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National Youth Orchestra

PictureCarol McCall meet with oboist Megan Yuen and harpist Audrey Morris who benefit from IODE Canada. The picture was taken by photographer Dahlia Katz following the evening concert at Koerner Hall, Toronto. 19/07/2024
In the summer of 1960, Walter Susskind and Harman Haakman directed a pilot workshop for young musicians in Stratford, Ontario.  Its success and the subsequent support of several Toronto business people led to the formation of the National Youth Orchestra Association in 1960, a federally chartered, non-profit organization devoted to the discovery and training of accomplished young Canadian musicians.

The original function of the NYOC was to prepare a student orchestra for an annual cross-Canada tour.  As time went on, however, the organization developed and elaborated its instructional program, becoming primarily a training body dedicated to perfecting the skills and talents of the best young Canadian musicians for careers as professional orchestral players through short but intensive summer session programs.  The touring function of the orchestra, rather than being virtually the sole focus of the NYOC, remained a vital and integral part of a broader professional instructional program.

​The NYOC’s concert tours have included every major Canadian city as well as occasional trips to the United States, Europe, and Asia. Each year, 90 to 100 youth are carefully selected from cross-Canada auditions of over 500 applicants to train with some of the greatest minds in professional music. These talented students train tirelessly for six weeks at the Western University before heading out on tour and recording a CD of the summer’s repertoire. In their 3-month residency, these students will receive more hours of practical orchestral training than most university programs offer in an entire year, completely free of tuition. NYOC has twice been awarded the World Youth Orchestra Conference’s “Best Youth Orchestra in the World” title, and was nominated for a 2009 Juno Award for 
Classical Album of the Year. Approximately 1 in 3 professional orchestral musicians in Canada are alumni of NYOC.

2020/2021
Malcom Kellett-Cooke
Rosanne Sicard
​Jonathan Elliotson
2021/2022
​Due to COVID no scholarships were awarded
2022/2023
Dan Luong
Gabrielle Carruthers
​Sara Young
2023/2024
Evan Pyne
Miona Milovanovic
​Serina Lee

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      • ​Past Award Winning Programs
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    • IODE Silence to Sound Award McGill University Recipients
    • IODE Bursaries to Nurses at Montreal Children's Hospital
    • IODE Wilhelmina Gordon Foundation Scholarship Queen's University Recipients
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