广州青年交响乐团（以下简称“广青交”）是广州交响乐团的附属乐团，成立于2011年7月，是中国首个由职业乐团建立和管理的青年交响乐团。由广州市人民政府与广东省文化和旅游厅合作共建，为广青交进一步创新发展模式、提高乐团艺术水平和管理水平提供高层次的发展平台。

现任音乐总监是指挥家景焕，她曾任广州交响乐团常任指挥，现任中国交响乐团常任指挥。

广州交响乐团（简称“广交”）是目前中国最优秀的交响乐团之一，广青交的培训及排练地点设在广交，广青交的导师均由广交的各声部首席及资深演奏家担任。广交参照职业乐团的建制和管理体系对广青交进行专业化管理，对所有入选的青少年乐手进行免费的、全面的交响乐演奏技术训练，是一个公益性的青少年音乐艺术团体。

2014年12月，开设以10岁至13岁年龄段学生为主体的少年交响乐团，2019年3月，增设 “少年基础班”，招收6-9岁具有音乐潜质的小学生，从零基础开始接受专业规范的乐器演奏技术训练。2021年12月，“少年基础班”由广州市文化广电旅游局与广州交响乐团合作共建。“少年基础班-少交-青交”三级人才梯队的建立和培训体系的不断完善使广青交形成了良好的可持续发展态势。

广青交成立至今在国内外举行了超过两百场音乐会，常驻演出地点是广州星海音乐厅。自2015年9月开始，广青交建立了“音乐季”，成为中国首个拥有“音乐季”的非职业青年交响乐团，2024/2025音乐季是乐团第十个音乐季。曾合作音乐家包括指挥家余隆、谭盾，大提琴家王健、秦立巍，钢琴家张昊辰、陈萨，小提琴家吕思清、高参，琵琶演奏家张强，笙演奏家贾磊，古筝演奏家苏畅等。2020年1月，著名大提琴演奏家马友友与广青交联袂演出巴赫三首作品，与“少年交响乐团”重奏组在广州文旅地标演出，并与“少年基础班”大提琴的小学员们一起演奏，引发媒体及公众的高度关注。马友友与广青交三个梯队合作之后评价道：“广青交是在塑造未来的公民。”

2015年8月，乐团参加在柏林音乐厅举行的第十六届“欧洲青年古典音乐节”。从此，乐团多次受广州市人民政府派遣出访，在悉尼市政厅音乐厅、印尼雅加达音乐厅、新加坡维多利亚音乐厅、法国里昂市古罗马剧场、捷克布拉格鲁道夫宫德沃夏克音乐厅、东京三得利音乐厅、福冈交响乐大厅、西班牙瓦伦西亚索菲亚王后艺术剧院、马德里“城市之夏”艺术节、巴塞罗那音乐厅、匈牙利布达佩斯国家歌剧院等国际著名演出场所留下音乐足迹，用音乐讲述中国故事、展示广州城市文化。

2023年7月，广青交首登瑞士韦尔比耶音乐节作专场演出。作为首个受邀在该节登台的中国乐团，该场音乐会由全球最大古典音乐平台Medici.tv现场录制并全球直播，央视频及腾讯艺术国内转播，国内平台超过21万人次收看。

广青交曾作为广州市的文化名片参与政府举办的重要文化活动，2017年12月应“广州2017财富全球论坛”主办方邀请在论坛开幕式文艺晚会中进行了精彩的音乐表演。2021-2022年举行两次国内巡演，先后登上武汉琴台音乐厅、成都城市音乐厅、西安音乐厅、捷豹上海交响音乐厅、杭州运河大剧院、苏州湾大剧院、天津大剧院的舞台，2024年7月首度在北京国家大剧院演出，得到文旅部、外交部、中国对外友好协会等单位领导的好评。

广青交发展模式备受国内外业界关注，2022年7月-8月以及2023年11月，广青交团长陈智敏受邀参加“中国-上海合作组织国家青年演艺论坛”、“中国音乐家协会交响乐团联盟第八届中国乐团艺术管理论坛”，以及由中国国家大剧院主办的“2023世界交响乐北京论坛”，并分别作主旨演讲，广青交独树一帜的发展模式获得与会嘉宾及业界的积极关注及高度赞扬。2024年7月，陈智敏团长在匈牙利布达佩斯中国文化中心以广青交发展历程为题介绍青少年艺术教育在中国的现状，与当地各界人士进行热烈交流。

2023年10月，广青交与香港青年乐团及澳门青年交响乐团倡议发起“粤港澳大湾区青少年交响乐团联盟”。该联盟隶属于“广东省粤港澳合作促进会文化传播委员会”，中国音乐家协会副主席、中国音协交响乐团联盟主席余隆当选为该联盟主席。该联盟是中国第一个青少年交响乐团联盟，由粤港澳大湾区非专业青少年交响乐团组成，促进粤港澳三地青少年音乐艺术交流和情感互动交融，助力人文湾区建设。2023年“湾区音乐汇”开幕式暨粤港澳大湾区青少年交响乐团联盟成立音乐会于同年12月在广州隆重举行，该联盟三个发起乐团同台演出。从此，在联盟的组织策划下，大湾区内的青年交响乐团定期举行交流活动。

广青交曾得到众多音乐名家的热情关怀和悉心指导，其中包括广州交响乐团音乐总监余隆、美国指挥家约翰·尼尔森、新泽西交响乐团音乐总监张弦、台湾爱乐乐团音乐总监吕绍嘉、香港小交响乐团音乐总监叶詠诗、上海歌剧院首席指挥张国勇、杭州爱乐乐团艺术总监/中央歌剧院音乐总监杨洋、著名作曲家陈其钢和中国爱乐乐团首席陈允、著名小提琴演奏家林昭亮、李伟纲、圆号演奏家韩小光等。此外还得到了著名钢琴家郎朗和著名小提琴家文格洛夫的特别支持。

广青交一直在努力探索和创新非职业青年交响乐团的发展模式，目前已成长为中国优秀的青年交响乐团，同时在广州与国际的文化交流中发挥着积极的作用，作为这座城市的文化名片，向世界展现中国青年的精神风貌和艺术风采。

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The Guangzhou Symphony Youth Orchestra (GSYO) is an affiliate of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. Founded in July 2011, it is the first-ever youth orchestra in China organized and administered by a professional orchestra. Jointly run by the Guangzhou Municipal Government and Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the GSYO is provided with additional platforms in advancing new models of development and elevating its artistic and administrative standards.

The GSYO’s current Music Director, Jing Huan, has served as the Principal Conductor of the GSO and is now the Principal Conductor of the China National Symphony Orchestra.

The Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra (GSO) is one of the most distinguished ensembles in China today. Its multi-venue facility is where GSYO trains and rehearses, guided by GSO principal players and other veteran musicians. The GSO administers the GSYO as a community project; it is a free orchestral training program for all participants following management and training guidelines of a professional ensemble.

The GSYO expanded in December 2014 by adding a Junior Orchestra for young musicians between the ages of 10 and 13. In March 2019, the GSYO established its inaugural “Children’s Foundation Program” for 6- to 9-year-old talents, providing instrumental training at the beginner’s level. In December 2021, the “Children’s Foundation Program” became a joint project of the GSO and the Culture, Radio, Film, Television & Tourism Bureau of Guangzhou Municipality. The three-tiered training program is the key component of GSYO’s sustainable, comprehensive music education system.

Since its founding the GSYO has performed more than 200 concerts, with the Xinghai Concert Hall as its regular performance venue. Beginning in September 2015, the GSYO established its own concert season, the first among China’s non-professional orchestras. The 2024/2025 season marks the GSYO’s 10th anniversary. Among the musicians who have appeared with the GSYO are maestros Long Yu and Tan Dun, cellists Jian Wang and Li-wei Qin, pianists Zhang Haochen and Chen Sa, violinists Lü Siqing and Gao Can, pipa virtuoso Zhang Qiang, sheng performer Jia Lei and guzheng player Su Chang. In January 2020, renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma shared the stage with the GSYO in three works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Ma performed with the Junior Orchestra’s ensemble groups in six iconic Guangzhou cultural and tourist sites; he also played with young cellists of the Children’s Foundation Program. These exciting events have attracted tremendous media and public attention. After collaborating with the three groups, Ma praised the GSYO for “shaping citizens of the future.”

In August 2015, the GSYO performed at the renowned Konzerthaus Berlin as part of the 16th “Young Euro Classic” Festival. Since then, the GSYO has been tasked with outreach efforts by the Guangzhou Municipal Government, gracing such venues as the Sydney Town Hall, Aula Simfonia Jakarta, Singapore’s Victoria Concert Hall, Lyon’s Ancient Theatre of Fourvière, Prague’s Rudolfinum, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Fukuoka Symphony Hall, Valencia’s Palacio de las Artes Reina Sofia, Madrid’s Veranos de la Villa Festival, Barcelona’s L’Auditori and the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest. The GSYO uses music to share wonderful stories about China and Guangzhou culture.

In July 2023, the GSYO made its debut at the Verbier Festival, garnering much attention as the first Chinese orchestra to appear on its stage. Apart from being streamed live on medici.tv, the concert video was also posted on cctv.com and Tencent Art with more than 210,000 views within China.

The GSYO has played important roles for the city of Guangzhou. In December 2017, the ensemble was invited to perform at the opening ceremony of the 2017 Fortune Global Forum in Guangzhou. During 2021 and 2022, the orchestra conducted two national tours, appearing at Wuhan’s Qintai Concert Hall, Chengdu City Concert Hall, Xi’an Concert Hall, Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall, Hangzhou’s Grand Canal Theater, Suzhou Bay Grand Theater and Tianjin Grand Theatre. In July 2024, the GSYO made its debut at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, receiving praise from leaders of the ministries covering culture, tourism and foreign affairs as well as the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.

The GSYO’s management and operational model has attracted much attention both at home and abroad. In July–August 2022 and November 2023, GSYO President Chen Zhimin was keynote speaker at the SCO Countries Youth Performance and Art Forum, League of China Orchestra’s 8th Orchestral Management Forum and the NCPA 2023 Beijing Forum for Symphonic Music. The GSYO’s unique development has been praised by guests and peers alike. In July 2024, President Chen spoke about youth arts education in China at the Chinese Cultural Center in Budapest, generating interest and fostering enthusiastic exchange.

Initiated by the GSYO, Hong Kong Youth Orchestra and Macao Youth Symphony Orchestra, the League of Greater Bay Area Youth Orchestras (LGBAYO) was established in Guangzhou in October 2023 under the auspices of the Council for the Promotion of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation. Internationally renowned maestro Long Yu, vice chairman of the China Musicians Association and chairman of its League of China Orchestras, was elected the LGBAYO’s inaugural chairman. China’s first alliance of non-professional youth symphony orchestras is founded to share the art of music, aiming to promote music and arts education in the region, initiating new developments, fostering friendships and artistic exchange and showcasing youthful vitality in the Greater Bay Area. The GSYO, Hong Kong Youth Orchestra and Macao Youth Symphony Orchestra shared the stage at the opening ceremony of the 2023 GBA Music Performances and League of GBA Youth Orchestras Opening Concert in Guangzhou, bridging East and West through symphonic music past and present.

From the GSYO’s inception, many musicians have lent support to its institutional and training programs, among them Long Yu (Music Director, GSO), American conductor John Nelson, Xian Zhang (Music Director, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra), Shao-Chia Lü (Conductor Emeritus, Taiwan Philharmonic), Wing-sie Yip (Music Director Emeritus, Hong Kong Sinfonietta), Zhang Guoyong (Principal Conductor, Shanghai Opera House), Yang Yang (Artistic Director, Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra; Music Director, China National Opera House), Qigang Chen (distinguished composer), Yun Chen (Concertmaster, China Philharmonic Orchestra), celebrated violinists Cho-Liang Lin and Li Weigang and horn virtuoso Chang Chou Han. The young musicians have also benefitted from the support of internationally acclaimed pianist Lang Lang and violin virtuoso Maxim Vengerov.

The GSYO is dedicated to discovering and creating a working model for non-professional youth orchestras. It has now become the most outstanding youth orchestra in China, shouldering the mantle of international cultural exchange and representing Guangzhou’s own culture by displaying the energetic spirit and artistic achievements of China’s youth to the world.