Our Winter 2024 concerts will be taking place on Saturday, December 14th, and Sunday, December 15th at the UDC Theater of the Arts. Performances will take place at the following times (click the links for full digital concert programs): Saturday, December 14th 1:00pm – Debut Orchestra, Concertino, Sinfonia, and the JazzDC Youth Ensemble 4:00pm – […]
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Prelude October 24, 2024
Making Music After School through the DCYOPrelude-DCPS Partnership
read articleDCYOP is known as one of the few comprehensive orchestral music education programs in the country where a four-and-a-half year old can start the program with no musical experience, be introduced to an instrument for the very first time, and come out of the program thirteen-and-a-half years later as an advanced musician with experience performing […]
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Get to Know DCYOP October 22, 2024
Get to Know DCYOP – Joanna Ramirez
read articleThis month, we’re introducing you to another one of our amazing instructors, Joanna Ramirez! Joanna is a multi-instrumentalist and music education all-star who recently joined our regular Saturday staff teaching sectionals and music theory, and has also played a key role in helping establish a new DCPS site for Prelude, DCYOP’s after-school program, at John […]
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Whole Musician Masterclass October 20, 2024
24-25 Whole Musician Masterclass Series Opens Student Ears, Minds, and Hearts
read articleThe Whole Musician Masterclass series for the 2024-2025 season has gotten off to an exciting start! We have been lucky to welcome three amazing artists so far this fall who have worked with our students on everything from managing their stress to expanding their repertoire and navigating careers in the arts. To kick off the […]
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News October 15, 2024
October 2024 News
read articleThe latest news and updates from the DCYOP Family: Spreading the Joy of Music in Community YO cellist and Washington Pathways Artist, Ishaan Banerjee, has started a musical volunteer project called The Melodic Minors. Musicians can sign up to perform music at senior centers and homes, elementary and middle schools, and other venues to help […]
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News September 21, 2024
September 2024 News
read articleThe season may have just begun but DCYOP students and staff have been busy all summer doing great things. Here are just a few highlights: DCYOP Students Perform with the Afghan Youth Orchestra at the Kennedy Center On August 8th, 12 Youth Orchestra and Youth Philharmonic musicians proudly joined members of the Afghan Youth Orchestra […]
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Get to Know DCYOP September 20, 2024
Get to Know DCYOP – Ken Giles
read articleIt is hard to imagine a program day that doesn’t start and end with Ken Giles in the building. A beginner violin and viola instructor at DYCOP for over 20 years, Mr. Giles is also a proud former DCYOP parent and a trained musician who performed with the likes of American folk legends such as […]
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News September 15, 2024
Welcome to the 2024-2025 Season!
read articleWelcome to the 65th season of DCYOP! On September 14th, we welcomed 573 students to Takoma Elementary School for the first day of program, including our beginners who were introduced to a brand new instrument for the very first time and all the other young musicians in our nine progressive ensembles that range from the […]
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Uncategorized July 14, 2024
DCYO Tour ’24 Update #2: Grüß dich, Vienna!
read articleAfter a very full and exciting second day in Munich, we enjoyed a leisurely day of travel by bus from Munich across the border into Austria…all while enjoying breathtaking views of the surrounding Alps and – at least on bus 1 – singing along to The Sound of Music :) Crossing into lower Austria, we […]
