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New Format: One Season

Our 2010 season will consist of ten Sunday rehearsals and a concert on Sunday, March 28, 2010.
A daytime school outreach concert will be held the week of March 22-25.
Auditions will be held at Peace Lutheran Church in Hutchinson in mid-November. See the Auditions Page for details.

The CRAYO Symphony Orchestra:
The symphony orchestra is open to brass, percussion, string and woodwind musicians under the age of twenty-one.

The symphony orchestra performs high school and college material from classical to contemporary composers. The orchestra rehearses on Sunday afternoons from 4:00 - 6:00 at the Hutchinson Middle School. The 2010 season will consist of 10 rehearsals beginning in January and ending with a concert on March 28, 2010.

Enrichment Opportunities:

  • Regular Sectionals
  • Concerto Contest
  • Ensemble Opportunities
  • Music Camp Scholarship Fund
  • Master Classes
  • Guest Conductors
  • Guest Artists
  • Orchestra Concert Tickets

 

Community Outreach:
Besides its semester concerts, CRAYO shares its music with the community in several ways. Outreach concerts are performed in area schools.

CRAYO also collaborates with other area art organizations. For example, dancers from a local dance studio performed with the orchestra during a recent concert and a CRAYO ensemble performed with the Hutchinson High School Concert Chorale for a performance of Vivaldi's "Gloria".

The public has been invited to share in various enrichment opportunities, including a master class with members of the Minnesota Orchestra and CRAYO sponsored community performances by renowned college orchestras. Area string students, both youth and adult, have the opportunity to study with outstanding guest conductors by participating in CRAYO's annual summer string camp.


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Made possible in part by grants from the Southwest MN Arts and Humanities Council (SMACH) with funds
appropriated by the State Legislature. Agency of United Way of Hutchinson. Supplemental funds applied for with
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Chapter 31309.


Crow River Area Youth Orchestra
c/o Marie Nelson
651 N. Donnelly Ave.
Litchfield, MN 55355
Phone: (320) 593-7243

E-mail: info@crayouthorchestra.org

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