Last night PYSO was honored and thrilled to have the Grammy-nominated Imani Winds for a master class and a side-by-side with PYSO students at Heinz Hall. PYSO students Andrew Nelson, Becky Mack, Jeong-woo Cheon, William Sun, Yunjoe Chang, and Nathan Choe worked with...
PYSO Alumnus Hannah Ishizaki (violin 2013-18) was very recently one of five winners named to the Hildegard Commission’s National Sawdust Mentorship Initiative (generously made possible by the Onassis Foundation and the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation). The...
We are delighted to announce that the winner of PYSO’s 2023 Conducting Competition is Tadao Tomokiyo! Tadao will conduct Bizet’s “Prelude/Aragonaise” and “Danse Bohème” from Carmen Suites No. 1 and 2 on our concert on Saturday, February 11, 2023 at Heinz Hall. We also...
Jacob Joyce, Music Director of PYSO and Assistant Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony and William Powers Executive Director of the Orchestra discuss the Dvorak Eighth Symphony, Ballade by Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet and Jimmy Lopez “Techno”...
Congratulations to PYSO violinist Jeongwoo Cheon who is the winner of PYSO’s 2022-23 Concerto Competition. Jeongwoo will perform Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28 at our concert at Heinz Hall on Saturday, February 11. We would also like to...
