Performance

Featuring YPO, Wind Symphony, Symphonette, and Tutti Strings! Join us for our Spring Concert Series: Music of the Americas on Sunday, May 7, 2023, at Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland, featuring TWO performances at 1:15 PM and 5:15 PM. This season’s programming celebrates the music of North and South America and the composers who influenced it. From Astor Piazzolla and Michael Markowski to Béla Bartók, Felix Mendelssohn, and George Gershwin, we’re exploring the unique sounds brought to us by these musical minds!

Come to the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh on Saturday, April 15, for our ‘412’ Performance as part of the SYMcity Concert Series under the direction of Pierce Cook! Symphonette will perform music from some of the ‘Burgh’s own musicians, Henry Mancini and TRYPO Alum and Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra Principal Cellist Kathy Melucci, featured in the premiere of “A Three Rivers Rhapsody” by Kyle Simpson. Stay for more Youth Chamber Connection ensemble performances following the concert. Before the performance, UniSound will present its musical instrument petting zoo. Come try out the musical instruments and get answers to your musical questions! Learn …

Join us for the Second Benefit Concert for Ukraine featuring solo and chamber performances by Dr. Solomiya Ivakhiv, Musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh Faculty, and Youth Chamber Connection ensembles. All concert donations will be sent to the charity Nova Ukraine. For more information and to register for tickets or donate, visit: https://trypo.org/ukrainebenefit/

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.

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.

Congratulations to Becky Mack, winner of this season’s Young Peoples Orchestra Concerto Competition! Becky will perform the Strauss Oboe Concerto at the spring concert on Saturday, May 28, 2022, at Heinz Hall. We also want to congratulate all of our musicians who competed! Keep reading to learn more about Becky and the competition experience! Q: How long have you studied the oboe? I switched from flute to oboe in 8th grade, so approximately five years! Q: Why did you choose the oboe? I chose the oboe because it had a fuller sound than the flute, and it was much more …