The current membership of the Dunedin Youth Orchestra consists of the following players:
| Concertmaster | *Nathaniel Otley |
| Violin 1 | Shweta Iyer |
| Rose Stevenson | |
| Malcolm Jones | |
| Elysia Law | |
| Victoria Williamson | |
| Emily Gordon | |
| Janet Lin | |
| Cassandra Bahr | |
| Jane Lee | |
| Leon Hook | |
| Violin 2 | *Isaac Shatford |
| Emily Jiang | |
| Ella George | |
| Courtney Hickmott | |
| Valerie Lu | |
| Jillian Heng | |
| Olive Ward | |
| Gary Yao | |
| Kaya Fukushima | |
| Catherine Davidson | |
| Devyn Fowles | |
| Sylvia Otley | |
| Sebastian Hook | |
| Viola | *Matthew Praat |
| Cameron Monteath | |
| Frances Christian-Farrow | |
| Ngaru Martin | |
| Jehoon Mun | |
| Ihlara McIndoe | |
| Imogen Foote | |
| Cello | *Tessa Dalgety-Evans |
| Ellen Walters | |
| Boudewijn Keenan | |
| Sophie Hamer | |
| Annaliese Fitzpatrick | |
| Rosa Miles-Seeley | |
| Bass | *Simone Thomas |
| Ariana Knudson-Hollebon | |
| Flute | *Rosalind Manowitz |
| Jenny Francis | |
| Moriah Osborne | |
| Ella Macbeth | |
| Oboe | *Jonty Schmidt |
| Kate Shoebridge | |
| Eloise Lancaster | |
| Clarinet | *Mark Holdaway |
| Andrew Robinson | |
| Sarah de Vries | |
| Tessa Hadfield | |
| Bassoon | *James Smythe |
| Lynne Ando | |
| Connor Bedwell | |
| French Horn | Lydia Ford |
| James Burchell | |
| Trumpet | *Simone Arbuckle |
| Stephie Tay | |
| William Tong | |
| Trombone | Finn McKinlay |
| Colin Macandrew | |
| Percussion | *Josh Meikle |
| Ihlara McIndoe | |
| Sam Meikle |
Asterisks (*) indicate section principal.
