Camerata PYP Special Guest: Maestro Hossein Salehi

Posted on April 1, 2017

Maestro Hossein Salehi will join Camerata PYP as a special guest on Sunday, April 23, 2017, at 2:00 PM concert at Wieden+Kennedy.

Born in 1949 in Tehran, Iran, Maestro Salehi was exposed to traditional Iranian music by his father, Maestro Abbas Salehi, a master violinist. At age seven,... Read More ›

Season 93 Winter Concert Soloist Roger Kaza

Posted on February 21, 2017

PJS alumnus (1968-74) Roger Kaza returns to Portland to perform a piece by Peter Schickele with PYP at the Winter Concert on Saturday, March 4, 2017 in Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

Roger Kaza is principal horn of the Saint Louis Symphony and teaches at the Chautauqua... Read More ›

MUSIC MONDAY: HATTNER’S JANUARY PYP PLAYLIST

Posted on January 2, 2017

PYP Musical Director David Hattner shares what’s currently on his playlist. Revamp your own playlist with selections from our #PYPPlaylist on Twitter every #MusicMonday.

I thought a very short playlist, highlighting two spectacular young bands would be nice for this month.

Celebrating PYP in the Community: School Music Educators

Posted on December 8, 2016

Huw and a few PYP musicians accept a haka challenge, a tradition from the Māori people of New Zealand, while on tour in 2000.  From left to right: Ryan Capps; Phil Scamahorn; Huw Edwards; Logan Coale; Ashley Alexander; Alvin Schultz.

We are proud of all our alums, and on the occasion of school winter concert time around the region, want to... Read More ›

MUSIC MONDAY: HATTNER’S December PYP PLAYLIST

Posted on December 5, 2016

This month, I am going to post recordings of music I have referred to in my rehearsals. While rehearsing Tomáš Svoboda’s wonderful Symphony for PYP’s Season 93 Fall Concert, I referred to music of Leoš Janáček and Bohuslav Martinů.

Janáček’s Sinfonietta was a work I discovered on an album which also included Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis. Here is a performance by Sir Charles Mackerras, who... Read More ›

Then & Now: PJS Alumnus Walter Maddox

Posted on December 1, 2016

Portland Junior Symphony alumnus and Jacob Avshalomov‘s First Concertmaster Walter Maddox shared the following excerpts in a letter to PYP’s Development Manager Kristan Knapp.

Dear Kristan,

At my oral exam at Juilliard, I appeared before the entire Composition Faculty. They tried to fool me, asking, “what is this music?” I looked it over quickly and said, (1958) “this looks like Schubert, but it isn’t. It’s... Read More ›