Meet 15-Year-Old Fall Concert Piano Soloist Natalie Tan

Posted on October 2, 2017

Natalie Tan is the winner of PYP’s 2016-17 Piano Concerto Competition. She will perform Frédéric Chopin‘s Piano Concerto No. 2 at PYP’s Beethoven’s 5th performance on Saturday, November 11, 2017 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, PYP’s Mini-Tour to Roseburg (Saturday, October 28, 2017) and Corvallis (Sunday, October 29,... Read More ›

DAVID HATTNER’S OCTOBER PYP PLAYLIST

Posted on September 30, 2017

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

To complete the repertoire for PYP’s Beethoven’s 5th performance on Saturday, November 11, 2017 in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, here are a few interesting versions of Chopin’s Concerto in F Minor. Published as Concerto #2, it was actually... Read More ›

PYP SPOTLIGHT: Symphony & Annie

Posted on September 1, 2017

Congratulations to PYP musicians Symphony Koss, violin, and Annie Zhang, cello, who were among 60 young musicians in the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C.

They performed two concerts, for one of which Symphony was concert master, and both musicians performed a Mendelssohn Octet in the Kennedy... Read More ›

DAVID HATTNER’S SEPTEMBER PYP PLAYLIST

Posted on August 31, 2017

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

PYP will open its 94th season with this exciting and underappreciated overture on Saturday, November 11, 2017 in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. It was commissioned for the opening of the National Theatre in Prague in... Read More ›

DAVID HATTNER’S AUGUST PYP PLAYLIST

Posted on August 1, 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.

Beethoven’s 5th Symphony may be the most recorded of all symphonies. Over the 100 years since the first recording of this symphony, made by the Berlin Philharmonic and the great Artur Nikisch nearly every major conductor and orchestra... Read More ›