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 ›

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 ›

PYP Rehearsing Svoboda’s Symphony No. 2

Posted on November 3, 2016

Portland Youth Philharmonic and Musical Director David Hattner rehearsing Tomáš Svoboda’s never-before-heard Symphony No. 2.

PYP Rehearsing Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen

Posted on November 3, 2016

Portland Youth Philharmonic and Musical Director David Hattner rehearsing Pablo de Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen.

PYP Rehearsing Wagner’s Prelude to “Die Meistersinger”

Posted on November 3, 2016

Portland Youth Philharmonic and Musical Director David Hattner rehearsing Richard Wagner’s Prelude to “Die Meistersinger.”

Meet 17-Year-Old Fall Concert Soloist Samuel Zacharia

Posted on October 24, 2016

Samuel Zacharia will perform Max Bruch‘s Romanze for Viola and Orchestra at PYP’s Fall Concert on Saturday, November 12, 2016 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

17-year-old Samuel Zacharia is co-principal viola of the Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP) and a keen chamber musician who collaborates with peers and... Read More ›