Directed by Morrie Brand
The Summer Chamber Orchestra is open by invitation to area music teachers, WYSO alum, current WYSO members, and other area musicians.
2022 Repertoire:
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brand: Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
Bernstein: Music from West Side Story
Questions? Contact Morrie Brand [email protected]
An educational offering of the WSO’s Academy of Music, the Summer Philharmonic provides an orchestral playing experience for area musicians. It includes many area music teachers, youth orchestra members, and alumni, and other adults. The orchestra meets for five rehearsals and presents this short concert to share the fruits of its efforts with family and friends.
Summer Strings featuring members of the Summer Philharmonic and WYSO Philharmonic presented a virtual concert:
August 11, 2020
Concert Program
Conducted by Morrie Brand, Academy of Music Director
Grieg: Prelude from Holberg Suite
Mendelssohn: Allegro vivace from String Sinfonia No. 5
Dvorak: Serenade for Strings – 1st Movement
Bernstein: West Side Story Medley
Morrie Brand: Essay for Strings (1985) Moderato – Adagio – Presto
September 20, 2022
Opening Night featuring Steven Banks, saxophone Greensburg, PA – The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra presents the first concert of their 54th Season Opening Night on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg. The concert opens with Mozart’s Oboe Concerto performed by Steven Banks on the soprano saxophone. “I’m particularly excited to work with Steven Banks… Read More
August 2, 2022
The Summer Chamber Music Series presents the final concert of the summer featuring Chatham Baroque on Thursday, August 11, 2022 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Unity Chapel in Latrobe. Chatham Baroque includes Andrew Fouts, baroque violin; Patricia Halverson, viola da gamba and Scott Pauley, theorbo and baroque guitar. They will perform works by Bach’s Sonata in G Major as well… Read More
July 19, 2022
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra announces an opening for the Conductor of a Westmoreland Youth Symphony Orchestra (WYSO) Program’s Philharmonic. “The Philharmonic is the ‘flagship’ orchestra of the WYSO Program, and is comprised of high school students and advanced middle school students,” said Morrie Brand, the current WYSO Philharmonic conductor. “The youth orchestra program is the largest component of the WSO’s… Read More
