SYSO

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Founded in 1942, the Seattle Youth Symphony is SYSO's flagship orchestra and one of the premier youth orchestras in the United States. Repertoire includes a variety of styles from early music to world premieres. The orchestra performs three regular season concerts in Benaroya Hall, home of the Seattle Symphony.

The Endangered Instruments Program (EIP) was founded in 1990 as an in school program encouraging music students to learn less commonly played instruments. EIP has evolved into SYSO-in-the-Schools, a comprehensive program that reinforces public school music education programs. SYSO-in-the-Schools currently works with over 16 public schools and more than 200 students. Programs modeled after SYSO-in-the-Schools have been started in New York, Ft. Lauderdale, Vancouver BC and Australia.

Debut Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1946 as a training group for the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. The group remains SYSO's largest. Debut is a training orchestra for SYSO's intermediate-level players. Students in the Debut Symphony Orchestra typically advance to the Junior Symphony Orchestra.

The Debut Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1946 and is the largest orchestra in the organization's academic year program.

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