

Our mission is to help young people to set goals, surpass them, and achieve excellence through the practice of classical music.
Changing Young Lives
Through Music
Symphonette Happenings

Spring 2021 Symphonette Friends and Family Concert. Todd Lockwood, conductor and music director.

Jose Dubon-Tovar
Jose R. Dubon Tovar received his bachelor's degree in instrumental performance in violoncello in 1993 and in 1994 a bachelor's degree in music education from Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia. In 2002, he received his Master of Music in instrumental conducting from Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia and he will be graduating in the spring of 2023 with his Doctor in Music in Orchestral Instrumental Conducting from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.
He has a distinguished career as a music educator, conductor, cellist, and international performer with twenty-nine years of teaching experience at the elementary, middle, high school and private studio. He is a professor, teacher, and clinician from strings orchestras, chamber ensembles and symphony orchestras to general music, music appreciation, western music, music theory classes, as well as, string jazz and mariachi ensembles. He is well known for being an energetic, knowledgeable, experienced and creative educator with a proven ability to get the very best out of students and having a capability to support aspiring young musicians. He is an effective communicator, and student advisor/advocate, as well as recognized for innovation in program development, instruction, administration, and is able to demonstrate and encourage high standards of professionalism.
The Symphonette...
The Golden Isles Youth Orchestra offers young strings musicians the opportunity to play in Symphonette, its beginning orchestra. Participation in Symphonette can also qualify beginning musicians for the GIYO subsidized private and semi-private lesson program.
For further information contact Jose Dubon-Tovar
Conductor and Music Director, Symphonette, at Jose@GoldenIslesYouthOrchestra.org.
Symphonette Rehearsals Schedule
Rehearsals for members of
GIYO’s SYMPHONETTE ORCHESTRA
are held from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. on MONDAYS.
In the Glynn Academy Orchestra Room,
Sidney Lanier Building,
1001 Mansfield Street, Brunswick, GA
REHEARSALS
(All are on Mondays and start at 6PM unless otherwise indicated.)
January 30
February 6
February 13
February 20 - No Rehearsal, School Holiday
February 27
March 6
March 13 - No Rehearsal, School Holiday
March 20
March 23, 5:00-7:30 PM:
EXTRA REHERASAL with GIYO ENSEMBLE
and pizza!
March 27
March 30, 5:00-7:30 PM:
EXTRA REHERASAL with GIYO ENSEMBLE
and pizza!
April 3
April 10 - No Rehearsal, Glynn County Schools Spring Break
April 17
April 24
May 1– Turn in Camp forms For Summer Camp at rehearsal!
May 8
May 15 - FULL REHEARSAL WITH GIYO ENSEMBLE
May 20
DRESS REHEARSAL with
GIYO Ensemble at Fort Frederica Presbyterian Church - St Simons
FAMILY AND FRIENDS CONCERT at 3:00 PM
