Online Season Finale

Upcoming Events

Winter Large Ensemble Concerts 2025
1/19/2025 YOCJ will hold the Winter Large Ensemble Concerts on Sunday January 19, 2025 at Kendall Hall, TCNJ Snow date: Sunday January 26, 2025 3pm concert: Wind Symphony String Preparatory Orchestra Pro Arte Orchestra 8pm Concert: Saxophone Choir Symphonic Orchestra, featuring Patrick Williams, Flute *All E-ticket sales will be handled by TCNJ. *Online E-ticket sales go live on Monday […]
New Student Auditions
1/28/2025 Tuesday January 28, 2025 is the next date for our New Student Auditions. A successful audition secures your spot on our roster! Students must register for an audition time online. We will be accepting payment online as well. We look forward to meeting your young, talented musicians! Click HERE for more information on auditions!
Masterclass: Saxophones
2/18/2025 • 7pm Selmer artist, Mr. Valentin Kovalev, a highly sought educator and performer, will run a saxophone masterclass on Tuesday February 18th. Most notably, Mr. Kovalev was the first prize winner of the Naumburg Foundation’s International Saxophone Competition in 2022.
Masterclasses: Woodwind, Brass, String, Percussion
3/11/2025 • 7pm YOCJ is thrilled to announce that our guest artist for the 2024-25 season is the flutist, Patrick Williams! Mr. Williams was appointed associate principal flutist of The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2018 by Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Mr. Williams is also currently adjunct instructor of flute at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance. YOCJ is […]

5/26/2020 • 6pm & 7pm

Tuesday May 26 Grand Finale:
6pm Zoom Session & 7pm YouTube Livestream

The Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey presented 2 exciting culminating events on Tuesday May 26. At 6pm, The Flute Ensemble held a Zoom Flute Presentation for those students and their immediate families. This featured a live flute demonstration, an Accapella App presentation, and an iMovie performance by the Flute Ensemble. Afterwards, there was a YOCJ-wide 7pm YouTube Livestream in conjunction with Front Row Seat Productions. This Online Finale featured our 3 Senior Concerto Competition Soloists performing their solos with accompaniment and being coached by 3 accomplished clinicians. Please support your fellow YOCJ musicians and join us:

https://youtu.be/UwLROWr_aZM

Soloists: Luke Armstrong, Tuba; Drew Borek, Trumpet; Andrew Xu, Cello. Piano accompanists: Julie Caudle & Annabel Guo. Clinicians: Ovidiu Marinescu, Cello; Michael Mergen, Trumpet; Paul Mergen, Tuba. Feel free to share this link with your private teachers, friends, and other YOCJ supporters. Please let us know if you have any questions.