The Loudoun Symphony Youth Orchestra, Mark Allen McCoy, Music Director and Conductor, announces auditions and performing opportunities throughout the school year.

Mr. McCoy is in his ninth season as Music Director and Conductor of the Loudoun Symphony Orchestra, the parent organization of the Loudoun Symphony Youth Orchestra. He has also been Director of Orchestras at Towson University in Maryland and served as cover conductor for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra during their 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 seasons. He was Music Director of the Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestras from 1995 to 1998, and has worked with many other youth orchestras including the Peabody Youth Sinfonia Orchestra, the Central Illinois Youth Symphony, the Kansas City Youth Symphony, and the Greater Baltimore Youth Symphony.

An award-winning conductor, Maestro McCoy has appeared with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra, Kharkov (Ukraine) Philharmonic, Szczecin Filharmonia (Poland), Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Emilia Romagna "Arturo Toscanini," St. Joseph Symphony, St. Petersburg (Russia) State Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Chamber Orchestra, and the Toledo Symphony. He holds degrees from the Conservatory of Music in Kansas City and the University of Illinois, and he has pursued doctoral studies in conducting at the Peabody Conservatory of Music.

The audition requirements are a short solo, scales up to three flats and three sharps, and sight-reading. Students must provide their own instruments. Tuition for the remainder of the season for new players will be pro-rated. A limited number of financial aid scholarships are available. For more information or to schedule an audition, please contact the Loudoun Symphony office at 703-771-8287, or e-mail LSYO@loudounsymphony.org.