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September 2007
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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June 2007
2007 PROGRAM BOOK (PDF)
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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May 2006
2006 PROGRAM BOOK (PDF)
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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February 2006
NOTEWORTHY 2006 (PDF)
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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September 12, 2005
LOUIS SCALIONE SUCCEEDS JOSEPH PRIMAVERA AS FIFTH MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
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]

May 23, 2005
PHILADELPHIA YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA CELEBRATES THE LIFE OF JAMES BIDDLE
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]

April 18, 2005
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES ANNUAL FESTIVAL CONCERTS FOR 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]