ANNOUNCEMENT
Welcome to The Richmond Symphony School of Music
FOUNDED IN THE SUMMER OF 2020, the Richmond Symphony School of Music (RSSoM) is now in operation as a virtual music school open to the public. Together, we aspire to provide a broad range of programming to Central Virginia, the Commonwealth, and beyond, and to establish the foundation upon which a brick-and-mortar community music school will be established in the future.
During our first year, over 400 students attended more than a dozen offerings: digital ensemble classes based on our pre-COVID youth orchestras; precollege chamber music, music theory, and composition classes; and evening classes for adults — with a vision for more in the future. As a virtual music school, we utilize videoconferencing software and an array of both digital and traditional resources to supplement instruction and exploration, and to facilitate real-time lessons and classes.
A diverse and dedicated team of musicians, students, teachers, parents, administrators, and music education professionals representing our region’s leaders in the field continue to develop our plans for growth in 2021 and beyond.
Our sincere hope and dream is that RSSoM will grow to take its place among Richmond’s many fine institutions as a hub of a spectrum of activities, where music education is accessible to all and where all styles and traditions of music are valued, respected, and pursued with dedication, passion, and love: "changing lives through the power of music."
Happy #ThrowbackThursday! Maggie Walker musicians—do you recognize the violinist on the left in this photo from 2006?! 👀 From left to right: RSYO alumni Allison Barnes, Erin Hobson, and Esther McMahon 🎶
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We’re student musicians, of course we love playing in the Youth Orchestra Program! 🤩🎻🎺🎶
Sign up for your audition for the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra Program today! Auditions will take place on Saturday, June 8 at Virginia Commonwealth University. Visit the link in our bio to secure your spot!
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BE PART OF IT! Sign up for your audition for the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra Program today! Auditions will take place on Saturday, June 8 at Virginia Commonwealth University. Visit the link in our bio to secure your spot!
Photos by James H Loving Photography (@jamesloving).
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📣📣 LOCAL MUSIC EDUCATORS! In celebration of “Music in Our Schools Month,” the Richmond Symphony, Richmond Symphony School of Music, and VCUarts Music join together in gratitude for our local music educators! You still have time to redeem your FREE tickets!
🎶 Enjoy two (2) complimentary concert tickets to a Richmond Symphony performance on Saturday night, April 6, 2024! Guest conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto takes us through a jazzy musical postcard with a program of the Americas. A special highlight includes a performance commemorating the 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s An American in Paris!
🎶 Thank you for all YOU do - “Changing lives through the power of music!” 🖇️ Link in bio to request this special offer! Ticket requests close on March 25 at 5:00 pm. @rvasymphony @richmondsymphonysom @vcuartsmusic
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As a reminder, YCO will meet at a different time and location starting TODAY, 3/18/24. Please see your most recent weekly email for more information. See you soon!
This reminder is only for students in YCO. All other ensembles will continue to meet at the same time and location.
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This season’s cohort for RSSoM’s Future Music Educators Symposium (FMES) is all smiles on Wednesday evenings! In partnership with VCUarts Music—and led by their Director of Music Education, Dr. Sandy Goldie—selected high school juniors and seniors participate in 8 weeks of online workshops and classes where their own hands-on teaching encounters are supported virtually by invited guest speakers, clinicians, and mentors. This year’s cohort of 14 welcomes students from across Virginia and our first-ever out-of-state students from Las Vegas!
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Our students in Youth Community Strings have been hard at work learning how to play the violin! After three successful performances in the fall, they are excited for tomorrow’s performance for family and friends, where they will play Tango de String Crossing, Jungle Bossa Nova, and more 🎻🎶🌟
Mark your calendar now! Youth Community Strings will appear in their first public performance at the Richmond Symphony’s Big Tent concert on Saturday, May 25 at Hickory Hill Community Center.
Photos from their October performance by James H Loving Photography (@jamesloving).
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We’re so excited to welcome winds, brass, and percussion for RSYO’s next concert TONIGHT on Saturday, March 2 at 7:00 pm! This concert will take place in the Carpenter Theatre and will feature works for full orchestra by Coleridge-Taylor and Rimsky-Korsakov. Admission is free; no ticket required. See you there!
Photos by James H Loving Photography (@jamesloving).
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📣📣 LOCAL MUSIC EDUCATORS! In celebration of “Music in Our Schools Month”, the Richmond Symphony, Richmond Symphony School of Music, and VCUarts Music join together in gratitude for our local music educators!
🎶 Enjoy two (2) complimentary concert tickets to a Richmond Symphony performance on Saturday night, April 6, 2024! Guest conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto takes us through a jazzy musical postcard with a program of the Americas. A special highlight includes a performance commemorating the 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s An American in Paris!
🎶 Thank you for all YOU do - “Changing lives through the power of music!” 🖇️ Link in bio to request this special offer! @rvasymphony @richmondsymphonysom @vcuartsmusic
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In 2021, the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra joined a commissioning consortium with the American Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Meridian Symphony, and Youth Orchestras of San Antonio. We commissioned composer Roberto Sierra to produce a new concerto for electric violin and orchestra for virtuoso soloist Tracy Silverman, who then performed the concerto with each of the commissioning orchestras. Tracy traveled to Richmond to rehearse and perform with our youth orchestra in the spring of 2023.
Ficciones is a four movement work for solo electric violin and orchestra based on stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Sierra’s music is contemporary and explores a variety of genres and effects, making full use of the powerful and eclectic resources available through the use of electric violin.
It was thrilling for us to participate in this project, and exciting for our students to experience a new and different style of music by a living composer, in collaboration with an internationally acclaimed artist. We are proud to release two videos today:
~ Electric Virtuosity, a short documentary about the process of composing, rehearsing, and performing this new music for the first time;
~ Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra Spring Concert, May 7, 2023, conducted by Daniel Myssyk with guest soloist Tracy Silverman. This recording includes a full performance of Ficciones as well as Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme featuring 2023 RSYO concerto competition winner Christopher Gilley, and Blumine by Gustav Mahler.
We are pleased to share Electric Virtuosity, the documentary, on our social media platforms today! Both videos can also be found on our YouTube page, which you can access through the link in our bio.
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We’re sharing our love for our Youth Orchestra Program all month long! Swipe to hear students from Sinfonietta, Camerata, and YCO share their favorite parts about playing in YOP 💌🎶
Interested in joining YOP for the 2024–25 season? Auditions for next season will take place on Saturday, June 8. More information about audition requirements and signing up will be available soon. Check out the link in our bio to subscribe to our newsletter and stay in the know!
Cover photo by James H Loving Photography (@jamesloving).
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Happy President’s Day! No RSSoM in-person classes and rehearsals will be held today (Monday, February 19) in honor of the federal holiday. Enjoy your day off and see you when classes resume tomorrow on Tuesday, February 20!
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RICHMOND SYMPHONY VISION STATEMENT:
We change lives through the power of music.
RICHMOND SYMPHONY MISSION STATEMENT:
The Richmond Symphony performs,
teaches, and champions music to inspire and
unite our communities.
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