The El Camino Youth Symphony (ECYS) is from Palo Alto, California, the home of Stanford University and Silicon Valley, about 35 miles south of San Francisco. More than 400 K-12 students from over 100 schools from San Francisco to Santa Cruz train and perform in six orchestras, chamber ensembles and percussion ensemble, led by the award-winning, internationally recognized Symphony Orchestra. Concerts, tours, retreats, summer workshops, masterclasses and music festivals form a vital part of the ECYS experience, creating opportunities for youth at all levels of musical experience to develop socially and artistically while participating in the Bay Area's foremost instrumental training and education program.