Welcome to Alaska Youth Orchestras

The mission of the Alaska Youth Orchestras (AYO) is to build musicianship, inspire our youth to love music, offer enriching opportunities for music performance, and create a musical legacy that will sustain arts throughout the lives of our members and our communities. Through its teaching, musical performance and leadership among youth arts groups, AYO fosters lifelong appreciation among its members for the rewards of responsibility, commitment, self-confidence, discipline and teamwork.