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The Los Angeles Youth Orchestra is a diverse group of young musicians from sixty schools in the Los Angeles area. When you join LAYO you'll:

  • work and play alongside our gifted professional faculty
  • perform in professional concert halls
  • work with world-class guest conductors and visiting faculty
  • experience the excitement of premiering new music, as well as the joy of exploring established masterworks
  • make friends and music with students from all over the Los Angeles area
The Los Angeles Youth Orchestra consists of two peforming groups to which students are assigned by age and playing level: the Concert Orchestra is an intermediate-level group; the Chamber Orchestra is an advanced group which performs works in the standard symphonic repertory. Each group spends half of the rehearsal with our faculty in sectionals and the other half working as an ensemble with Dr. Steinberg.

The Los Angeles Youth Orchestra is an independent non-profit corporation, and donations made to the orchestra are tax-deductible as provided by the US Tax Code under section 501(c)(3). We are an Emeritus Youth Orchestra Partner of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.