BAYOF Hope (Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival)

The Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival (BAYOF) Hope Concert will feature 575 young musicians—ages 12 to 21—and six conductors from six Bay Area youth orchestras who will come together and use their musical talents to benefit homeless youth in an event hosted by award-winning Bay Area television anchor Wendy Tokuda. 

The six orchestras include the California Youth Symphony, Oakland Youth Orchestra, Peninsula Youth Orchestra, Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Young People's Symphony Orchestra. 

Each orchestra will take its place on the stage of Davies Symphony Hall and play approximately 10 minutes of music. For the encore, 110 selected (all-star) members of the six orchestras will play together as the Festival Orchestra under the direction of Young People Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director/Conductor, DAVID RAMADANOFF.

The concert will include music of Dvořák, Rimsky-Korsakov, Marquez, Ginastera, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, and Respighi.