Music of YSDP

  • Our Repertoire Youth Symphony of DuPage instrumentalists learn and master a repertoire that is unique among many young people's orchestras. It ranges from the classics to modern and new works, and is culturally and musically diverse.

  • Guest vocal and instrumental artists from the Chicago area, and even some of our graduates, also perform with us when the opportunities arise.

  • Our language is the classical scores of Handel, Mozart and Bach. It speaks in the measured cadences of Vivaldi and Haydn. our music comes to life as quietly or stormily as the seasons do in "Jiangnan Four Seasons" by Fu-Tsai Jin. It dances to the exciting rhythms of Rimsky-Korsakov and "Duke" Ellington, and soars to the majesty and flair of Beethoven and Rossini.

  • Our concert audiences march triumphantly into Egypt to the strains of Verdi's "Aida." They sweep with us throughout the "Star Wars" galaxies of John Williams' score, across America's great plains to the music of "Dances With Wolves," and march through Russia to the strains of Prokofiev's "Lieutenant Kije."

  • CD CD Order Past YSDP Concert Recordings on CD