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Under Jerkins, who has produced stars from Michael BJackson to Lady Gaga, Gillespie shepherded the likes of TLC and Brandy to the Top 40. But when Gillespie, a classically trained pianist and composer, returned to classical music at the University of Oslo, he was disappointed. Where was the fun? Where were the fans? “It all kind of changed,” says Gillespie, “when I witnessed my first YOA concert. And it felt more like a rock concert than any symphony. The musicians were my age, they were into it. They were real people.” SOUNDS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT In 2006, Gillespie traded working with pop divas for grooming the YOA’s young instrumentalists, who come from across the Americas and range from 18 to 30, with an average age of 24. When it was founded in 2001, explains Artistic Advisor Plácido Domingo, “the dream of the YOA Orchestra of the Americas was to cre- ate an international orchestra of the best and brightest young musi- cians from across our hemisphere.” This year the YOA chose 80 musicians out of the 1000 who audi- tioned. There are no entry or participation fees. In 2009 they were among the first to audition through YouTube. The result is an incred- ibly selective process “equivalent to getting into Harvard,” says Gillespie. YOA Music Director Carlos Miguel Prieto believes the musi- cians’ youth and exceptional drive fuels “every single concert. There’s this amazing feeling of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The orchestra plays in a way that is unforgettable for anyone present.” Prieto is also Music Director of the National Symphony of Mexico and the Louisiana Philharmonic. “I spend most of the year working with established professional orchestras,” he explains. “And they have essential skills are not often taught in conservatories, the YOA believes. their own rhythm. This orchestra is different.” And today, they are vital. For most of the talented teens and twenty-somethings, the YOA is their “Education is the fastest growing market in classical music and there first ticket to another country. They are ambassadors; after each concert, are very few schools thinking about how to prepare a top level musi- musicians unfurl their country’s flag from their music stands. Within the cian to take on roles and responsibilities in this quickly growing world,” orchestra, they must work together as a musical United Nations. says Gillespie. Violinist Jessy Dubé, from Saguenay, who will tour Canada with the This “social involvement is from the most grassroots level,” says YOA this summer, says performing with the YOA in 2013 helped her Prieto. Participants complete placements where they teach music, “discover that music can build a bridge between people.” She learned train local teachers and leaders, and jumpstart programs and research some Spanish on tour, as Prieto repeats everything in English and to help dissect local challenges. How do you fight for support when you Spanish during rehearsal, but they both emphasize the surprising speed have a mayor on one side of the political spectrum, and a premier on with which language and cultural barriers are transcended. And when the other? How do you convince parents to place their kids in after- they play Piazzolla, the Argentinians are on hand to teach everyone school music programs? some tango. “Last year in Haiti it was as much about this work as it was the concerts,” “There’s no project in the world, especially in music, that brings says Gillespie. “This experience transforms musicians because it shows together such a wide variety of countries on an equal playing field,” them that service is equal to artistic achievement.” In 2014 the YOA sent Gillespie believes. “Music and an orchestra are uniquely equipped to musicians to twenty-three different countries, including Canada. bring people from a variety of backgrounds together. There's nothing “When the next chapter of the history of music is written, one story else except for a large-scale choir where you can have 120 people learn- will be the rebirth of the symphony orchestra as a vehicle for social ing music together at the same time.” transformation,” says Gillespie. “The orchestra, which is historically “There are so many dialects of popular music in Argentina versus understood to be top-down, grown out of this elitist western European Canada versus the Dominican Republic,” he adds. “But the orchestra is tradition, has been completely inverted in the Americas.” this common element that they share.” In 2010, Dubé “played in Colombian towns in the mountains.We Prieto agrees that “the orchestra has a unity which many professional would play for a crowd of maybe 2,000 people, because it was free.