The 41st TOYOTA Youth Orchestra Camp (TYOC), hosted by the Federation of Japan Amateur Orchestras Corp. (JAO), was held in Tokyo in March 2025. The camp welcomed international participants from Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Norway. In addition to the youth orchestra members, conductors from Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines also joined the program.
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We conducted interviews with three of these distinguished educators and will be sharing them in a three-part series.

Our first interviewee is Ms. Choi Seoyoung, educator of the Busan Philharmonic Youth Orchestra from Korea.
Ms. Choi participated in TYOC as a violinist 13 years ago, in 2012. Since then, she has dedicated herself to nurturing the next generation as an educator.
In this interview, she offers her reflections on TYOC from both perspectives — as a former participant and now as an educator.