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Alumni Event and Fall Concert Scheduled for November 8 & 9

The TSYO story began when DeVilbiss High School student Joseph Henry gathered friends who loved music. By 1950, the group became the official Toledo Youth Orchestras under Cecile Vashaw, later led by Kenneth Holland and Michael Miller. A second ensemble, the Toledo Junior Youth Orchestra, was added in 1978 to support younger musicians. In 2011, the ensembles joined the Toledo Symphony and rebranded as the Toledo Symphony Youth Orchestras, now comprising the Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra, and Concert Strings.

The Toledo Jazz Orchestra (TJO) launches the 2025–2026 Hartmann-Bogan Jazz Series with a concert featuring the incomparable Arturo Sandoval, one of the most celebrated jazz trumpeters of our time.  

A protégé of the legendary Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval has become an international icon of jazz. Since defecting to the United States in 1990, Sandoval has earned 10 Grammy Awards, 6 Billboard Awards, and an Emmy. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2024.