Metropolitan Youth Symphony
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Metropolitan Youth Symphony is a youth orchestra based in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A, founded in 1974 by Lajos Balogh[1] with a handful of students. It now consists of 400+ students across fifteen orchestra, band, strings, flute, percussion and jazz ensembles, led by an artistic team of thirteen conductors and directors.[2] It has rehearsal sites in both Portland and Hillsboro, Oregon. MYS accepts young musicians from kindergarten through early college age at all levels of experience.
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The current music director of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony is Costa Rican-born conductor and violinist Raúl Gómez-Rojas.[3][4]