June 6, 2025 2:50 a.m.

In the KQEN Cultural Spotlight:

The Umpqua Valley Youth Orchestra has registration underway for the 2025/2026 season.

UVYO is made up of strings, consisting of violin, viola, cello and bass. UVYO performs 2 concerts a year with smaller outreach concerts in the area. Students will learn and perform classical, baroque, romantic 20/21st century, contemporary, as well as original and pop selections.

Students ages 6 and old are welcome to participate. New students with no previous experience may register as well as students with string experience. UVYO has 5 class levels. The orchestra rehearses on Thursday afternoons during the school year at the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Northwest Garden Valley Boulevard.

UVYO has instruments as low as $5 per month and up on a first come basis. Registration fees below July 1st are $75 per student or $210 for a family of 3 or more. Fees go up starting in July 1st.

Registration forms can be printed off the organization’s website: www.umpquavalleyyo.org, and mailed to UVYO at PO Box 549 in Roseburg, 97470.

For questions, or more information, call Kristen Parks at 643-5035.