Collaboration: Impacting the Music Ecosystem While our students are the heart and soul of the PYO Music Institute, we are also proud to support an entire network of musicians and individuals.
Radio Audience
Guest Artists
The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra
In November 2019, PYO musicians partnered with guest
maintains a close relationship with
conductor Josephine Lee and vocalist Lisa Fischer and
radio station WRTI 90.1-FM, which
her band, Grand Baton, for a concert in Verizon Hall as
broadcasts PYO concert recordings
part of Kimmel Center Presents!
weekly in November and May to an audience of approximately 300,000 listeners. PYO was featured seven times in the 2019-20 season.
Community Partners Tune Up Philly partnered with the Barnes Foundation to plan a Friday evening outing for TUP cellists (Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra performed a Haydn Cello Concerto).
Music Majors We support our students who desire to pursue a post-secondary education in music through our College and Conservatory Audition Preparation program (CCAP). This series of information sessions and mock auditions (presented by faculty from The Philadelphia Orchestra) for juniors and seniors offers insight into choosing a school, performing trial lessons, and taking auditions.
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