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2010 July - STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Alyssa Blackstone, PYO Concertmaster
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2010 July – NOTEWORTHY
The July issue includes From the Podium, Season Finale Recap, Our 71st Season - An Inside Look, and the second in the series of Student Spotlights. Download PDF
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2010 May - STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Sohale Sizar
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2010 May - NOTEWORTHY
The May issue includes From the Podium, 70th Anniversary Annual Festival Concert, Concert Recap: PYO & CSMC, Auditions for 2010/11 Season, NEW! Student Spotlight, and Upcoming Concerts. Download PDF
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2010 PROGRAM BOOK
The annual festival program book is the PYO program's "yearbook" and it commemorates the 70th anniversary season. In it you will find information on the entire year's activities, and you'll read biographies of our outstanding and gifted students. 2010 Program Book (PDF)
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2010 April - NOTEWORTHY
From the Podium, PYO 70th Anniversary Gala, Distinguished Service Award Recipients Download PDF
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2010 March - NOTEWORTHY
From the Podium, Benefit for Youth Work Foundation, Student Spotlight - Call for Entries Download PDF
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2010 February - NOTEWORTHY
From the Podium, Elizabeth Pitcarin and Her Red Violin, Reach Out and Read Benefit Concert, Bravo Brass Tree Lighting, PYO 70th Anniversary Gala Download PDF
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2009 November - NOTEWORTHY
From the Podium, Our Seventieth Anniversary Season, PRYSM Grows, PYO GALA - Save the Date! Download PDF
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2009 January - NOTEWORTHY
From the Podium, 2009 PYO Gala Dinner and Concert, New Performance Venues for Bravo Bass. Download PDF
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2009 PROGRAM BOOK
The annual festival program book is the PYO program's "yearbook" and it commemorates the 69th anniversary season. In it you will find information on the entire year's activities, and you'll read biographies of our outstanding and gifted students. 2009 Program Book (PDF)
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2008 November - NOTEWORTHY
From the Podium, Reach Out and Read Benefit Concert, Concertmaster Spotlight, The Sorcerer and His Apprentice Visit PRYSM.
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2008 September - NOTEWORTHY
From the Podium, A Time of Growth at PYO, Musicopia Joins Forces with PYO, An Exciting Season Repertoire, Season Schedule. Download PDF
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2008 PROGRAM BOOK
The annual festival program book is the PYO program's "yearbook" and it commemorates the 68th anniversary season. In it you will find information on the entire year's activities, and you'll read biographies of our outstanding and gifted students. 2008 Program Book (PDF)
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2007 Tour Highlights – Brazil
• Bon Voyage Concert at The Union League of Philadelphia
• Tour of São Paulo
• Concert at Teatro Municipal de São José dos Campos

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2007 PROGRAM BOOK
The annual festival program book is the PYO program's "yearbook" and it commemorates the 67th anniversary season. In it you will find information on the entire year's activities, and you'll read biographies of our outstanding and gifted students.

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2006 PROGRAM BOOK
The annual festival program book is the PYO program's "yearbook." In it you will find information on the entire year's activities, and you'll read biographies of our outstanding and gifted students.

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2006 February - NOTEWORTHY
Walking in the Shoes of an Icon, Susan Starr, Up Front with PYAO, Making Music Part of Life, From Coda to Code. Download PDF

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LOUIS SCALIONE SUCCEEDS JOSEPH PRIMAVERA AS FIFTH MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
September 12, 2005 – Rick Touhill, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, today announced the appointment of Louis Scaglione as Music Director of the PYO. He succeeds Maestro Joseph Primavera, whose fifty-one-year tenure as the PYO's Music Director--from 1954 through the 2004-05 concert season--made him the longest-serving active music director of any orchestra anywhere in the world. [Read More]

PHILADELPHIA YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA CELEBRATES THE LIFE OF JAMES BIDDLE
May 23, 2005 – The PYAO performs an outdoor concert in the gardens of Andalusia Estate in Bucks County. Conductor Louis Scaglione directs the Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra in "Voices of Spring", A Tribute to the Life of James Biddle. The concert takes place on the grounds of the Andalusia Estate, located in Bucks County on the bank of the Delaware River. [Read More]

PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES ANNUAL FESTIVAL CONCERTS FOR 2005
April 18, 2005 – PYO to perform Debussy's La Mer and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite in Verizon Hall at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on May 8. Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra to feature pianist Pauline Yang and trumpeter Matthew Kitzen-Abelson in Kimmel Center's Perlman Theater on May 15. Bravo Brass to perform with horn soloist Karen McCommon at Saint Stephen's Church on June 3. [Read More]