 Building something from nothing. That's what Larry Isaacson sought to do when he first created Symphony Nova. Symphony Nova, which serves as the only professional training orchestra in New England, was founded six years ago. Founder Larry Isaacson saw that budding musicians needed a place to go. I thought musicians needed a place to play when they left school. We're sitting here in Boston Conservatory and the chair you're sitting in is where students would sit. We're constantly, particularly in March and April, start to freak out about what am I going to do when I get out of school. And there's almost no opportunity and there's actually a huge drop off in the first five years where people just get out of music because they have no opportunity. Though the group seems to have its bearings now, it hasn't always been that way. We made a lot of mistakes at the beginning. We were always in the black, but we made a bunch of errors. And what's happening is we're stopping those errors. We're not making them anymore. Though fairly new, Symphony Nova is one of only four professional training orchestras in the nation. The others, however, are much larger and can offer much more. I almost apologetically call us a training orchestra because we're not like them yet. But certainly it's in our heart and it's in our mission and it is in our actions. At this point, Larry says the overall goal is growth. They hope to expand so they can offer much more to many more musicians. You don't want to grow it too fast because otherwise you can implode. So we're at a very nice place right now where we're going to grow slowly and I'm actually pretty excited about it. Quite an impressive performance from such a young group. Reporting for the Boston University News Service, I'm Jaylen Transvaughan.