by Eve Goodman | Jan 13, 2019 | Alumni News, In the News, Uncategorized
Hanna Kim (Percussion 2009-12 and pictured above) received her Masters in Music Performance from Temple University in May, 2018 and is currently pursuing her artist diploma at Curtis. She did her undergraduate study at Juilliard. Kerry Kavalo (Viola 2004-06) is a...
by Eve Goodman | Dec 31, 2018 | Alumni News, Uncategorized
Barbara Khristi (nee Stolp, Violin 1967-73) pictured above playing with her granddaughter who “played for the Los Angeles Opera when she was 12!” shared just a few of her favorite PYSO memories…”I was surrounded by so much talent and was given so many opportunities. I...
by Eve Goodman | Dec 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
Click on this link to listen to an interview with WQED’s Jim Cunningham talking with PYSO Alum and retired PSO Principal Pianist Patricia Prattis Jennings. She looks back on her amazing career delving into why the Pittsburgh Symphony is raising $200,000 for a...
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...
