The Mississippi Youth Symphony Orchestra

The spring semester of the 2019-2020 season of MYSO brought many changes, cancellations, and redirects. Unfortunately, our musicians were...

Rayven has played the violin at Power APAC for 9 years. She has been a member of the Mississippi Youth Symphony Orchestra for eight seasons.

In the 7th grade, he picked up the violin and never put it down.

Courtney LaShae Francois, a cellist and a 2020 cum laude graduate of Jackson Academy, has been a member of the Mississippi Youth Symphony...

Rashad Harris is a senior at Murrah High School in Jackson, MS where he is an active member of the Battalion Staff of JROTC.

Kamilah is a highly-driven student of viola and the arts. Playing the violin and viola for the past ten years, she is a very active...

Trinady Moore has been a member of the Mississippi Youth Symphony Orchestra for six seasons. She is a graduating senior at Murrah High...

Darren Smith has been a member of the Mississippi Youth Symphony Orchestra for three seasons and has found the experience amazing.

30 MYSO musicians and parents embarked on a five-day tour of Chicago, IL that included museums, parks, lakefront, rivers, restaurants, etc.

The Premier Orchestral Insitute (POI) is the intensive summer festival sponsored by the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra for string players...

For 71 years, MYSO has been training and developing the next generation of musicians from beginner to advanced in the orchestral arts and...

Kamilah Brown and Casey Macklin have once again been awarded prestigious scholarships to study viola and violin as a part of the Sphinx...

Darren Smith is a member of the Philharmonia Orchestra where he plays violin. This July he will travel by air over 17 hours to perform...

POI is a weeklong festival offered by the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra as an educational camp devoted to the intense study, practice,...

The second week of May marks the end of the MYSO season and the unofficial start of summer.

Following MYSO tradition, graduating seniors Beth Ann Jones and Robert Blaine IV perform a senior recital. Here they perform Rossini's...

Beth Ann Jones is a member of the Philharmonia Orchestra as the sole double bass musician. Beth Ann has been a member of MYSO since 2011....

MYSO musicians and parents loaded a bus headed for a fun-filled Memorial Day weekend in San Antonio, TX.

Hi guys, You know how I'm always telling you to tape your parts? For a piece with many pages, it's very important that you also put a...

I have decided that we will be working on Tchaikovsky's "Andante Cantabile" from his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11. I have one single goal...