Play your part in music history.

We called for professionals and amateur musicians of all ages, locations and instruments 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.

Finalists were selected by a judging panel comprised of the world's most renowned orchestras. The YouTube community voted for their favorite instrumentalists on YouTube from February 14-22.

Winners were announced on March 2nd and invited to travel to New York in April 2009, to participate in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra summit, and performed at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.

Thousands of the Tan Dun submissions were compiled into a mashup video which was premiered worldwide on this channel on April 15th.