Fargo Moorhead Area Youth Symphonies - FMAYS

Fargo Moorhead Area Youth Symphonies - FMAYS FMAYS provides a rigorous orchestral experience The Fargo Moorhead Area Youth Symphony (FMAYS), as it was originally named, had great plans from the beginning.

The dream child of Loris Tjknavorian, composer and conductor at Moorhead State University (now Minnesota State University Moorhead), FMAYS was founded in 1967. FMAYS was organized to give musically talented senior and junior high school students from the Fargo Moorhead area an opportunity to expand their musical experiences. In the mid 1970s, four Moorhead Public School teachers reorganized FMAYS:

Dewey Possehl, Eunice Pitmon, Jack Harris, and Bruce Houglum. These individuals designed the program as an addition to the junior and senior high school music education in the community. They established the purpose “to provide additional opportunity for participation and enrichment in orchestral playing and to instill a desire on the part of the student participants to develop musicianship.” They stressed that players were expected to participate in and retain allegiance to their school instrumental music programs. FMAYS divided into two separate groups in 1993: the Junior High Concert Strings for students in grades 6 through 8, and the Senior High Symphony Orchestra for students grades 9 through 12.

04/13/2026
The Concert Strings are ready to perform for the residents at Riverview Place!
03/29/2026

The Concert Strings are ready to perform for the residents at Riverview Place!

Online donations are open until 11:59pm. There's still time to donate!We are currently at $3805 in donations!Thank you t...
02/13/2026

Online donations are open until 11:59pm. There's still time to donate!

We are currently at $3805 in donations!

Thank you to those who have already donated and our generous match donors who will match up to $5400!

Here's the link to donate online:
https://app.givingheartsday.org/ #/charity/2117

Update: We are now at $3200 for GHD donations!****************************************************************We hope yo...
02/12/2026

Update: We are now at $3200 for GHD donations!
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We hope you will consider donating to us for Giving Hearts Day today!

Thank you to those who have already donated and our generous match donors who will match up to $5400!

We are currently at $1390 for GHD donations. We would love to get to the match amount of $5400!

Here's the link to donate online:
https://app.givingheartsday.org/ #/charity/2117

Join us today at 4:00pm at NDSU in the Beckwith Recital Hall for the Honors Recital. This recital is free and open to th...
02/01/2026

Join us today at 4:00pm at NDSU in the Beckwith Recital Hall for the Honors Recital.

This recital is free and open to the public!

01/18/2026

Pianist Tyler Wottrich delivered a showstopping performance later in the concert

Our Symphony Orchestra students are hard at work rehearsing with the FM Symphony Orchestra. Concerts are Saturday, Janua...
01/17/2026

Our Symphony Orchestra students are hard at work rehearsing with the FM Symphony Orchestra.

Concerts are Saturday, January 17 at 7:30pm and Sunday, January 18 at 2:00pm, both in Festival Concert Hall at NDSU.

We hope to see you there!

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808 3rd Avenue S. Ste. 302
Fargo, ND
58103

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(701) 929-1814

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