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Committed to supporting the next generation of orchestral musicians by giving students an opportunity to perform alongside professional musicians, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra collaborates with youth bands and orchestras in the lower mainland.
Each year, the VSO performs joint concerts with the North Vancouver School District Honour band and Honour String Orchestras at the Centennial theatre. In the 2011/2012 season the VSO will be performing with the North Vancouver School District High School Honour Band and Honour String Orchestra on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012.
Biennially, the VSO invites the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra to perform a joint concert in the Orpheum Theatre.

Today was the first day of working in concert hall. Centennial theatre was located in North Vancouver. After arriving, I started to help Joanne, who is my superviser and in between times, i watched their rehearsal. It was really interesting because I’ve never seen in Korea that professional musicians perform a concert with students. I think it is good opportunitiy for student. I thought students had practiced a lot for this concert when I was watching their concert and I was impressed by Pierre Simard, who was the conductor of this concert because his conducting was really active and powerful. And his short explanation of music was so humorous. It was my first work related to concert but toatlly satisfing and helpful to me.