Glendale Youth Symphony

12/30/2025

Remembering our youth symphony from six years ago :-) thank you for a wonderful memories!

12/19/2025

Reminder for GYS! Let’s celebrate tonight!

12/19/2025

I’ve been a little quiet about this, but back in September, there were a lot of things on my mind. I started the Glendale Youth Symphony around 2018 as the Youth Christian Orchestra.

We grew but has more students came, more students were not Christian so we dropped the name and became the Glendale Youth Symphony.

Maddie Gail designed our logo to be colorful. I remember asking her to make the logo, colorful, vibrant, unique.

I started the orchestra because I looked around Los Angeles County and youth Orchestra didn’t have any black or brown kids in them. As a French hornist growing up, I never saw kids who looked like me in the orchestra.

So I set out to recruit students from schools to join the Orchestra kids of color and who had potential to be great musicians. Of course it wasn’t limited to them, but I made a special point to find talented youth because orchestra was still auditioned.

Some kids didn’t have instruments so I bought the instruments out of my money on Facebook marketplace. The first couple of years we started the Orchestra out of my pocket.

Out of many memorable experiences, I focused my attention on building character in the kids, reminding them that humor is part of music making. That we celebrate as a group each other. That some amazing memories are the result of consistent and focused work.

I’ve decided to step down as the executive director and artistic director of the GYS. I’ll be dedicating more time as a writer and the composer in the next year. And most of all, to my lovely wife, Jessica:)

I want to sincerely celebrate and welcome Dr. Nové Deypalan as our new artistic director of the GYS. He is a fabulous conductor and sincere friend of the organization. I look forward to the music he will be making with the kids!

Welcome, Dr. Deypalan!

12/14/2025

Some of the greatest musicians I’ve ever met:) can’t imagine conducting a better group of young musicians.

12/13/2025

Come to our winter concert tomorrow at 7:30pm at Holy Family. 7:30pm. It’s going to be a blast!

12/07/2025

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10/25/2025

We enjoyed performing a wonderful program of children’s music at Brand library!
Featuring our GYS members playing the toys for the Toy Symphony by L. Mozart. Thank you to our narrators Clyde Carpenter and Audrey Yoder for Ferdinand the Bull and Peter and the Wolf. And a special thank you to Jessica Asuelime and Kayla Keener for their original animations for Peter and the Wolf! Thank you to Blair Whittington and for hosting us!

08/26/2025

Getting ready for next week day one! First rehearsal on Tuesday, September 2! Looking for more string players. Sign up today at Glendaleyouthsymphony.org/registration.

06/15/2025

05/27/2025

Thank you to all of our wonderful musicians of the Glendale Youth Symphony in our Spring Concert, Stories and Tales!

Our concert consisted of chamber music, concerto, original compositions, and the music of Grieg, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, and more.

Thank you to our board of directors, Glendale College, all of our parents, videographer Felix Martiz and photographer Grace Stockdale:)

On to planning for the banquet and Fall season! Part 1 of 5