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This Senior Spotlight features seniors in our viola section. Learn more about Claire, Katie, and Anna below! Claire Claire has played the viola in Young Peoples Orchestra for two years. She wanted to join TRYPO for the opportunity to play in a full symphony orchestra and to be challenged by advanced repertoire. Her favorite TRYPO memory was when the ensembles came back together for the first in-person rehearsal at the Energy Innovation Center after Meeting on Zoom for so long due to the pandemic. “It was amazing to finally play with other people in person!” Claire is graduating from Fox …

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.

We love to hear from our TRYPO Alumni about what they have been doing since their time with us. Today we connect with Jimmy Cunningham. Jimmy used to play viola in our Young Peoples Orchestra ensemble and also participated in Youth Chamber Connection (YC²). (Jimmy’s mom, Laurie Cunningham, founded and managed YC² up until this season.) Jimmy writes about everything he has accomplished and what he is up to now: Hi friends!! I loved my time in TRYPO as YPO principal viola (2012-2014), and I loved playing chamber music from 8th-12th grade with TRYPO’s Youth Chamber Connection while attending CAPA. Since …

This past January, TRYPO was able to host our first concert with an in-person audience for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. While we were very excited to hear our young musicians perform together again, it was just as powerful to hear how meaningful the experience was for them after living through these difficult times. Elizabeth Bennett, a flutist in our Young Peoples Orchestra and a member of Youth Chamber Connection, writes about how determined she was to be on stage for the concert despite all the obstacles!: As a woodwind musician, the COVID-19 pandemic caused major …

    Jim Rodgers has been the Principal Contrabassoonist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since September of 2001. Formerly, he was the Principal Bassoonist with the Jacksonville Symphony, Associate Principal Bassoonist with the Florida Orchestra, Second Bassoonist with the Houston Symphony, and Contrabassoonist with the Colorado Symphony. Summer activities have included the Grand Tetons Music Festival, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Colorado Music Festival, National Orchestral Institute, and Tanglewood Music Center. He studied bassoon with Norman Herzberg at the University of Southern California and with Benjamin Kamins at the Rice University Shepherd School of Music. He also studied bassoon with …

TRYPO is pleased to host the 2022 PMEA District 1 Orchestra Festival and TRYPO’s Winter Concert both in the same weekend! We even picked the David L. Lawrence Convention Center Ballroom as our venue to leave enough space for a socially distanced audience. Learn more about each concert by clicking the links below! Saturday, January 15 at 5:00 PM – PMEA Concert Sunday, January 16 at 5:00 PM – TRYPO Winter Concert We also welcome the opportunity to invite exhibitors for the weekend events. We expect as many as 1200 attendees that include teachers and music educators and middle through …

Saturday, December 11, 2021, come enjoy our SYMcity Community Concert Series presented by Symphonette under the direction of Pierce Cook! Several small ensembles of students from Youth Chamber Connection will provide music throughout the exhibits as well. We hope to see you there!