Director: Morrie Brand
Wednesday Evenings 6:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. beginning January 30-May 8
Greensburg Garden and Civic Center, 951 Old Salem Road, Greensburg
Tuition: $220; second student $150
Repertoire: Rossini La Gaza Ladra Overture, Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2-last movement
Auditions
January 23 beginning at 6:30 p.m. please email to reserve.
Positions available: Oboe II, Bassoon II, Horn II & III, Trombones, Tuba, Strings (all sections)
Please contact Ramona [email protected] to schedule an audition time.
Excerpts – Spring 2019
Violin I
Violin II
Viola
Cello
Bass
Oboe
Bassoon
Trombone
Tuba
WYSO Program Concert
May 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Seton Hill PAC
The Philharmonic consists of auditioned high school musicians, who rehearse on Wednesday evenings and perform concerts each fall and spring. String students should be comfortable in first through fifth positions, have a solid knowledge of note values, dynamics, key signatures, off-the-string playing, and be able to play major scales up to 4 sharps and flats. An audition is necessary and private lessons are required. The equivalent of Suzuki book V and up. The Philharmonic also provides a Concerto Competition for members to compete to perform a concerto with the orchestra. The competition is held every January, with a spring semester performance. A WYSO Solo and Ensemble Night is offered each May, featuring individuals and small ensembles from the Philharmonic.
Contact Morrie Brand for more information.
February 26, 2019
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra presents “Music and Magic” on Saturday, March 16, 2019 at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The concert opens with Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo featuring Corrie Stallings, mezzo soprano (former Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist), and Otis Cook premieres new choreographer with guest dancers Iffy Roma and David McKay. Grammy-nominated cellist Amit… Read More
January 29, 2019
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra presents Heart Strings on February 16, 2019 at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The concert Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, followed by Chee-Yun performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. The evening concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. Chee-Yun plays a violin made by Francesco Ruggieri in 1669. It is rumored to have been buried with… Read More
December 4, 2018
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra presents Home for the Holidays on December 15. The symphony will be joined on stage by Ashley Fabian, soprano, a second-year resident artists with the Pittsburgh Opera. She will perform Christmas Waltz, The Christmas Song, O Holy Night, Silent Night before closing the concert Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah with the Choir. Ms. Fabian, originally from Charleston, SC, is a… Read More