[2] Winners were announced on March 2,[2] and were invited to travel to New York in April 2009, to participate in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra summit, and play at Carnegie Hall[3] under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
[4] The concert featured a series of short pieces that had been rehearsed for several days, as well as guest soloists Joshua Roman, Gil Shaham, Measha Brueggergosman, Yuja Wang, and classical / electronica composer Mason Bates.
[5] Tilson Thomas would again be directing, and had asked Bates to write a piece, entitled Mothership, in which performers would be invited to improvise with the orchestra, both live and via an uplink.
[7] The concert also featured a performance of Mozart's "Caro bell'idol mio" by Renée Fleming and the Sydney Children's Choir.
The completed performance was uploaded to YouTube at the end of March 20 and can now be viewed on the symphony channel.