About the VYOA
Music for Youth. Music for Life.
The Vermont Youth Orchestra Association serves over 500 students from Vermont, New Hampshire and New York through our programs each year. The VYOA offers master classes with renowned musicians, coaching from many of the best music educators in the region and exciting choral, orchestral and chamber music performance opportunities within a community dedicated to supporting students’ development as musicians, citizens, and leaders.
With concerts in places as varied as Carnegie Hall, the Rudolfinum in Prague and Hong Kong City Hall, regional concerts throughout Vermont and a yearly series at Burlington’s historic Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, our students enjoy memorable experiences every year. This is no ordinary youth music organization! Join us and find out for yourself why the VYOA is one of the most remarkable programs of its kind in the United States.
Mission Statement
The Vermont Youth Orchestra Association is dedicated to providing young musicians with superior educational and performance experiences in orchestral and choral music.
Vision Statement
The Vermont Youth Orchestra Association is a community of students, volunteers, parents, artists, educators, administrators, and board members, dedicated to offering its students an integrated program of musical education, acting as a catalyst for collaboration and outreach, and supporting its programs with a high performance organizational structure.
Why the VYOA?
Since 1963, the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association has provided young musicians with outstanding educational opportunities, exciting musical challenges and unique performance experiences. Music Director Jeffrey Domoto is building upon this solid foundation of excellence with an artistic eye that sees well into the VYOA’s future. His tremendous enthusiasm for nurturing and challenging young musicians while building community within and beyond the VYOA is a firm goal of the organization. By providing instrumental and choral ensemble experiences for students of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, we lay the groundwork for students to pursue a lifetime of making music, should they choose to do so. All of our students leave the VYOA with a respect for music, for learning, and for the arts, attributes that will enhance and inform their individual careers in communities beyond the VYOA.
Currently, the VYOA offers incoming musicians a variety of program options: four orchestras, a beginning string ensemble, a chamber music program, a two-tiered choral program, and two summer camps; all are based in our beautiful home, the Elley-Long Music Center at Saint Michael’s College. The 500 students who participate in our orchestral and choral ensembles range in grades 1 through 12 and hail from eleven Vermont counties and bordering states.
To see a complete listing of all VYOA events, visit our calendar. Tickets to all VYO and VYOA Choral events are available at the Flynn Center Regional Box Office at www.flynntix.org.
