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ICP Recruitment / Join our community of excellence.

Join the community of young musicians who have benefited from ICP and gone on to achieve great things in their musical careers and beyond!

BYSO's Intensive Community Program 2024 fall strings recruitment is now closed. We will recruit a new class of ICP Winds students in the fall of 2025. 

For ICP Winds 2025 recruitment (ages 6-12) click here to stay informed about announcements!
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For additional information please contact us at ICP@bu.edu or at 617.353.5330 or visit our website: www.BYSOweb.org.

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BYSO's Intensive Community Program

ABOUT ICP : 
In 1998, BYSO created the Intensive Community Program (ICP), a rigorous instrumental training program, in response to financial and cultural accessibility barriers preventing students from the city of Boston’s from auditioning into BYSO’s orchestras and participating in our high-quality programming. ICP aims to serve students of color including African American, Latinx, Caribbean, and other populations historically underrepresented in the study of classical music. Students enter ICP with little or no music training, and after 2–3 years of training and support, they are prepared to successfully audition into one of BYSO’s prestigious orchestras, with the objective of reaching BYSO’s top level orchestra. Students are provided the resources they need to be successful in BYSO orchestras and beyond, including financial aid for orchestra tuition, weekly lessons, use of an instrument, positive mentorship and an array of support services until they graduate from high school. Through discipline and creativity, individuality and teamwork, students can accomplish personal and group goals. The results are young musicians who develop high aspirations and a desire to work towards musical excellence.

For ICP Winds 2025 recruitment (ages 6-12) click here to stay informed about announcements!

ICP Strings Recruitment

Recruitment for ICP Strings is closed. For additional information please contact ICP@bu.edu

ICP Winds Recruitment

Recruitment for ICP Winds students will take place in the fall of 2025. For additional information please contact ICP@bu.edu or join the mail list by clicking below.