NYO-USA Performs “La Conga del Fuego Nuevo” by Arturo Márquez with Marin Alsop

Watch Marin Alsop lead NYO-USA in a performance of Arturo Márquez’s “La Conga del Fuego Nuevo” at Carnegie Hall. To watch more NYO-USA videos, visit: For the fifth summer, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (WMI) has brought together the brightest young players from across the country to form the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA). Following a comprehensive audition process and a three-week training residency with leading professional orchestra musicians, these remarkable teenagers embark on a tour to some of the great music capitals of the world to serve as dynamic music ambassadors. In 2017, the orchestra traveled to Latin America with conductor Marin Alsop and performed a program that included a new Carnegie Hall–commissioned work by Gabriela Lena Frank and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. In 2018, NYO-USA will return to Asia for a tour with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Learn more about NYO-USA and apply to be a part of the 2018 orchestra by visiting _____________________________________ Video Director: Habib Azar