wind symphony

Help us celebrate our 2022 graduating musicians by learning more about them. Today, we feature Kaydence, who plays Trombone in Wind Symphony and Young Peoples Orchestra. She has been a TRYPO member for four years and joined to have the opportunity to play alongside other musicians outside of her school district. Her favorite memory was the first time she performed at Heinz Hall when TRYPO presented Carmina Burana. Kaydence is graduating from Mount Lebanon High School and plans to attend Youngstown State University, where she will major in electrical engineering and minor in music. Kaydence’s advice for future TRYPO musicians …

Hanna Kim has been the percussion coach for TRYPO’s Wind Symphony since 2021 and was a TRYPO member from 2007 to 2009, making her a part of the TRYPOfam for over a decade! Ms. Kim is currently a freelance musician based in Pittsburgh. She performs with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New World Symphony in Miami, and Curtis Symphony Orchestra in Philadelphia.  Ms. Kim earned her Bachelor of Music Performance degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Daniel Druckman, her Masters of Music degree from Temple University under the tutelage of Alan Abel and Christopher Deviney, and her …

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we are highlighting the females whose compositions will be performed at our spring concert on May 28 at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts. Today we feature Julie Giroux, born and raised in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. By the age of three, she was already playing piano, and by the age of eight, Ms. Giroux was composing her first works. She was 13 when she published her first piece for concert band. With over 100 film, television, and video game credits, Ms. Giroux has collaborated with dozens of film composers, producers, and celebrities, including Samuel Goldwyn, Martin …

    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 …