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The Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra (PYAO), an ensemble of the PYO Music Institute, will present their 28th Annual Festival Concert on Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 3:00 P.M. in the Perelman Theater of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, located at 300 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA. The concert will be conducted by Rosalind Erwin, who also serves as the Music Director and Conductor of Drexel University Orchestra, and will feature a performance by Noëlle Streuber-Eden, winner of the Ninth Annual Young Artists Solo Competition. Ticket prices range from $10-20, and are available at www.pyomusic.org.

Maestra Rosalind Erwin comments: “The PYAO final concert of the season caps a year of exceptional growth on the part of all members. The concert will open with the firecracker Overture to Colas Bruegnon by 20th century Russian composer Dimtri Kabalevsky. Noëlle Streuber-Eden, PYAO concertmaster and winner of the 2023 Young Artists Solo Competition, will perform the first movement from Henri Wieniawski's virtuosic Concerto No. 2 for Violin. The concert will conclude with Johannes Brahms’ epic Symphony No. 1 in C minor. I am thrilled the PYAO has evolved to where they can tackle such a work - Brahms is never easy and to successfully perform his Symphony No. 1 is a testament to the musical sophistication of its membership.”

About Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra (PYAO)

Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra prepares younger classical music students through a sophisticated repertoire and rigorous intellectual and musical discipline. PYAO further provides the opportunity to work with a highly experienced professional conductor, musicians, and teachers; to rehearse a standard orchestral repertoire at a professional level; and to perform in high-profile professional venues throughout the greater Philadelphia region. PYAO, conducted by Rosalind Erwin, was established in 1996 under a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

 

About Noëlle Streuber-Eden

An eighth-grader with a knack for advanced mathematics, violinist Noëlle Streuber-Eden is a transplant from the Greater Chicago Area and currently studies with Guillaume Combet in Philadelphia, PA. She has performed in master classes for Almita Vamos, Jennifer Koh, Jung-Min Amy Lee, and Angela Sin Ying Chan and also taken lessons from Desirée Ruhstrat. Noëlle currently serves as the Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Young Artist’s Orchestra and can often be heard performing at Temple University’s Center for Gifted Young Musicians and with the Settlement Music School’s Ann Newman String Quartet, for which she has received an Advanced Study scholarship. Noëlle has won multiple national and international recognitions and awards, most recently the Ninth Annual Concerto Competition of the Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra (2023), the 2022 International Clara Schumann Competition, the 2022 Opus Statewide Competition, and the 2022 Elite International Music Competition (which will take her to Carnegie Hall later this year). She lives on the Main Line with her family and her two cats, Herman and Millie.

 

About PYO Music Institute:

The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Music Institute is the tri-state region’s premier youth orchestra organization for gifted, young, classical musicians, and one of the oldest and most highly regarded youth orchestra organizations in the United States. For 83 years, the PYO Music Institute has been providing professional-caliber musical experiences to young instrumentalists, while thrilling audiences in the Greater Philadelphia region and across the globe.

 

The organization has nine program divisions: Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO), Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra (PYAO), Young Musicians Debut Orchestra (YMDO), Bravo Brass, Prysm Strings, Pizzicato Players, Philadelphia Youth Jazz Orchestra (PYJO), Philadelphia Youth Symphonic Band (PYSB), and Tune Up Philly - Orchestral Pathways Program. Ranging in age from 5 to 21 years, the musicians of the PYO Music Institute come from a 70-mile radius of Philadelphia encompassing nearly 20 counties within Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Through advanced orchestra repertoire, students are challenged to perform at the highest levels, to strive for advanced musicianship, and to achieve superior technical, musical, and personal application. Former PYOMI musicians currently hold chairs in most of the top 20 professional orchestras in the United States, with 12 PYOMI alumni currently serving in The Philadelphia Orchestra.

 

Extraordinary artistic leadership is a hallmark of the PYO Music Institute. Adolph Sorian (1940–1941), J.W.F. Leman (1941–1952), William R. Smith (1952–1954), and Joseph Primavera (1954–2005) served as Music Directors, with Maestro Primavera having had the extraordinary distinction of being the longest-serving active conductor of any orchestra in the world. Louis Scaglione, appointed in 1997 by Maestro Primavera and the PYOMI Board of Trustees, continues the legacy of leadership, currently serving as the PYO Music Institute’s President, CEO and Music Director.

 

For more information, please visit https://pyomusic.org/.