Festival. Revel in the musical voices of today's youth as they perform the music you love, all together.

ESYO performs many of your favorite masterpieces, including the third movement of Ravel's moving Le Tombeau de Couperin, Mozart's playful Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Greig. Plus, hear from ESYO musicians and conductors as they reflect on the joys of making music together.

The Tutti! Virtual Festival was recorded LIVE at Proctors MainStage. Since September, many young musicians have participated with ESYO online with ESYO Stream. These young musicians performed alongside their ensemble at home and are virtually integrated into tonight's performance.

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Premiered Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 3:00PM

Celebrate ESYO's triumphant return to the stage. Enjoy the best moments from ESYO's Tutti! Virtual Festival. Revel in the musical voices of today's youth as they perform the music you love, all together.

Be swept away by Tchaikovsky's cinematic Serenade for Strings performed by ESYO String Orchestra. ESYO Symphony Romantic Orchestra performs Mozart's Overture to The Magic Flute, alongside Mozart's "Paris" Symphony performed by ESYO's Repertory Classical Orchestra. ESYO Symphony String Orchestra performs the first movement of Serenade for Strings by American songster Victor Herbert. Plus, hear from ESYO musicians and conductors as they reflect on the joys of making music together.

The Tutti! Virtual Festival was recorded LIVE at Proctors MainStage. Since September, many young musicians have participated with ESYO online with ESYO Stream. These young musicians performed alongside their ensemble at home and virtually integrated into today's performance.

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SUNDAY, NOV. 21, 2021- ESYO Concertino Strings and conductor Leo Milman returns to the concert hall for an afternoon of inspired music

ESYO Symphony Orchestra's oboist Anna Ryu, cellist Trey Coughlin, and clarinetist Patrick Yang, as well as ESYO percussionist and concert pianist William Lauricella, took the virtual stage to perform solo works by Mozart, R. Schumann, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Niccolò Paganini.

SATURDAY, NOV. 20, 2021 - ESYO Repertory Orchestra and conductor David Beck return to the concert hall to perform Bizet's L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1 & No. 2, Selections from Martha by Friedrich von Flotow, and Ronan Hardiman's Lord of the Dance.

A famous love story as old as time and a portrait of Juliet, a thoughtful and self-reflective young woman. Etienne Abelin makes his ESYO debut at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall with Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet and Elgar’s ominous Cello Concerto with Eujeong Choi, the 2022 Lois Lyman Concerto Competition Winner. Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration sees America’s industrial past and present through the lens of music as Symphony Orchestra transforms “grit & noise” into a musical experience that is “resonant & unexpected.”

Symphony Orchestra
Etienne Abelin, Conductor
Missy Mazzoli: River Rouge Transfiguration

Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Opus 85
1. Adagio – Moderato
2. Lento – Allegro molto
3. Adagio
4. Allegro – Moderato – Allegro, ma non-troppo – Poco più lento – Adagio

Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliette Suite No. 2, Opus 64
1. Montagues and Capulets (The Prince Gives His Order and Dance of the Knights)
2. Juliet as a Young Girl
3. Friar Laurence (Romeo at Friar Laurence’s)
4. Dance (Dance of the Five Couples)
5. Romeo and Juliet Before Parting
6. Romeo at Juliet’s Tomb (Juliet’s Grave)

Recorded LIVE on Sunday, December 12th 2021 at Proctors in Schenectady Based on the story Magical Musical Sleigh Ride by Vicki Addesso Dodd. Take a Magical Musical Sleigh Ride and see Christmas through the eyes of a child with sparkling holiday favorites, Christmas carols, and inspired Symphonic classics filled with good cheer. ESYO’s former Music Director Helen Cha-Pyo returns to Proctors MainStage conducts seasonal masterpieces by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Leroy Anderson, and more. Dash through the snow with ESYO Youth Jazz Orchestra as they perform the famed holiday classic (There is No Place Like) Home for the Holidays by Glenville-native Robert Allen. Featuring special guests Madison VanDenburg, Annabelle and Elliot Brin, Anne-Marie Gorman Doyle, "Jingles" the Elf, Mo the "Reindog" and Santa Claus. It's fun for the whole family

Musical excellence takes root at Skidmore’s Arthur Zankel Music Center with ESYO. Repertory Orchestra and String Orchestra perform a bouquet of timeless classics and fresh new music.

Performed/Recorded at the Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College on May 7, 2022.

SUNDAY, NOV. 21, 2021- ESYO String Orchestra and conductor Joseph Gumpper returns to the concert hall performing The Bamboula by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Harold Arlen's Over the Rainbow, and more.

Pianist William Lauricella and the ESYO Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Etienne Abelin, perform Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18.

“[Rachmaninoff’s] music tenderly glorifies the beauty in life…the listener experiences the presence of human breathing, a vital flow of living speech, which goes from heart to heart.”
- Boris Asafiev

William Lauricella, the winner of the, the winner of the 2023 & 2020 ESYO Lois Lyman Concerto Competition, is a 17 year old pianist, percussionist and composer who has won first place prizes in various competitions including the 2022 Manhattan School of Music Precollege Philharmonic Piano Concerto Competition, the 2022 CDCYM Chopin Competition - Master level category, the 2022 & 2021 Luzerne Music Center International Senior Concerto Competition, the 2019 Junior Luzerne Music Center International Concerto Competition, as well as the 2018 Schenectady Symphony Louise DeFeo Parillo Concerto Competition and the 2018 Tchaikovsky Music Competition at the New Russia Cultural Center. William was featured on PBS as the WMHT Classical Student of the month in 2019. He was recently a finalist in the 2023 Solo Piano Competition at Brevard Music Center Festival.

 FRIDAY, NOV. 5, 2021 - ESYO Symphony Orchestra and The Orchestra Now's Andrés Rivas illuminate the autumn night sky and welcomes audiences back with Antonin Dvorak's brilliant Symphony No. 8 and Jennifer Higdon's Light, a vivid orchestral overture. ESYO's youthful musicians perform Arturo Márquez's mariachi-inspired Danzón No. 2.

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ESYO Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Etienne Abelin closed out the 2021-2022 season with Beethoven's Egmont Overture, as well as Fabrizio Cassol's debut Concerto Grosso for Cello & DJ/Electronics at Tanglewood's Ozawa Hall. Performed and recorded on Sunday, June 12, 2022 at Tanglewood's Ozawa Hall in Lenox, MA.

SUNDAY,  December 12, 2021- Sunday, December 12 - Dr. Robert Hansbrough, conductor Featuring ESYO Wind Orchestra Woodwind Choir and Brass Choir

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2021- Dr. Peter Bellino conducts ESYO's Youth Jazz Orchestra performing jazz classics by Sammy Nestico, Miles Davis, Count Basie & more. GRAMMY award-winning trumpet player Michael Rodriguez makes his ESYO debut. Dr. Peter Bellino, ESYO Youth Jazz Orchestra Conductor Michael Rodriquez, Guest Trumpet Soloist