For new students interested in joining MAYSO or NSS in the fall, auditions will be held on Sat. May 5 starting at 9 a.m.

All instruments are needed in MAYSO: strings, percussion, winds & brass.

For more information, see link to left. To schedule an audition, email info@mayso.net or call 507-217-7687.

MAYSO is pleased to announce that Eleda Morneau has been hired to direct the North Star Strings ensemble for the coming season. With this change will also be a change of rehearsal time and space. NSS rehearsals will be on Saturday mornings from 10 to 11 at the Performing Arts Center on MSU campus. If your student can read music readily and is at least into Book 2 Suzuki, please consider joining us. Contact Eleda at eleda.morneau@gmail.com for more information.

Dr. Joseph Rodgers, the Director of Orchestral Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato, is in his second year at the helm for the Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has an extensive background in both performance and conducting and is a wonderful mentor to our students.

The Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra provides the young people of Mankato and the surrounding area with the experience of rehearsing and performing with a symphony orchestra, and enhances the musical education of those students who do not have access to a school orchestra.

MAYSO also provides an additional musical challenge by acquainting students with literature which might not be available in their school music programs.

MAYSO members provide continuous encouragement to music education departments throughout south central Minnesota by sharing their musical growth in their school music programs, their peers and their families.

Learn more the Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra by clicking on the links on the left!

North Star Strings is an ensemble for younger string players, designed to foster beginning orchestral techniques. NSS is directed by Eleda Morneau.