The Junior Symphony Ball (JSB) Steering Committee is preparing for one of Dallas’s most anticipated youth events of the year.
The 68th Annual JSB will bring together more than 2,800 high school students from over 25 area schools for a night of music, dancing, and philanthropy.
This year’s Steering Committee includes more than 1,100 students taking on leadership roles in planning, promoting, and giving back through the event. Their efforts help raise essential funds for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League (DSOL) and its youth music programs.
The Junior Symphony Ball continues to uphold its founding vision of being “student-led and parent-guided,” and remains the longest-running fundraiser of the DSOL.
Committee members gathered at the Meyerson Symphony Center, bringing goody bags for student performers in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Young Musicians Program. Donations of school supplies and personal care items were collected and will be distributed to Young Musicians students throughout the year.
The Kim Noltemy Young Musicians Program is a year-round, tuition-free music education initiative of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, serving students in grades one through eight across southern Dallas. The program provides free instruments and instruction, helping children build both musical and life skills through the power of performance.
JSB will take place on Jan. 31, 2026, and will feature the official DJ of the Dallas Cowboys, Brandon Williams, who is professionally known as 13LACKBEARD.
This year’s JSB Co-Chairs include Clara Erwin and Jack Sumner of Highland Park High School, Teige Mitchell and Michael Woram of Jesuit College Prep, Meghan Jackson of Parish Episcopal, Brooks Strey of Bishop Lynch High School, Mary Bradley Sutherland of The Hockaday School, Stella Wynne of The Episcopal School of Dallas, Lucy Galbraith of Ursuline Academy, and Peter Rubi of St. Mark’s School of Texas.