Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble Wins First Place in Symphonic Band Competition

Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, which recently completed a European tour, was awarded first place in the symphonic band division of the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival and Competition in Vienna. The Wind Ensemble, performing under the baton of its Music Director Gregory X.

Whitmore, joined 34 other ensembles from around the world for the festival, held July 7-12, and shares the first place award with the Osaka High School Symphonic Band of Japan. Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble was one of only three U.S. ensembles to travel to Austria for the festival and the only ensemble representing the western region of the United States.

Now in its eleventh year, the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival has become one of the most prestigious youth festivals in the world, bringing together the very best youth orchestras, choirs and bands from 13 countries and five continents for five days of fulfilling music-making in Vienna.

While at the festival, Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble not only participated in Summa Cum Laude Festival's prestigious competition held in the famed Golden Hall of the Musikverein, but also attended interactive workshops and educational lectures conducted by members of the festival's orchestra jury at the University of Music in Vienna.

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