2025-26 Season

Toronto Sohrae Youth Orchestra 토론토 소래 청소년 오케스트라

2025-26 Season Overview

Auditions

A black and white sign signalling that it is audition day.
  • September 19, 2025.
  • Audition fee: $20 (please include your name and instrument in the eTransfer)
  • Audition Registration Form: https://forms.gle/AxZuzi94RZnF3nZZ8
  • Late applications are still open for the following instruments: Oboe, Bassoon, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba. Live auditions are replaced with recording submissions.
  • If your instrument is not listed above and you still really want to join, please send us an email.

Membership Fee and Registration

  • Fall term: $550 per person. Discount for two siblings: $1000/two siblings.
  • Winter term: $350 per person. (this means total $900 per year/person)
  • Students who register only for the Winter term: $750.
  • The fee includes: weekly rehearsals and snacks, Camp Day in April, Winter concert, Final concert, photo, video, and certificate fee.
  • Upon registration, it is assumed that you have read and understood our policies.

Rehearsals

  • Orientation and first rehearsal October 3.
  • Every Friday 5:30-7:30pm. Arrive by 5:10-5:20pm to set-up and warm-up.
  • No rehearsals on the following Fridays: Dec. 12, Dec. 19, Dec. 26, Jan. 2, Mar. 13, Apr. 3
  • Extended rehearsals to begin in February or March (5:30pm-8:00pm)
Youth sitting in a large room together playing the violin, flute, viola, clarinet, trumpet, and cello.

Concerto Competition

  • Application due by November 20, 2025.
  • Audition/competition on November 21, 2025.
  • You must get pre-approval on your repertoire selection before you apply.
  • Congratulations to Tony Park 박준엽 for winning the 2026 concerto competition. Tony will be performing the Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the Toronto Sohrae Youth Orchestra at the final concert on April 25, 2025 at Glenn Gould Studio.

December Concert

  • December 5, 2025, 6:30pm.
  • At Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Atrium.

Winter Break & March Break

  • Winter break no rehearsals Dec. 12 – Jan. 2
  • March break no rehearsal Mar. 13

String Ensemble

  • The string ensemble will be performing Bartók’s Roumanian Folk Dances featuring three soloists:
  • Seoyoung Kim 김서영 on violin
  • Leo Yu 유근찬 on violin
  • Sea Kweon 권세아 on viola
  • Congratulations to Seoyoung, Leo, and Sea!

Woodwind Ensemble

  • The woodwind ensemble will be performing an arrangement of But a Dream 꿈이로다, music from the drama The Moon Flows in this River 이강에는 달이 흐른다.

Camp Day

  • April 6, 2026. (Easter Monday)
  • Exact time TBA – it will be approximately 12pm-6pm.
  • If the weather is nice, we might eat lunch outside, so please dress accordingly.
  • No rehearsal on April 3 (Good Friday)
Group of youth sitting in the parking lot of a church.

Final Concert

Music students on stage after a live concert holding classical instruments.
  • Saturday, April 25, 2026. At Glenn Gould Studio, in the CBC Building. You will enter through the Stage Entrance at 25 John Street. Map below. Exact entry instructions will be emailed, so please read those carefully.
  • Concert is in the evening but you will be expected to be at Glenn Gould Studio in the early afternoon for dress rehearsal. Exact time TBA.
  • Dress in concert attire: black long sleeve shirt, black pants, black socks, black shoes.
  • If you forget any of your: instrument, music, concert attire, you may not be able to go on stage. Please make yourself a list of everything you plan to bring and check it twice as if you’re Santa Claus.
Next page