We are so excited to begin this groundbreaking and exciting new BYSO season with you! This season, we will have a record-breaking number of musicians who travel from all over Boston, New England, and beyond to bring their love of music and their talents playing it to you. Our impressive young students will converge to perform alongside their second family, BYSO, and at their second home, our stages.

The 67th Season is one we are particularly excited for so many reasons, but especially as it will go down in history as the first-ever full season with BYSO's own physical home: the BYSO Youth Center for Music. We cannot wait to continue to fill this space with music, joy, and community.

Below are just a few of our special performances that will be offered, however we have many more performances throughout the season, and we hope to see you at them all!



Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 3pm

Sanders Theatre at Harvard University

Boston Youth Symphony

Federico Cortese, Conductor

Joshua Major, Stage Director

BYSO on Parade

Britten's A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 1:30pm

Symphony Hall

Boston Youth Symphony Federico Cortese, Conductor

Repertory Orchestra Mark Miller, Conductor

Junior Repertory Orchestra Yonah Zur, Conductor

Young People's String Orchestra Marta Zurad, Conductor

Preparatory Winds Janet Underhill, Conductor

Petite Ensemble Marta Zurad, Conductor

 Music in the Museums

Boston Children's Museum

Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 11am

Petite Ensemble

Marta Zurad, Conductor

Museum of Science, Boston

Sunday, May 11, 2025 at 2pm

Young People's String Orchestra

Marta Zurad, Conductor

Unlike the rest of our season's concerts, these tickets are purchased through the museums!

To purchase tickets to attend our Music in the Museums concerts this season, you must purchase a general admission ticket for the museum on that day. This allows you not only to see our BYSO performance, but also to explore the wonders of the museums! These tickets can be purchased on the museum's respective websites.

 BYSO’s Longstanding Partnership with BSO!

BSO Family Concerts

Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf

Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 12pm

Symphony Hall

Boston Youth Symphony

Federico Cortese, Conductor

Neal Ferreira, Narrator

With:

Boston Ballet School

Tamara King, Associate Director

Ivaylo Alexiev, Assistant Principal

Unlike the rest of our season's concerts, these tickets are on sale NOW!

BSO’s Family Concert Series provides engaging, age-appropriate, educational orchestral concert experiences especially for children ages 3–8 and their families. Two of the BSO Family Concerts are performed by BYSO as part of a larger organizational partnership. In 2012 the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and BYSO formed an important partnership for classical music in Boston, “BYSO/BSO: Partnering for the Future.” This collaboration is designed to develop training programs and to offer joint performance opportunities for young musicians, audiences, and the wider community, while exploring innovative ways to continue to foster the future of classical music.

Opening Our Doors!

Monday, October 14, 2024, at 10am

BYSO Youth Center for Music

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) is proud to open its doors to the BYSO Youth Center for Music, as part of the annual Opening Our Doors event hosted by the Fenway Alliance. On this day guests will be offered tours of the building led by a BYSO student ambassador or explore the space in a self-guided tour. BYSO will also offer student performances, instrument demonstrations by BYSO musicians, arts and craft activities, and more!