The Nassau Principal Orchestra, led by Maestro Scott Stickley,  is made up of some of the finest high school musicians in the metropolitan area. Many of the members have placed in the all-national, all-eastern, all-state, and all-county orchestras and have graduated to major conservatories and colleges of music. The Principal Orchestra has performed at the General Session on the Music Educators National Conference with Maestro Kurt Mazur as keynote speaker (1999), at the official New York State celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King in Albany, NY (2001), annually to sellout crowds at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), and numerous major concert venues throughout the New York area.








Recent major repertoire by the MYO Principal Orchestra has included:
Tschaikowsky - Symphony No. 4
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
Mahler - Symphony No. 2
Mahler - Symphony No. 5
Jay Greenberg - Selected Short Stories (world premiere 2003)
Jay Greenberg - Skyline Dances (world premiere 2009)
Elgar - Enigma Variations
Saint-Saens - Symphony No. 3 “The Organ”
Shostakovitch - Symphony No. 5
Shostakovitch - Piano Concerto No. 2
Stravinsky - Firebird Ballet (1919 Version)
Dvorak - Symphony No. 8, Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
Schwantner - New Morning For The World, Daybreak of Freedom
Schwantner - Percussion Concerto
Rachmaninoff - Concerto for Piano No. 2
Moravec - New York Dances (world premiere)
Copland - Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Gershwin - An American In Paris
Faure - Requiem
Berlioz - Roman Carnival Overture
Corigliano - Mannheim Rocket (NY premiere)
Sebelius - Violin Concerto
Respighi - The Pines of Rome
Custer - Everything Indicates (world premiere)