Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble Students Head to Austria to Participate in Prestigious Music Festival

Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble (PSYWE) is in the business of making not only music but also dreams come true, as the group enters its 10th anniversary season in 2016-17-culminating in a nine-day international tour next summer! Regarded as one of the few premier youth wind symphonies in the nation, PSYWE, an 81-piece band made up of woodwind, brass and percussion students in grades 8-12, flies off on July 4-12, 2017.

Led by Gregory X. Whitmore, PSYWE will visit Austria's "City of Music," Vienna, and glorious Salzburg, as they take part in the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival. Providing a unique platform for the world's most talented youth choirs, bands and orchestras to perform in Vienna's famous concert hall, Musikverein, this new global festival also gives budding musicians the chance to hear other groups perform and create bonds with music students from around the world.

"This is VERY exciting!" exclaims Maestro Whitmore. "This is PSYWE's first tour in its 10-year history (2007-2017), and it is part of our larger celebration of our 10-year anniversary this concert season. PSYWE is one of the only youth wind ensembles associated with a major American orchestra in the United States. The students will have their musical lives changed through performances in some of the world's great concert halls-the Musikverein, the MuTh and the Vienna Konzerthaus, as part of the Summa Cum Laude International Music Festival.