Welcome to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s 2010-2011 Sound Discoveries* Young People’s Concerts and annual Joint Concert of the CSO and Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra.  Each season more than 20,000 students from over 150 schools and groups from Southeast Indiana, Northern Kentucky and Southwest Ohio attend the CSO's Young People's Concerts in Music Hall.  Besides our concerts at Music Hall, we invite you to attend our Teacher’s Workshops or to have CSO Musicians visit your school.

To help introduce your students to orchestral music and the experience of live performance, a Teacher’s Guides for grades 1-4 and 5-8 with a CD of music to be performed is available. These materials, created in part by the CSO’s Advisory Committee for Education (ACE), enable teachers to make the most of their students’ concert-going experience.

In an effort to provide a more robust Teacher’s Guides, the full guide is available online for download.  The online guide will feature links and other items of interest not available in hard copy.  If you are bringing fewer than 15 students and would like a hard copy of the guide, please be sure to enclose an additional $5 with your order to offset postage costs.  CDs will still be sent for all orders at no charge.

For any questions regarding education concerts, please call 513.621.1919

Percussion Power
Grades 1-4, Concert 2 (approx. 40 minutes)
Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM

The CSO Percussion Section is featured along with CSO Assistant Conductor Vince Lee and the CSO in a program focusing on this most fascinating, diverse and certainly most ancient among the families that make up our orchestra.  The program will include excerpts from Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra, Stravinsky’s Firebird, and Mancini’s Drummer’s Delight.  We will also have a visit by the Elder High School Steel Drum Band who will share their percussion instruments from the Caribbean.

Road Trip: Sounds & Rhythms from Around the World          
Grades 5-8, Concert 1 (approx. 50 minutes)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 10:30 AM

Take your students on a trip around the world without ever leaving Cincinnati!  Join the CSO and Assistant Conductor Vince Lee as they serve as your guides to exotic locations.  We will visit Asia, Spain, Africa, and Russia before returning to the United States of America.  Our road trip will feature African drumming with Drums for Peace and Ming Ke, a pipa virtuoso from China.

Kids Rule
Grades 5-8, Concert 2 (approx. 50 minutes)
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 10:30 AM
                                               
Hey Kids! Want to play with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra? You’ll have your chance in this exciting program which is all about kids making music. The CSO and Assistant Conductor Ken Lam will share the stage with young performers and the audience in this event. (Teachers note: guide materials will include parts for recorders and singers to be learned prior to the performance. The audio CD will include practice accompaniments.  We will also explore these pieces at the Teacher’s Workshop in February.)

CSO/CSYO Joint Concert
Grades 4-12 (1 hour)
Wednesday, May 11, 2010 at 10:30 AM

Each season the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra combines forces with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to perform an exciting joint concert.  Little can be more inspiring than the spectacle of over 200 musicians on stage playing some of the world’s finest music together under the direction of CSO Assistant Conductor Ken Lam and Music Director Paavo Järvi.

A special feature of the concert will be the performance by the winner of the annual CSYO Concerto Competition of movements from the solo concerto repertoire.  Audience members are given the rare opportunity to see and hear their peers performing next to professional musicians and as soloists with the CSO.  The Joint Concert is a truly exciting event and is recommended for students in grades 4-12.

The CSO welcomes middle and high school student groups to enjoy a CSO Friday morning concert featuring world-renown guest soloists. Visit our student group web page or feel free to email Group Sales for more information.