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Founded in 1995 by Liza Grossman, Contemporary Youth Orchestra (CYO) is the only youth orchestra in the United States dedicated to the study and performance of contemporary orchestral literature. The orchestra is in residence at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.[1] Contemporary Youth Orchestra and Liza Grossman are the recipients of several awards including the ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, the Northern Ohio Live Award of Achievement and the Sunshine Award from Young Audiences for excellence in arts education.

Contemporary Youth Orchestra
Youth orchestra
Short name	CYO
Location	Cleveland, Ohio
Concert hall	Cuyahoga Community College - Metro Campus
Music director	Kris Morron

Music

Contemporary Youth Orchestra is a full orchestra that rehearses weekly at Cuyahoga Community College. CYO's regular season consists of 3-4 concerts each year, highlighted by collaborations with internationally recognized performers and composers. Joan Tower, Christopher Rouse, Jennifer Higdon and Valerie Coleman have been recently featured on concert programs and recent guest performers include Chris Thile, yMusic and Luca Mundaca.

CYO continues to champion up and coming composers by partnering with Kinds of Kings through the Bouman Fellowship that will bring a new work by a fellowship recipient to Cleveland to work directly with CYO musicians. CYO has commissioned and premiered dozens of new works and concerti, all with the composers present. In December, CYO will premiere a Triple Concerto written by Pascal Le Boeuf for the percussion duo, arx duo and violinist, Barbora Kolarova. Also on that program is the US premiere of Vince Mendoza's Concerto for Orchestra.

Rock the Orchestra

The orchestra's annual series 'Rock the Orchestra' features a different performer or band every year.

Year	Guest Artist	Show Title
2003	Graham Nash	Classical Nash
2004	Jon Anderson	Symphonic Song Cycle
2005	Pat Benatar	Fire Away
2006	Styx	One With Everything
2007	Various	Kashmir
2008	Various	Farandole
2009	Donnie Iris & The Cruisers	Rock Fantastique
2010	Jon Anderson	State of Independence
2011	Jefferson Starship	Jefferson Starship & CYO
2012	Blame Sally	Pass The Buddha
2013	Bootsy Collins	PsychoticBumpSchool
2014	Ben Folds	Ben Folds & CYO
2015	Graham Nash	GNASH
2016	Tommy Shaw	Sing for the Day!
2017	Melissa Etheridge	Pulse
2018	Kenny Loggins	Kenny Loggins & CYO
2019	Jason Mraz	Everything is Sound
2020	Michael Stanley	Another New Years Eve
2021	Chris Thile	Chris Thile & CYO
2022	Luca Mundaca	Drops of Color

See also

• Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
• Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony

References

External links

• Contemporary Youth Orchestra Official Website
• Contemporary Youth Orchestra at IMDb
• Kris Morron named CYO Music Director
• Machine Gun Kelly and CYO

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