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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, …

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!

Introducing a new segment of TRYPOsphere…TRYPOtalks! In this online series, we’ll invite special guests to focus on topics relevant for young musicians, including Audition Preparation and a Juried Performance event, all viewed through the lens of contemporary life in 2020. All TRYPOtalks are free for TRYPO students and a suggested $5 donation for non-members. Our first TRYPOtalk! is on November 11 at 7:00 PM with Chelsea Sharpe of New World Symphony focusing on Audition Preparation. Click here to get more info about the series line-up and to register!

Thanks to the Pittsburgh Gateways Corporation, TRYPO has a new home at the Energy Innovation Center for our 2020-21 Season in-person rehearsals (once we begin to schedule those again!). We are excited to introduce you to this amazing space and so grateful to Pittsburgh Gateways Corporation for having us this year! Here are some pretty awesome things about the building and new relationship:  🏢 A Huge Room – We will be primarily using a 5,000 square foot space, so we will have lots of room to spread out.  📍Centrally Located – Located at 1435 Bedford Avenue, just a few blocks from Duquesne University. 🚗 Lots …

Welcome to the second installment of TRYPO’s video series inspired by our Camp Crescendo theme: Using Music to Make Meaning. Coaches and staff from the #TRYPOFam will share a piece of music and the impact it had on them. We hope their stories inspire young musicians to find what music holds meaning in their lives! 🎶🍉🎶 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Principal Contrabassoonist and TRYPO Coach, Jim Rodgers is up next to share what the piece “Le Sacre du printemps” (The Rite of Spring) by Igor Stravinsky means to him.