CYSO Encore Chamber Orchestra

The Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra's Encore Chamber Orchestra was the featured ensemble today, from DePaul University Concert Hall. This year the CYSO won an ASCAP award for adventurous programming from the League of American Orchestras and this summer they went on tour to Argentina and Uruguay. On this program, we hear part of Mozart's Oboe Concerto, Premiere Rhapsodie for Clarinet by Debussy and a cello feature called Graciela y Buenos Aires by Argentine composer Jose Bragato. The soloists on today's program were winners of the CYSO's most recent concerto competition.

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Here's a clip from the show, the first movement of Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C:


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Program: Allen Tinkham, Conductor

Samuel Barber: Essay No. 1, op. 12

Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C, first movement
Zachary Hammond, oboe, Neuqua Valley High School

Debussy: Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra
Andrew Sandwick, clarinet, University of Chicago Laboratory School

Jose Bragato: Graciela y Buenos Aires
Sonia Mantell, cello, Carl Sandburg High School