2025-26 / Musical Opportunities
This page is designed to inform our members of musical opportunities available: concerto competitions, concert offers, scholarships, and other musical opportunities. Please use the contact information provided in the listings below for more information
Performance and Special Ticket Opportunities
A Far Cry offer BYSO families and staff complimentary tickets to their annual Side by Side concert on January 31st at Jordan Hall at 7:30pm. To request complimentary tickets please fill out this form here.
Listening & Viewing Opportunities
Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Listen to Boston’s premier professional orchestra. Click the link above to view the 2025-2026 season programming. Be sure to get your BSO Family to pass here.
Boston Lyric Opera
Check out the 2025-2026 season schedule by clicking the link
Other Opportunities
CommonTime Pathways is a free platform that helps students as young as thirteen and their families explore their musical journey through college in one place. In one simple, easy-to-use tool you can explore programs for majors and non-majors, compare opportunities, find scholarships, and connect with admissions officers. Sign up today and help college recruiters find you wherever you are in your musical journey. For more information visit: www.CTPathways.com
Competitions & Special Opportunities
Project Overture - Led by BYS Student Henry Goldstein
Through Project Overture, high school musicians volunteer to teach weekly music lessons to children at Housing Families, an afterschool program for primarily unhoused children in Malden, MA. If you are interested in volunteering, please find more information here.
Fidelity Young Artist Competition: Boston Pops
High School instrumentalists and vocalists are invited to participate in the Fidelity Investments Young Artists Competition at the Boston Pops. This competition is open to ALL genres and styles of music and to soloists and ensembles (up to five members). Winners receive a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform with the Boston Pops as part of their Spring Pops concert on June 3, 2026. This concert, scheduled to be conducted by maestro Keith Lockhart will also feature a special guest artist. Finalists will be invited to audition live at Symphony Hall.