2024-2025 SDYS Registration

Registration for the 2024-2025 season is currently open! 

*If you are currently in an Opus program, please reach out to your Opus admin for information about registration before completing.

Please note: the registration fee is non-refundable. 

Initial Information

*If you are a new student and do not have a Musician ID, please enter "0".

*If you are a returning student, you can find your Musician ID on your instrument tag, folder or portal. If you can not seem to locate your ID, please email support@sdys.org before submitting your form.

This will be the primary method of communication to you and your family.

Household Information

Street number, street name, apartment/unit number

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Primary Adult/Caregiver

Secondary Adult

Student Profile

SDYS receives funding from government entities and private foundations that help us keep program fees lower. In order to evaluate and set goals around diversity, equity, and inclusion within our programs, and to comply with our funders requests, SDYS collects demographic information. The following demographic questions are optional, please select "prefer not to answer" to skip the question. Your answers will not impact how your registration is evaluated. All data will be kept private.

Please note that all communication sent to students will also be sent to the primary adult on file. Students who turn 18 and would like to become the primary adult should contact SDYS directly.

This will help us address any special accommodations your student might need.

Student's Musical Background

If your musician would like to audition on an additional instrument, please contact a team member at 619-233-3232 x 4 or support@sdys.org.

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Tuition Assistance

SDYS is committed to making quality music education programs accessible and affordable to any young person who wants to participate. In support of this goal, The Encore Fund has been established to provide tuition assistance. We encourage you to submit your application early to ensure that it is considered.

To apply for need-based tuition assistance, please complete one of the following:   


  1. Please complete the online Tuition Assistance Application with approved supporting documentation. La solicitud en Español está aquí.
  2. For a downloadable PDF version (English and Spanish version available), please visit our website here


Please email support@sdys.org or call at 619-233-3232 x. 4 with any questions. All information will be kept confidential and only used for the purposes of determining eligibility for tuition assistance.


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Scholarships (open to all)

Each season, SDYS is proud to honor students' character and citizenship by awarding seven scholarships. These scholarships are awarded to selected students across SDYS who embody the qualities that SDYS hopes to inspire and instill in our students. They are open to students in good standing who have completed at least one season at SDYS.


Please complete the application in order to be considered for one of SDYS' scholarships. Applications must be submitted to the SDYS Team, by June 5, 2024. Contact support@sdys.org with any questions you may have.


Students may submit applications for multiple scholarships and can only be awarded one per season. 


Half-Tuition Scholarships

  • Outstanding Commitment - For returning students who have had excellent attendance for 1+ years (3 or fewer absences TOTAL for a given season), arrived consistently on time, stayed for the entire duration of the rehearsal, and attended consistently with all expected materials.


  • Outstanding Creativity - For returning students displaying outstanding creativity for the entire former season. Should be a student whose work has been imaginative, curious, experimenting, exploring, flexible, and innovative. They help enhance and improve the experience for the students and faculty around them.


  • Outstanding Collaboration - For returning students displaying outstanding collaborative skills for the entire former season. Should be a student that displays outstanding ability to work with peers and conductors to achieve common goals. Shows themselves to be an enthusiastic team member who constantly helps their peers, and shares ideas for how to strengthen their ensemble's community.


  • Outstanding Service - For returning students displaying outstanding acts of service for the entire former season. Should be student(s) who consistently helps other students, staff, and faculty in and out of rehearsals, volunteers for various activities throughout the year, mentors other students, and/or organizes student activities that serve the larger community.


  • Outstanding Leadership - For returning students displaying outstanding leadership for the entire former season. Should be a student that displays musical and interpersonal attributes that inspire and empower students and faculty around them.


  • Outstanding Musicality - For returning students displaying outstanding musical and technical skill, as well as consistent preparation for each rehearsal.


Full-Tuition Scholarship

  • Carson Kemp Memorial Scholarship - For students returning to Symphony Orchestra in the coming season.


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2024-2025 SDYS Audition Requirements

How to Audition

To audition for the 2024-2025 season all students MUST complete the following steps:


  1. Complete your Registration for SDYS and pay the $40 registration fee by June 5 (The $40 fee increases to $50 on May 20).
  2. Review and prepare all audition requirements listed by instrument. 
    • This includes scales, solo piece(s), and orchestral excerpt. NO piano accompaniment.
    • Specific repertoire for each instrument can be found in the Audition Requirements by Instrument section on our website.
    • It is recommended that you review the repertoire requirements with your private teacher.
  3. Complete Audition Application online via Acceptd by June 5. Audition Here!
  4. Results will be available in early July. Results will not be given over the phone.


Please Note:

  • SDYS will no longer offer students the option to join mid-year. All students, including marching band students, are expected to join in the fall. Please review our updated rehearsal schedules, which take marching band student schedules into consideration. 


Audition Here!


Be sure to review all details, requirements, and deadlines for your registration, and contact the SDYS team with any questions: support@sdys.org, 619.233.3232 extension 4.

2024-2025 Musician's Handbook and Season Calendars

2024-2025 Musician's Handbook & Season Calendars


As you make the decision to register and audition for SDYS, please review our policies, schedules and expected program commitments.


  1. Please read our updated Musician's Handbook for 24-25. 
  2. Please review our Season Calendars for 24-25.


By signing below, I acknowledge that I have read, understand and agree to the policies outlined in the handbook and reviewed the season calendar for the 2024-2025 season.

Releases

Media Release

Pursuant to the furtherance of the purposes, goals, and objectives of SDYS, and for no other consideration or compensation, I hereby irrevocably grant to SDYS and its officers, directors, and employees the permission to use my child’s name, likeness and biographical data incident to practices, recitals and other performances with SDYS, and the right to take photographs or record audio or video of my child’s practices, recitals and other performances with SDYS, and to use such photographs and video or audio recordings for any SDYS purposes. In granting the above permission, I hereby irrevocably relinquish all right, title, or interest in the above mentioned photographs and/or recordings and all rights of authorship or of performance as may apply and hereby assign to SDYS all copyrights arising with respect to my child’s practices, recitals and other performances with SDYS. Additionally, I hereby irrevocably grant SDYS, its officers, employees, and licensees permission to reproduce, use, or publish such photos and/or recordings in all media, whether now known or hereafter existing, for any SDYS purposes, with no additional compensation being due to me or my child. Additionally, I hereby irrevocably release SDYS, its officers, directors, employees, and licensees from any and all claims that my child may now or hereafter have for libel, defamation, invasion of privacy or right of publicity, infringement of copyright, or violation of any other right arising out of or relating to any utilization of my child’s name, likeness or biographical data, the practices, recitals and other performances with SDYS and all related photos and/or recordings.

Medical Release
I agree, on behalf of myself and/or on behalf of my child, beginning on the date of execution of this Release, to give consent to SDYS to obtain all emergency dental or medical care prescribed from a duly licensed physician (M.D.) or dentist (D.D.S.). This care may be given under whatever conditions are necessary to preserve life, limb, or well-being of me or my dependent.

Liability Release
As a condition of my child’s participation in any activity sponsored by or associated with SDYS, I agree to and hereby irrevocably waive all claims on behalf of myself and/or my child against SDYS and to indemnify and hold SDYS, its officers, directors, and employees, the City of San Diego, and the San Diego Park and Recreation Department (“Released Parties”) harmless from any and all liability or claims that I, my child or anyone else on behalf of my child or otherwise may have against the Released Parties or that any other person, entity, my child or I may have against the Released Parties because of any death, bodily injury, personal injury, or illness, or because of any loss to property that may arise out of or in any way be connected with my child’s participation in any activity sponsored by or associated with SDYS and any Released Parties’ activity related thereto. I will also allow the Released Parties to transport me and/or my child in an emergency circumstance.  I further acknowledge that the Released Parties do not provide any type of insurance including liability or medical coverage for any child who participates in any SDYS activity.  I hereby state that it is my intention in executing this Release that the same shall be effective as a bar to each and every claim, complaint, action, debts, promises, demand, cause of action, obligation, damage, liability, charge, attorneys’ fees and costs herein above released. I hereby expressly waive and relinquish all of my rights and benefits, if any, arising under the provisions of California Civil Code § 1542, which provides: A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.  I hereby expressly agree that the above releases apply to all unknown, unsuspected and unanticipated claims, liabilities and causes of action which I, my child or any other party may have against the Released Parties which have arisen, occurred or existed at any time prior to the date of this Release or after.

Payment

Please note: the registration fee is non-refundable and will increase to $50 on May 20. 

Additionally, we are no longer accepting paper checks. You will have the option to pay by credit card or through your bank account on the next step after you click "Submit". There is no additional fee for either option. 

Mandatory Fees
2024-2025 Registration Fee (SDYS) 40
Total 40.00
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