PSYE - Registration
Audition applications for Pacific Symphony Youth Ensembles 2025-26 season are available from March 5 through May 2, 2025!
Pacific Symphony Youth Ensembles is pleased to be using Acceptd for the 2025-26 audition season.
Application materials, audition fee and audition video must be submitted by Friday, May 2, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.
Please click here to get started: PSYE 2025-26 Audition Application
Submit the following through Acceptd:
- Registration form and fee ($45)
- Audition video (Requirements and Guidelines)
- A scanned copy of your solo for the adjudicators
- A headshot (This doesn’t have to be fancy—just a phone picture of your smiling face!)
In your audition video, you are required to perform two musical components:
- Solo - Please prepare one solo of your choice that best demonstrates your playing ability. Solos should be a 1½- to 2-minute selection performed without an accompanist.
- Required Excerpts – You will be expected to prepare all excerpts assigned to your instrument by Pacific Symphony Youth Ensembles. Please click here to download the excerpts for your instrument.
A few notes…
- If you are also auditioning on an auxiliary instrument (e.g. piccolo, English horn, etc.), please select the auxiliary instrument on your primary instrument’s application. The excerpt packet for your primary instrument includes additional required excerpts for the auxiliary instrument that should be included in your audition video.
- If you are auditioning on an instrument that is in both Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble and Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, you must select one ensemble as your primary choice. On the application you will be asked if you want to be considered for the other ensemble and, if so, to briefly explain why you selected your primary and secondary choice. All placement decisions will be based on audition scores and personnel needs for each ensemble.
- If you are a rising 9th grader and would like to be considered for multiple ensembles outside of PSYO and PSYWE (i.e., Youth Orchestra and Santiago Strings, or Youth Wind Ensemble and Youth Concert Band), you will need to fill out two separate applications, prepare two different sets of excerpts, and submit two different audition videos.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at psye@pacificsymphony.org.