Summer Youth Orchestra (SYO)

The ChiMOP Summer Youth Orchestra (SYO) is a free youth orchestra camp open by audition to any Chicago middle/high school musician with experience playing an orchestral instrument. Entering the 12th season of ambitious programming, SYO has performed more than thirty concerts in venues across the city and beyond, and toured to places like Michigan, Saint Louis, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia, collaborating with other music for social change projects along the way!


Stay tuned for SYO 2026 Info


Questions? Contact our Executive Director Thomas Madeja at thomas@chimop.org


Summer 2020 was certainly unique. As we social distance ourselves from each other, the music continues. Please enjoy our 2020 Summer Youth Orchestra musician...
Danzon No. 2 by Arturo Marquez performed by the Chicago Metamorphosis Orchestra Project Summer Music Camp at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Albany Park, Chicago...
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