Waco Symphony Youth Orchestra | Waco Symphony Orchestra

The WSYO welcomes talented student musicians (most in 8th-12th grades) to audition, rehearse, perform, and appreciate orchestral music under professional guidance under Music Director / Conductor Rebekah Lambert. The orchestra performs two free concerts each season, one in the fall and one in the spring.

Audition day is scheduled one week before the WSYO’s first rehearsal each fall. Auditions for the spring semester can be scheduled upon request.

2025-2026 WSYO Concert Season

Fall Concert
Sunday, October 26, 2025 / 6:30 p.m.
Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building
Free Admission

Overture to Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini
Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Movement 1 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Viola Concerto in D Major Op. 1 by Carl Philipp Stamitz, with soloist Ben Cantrell
Variations on a Shaker Melody by Aaron Copland, arr. Rebekah Lambert
The Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back by John Williams, arr. Rebekah Lambert

Spring Concert
Musicians’ Choice
Sunday, February 22, 2026 / 6:30 p.m.
Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, Baylor University
Free Admission

Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt
Gustav Holst: Mars from The Planets
Joe Hisaishi: Selections from Howl’s Moving Castle
INTERMISSION
Geraldine Greene: Bass Clarinet Concerto for String Orchestra, with WSYO Concerto Competition Winner Emmanuel Maxey
Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky: Selections from his ballets: Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake
Michael Giacchino: Medley from Up

Waco Symphony Youth Orchestra Sponsors
Suzanne and Michael Alexander