Invest in Alaska’s next generation of leaders!
Alaska Youth Orchestras is building a community where music education and performance are valued and shared. With three diverse and creative programs serving 500 youth (K-college) each year, we teach responsibility, commitment, self-confidence, discipline, and teamwork – values that will serve our musicians well no matter their chosen career path!
The Anchorage Youth Symphony serves high school and college age musicians by providing a professional level rehearsal and performance experience. Headlining AYO’s three Celebration Concerts, this amazing group of youth musicians never fails to impress!
AYO’s Symphony School Ensembles, our preparatory program, serves youth musicians grade 4-12, with progressively more advanced ensemble opportunities to prepare them for the Anchorage Youth Symphony and to raise the level of youth music throughout our community.
After School Music, a partnership with Camp Fire Alaska, is AYO’s outreach program. Serving about 400 children (K-6) in the Anchorage area, After School Music is what we like to call a music INSPIRATION program, introducing a love of classical music to our youngest participants and encouraging them to engage in a life of music education, performance, and supporting the arts.
With your support, AYO builds musicianship, inspires our youth to love music, offers enriching opportunities for music performance, and creates a musical legacy that will sustain arts throughout the lives of our members and our communities!
Thank you for supporting Alaska Youth Orchestras!
Alaska Youth Orchestras is a 501c3 nonprofit corporation. All donations are tax deductible.
Tax ID# 92-0082750
Make A Donation
Make a ONE TIME or RECURRING donation that we can use for whatever our dedicated young musicians need.
AYO strives to constantly increase and improve the opportunities available to our students, the visibility of our orchestras within our community, and the excellence of our orchestral groups.
Sponsoring an AYO musician? Make sure to include their name in the comments field when making your contribution!
Sponsor the Orchestra
We invite you to show your support and enthusiasm for AYO by sponsoring a musician’s chair, an instrument section, or even the conductor’s podium! With this unique, tax-deductible gift, you can let your child, grandchild, friend, student, etc., know how proud you are of their AYO accomplishments and musical accomplishments. Musician sponsors are listed in AYO’s concert programs for the entire season.
Pro tip: Make sure to include your musician’s name (or instrument section) in the comments field when making your contribution!
Business Sponsorship – $1000-$250
AYO Business sponsors are celebrated with a black and white advertisement in our concert program for the season. It reaches about 2000 people a year in print and is posted online, where it remains.
Full Page Ad – $1000 (5.5″ wide x 8.5″ high)
Half Page Ad – $500 (5.5″ wide x 4.25″ high)
Quarter Page Ad – $250 (2.25″ wide x 2″ high or business card)
Celebration Concert Event Sponsorship – $2500
AYO Celebration Concerts are the quarterly highlight for each AYO program, celebrating all of our youth musicians on stage at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts and planting the seeds of an artistic legacy helping to ensure future youth musicians get the same opportunity. This amount fully covers the event expenses, allowing us to reallocate these funds into direct education and program services.
Event Sponsors receive a featured full page, full color advertisement, recognition on the concert poster and program cover (if submitted at least 1 month in advance), and onstage acknowledgement. Amounts above $2500 will be used for additional concert expense.
Fall Celebration Concert – Nov. 4, 2024
Winter Celebration Concert – Feb. 23, 2025
Spring Celebration Concert – May 18, 2025
Title Program Sponsorship – $5000+
Title Program sponsors make our mission possible!
This amount supports nearly 70 hours of direct instruction for our youth musicians, or pays for 166 low-income family concert tickets, or covers one-third of the rehearsal venue lease for the entire year, or funds one-half of our conducting fellowship! We’ll tailor your sponsorship to fit your priorities and to best serve the program you elect to support: Anchorage Youth Symphony, Symphony School Ensemble, After School Music Program.
Title Sponsors receive special recognition, including a full page, full color ad, onstage acknowledgement, 4 complimentary tickets to AYO concerts, and acknowledgement public mentions of sponsored program. Amounts above $5000 will be used for additional program expense.
Support AYO Chamber Music
AYO Chamber Music is an opportunity for young musicians to work in small groups, without a conductor, improving their ensemble playing skills all while collaborating closely with their fellow musicians and learning from their professional AYO coaches!
Support AYO Concert Recording
Alaska Youth Orchestras contracts with professional video and audio engineers to ensure your memories are the highest quality. These recordings are often used in college and scholarship applications as well. Your support helps ensure we can continue to provide video and audio recordings free to our musicians and their families.
Off-Beat Percussion Fund
Support the Anchorage Youth Symphony Percussion section by contributing to the OFF-BEAT PERCUSSION FUND. Established in 2021 by AYS Percussion Alums Jacquie Braden (’09) and Eiden Pospisil (’12), funding will support AYS percussionists through tuition scholarships, equipment purchases, and private lesson assistance.
Linn Weeda Scholarship Fund
In honor of Linn Weeda’s 31 years as AYO Music Director, the Linn Weeda Scholarship Fund exclusively supports tuition scholarships for musicians are experiencing financial hardship, as well as to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion. Each AYS musician’s tuition is subsidized by $1300, leaving just $700 in payable tuition. The Linn Weeda Scholarship Fund is available, by application, for those musicians requiring extra assistance to pay the annual $700 tuition.
Frank and Carol Pinkerton AYS Endowment
The Frank and Carol Pinkerton Anchorage Youth Symphony Endowment endowment celebrates the 55th anniversary of the Anchorage Youth Symphony’s founding and is intended to help ensure the organization remains sustainable in the years ahead. The $100,000 donation is the largest single contribution the Anchorage Youth Symphony has received since its founding, by Frank Pinkerton, in 1965.
Contributions to the Frank and Carol Pinkerton Anchorage Youth Symphony Endowment can be made by visiting the Alaska Community Foundation website: alaskacf.org.
Click Donate to find the fund. You may also mail your donations to The Alaska Community Foundation, 3201 C Street, Suite 110, Anchorage, AK 99503. Please note “Frank and Carol Pinkerton Anchorage Youth Symphony Endowment” in the memo line.
Fred Meyer Rewards
Fred Meyer is donating $2.6 million this year to non-profits in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Sign up for the Community Rewards program by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to us at www.fredmeyer.com/communityrewards. You can search for us by our non-profit number EP 469.