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📸 Spring Festival pics are now on our Facebook

📸 Spring Festival pics are now on our Facebook page! Album link in bio.

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Siting Zhang learned how to balance her music and

Siting Zhang learned how to balance her music and studies when she was in GTCYS. Now, Siting is a biomedical engineering student at Purdue University and still plays violin as part of Purdue's Symphony Orchestra! "GTCYS requires a lot of time and dedication, which I think teaches students how to work as a team, as well as time management with juggling school and other extracurriculars that they may be involved in." Hear from more alumni across our 50-year history at the link in our bio🎶

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🇮🇹🎶 Hear Symphony live before their much

🇮🇹🎶 Hear Symphony live before their much anticipated tour to Southern Italy in June! Join them for their tour send-off concert on June 12 at 7:00pm at Ted Mann Concert Hall. They'll perform their entire tour program, including Shostakovich's powerful Symphony No. 5 in full. Tickets are just $5 for students and $12 for adults! Link in bio.

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Harmony celebrated the end of their season this we

Harmony celebrated the end of their season this week with lots of playing, recitals, and games🎶😊 Congratulations to the over 60 Harmony students at Riverview West Side School of Excellence on their hard work this season. We can't wait to welcome even more Harmony students into our school-year orchestras in the fall!

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🎶This week's alumni feature is Cathy McCall Sch

🎶This week's alumni feature is Cathy McCall Schmidt! She played oboe and toured the UK with GTCYS in 1984. Today, Cathy is an active leader as President and CEO of Stahl Construction. Cathy plays it forward to current GTCYS students as a past GTCYS board member, as well as serving as the chair of GTCYS' 50th Anniversary Committee. Thank you to Cathy for her fantastic work!

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