New Musician Registration

Thank you for your interest in joining the Grand Rapids Youth Symphony and Concert Orchestra!

This website will allow you to schedule your audition, track the status of your audition afterwards, and gain access to members-only information once you’ve joined one of the orchestras, should you pass your audition.

The system will create an account for each student and for at least one parent or guardian per student. Families can pay the audition fee from either the student’s or a parent’s/guardian’s account. If you are registering multiple siblings, you must submit one registration form for each student, but you may use the same parent account(s).

If you are already a member of the Youth Symphony or Concert Orchestra, please log into your existing student account and choose the “Audition for Next Year” link at the top of the page.

NOTE: We are asking students to upload a video recording of their prepared audition piece, scales and sight reading rather than scheduling in-person auditions. Please use the student account for the audition, uploading the video through this site. To avoid bias, we will remove the video portion of the file and provide only the audio (without your name) to the judges, but pre-screeners will use the video to make sure you have performed your own audition. Instructions for what to include in the video will be provided on the audition form.

A note about email addresses: The platform this site is built on requires that each account have a unique email address. We understand this might be a challenge for some families who share an email for the family or younger students who don’t have email yet. There are a couple tricks you can use to get around this:

• GMail ignores periods in the part of the email address before the @. You can add and remove periods to create an email that looks unique to this site that will still reach you. Examples: myaccount@gmail.com, my.account@gmail.com, my.ac.count@gmail.com
• Many other providers allow you to put a + after the end of your username portion (the part in front of the @) and then any word after it, and still deliver to you. Examples: myaccount@example.com, myaccount+student@example.com, myaccount+dave@example.com
• Please try sending an email to such an address and make sure it reaches you before using it to sign up.

About the Student Musician

First Name*

Last Name*

Birth Date*

Instrument*

fluteflute and piccolooboeclarinetbassoonfrench horntrumpettrombonetubapercussionharpviolinviolacellostring bass

E-mail Address*

Phone Number*

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Please enter a username to use to log into the site. You will be emailed a link to set the password when you submit the registration form.

Username*

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Please upload a profile photo for your account. This must be a recent real picture of you, with a front-facing head shot.  School ID photos do nicely.  It should be square, but we'll help you crop it after uploading if it isn't.

Profile Photo*

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Profile Photo

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About Your Parents/Guardians

Each parent or guardian that you list here will have an account created for them on this site. That account will have access to information about the student's status and payment information.  If you already have a parent account because you have another student you've previously registered, please enter the username for your existing account.  If you think you have an account but you're not sure what your username is, please contact webmaster@grys.org .

Parent/Guardian 1 Name*

Parent/Guardian 1 Email*

Parent/Guardian 1 Phone*

Parent/Guardian 1 Username*

Parent/Guardian 2 Name

Parent/Guardian 2 Email

Parent/Guardian 2 Phone

Parent/Guardian 2 Username

About your school If you are homeschooled, please choose "Homeschool". If your school is not listed, please choose "Other Not Listed" (it's the last choice at the bottom) and fill in the name of the school on the "Other School" line. Please enter the information as it pertains to the 2025-26 School Year.

School*

Other Not ListedBig Rapids HSByron Center HSByron Center West MSCaledonia HSCalvin Christian HSCedar Springs HSCity High SchoolCoopersville HSE Kentwood HSEast GR HSEast GR MSForest Hills Central HSForest Hills Central MSForest Hills E. HSForest Hills N. HSFremont HSGR Christian HSGR Christian MSGRCCGrand River PrepGrandville Chr MSGrandville HSGVSUHomeschoolHudsonville HSJenison HSJenison Junior HSKalamazoo Valley CCLibertas Classical Chr. HSLighthouse Conn. Acad.Lowell HSLowell MSMona Shores HSMontague HSMuskegon Comm. Coll.North Muskegon HSNorth Rockford MSNorthpointe Chr. HSNorthpointe Chr. MSNorthview HSReeths Puffer HSRiley Street MSRockford HSSouth Christian HSSpring Lake HSUnity Christian HSWayland Union HSWest Catholic HSWest Mich. Aviation Acad.West Ottawa HSZion Christian School

Other School

Grade*

789101112college

School Music Program*

OrchestraBand

Neither

School Instrumental Teacher Name*

School Instrumental Teacher Email*

Private Teacher Name*

Private Teacher Email*

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