Hear PYP perform Modest Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’

Posted on May 3, 2021

5.6.2018 - Portland Youth Philharmonic and Musical Director David Hattner perform Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel) at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

With guest conductor Huw Edwards. Edwards served as PYP’s Musical Director from 1995 to 2002.

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

CELEBRATE HUW EDWARDS!

Posted on April 26, 2018

12.26.2013 - The 2013 Portland Junior Symphony/Portland Youth Philharmonic Alumni Orchestra performing Giuseppe Verdi’s Overture to Nabucco under Guest Conductor Huw Edwards.

Use code Edwards to purchase a ticket to our Pictures at an Exhibition performance and get one free*! To do this, visit this page of the PYP website, click the blue ‘Buy Tickets’ button, and select two seats (or any number of... 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: George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad

Posted on April 11, 2018

PYP will perform A Shropshire Lad 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.

Having attended the Royal College of Music in London as an organ scholar—where he assisted Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams with their research into English folk music—Butterworth returned to... Read More ›

CELEBRATE MEI-ANN CHEN!

Posted on April 11, 2018

6.23.2004 - PYP and then Music Director Mei-Ann Chen performing Tchaikovsky’s Sérénade Mélancolique, with guest soloist Portland Junior Symphony alumna Marylou Speaker Churchill in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall.

Marylou played in PJS from 1956-64 and was Concertmaster from 61-64. She served as Principal Second violin of the Boston Symphony for 23 years, and was a member of that orchestra for 30 years.... 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 ›