Kawartha Youth Orchestra

INSPIRING A LOVE FOR MUSIC AND A PASSION TO SHARE IT – WE ARE KYO!

Kawartha Youth Orchestra is a community music and orchestra-training organization serving elementary through post-secondary-aged youth. Our students come from numerous communities in the Kawartha Region of Central Ontario. Each year we enroll students who want to be challenged beyond their school music experience. Our conductors and faculty are accomplished musicians with extensive backgrounds in performance and music education. As a registered non-profit, charitable organization, KYO values its partnership with local school music programs, private teachers, and other community performance organizations, who share in the development of our student musicians.

KYO operates two program streams:

• The Orchestras, a fee-based orchestra-training program for instrumentalists aged 8-28 years.
• UPBEAT! Downtown, a subsidized after-school music education program for Peterborough children who face barriers.

*UPBEAT! from September 2022-June 2023 is open to youth aged 8-12 years old.