Maryland Classic Youth Orchest

Artistic Director and Philharmonic Conductor, Olivia Gutoff, announced at the Annual Meeting of the general membership of MCYO that Margaret Makris has pledged a $50, 000 endowment in memory of her husband, composer Andreas Makris. Mr. Makris had been commissioned to write a piece, entitled Antithesis, for MCYO's 50th anniversary concert. Rostropovich commissioned more works from Makris than from any other composer. "In my opinion, Makris is a great composer, " Rostropovich remarked in 1978. The purpose of the endowment is to provide continuing support to MCYO's scholarship programs.