We would like to send a big thank you to SWA for their wonderful Tickets For Time program and highlighting SSYO in the Spirit magazine. We are both flying high!

Read the online version here.

Sunday, June 9, 2013
6:00 pm

The National Museum of Dance and the Saratoga Springs Public Library will co-sponsor a community.

The Warder Cadbury Victorian Music and Dance Event, celebrating nineteenth century social dance was inspired by a collection of Saratoga Springs sheet music dating from 1839 to the turn of the century.

The music was donated to the museum in 2003 by retired SUNY Albany philosophy professor and Adirondack Scholar, Warder H. Cadbury. In 2011 the museum donated the collection to the Saratoga Springs Public Library to be archived in their local history room.

The evening’s program:

• Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra 6:30 PM

Following:
• Jacquelyn Royal, a 19thC American Music and Literature Scholar will play and speak about the Victorian music collection
• Susan McLane, The Victorian Lady, will speak about customs of the Victorian Period
• The Vintage Dance Society, led by their director, Marc Casslar will perform dances of the Victorian era
• Thomas Baird, noted dance historian, will speak about
the history of social dance in the 19thC.

This is a free event with refreshments served

SaratogaArtsFest, a four-day annual celebration of the arts scheduled in early June, delivers the brilliance and energy of art in its many forms—music, dance, visual art, film, theater, and literary art.

Consider spending the afternoon with the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra (SSYO) under the direction of Maestro Gioacchino Longobardi as they present a concert in tribute to mothers everywhere. Come, bring your mom and enjoy the delightful sounds of the SSYO as they present a unique classical music program with selections from Bach, Vivaldi and Giordani. The program is sure to please mothers and audiences of all ages! The concert and a reception, with light refreshments served immediately following the performance is free.

Sunday, May 12, 4:00 PM

Donations are welcome.

Sean attended Berklee School of Music’s Keyboard Workshop and Proctor’s Summer Jazz Institute. He was a participant in the 2012 National Music Festival in Williamsburg, VA, playing in the percussion sections of the Concert, Jazz and Marching Bands; the percussion sections of each band received an Outstanding Award and Sean received The Outstanding Musician Award for the overall event. Recently, in April Sean was invited to play with the String Ensemble for the Schenectady City School District Faculty Concert. He was the only student invited to perform.

“SSYO has been a rewarding experience for me. SSYO has provided me with an opportunity to network with other musicians and this is invaluable for my future growth in the world of music. Maestro has taught me to reach to the highest levels of play and with his individualized attention I have started to hone my own personal skills.

Under Demetria’s guidance, Jahanan has taken part in regional Suzuki Method workshops and in holiday music performances at area bookstores. Jahanan (and all of Demetria’s students) recently had the unforgettable experience of being invited backstage at the Albany Palace to personally meet and speak with Yo-Yo Ma.

Jahanan first joined SSYO in 2010. As an SSYO member, he has been given the invaluable opportunity to study a distinctive, classical repertoire and to perform at a professional level. He plans to continue playing the cello in college.

SSYO is open to all qualified musicians from Saratoga County and the surrounding area.

Call SSYO Manager at 229-224-5672 for Appointment or

Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 1:00 PM

Presented by the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra

With Maestro Gioacchino Longobardi, Conductor and Artistic Director

At the Saratoga Springs Senior Center

Free to the public

Last year, Kyle was a student at the Mannes College of Music Precollege Division and a member of the Mannes Precollege Philharmonic. During the summer of 2011, he attended the New York State School of Orchestral Studies at Skidmore College.

Kyle is incredibly grateful for the friends and colleagues he has met through the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra, and for the musical experiences that this year has brought him. Kyle plans on further studying music in college.