Lang Lang and Tan Dun's Youtube Symphony

YouTube and Lang Lang invite musicians from around the world to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. The video entries will be combined into the first ever collaborative virtual performance, and the world will select the best of you to perform at New York City's Carnegie Hall in April 2009.

The project is supported by Lang Lang - the first YouTube Symphony Orchestra Global Ambassador, the London Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Grammy Award-winning conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, Academy Award-winning and Olympics composer Tan Dun and many other classical music stars and leading institutions.

Professionals and amateur musicians of all ages, locations and instruments are welcome to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra by submitting a video performance of a new piece written for the occasion by the renowned Chinese composer Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).

After a though competition, 90 musicians from 30 countries will make up the global orchestra now. They beat about 3,000 other hopefuls, who submitted audition videos to the landmark online project. The winners will fly to New York for a four-day classical music summit, culminating in a live orchestra concert conducted by San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas at Carnegie Hall on April 15.