Canton Youth Symphonies Concerts
Each Canton Youth Symphony ensemble presents three concerts a year. Join us to hear high quality music performed by students from all around Stark County and beyond!
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 General Admission Ticket Price…………………………………$15 ($3 ticketing fee included)



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2025-2026 Concerts

FALL 2025

Canton Youth Strings and Canton Youth Symphony

Sunday, November 16th at 4:00pm

Youth Strings Repertoire:
TBD

CYS Repertoire:
Wedding March.................Mendelssohn, arr. Steven Rosenhaus
March to the Scaffold...........................Berlioz, arr. Anthony Carter
Sleeping Beauty.....................................Tchaikovsky, arr. Merle Isaac
Dvorak's Fifth Symphony........................................arr. Vernon Leidig 
Egmont Overture.............................Beethoven, arr. Richard Meyer
The Great Gate of Kiev......................Mussorgsky, arr. David Stone
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Canton Youth Symphony Advanced Orchestra

Monday, November 17th at 7:00pm

Danza fantástica.......................................................................Enrique Soro Essay for Orchestra.............................................................Samuel Barber Swan Lake Suite...............................................Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Winter 2026

Canton Youth Strings and Canton Youth Symphony

Sunday, February 22nd at 4:00pm

Youth Strings Repertoire:

Prelufio and Allegto................................……..Corelli, arr. Ruth Siegler
Catchy Song……................................Lajoie, Francis, Rushent, & High
from The Lego Movie 2                              arr. Chris M. Bernotas
Fossils........................................................................…….Camille Saint-Saëns
from Carnival of the Animals          arr. Andrew H. Dabczynski
March........................................................Telemann, arr. Carl Strommen
from 12 Musique Hero            
Dance of the Blessed Spirits...........Gluck, arr. Robert Longfield
from Orpheus and Euridice



CYS Repertoire:

Into the Astral Plane.................................................................Aaron Soltis
Champions' Fanfare.....................................................Joshua Reznicow
Cadence Everlasting.....................................................Rossano Galante
Blackwater Canyon...............................................................Steve Parsons
Into the Storm...........................................................................Robert Smith
Por una Cabeza.........................................................................Carlos Gardel

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Canton Youth Symphony Advanced Orchestra

Monday, February 23rd, 7:00pm

Variations on "America"....................Charles Ives, orch. Schuman New Work - World Premiere..........................Faye-Ellen Silverman
Concerto in F..........................................................Gershwin, George
with soloist Baron Fenwick
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Spring 2026

Canton Youth Symphony Advanced Orchestra

Sunday, May 10th, 7:00pm

2026 Composer Fellow Commission
Cruz Stock
Scheherazade.................................................Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
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Canton Youth Strings and Canton Youth Symphony

Sunday, May 10th, 4:00pm

Youth Strings Repertoire:
TBD
CYS Repertoire:
TBD
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Canton Youth Symphony Advanced Orchestra performs Side-by-Side with the CAnton Symphony Orchestra!
CYSAO and the professional Canton Symphony Orchestra performed together at the 2024 Family Concert on Saturday April 13, 2024 at 3pm. As the name suggests, students sat and played beside professional musicians of the CSO. Photos below show the magic on stage!
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Concert Program
__________________________________________________Florence Price: Colonial Dance _____________________________________________Gustav Holst: A Somerset Rhapsody _______________________________________________ Ina Boyle: Overture for Orchestra ___________________________________________ Manuel de Falla: Spanish Dance No. 1 from La Vida Breve
Virtual Content
2021 Chamber Music Virtual Concert Recording
Concert Program
The Canton Youth Symphonies worked hard to present a virtual chamber music concert, which premiered on May 2nd, 2021 at 4:00 PM. The 13 chamber groups and the Youth Strings ensemble met via Zoom each week in the months of January and February.
 
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2020 CYS Virtual Concert Recording

The Canton Youth Symphonies worked hard to present a virtual concert, which premiered on December 14th and 15th, 2020 at 7:00 PM. The ensembles met via Zoom each week since mid-September. They participated in full orchestra rehearsal and sectionals each week, and received one-on-one coaching from music directors and four talented music education students who joined the program for the semester.
 
While the presentation of a virtual performance can come close to replicating the experience of playing in an orchestra, the sheer fact that these talented youth have still found a way to make music during these difficult times is nothing short of remarkable. Enjoy this performance, and we hope it will add a little Classical music to your life at a time when we all need it most.