Li Huanzhi: ‘Spring Festival’ Overture

Posted on April 18, 2020

3.7.2020 -  Hear PYP and conductor David Hattner perform Li Huanzhi’s ‘Spring Festival’ Overture at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

Learn more about the piece and what little is known about Li, the man who orchestrated China’s national anthem, here on our... Read More ›

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto, Nate Strothkamp, violin

Posted on April 11, 2020

3.7.2020 -  Hear PYP and Nate Strothkamp, winner of Portland Youth Philharmonic’s 2019 Concerto Competition, perform Erich Wolfgang Korngold‘s Violin Concerto in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. David Hattner conducting.

Learn more about Nate and the piece he performed from his program notes here on our blog.

Filming/Videography/Editing:  Read More ›

(Camerata PYP) Antonio Vivaldi: Spring From ‘The Four Seasons’

Posted on March 20, 2020

4.24.2016 - Camerata PYP, Portland Youth Philharmonic’s chamber orchestra, and Musical Director David Hattner performing Antonio Vivaldi’s Spring from “The Four Seasons”  during their Season 92 concert at the Wieden+Kennedy building.

Filming/Videography: Tom Emerson Photography.

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PYP Presents: Roman Carnival (Livestream)

Posted on November 11, 2019

Portland Youth Philharmonic’s Conservatory Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Young String Ensemble, and the PYP Percussion Ensemble invite you to kicked off their newly titled Traveling Series at George Fox University.

PYP Musical Director David Hattner leads the Portland Youth Wind Ensemble, Lawrence Johnson conducts the Portland Youth Conservatory Orchestra, and Inés Voglar Belgique directs the Young String Ensemble. PYP’s new Percussion Ensemble is... Read More ›

Hear Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony

Posted on November 9, 2019

11.9.2019 - Portland Youth Philharmonic and Musical Director David Hattner perform Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

Filming/Videography/Editing: The AV Dept.

Beach’s Gaelic Symphony was the first full length orchestral work published by an American woman composer in 1896.

The Boston Symphony premiered The Gaelic Symphony to great acclaim, but more than 100 years later, we believe this will be... Read More ›

Hear PYP Perform William Grant Still’s ‘The Far West’ from ‘The American Scene’

Posted on December 7, 2018

11.10.2018 - PYP and Musical Director David Hattner perform William Grant Still’s The Far West from The American Scene in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

Click here to read our in-depth program notes about this piece.