DAVID HATTNER’S JUNE PLAYLIST

Posted on June 1, 2018

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

In addition to being one of the finest musicians in history, Antonín Dvořák critically influenced the music of the United States. In fact, it was Dvořák, who pointed Americans toward what their music could be, and eventually... Read More ›

DAVID HATTNER’S MAY PYP PLAYLIST

Posted on May 1, 2018

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

It is a good time to pay tribute to one of America’s greatest geniuses in any field, Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein’s biography is familiar enough. He was known around the world as a composer, conductor, pianist and educator. Few... Read More ›

Valor Middle School Band Director Wins PYP’s 2018 Educator of the Year Award

Posted on April 19, 2018

Congratulations to Jason Rodgers, Valor Middle School Director of Bands and Choirs, on winning PYP’s 2017-2018 Eugene Kaza Educator of the Year Award. The Eugene Kaza award, named in honor of an alumnus and music teacher who helped shape today’s PYP with his advanced orchestra classes, celebrates music teachers of Portland Youth Philharmonic musicians who go above and beyond to inspire,... Read More ›

PROGRAM NOTES: Gerald Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto

Posted on April 10, 2018

PYP will perform Clarinet Concerto with Musical Director David Hattner as soloist on Sunday, May 6, 2018 in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Program notes written by Huw Edwards, Guest Conductor and PYP Music Director from 1995 to 2002.

The music of English composer Gerald Finzi music embraces a rich variety of moods, from elegiac lyricism, spiritual reflection, a neo-Baroque purity,... Read More ›

DAVID HATTNER’S APRIL PYP PLAYLIST

Posted on April 2, 2018

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

March 28, 2018 marked the 99th anniversary of the birth of one of the central figures in the history of the Portland Youth Philharmonic. It is no exaggeration to say that there would be no Portland Youth... Read More ›

DAVID HATTNER’S MARCH PYP PLAYLIST

Posted on March 2, 2018

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

I am very pleased that Huw Edwards (PYP Musical Director 1995-2002) will return to guest conduct some music from England for our Pictures at an Exhibition performance on Sunday, May 6, 2018. George Butterworth‘s A Shropshire Lad was... Read More ›