Then, YouTube viewers voted for their favorites, with Tilson Thomas guiding the final 90-plus picks. To compete for a spot in the orchestra, applicants practiced assigned pieces and then videotaped their solo performances, uploading them to the Web site which has reportedly gotten some 13 million views.Ī panel of experts - from the London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and other orchestras - narrowed the field to the best applicants. It is envisioned as a place for classical musicians to meet on a continuing basis, exchanging videos and ideas and building collaborations to take the music on new paths. Its stated goal: to set culture and technology on an expanded stage, namely YouTube’s global Internet video platform. The YouTube project emerged in December with a publicity blitz via simultaneous press conferences in San Francisco, London and New York. “Everybody’s sort of posting to each other and trying to get to know each other, because we’re part of something that’s happening for the first time, in the moment.” Petersburg, is deeply interested in Russian culture - “and to violinists from Austria, from Bermuda, from Canada.” “I’ve been talking to the violinist who’s coming from Russia” - Hannah, whose parents are from St.

So we’re all adding each other on Facebook,” she says. The teenager - who has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Knoxville Symphony, venerable orchestras all - is taken with the fact that YouTube has quickly assembled “a completely new orchestra. “You have 30 pages of music to learn” for Carnegie, cautions her pragmatic mom, Danielle Tarley, herself a violinist. She became the concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, an orchestra that can play with professional panache, when she was all of 12 years old.

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