At the recent Southwest School of Art’s Fiesta Arts Fair, a visitor who noticed YOSA’s sign at our Fund booth approached and commented about how impressed he was with the performance that the YOSA students had recently put on at his workplace. (During workplace campaigns, theFund often invites representatives from our affiliates to come out and share what they do with employees in their workplace.)
If you have not yet seen a YOSA performance, you are in for a treat indeed. We recommend their upcoming City Series Spring Concert, May 22, 2011, at St. Philip's College, at 5 p.m. This is a free performance featuring both YOSA Symphony and YOSA Sinfonietta Strings.
Central to YOSA's mission, is education. Professional music educators and advanced students provide string instruction in schools and community centers. For those that need it and qualify, YOSA makes financial aid and loaned instruments available so that all students that have the desire, also have the opportunity. On the west side at Good Samaritan Community Services Center, their new Music Learning Center provides free music instruction in violin and cello. Summer String Camp. provides intensive instruction in orchestral studies, string technique, music theory, composition and chamber music.
"The mission of Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, is to enhance education, enrich the community and transform lives by pursuing excellence in classical music in a stimulating, nurturing and fun environment that is equally accessible to all youth.”
450 students ranging in ages from 6 to 21 that come from 104 schools in 20 school districts represent the cultural diversity of south Texas. YOSA is very proud of their students and lets it show by supporting them in all their present, as well as future endeavors; one of the recent headlines on their website was about a YOSA students who had recently won a science fair competition. Thank you YOSA, for providing positive reinforcement and public acknowledement of work well done to young people who have earned much deserved recognition.
In addition to musical training, YOSA also provides a variety of learning experiences for its proteges, such as an international tour every three years, and playing alongside San Antonio Symphony and over 20 public performances throughout the city. Not to mention it’s soon to begin again, annual two-week Summer String Camp.
YOSA is one of 27 qualified affiliates of theFund.
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