by Eve Goodman | Oct 4, 2018 | Alumni News, In the News, Uncategorized
Joseph Molinaro (Violin 1998-2001, pictured above) is the definition of troubadour. In Spring and Summer he plays 40 to 50 concerts of his unique solo violin songs around the world, traveling by motorcycle from city to city. During the school year he teaches music and...
by Eve Goodman | Sep 21, 2018 | Alumni News, In the News, PYSO in the News, Uncategorized
Michael Scheimer (Horn 2005-08 and pictured above with and A-Young Lim Scheimer performing Verdi’s Requiem Mass in Viterbo, Italy) is a manager at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott and has been Second Horn with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra since 2013…“We got...
by Eve Goodman | Sep 17, 2018 | Alumni News, In the News, Uncategorized
Kevin Silmore (Violin 2010-2012) is getting his PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, MA. Of his PYSO days he fondly remembers, “Spending time with friends during the breaks…(carpooling) to Heinz Hall was a great experience…The trip to...
by Eve Goodman | Jun 25, 2018 | Alumni News, In the News, PYSO in the News, Uncategorized
Read on for more news from PYSO Alumni! PYSO alumna Cynthia Marr Busch (Violin/1972-75) and PYSO Second Violin Coach Peter Snitkovsky (whose daughter Natasha is an alumus of PYSO – violin 1988-93) were honored as this years’ retirees from the Pittsburgh Symphony...
by Eve Goodman | Jun 21, 2018 | Alumni News, In the News, Uncategorized
They’ve all participated in one of the five PYSO international concert tours in the past fourteen years! Mark Debski (Oboe/2010-13) is the newly appointed Principal Oboe of the Richmond Symphony. When asked what he remembers most about his PYSO days, these are...
by Eve Goodman | Jun 20, 2018 | Alumni News, In the News, Uncategorized
PYSO recently heard from two (tuba) alums from our early days. They are still very active in the music scene here and abroad! Frederick J Young (Tuba/1949 to 1954) is a retired CMU professor of electrical engineering who still plays the tuba. (Here he is pictured with...
