San Francisco Symphony

Youth Orchestra

Timeline of Youth Orchestra Landmarks

• 1981 – Jahja Ling appointed YO’s 1st Music Director
• 1981-1982 – Inaugural concert of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra in Davies Symphony Hall on Sunday, January 17, 1982 at 2:00p.m.
  
  Jahja Ling, Conductor
  
  Program: 
  Brahms/Academic Festival Overture
  Haydn/Symphony No. 104
  Dvořák/Symphony No. 8
  
• 1984 – David Milnes appointed YO’s 2nd Music Director
• 1986 – YO’s 1st international tour (Europe)
• 1986  – Leif Bjaland appointed YO’s 3rd Music Director
• 1989 – YO’s 2nd international tour (Asia)
• 1989 – Alasdair Neale appointed YO’s 4th Music Director
• 1992 – YO’s 3rd international tour (Europe)
• 1991-1992 – YO releases 1st recording (10th Anniversary compilation)
• 1995 – YO’s 4th international tour (Europe)
• 1995 – YO releases 2nd recording (Mahler Symphony No. 5)
• 1997 – YO releases 3rd recording (Concertgebouw)
• 1998 – YO’s 5th international tour (Europe)
• 1999 – YO releases 4th recording (Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2)
• 2001 – YO releases 5th recording (20th Anniversary compilation)
• 2001 – 20th Anniversary Concert on May 20 – Mahler Symphony No. 2 with San Francisco Symphony Chorus and soloists Florence Quivar and Nicole Folland
• 2001 – YO’s 6th international tour (Russia and Ireland)
• 2001 – Edwin Outwater appointed YO’s 5th Music Director
• 2004 – YO’s 7th international tour (Europe)
• 2005 – Benjamin Shwartz appointed YO’s 6th Music Director
• 2007 – 25th Anniversary Concert and Alumni Celebration on May 20 – Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with San Francisco Symphony Chorus and soloists from the San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellow Program
• 2008 – YO’s 8th international tour (Germany and the Czech Republic)
• 2009 – Donato Cabrera appointed YO's 7th Music Director