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Back in March, Marketing and Operations Assistant Shantanique Moore interviewed Juliana Matteo about her experience with Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition. Read the interview and check out a video of Juliana playing an excerpt from Minstrel’s Adieu to His Native Land by John Thomas below. • • • SM: Hi, Juliana! Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me. We are so happy and proud of you for your recent success in the Westmoreland Symphony’s Young Artist Competition! Could you provide a little info about the competition? JM: It is a local competition in Greensburg, …

We are thrilled to announce Pierce Cook will be our next Symphonette Conductor! You may know him as the director of orchestras at Mellon Middle School in Mt. Lebanon, where he hosted the District 1 Jr. High Honors Orchestra in 2018. Mr. Cook brings with him experience building and sustaining youth programs and has already started brainstorming ways to incorporate community service as well as programming music composed by a diverse range of composers with the rest of TRYPO’s artistic team. “Andrew Wickesberg’s work with Symphonette has proven that excellence and fun are not mutually exclusive but are, in fact, …

We’re now accepting video auditions for the 2021-22 Season ensembles. We have one full orchestra, one string ensemble, one wind symphony, and one percussion ensemble. Check out the audition requirements, and let us know if you have questions.

Join us for this free online event where representatives from summer camps and music-making opportunities across the country present overviews of their in-person and virtual programs for young musicians. After you hear about their offerings, representatives will be available in break-out rooms. You may visit as many as you wish to ask questions and learn more!

Looking for virtual classes for musical kids and teens? Join us for a TRYPOsphere online music class or Youth Chamber Connection ensemble this semester!

2020, we definitely won’t miss you, but we LOVE how TRYPO students have adapted! As we bid farewell, the TRYPO Family has been counting the final hours to reach our goal of $35,000. We are well on our way to underwriting this year’s scholarship awards and bringing the kids back safely next semester, but we still need your help. We’ve received $34,059 from 138 amazing humans and are only 97% of the way to our goal! We are so close! Click here to help us kiss 2020 goodbye and get to $35,000 by midnight! And most of all, best wishes for …

We’re hiring a Marketing and Operations Assistant to start mid-January. Apply today!