Carnegie Hall

(NEW YORK, NY; August 15, 2024)—Stellar summer 2024 performances by Carnegie Hall’s three acclaimed national youth ensembles—the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA), NYO2, and NYO Jazz—will soon stream for free to audiences around the globe. Beginning this Saturday, August 17, concerts filmed in New York, Dallas, and São Paulo will be available for free for 90 days on Carnegie Hall’s YouTube channel and medici.tv. In addition, starting August 17, NYO Jazz’s concert, which was filmed at Carnegie Hall in July, will be available on Carnegie Hall+, Carnegie Hall’s premium subscription video-on-demand channel.

NYO Jazz in New York: For the first time ever, a live concert by NYO Jazz—led by trumpeter/artistic director Sean Jones and featuring vocalist Alicia Olatuja—was filmed at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. Featuring the finest teen jazz players from across the US, the ensemble’s July 2024 performance includes the world premiere of ISIGQI SUITE by South African composer Sibusiso Mash Mashiloane (commissioned by Carnegie Hall); big band classics by Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Mary Lou Williams; a new big band arrangement from Terri Lyne Carrington’s project “New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers”—Lakecia Benjamin’s “Trane,” arranged by Jhoely Garay; and other contemporary pieces, showcasing jazz as a living and limitless art form.

NYO2 in Dallas: Under the baton of Teddy Abrams, NYO2, an inspiring orchestra for teens from across the country, ages 14–17, was captured at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Morton H. Meyerson Center. The ensemble’s August 2024 performance features Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, and Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite (1919 version), plus KINSFOLKNEM, a new wind concertante (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall) by Jasmine Barnes, featuring principal players from leading US orchestras including flutist Demarre McGill, oboist Titus Underwood, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and bassoonist Andrew Brady.

NYO-USA in São Paulo: Marin Alsop leads the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America in a streamed performance captured at the Sala São Paulo in Brazil, the final appearance of NYO-USA’s summer 2024 South American tour which also included stops in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro. The program includes Barber’s Symphony No. 1 and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.

Prior to their tours, performances by both the National Youth Orchestra of the USA and NYO2 were both heard by music lovers worldwide through the Carnegie Hall Live radio broadcast and digital series, created in partnership with WQXR. Featuring artist interviews and commentary about the repertoire along with music making from Carnegie Hall’s grandest stage, these performances are available for listening on-demand.
 

About Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Ensembles
For more than ten years, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute has convened extraordinary teen classical and jazz musicians from across the United States to form its three celebrated national youth ensembles: the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, NYO2, and NYO Jazz. Following a rigorous audition process and training residency each summer at Purchase College, State University of New York, remarkable teenagers from across the US come together to perform at Carnegie Hall and embark on tours to some of the great music capitals around the world, serving as dynamic music ambassadors. In summer 2024, the 214 musicians taking part in the program represent 39 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Learn more about Carnegie Hall’s three national youth ensembles at NYO-USA, NYO2, and NYO Jazz.

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NYO-USA Supporters

Support for the NYO-USA in São Paulo performance is provided by Ernst & Young LLP.

NYO-USA Lead Donors: Hope and Robert F. Smith, The Kovner Foundation, and Beatrice Santo Domingo.

Global Ambassadors: Michael ByungJu Kim and Kyung Ah Park, Hope and Robert F. Smith, and Maggie and Richard Tsai.

Major funding has been provided by Veronica Atkins, Mercedes T. Bass, Ronald E. Blaylock and Petra Pope, Lorraine Buch Fund for Young Artists, Estate of Joan Eliasoph, Clive and Anya Gillinson, The Carl Jacobs Foundation, The Pershing Square Foundation, Melanie and Jean E. Salata, and JMCMRJ Sorrell Foundation

United Airlines®, Airline Partner to the National Youth Ensembles.

Additional funding has been provided by the Alphadyne Foundation, Sarah Arison, The Jack Benny Family Foundation, Mary Anne Huntsman Morgan and The Huntsman Foundation, IAC, Stella and Robert Jones, Martha and Robert Lipp, Beth and Joshua Nash, The Morton H. Meyerson Family Foundation, and David S. Winter.

Founder Patrons; Blavatnik Family Foundation; Nicola and Beatrice Bulgari; The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; Marina Kellen French and the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation; The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation; Ronald O. Perelman; Robertson Foundation; Beatrice Santo Domingo; Hope and Robert F. Smith; Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon; and Joan and Sanford I. Weill and the Weill Family Foundation.

NYO2 Supporters

Lead Donors: Hope and Robert F. Smith, The Kovner Foundation, and Beatrice Santo Domingo.

Public support for NYO2 is provided by Senate Majority Leader E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand through the U.S. Department of Education.

Global Ambassadors: Michael ByungJu Kim and Kyung Ah Park, Hope and Robert F. Smith, and Maggie and Richard Tsai.

Leadership support for NYO2 is provided by the Estate of Joan Eliasoph and Mellon Foundation.

Major support for NYO2 is provided by Veronica Atkins, Mercedes T. Bass, Ronald E. Blaylock and Petra Pope, Clive and Anya Gillinson, Beth and Joshua Nash, The Pershing Square Foundation, Melanie and Jean E. Salata, and Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon.

United Airlines®, Airline Partner to the National Youth Ensembles.

Founder Patron: Beatrice Santo Domingo.

With additional funding provided by Alphadyne Foundation, Sarah Arison, Ernst & Young LLP, Stella and Robert Jones, Martha and Robert Lipp, the Morton H. Meyerson Family Foundation, and David S. Winter.

NYO Jazz Supporters

Lead Donors: Hope and Robert F. Smith, The Kovner Foundation, and Beatrice Santo Domingo.

Global Ambssadors: Michael Byung Ju Kim and Kyung Ah Park, Hope and Robert F. Smith, and Maggie and Richard Tsai.

Major support has been provided by Veronica Atkins, Mercedes T. Bass, Ronald E. Blaylock and Petra Pope, Clive and Anya Gillinson, The Pershing Square Foundation, Melanie and Jean E. Salata, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, and Joyce and George Wein Foundation, Inc.

United Airlines®, Airline Partner to the National Youth Ensembles.

Additional support has been provided by the Alphadyne Foundation, Sarah Arison, Stella and Robert Jones, Martha and Robert Lipp, Beth and Joshua Nash, and David S. Winter.

NYO Jazz is made possible, in part, by an endowment grant from the Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Foundation.
 

 

Photo: Todd Rosenberg