Our Goal is Carnegie Hall in 2024
Support a Life-Changing Impact on Young Musicians
In June 2024, the Lone Star Youth Winds travel to New York City and perform in concert at the world-renowned Carnegie Hall. And we need your help to get them there!
These amazing young musicians, guided by Dr. Andrew Trachsel, Director and Conductor, are going to represent our great state of Texas on the world’s premiere concert stage…Carnegie Hall.
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“Lone Star Wind Orchestra’s mission of Music Changing Lives is certainly realized through Lone Star Youth Winds. This select group of highly motivated young musicians are irrevocably changed through this ensemble and these opportunities.
The 2024 Carnegie Hall Tour initiative is an exciting new facet that is guaranteed to achieve a life-changing impact on these young people. Carnegie Hall is without question one of the world’s greatest concert halls. The experience of playing in this historic venue—which still reverberates with the collected sound of performances by Tchaikovsky, Bernstein, the Beatles, and Jon Batiste—will remain with these young musicians forever.” – Andrew Trachsel, LSYW Director and Conductor
Who are the Lone Star Youth Winds
Providing Inspiration with a Professional Level Experience
Lone Star Youth Winds is the premier educational program of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, a not-for-profit organization. Every year sixty (60) of the finest youth musicians gather from around the State of Texas for a professional level music training experience. The program is designed to be both a challenging and inspiring learning experience that facilitates students’ growth beyond their individual school music programs. In short, student musicians experience what music can be at the highest professional level!
Lone Star Youth Winds Program Highlights:
- Over 850 exceptional musicians, representing 84 schools from across Texas have participated since 2010
- Lone Star Youth Winds performances are held in world-class concert venues including the Moody Performance Hall in Dallas’ Arts District and Eisemann Center for Performing Arts
- Student musicians collaborate with world-renowned composers; John Mackey, Frank Ticheli, Omar Thomas, Julie Giroux, and Steven Bryant
- Compete in the annual Lone Star Youth Winds – Concerto Competition, perform as guest soloists, and utilize these performances as audition materials for college/scholarship applications.
- Study with Lone Star Wind Orchestra professional musicians in master classes for each concert cycle
- Work under the rigor of a professional, condensed rehearsal/performance schedule, mirroring a professional musician’s experience
- Prepare and then perform a full-length concert with only 4 rehearsals over a 2-week period
Our 2022 Lone Star Youth Winds Roster:
- 60 musicians from twenty-eight Texas high schools
- 43% were ethnically diverse
- 25% of our students received tuition assistance allowing them to participate
- Since 2010, not one student has been denied entry to the ensemble due to financial constraints
- Students travel from as far away as Edinburg and McAllen, TX
Send the Lone Star Youth Winds to New York City
We Need Your Help to Make this a Reality
Do Texas proud by sponsoring Lone Star Youth Winds 2024 Carnegie Hall Tour. Programs like ours are made possible through the generous contributions of donors like you. Gifts from family and friends, parents and teachers, patrons and sponsors, individuals and corporations are needed. Our entire community shares the goal of LSWO’s mission Music Changing Lives.
Your gift is a valuable investment in our community and in our next generation of artists, arts patrons, and community leaders.