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Join us Saturday, March 4th, 11th, and 18th at Duquesne University‘s Mary Pappert School of Music for our FREE Wind Symphony and Percussion Ensemble open rehearsals led by Robert Traugh, Composer, and Paul Evans. Don’t miss out on the fun! Register now: https://trypo.org/ws-pe-open-session-rsvp-form/  

Join us for, A Whole New World: Magical Music from the Silver Screen, featuring Pittsburgh Youth Chorus and YPO of Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras! This super-extra-special-collaborative performance takes place on Sunday, February 26, 2023, at 3:30 PM at North Hills Middle School. We packed the program with our favorite music from Disney films, including Mary Poppins, Frozen, Aladdin, and more! We’ll perform classics from John Williams to Alan Menken to Elton John and can’t wait for you to smile along (and maybe sing along) with the beautiful music from these prolific movie music composers! Tickets are free general admission, but please register in advance.

Giving Tuesday is a critical fundraising day for TRYPO to raise $20,000 in scholarship funds for the year. We have seen the need in our families and can tell you that scholarship awards are changing real lives for real kids. But TRYPO always has a crazy incentive up its sleeve. While we always put the “fun” in fundraising, we’re putting the “hair” in hair-raising this time. We are working to “raze” funds to underwrite scholarships and new programs, and two brave team members will put their hair on the line when we hit our goal.

Admission is FREE for the Open House opportunities below, but registration is required. Please fill out this form to sign up! (Students already enrolled in Wind Symphony, Percussion Ensemble, or Youth Chamber Connection do not need to sign up.) * * * Wind Symphony will host Open Rehearsals from Saturday, October 22 through Saturday, November 5, 10:30-12:30 PM, at Duquesne University’s School of Music. All students are welcome! (flute/piccolo, oboe/English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, saxophones, French horn, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba, percussion, keyboard, and harp). Most students are 13-19 years old. Percussion Ensemble will host Open Rehearsals from Saturday, October 22 through Saturday, November 5, …

This past June, our TRYPO musicians finally got to travel to New York on our Conquer Carnegie Tour and attend the French Woods Festival stay-away camp, followed by a performance at Carnegie Hall. While we loved to provide this opportunity for our musicians, it is even better to hear how meaningful the experience was for them after having to wait so long to go because of the pandemic. Wesley, a percussionist in our Young Peoples Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble, writes about his time on the trip and why it meant so much to him. After the rise of COVID, our plans …

Join TRYPO for our spring concert, Brand New Way, on Saturday, May 28, at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts. The program features Sibelius’s “Suite for Violin” with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra member Irene Cheng and “Lift Every Voice and Sing” with vocalist Dr. Zuly Inirio from UniSound’s Black Teaching Artist-in-Residence program. Becky Mack, Young Peoples Orchestra 2021-22 Concerto Competition Winner, will play an excerpt from Strauss’s “Oboe Concerto”. Composer and former TRYPO member Hannah Ishizaki will conduct the premiere of “Miniatures,” a string ensemble piece commissioned by TRYPO.