What does it take to be ready for college music programs, academically, musically, and financially?

Join us for a virtual informative conversation with Dr. Alex Powell who will share guidance on college applications, auditions, financial aid, and how students can continue preparing for the next step in their musical journey. RSVP is required.

Join the PMAY Artists in performance at the Settlement Music School - Willow Grove Branch. This event is free and open to the public.

PYO opens its landmark 87th season and celebrates Maestro Louis Scaglione’s 30th Anniversary with PYOMI with a program featuring two distinguished guest artists. Organist Peter Richard Conte, Wanamaker Grand Court Organist, joins the orchestra as soloist in both Richard Strauss’ Festival Prelude, a majestic and celebratory opening, and Saint-Saëns’s monumental Symphony No. 3, the “Organ Symphony,” culminating in one of the repertoire’s most exhilarating finales. Violinist Michael Ludwig, former Associate Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, also joins PYO for Barber’s lyrical and deeply expressive Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.

On Tuesday Nov 24, 6-8pm, we are hosting Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) at Settlement Germantown and organizing a mock audition workshop. Executive Director Nicole Wendl and BUTI Violin Workshop Director Michael Jorgensen will provide live feedback.This event is free and open to the public.

PYO opens its landmark 87th season and celebrates Maestro Louis Scaglione’s 30th Anniversary with PYOMI with a program featuring two distinguished guest artists. Organist Peter Richard Conte, Wanamaker Grand Court Organist, joins the orchestra as soloist in both Richard Strauss’ Festival Prelude, a majestic and celebratory opening, and Saint-Saëns’s monumental Symphony No. 3, the “Organ Symphony,” culminating in one of the repertoire’s most exhilarating finales. Violinist Michael Ludwig, former Associate Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, also joins PYO for Barber’s lyrical and deeply expressive Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.

PYO opens its landmark 87th season and celebrates Maestro Louis Scaglione’s 30th Anniversary with PYOMI with a program featuring two distinguished guest artists. Organist Peter Richard Conte, Wanamaker Grand Court Organist, joins the orchestra as soloist in both Richard Strauss’ Festival Prelude, a majestic and celebratory opening, and Saint-Saëns’s monumental Symphony No. 3, the “Organ Symphony,” culminating in one of the repertoire’s most exhilarating finales. Violinist Michael Ludwig, former Associate Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, also joins PYO for Barber’s lyrical and deeply expressive Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.

PYO opens its landmark 87th season and celebrates Maestro Louis Scaglione’s 30th Anniversary with PYOMI with a program featuring two distinguished guest artists. Organist Peter Richard Conte, Wanamaker Grand Court Organist, joins the orchestra as soloist in both Richard Strauss’ Festival Prelude, a majestic and celebratory opening, and Saint-Saëns’s monumental Symphony No. 3, the “Organ Symphony,” culminating in one of the repertoire’s most exhilarating finales. Violinist Michael Ludwig, former Associate Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, also joins PYO for Barber’s lyrical and deeply expressive Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.

Join us for a violin masterclass with Jonathan Ong, on faculty at Oberlin Conservatory. This event is free and open to the public.

Join the PMAY Artists in performance at the Settlement Music School - Mary Louis Curtis Branch. This event is free and open to the public.

PYO opens its landmark 87th season and celebrates Maestro Louis Scaglione’s 30th Anniversary with PYOMI with a program featuring two distinguished guest artists. Organist Peter Richard Conte, Wanamaker Grand Court Organist, joins the orchestra as soloist in both Richard Strauss’ Festival Prelude, a majestic and celebratory opening, and Saint-Saëns’s monumental Symphony No. 3, the “Organ Symphony,” culminating in one of the repertoire’s most exhilarating finales. Violinist Michael Ludwig, former Associate Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, also joins PYO for Barber’s lyrical and deeply expressive Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.

PYO opens its landmark 87th season and celebrates Maestro Louis Scaglione’s 30th Anniversary with PYOMI with a program featuring two distinguished guest artists. Organist Peter Richard Conte, Wanamaker Grand Court Organist, joins the orchestra as soloist in both Richard Strauss’ Festival Prelude, a majestic and celebratory opening, and Saint-Saëns’s monumental Symphony No. 3, the “Organ Symphony,” culminating in one of the repertoire’s most exhilarating finales. Violinist Michael Ludwig, former Associate Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, also joins PYO for Barber’s lyrical and deeply expressive Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.

PYO opens its landmark 87th season and celebrates Maestro Louis Scaglione’s 30th Anniversary with PYOMI with a program featuring two distinguished guest artists. Organist Peter Richard Conte, Wanamaker Grand Court Organist, joins the orchestra as soloist in both Richard Strauss’ Festival Prelude, a majestic and celebratory opening, and Saint-Saëns’s monumental Symphony No. 3, the “Organ Symphony,” culminating in one of the repertoire’s most exhilarating finales. Violinist Michael Ludwig, former Associate Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, also joins PYO for Barber’s lyrical and deeply expressive Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.

Join the PMAY Artists in performance at the Settlement Music School - Germantown Branch. This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for a cello masterclass with Tommy Mesa on faculty at Manhattan School of Music. This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for a cello masterclass with Seth Parker on faculty at Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for our annual showcase concert at the Mary Louis Curtis Branch of Settlement.

PYO’s spring program continues the celebration of Maestro Louis Scaglione’s 30th Anniversary with PYOMI, pairing an intimate concerto with one of the choral-orchestral repertoire’s greatest achievements. Rising cellist Andres Sanchez-Linares (PYO ’22), a Curtis Institute of Music and New England Conservatory alumnus and First Prize Winner of the 2026 Sphinx Competition, is the soloist in Schumann’s introspective Cello Concerto. The concert concludes with Verdi’s towering Requiem, featuring Academy of Vocal Arts alumni as vocal soloists alongside the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia.

Join the PMAY Artists in performance at the Woodmere Art Museum. This event is free and open to the public.

Join the PMAY Artists in performance at the Settlement Music School - Mary Louis Curtis Branch. This event is free and open to the public.

Join the PMAY Artists in performance at the Settlement Music School - Mary Louis Curtis Branch. This event is free and open to the public.

Join the students of the Alumni of the PMAY Artists Initiative in recital at the Settlement Music School - Mary Louis Curtis Branch. This event is free and open to the public. This recital is made possible by WRTI.

PYO closes its historic 87th season with a spectacular Annual Festival Concert celebrating and culminating Maestro Louis Scaglione’s 30th Anniversary with PYOMI. The season-defining program opens with a newly commissioned work by American composer Paul Frucht, whose music has been praised for its “individual voice” and “sense of lyricism, driving pulse, and great urgency.” Frucht previously wrote a double bass concerto premiered by PYO in the 2024–25 season, featuring Ranaan Myer as soloist. Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra David Kim returns as soloist for Bruch’s beloved Scottish Fantasy, and the concert concludes with Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 1, “Titan.”

This landmark performance brings PYO’s 87th season, and a yearlong celebration of Maestro Scaglione’s three decades of leadership, to a powerful and unforgettable conclusion.

Join us in a celebration of our graduating artists. Hear them perform and speak as part of a panel about their experiences. Concert begins at 6pm. Please stay for our post-concert reception.