International Youth Music Orchestra
A natural evolution of Door Dog’s youth arts education programs, the International Music Youth Orchestra promotes and preserves ethnic music here in the Bay Area as well as in endangered villages around the world. Thanks to funders like the Sam Mazza Foundation, we have been able to create this orchestra and bring together youth and master musicians from around the world.
This dialogue between youth from many countries, having diverse global perspectives, is an effort to promote and preserve ethnic music here in the Bay Area, as well as, to provide youth from oppressed or endangered cultures of the world a voice to express themselves through their traditional music.
Reaching across the globe to unite the youth of the world through music, the International Music Youth Orchestra brings together youth from all over the Bay Area, 10-20 years of age, combining a diverse range of our world’s musical traditions and cultures, from the ragas of South India to the chamber music of China. In addition to investing in the youth of the Bay Area, Door Dog has also traveled to the rural mountains of Nepal, Taiwan, and Kyrgyzstan to help pass on to youth their traditional music.
