Aloha HYS alumni,

Welcome back to HYS!

HYS is creating an alumni community to reunite old friends, establish new connections, exchange ideas and secure a support network around our young musicians and our organization. It’s a natural set of connections. After 45 years of serving thousands of young people with a common interest in music, formation of this alumni community is inevitable, if not long overdue.

We’re continually looking for ideas and hope you’ll join us in an ongoing conversation on how to make this community valuable to you. So far, we’ve come up with the following ideas:

• an alumni post-concert reception after Maestro Miyamura’s Spring Concert at Blaisdell on April 11 with Youth Symphony I
• a possible alumni summer orchestra;
• an alumni on-line bulletin board
• mentoring opportunities with current students;
• and a newsletter, called the Lead Sheet. We want to develop this Lead Sheet into an effective networking tool where alumni can post classifieds to look for other alumni; share things about their businesses; learn about other alumni; and discover ways to volunteer, support and sustain HYS. Lead Sheet is currently scheduled for distribution in the fall and spring, but if you provide us with enough content, we’ll run issues more frequently. We’d also like to eventually develop a web Lead Sheet to complement our efforts.

It’s all very exciting for HYS to reengage our alumni, but we need you to help us build. So please contact us at alumni@HiYouthSymphony.org and let us know what you’re doing, where you are and how this HYS alumni community can help you. Keep checking back here for updates. We’re just getting started and we need you to help lead the way!