Schedule
Upcoming Concerts
October 19, 2024
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Season Opener: Steel & Industry
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center )
James conducts the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra’s dynamic season opener, which honors the industrial history of the Johnstown region, featuring Stacey Garrop’s Forging Steel.
Information: https://www.johnstownsymphony.org/calendar#calendar-cd1bc2b5-978a-4e50-bce2-b2555ca94952-event-lw032x2a
November 16, 2024
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Heritage
Johnstown, PA (The Grand Halle)
The Johnstown Symphony Orchestra brings their popular candlelight series back to the Grand Halle with music by Quinn Mason, James Blachly, and Vaughan Williams. The JSO is joined by Community Strings and the Johnstown Symphony Youth string quartet to finish out the program.
Information: https://www.johnstownsymphony.org/calendar#calendar-cd1bc2b5-978a-4e50-bce2-b2555ca94952-event-lw03hkzg
December 14, 2024
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Family Holidays
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
The Johnstown Symphony Orchestra returns with their Christmas Pops Concert.
Information on 3pm concert: https://www.johnstownsymphony.org/calendar#calendar-cd1bc2b5-978a-4e50-bce2-b2555ca94952-event-lw04hqv1
Information on 7:30pm concert: https://www.johnstownsymphony.org/calendar#calendar-cd1bc2b5-978a-4e50-bce2-b2555ca94952-event-lw04rt63
January 19, 2025
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Community
Johnstown, PA (Greater Johnstown High School Cochran Auditorium)
Join James and the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra for an evening of inspiration and harmony, commemorating the profound message of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The JSO Chorus, under the direction of Jeffrey L. Webb, along with local gospel choirs, will uplift and energize us with joyful melodies that resonate with the essence of Dr. King's legacy.
Information: https://www.johnstownsymphony.org/calendar#calendar-cd1bc2b5-978a-4e50-bce2-b2555ca94952-event-lw05bnbc
February 8, 2025
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Creativity
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
Jeff Webb & The Classic Vinyl Series and the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James, will perform iconic hits from legendary bands like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and many more.
Information: https://www.johnstownsymphony.org/calendar#calendar-cd1bc2b5-978a-4e50-bce2-b2555ca94952-event-lw05jhew
March 15, 2025
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Creativity
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
James conducts the JSO in a program celebrating the extraordinary beauty of the Johnstown region, featuring JSO Concertmaster Maureen Conlon Gutierrez, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s principal horn, Bill Caballero, and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2.
Information: https://www.johnstownsymphony.org/calendar#calendar-cd1bc2b5-978a-4e50-bce2-b2555ca94952-event-lw05qdwd
April 26, 2025
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Hope
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
James conducts the JSO in the 2024-25 season finale featuring Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony and Fauré’s Requiem.
Information: https://www.johnstownsymphony.org/calendar#calendar-cd1bc2b5-978a-4e50-bce2-b2555ca94952-event-lw062ka9
May 10, 2025
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Heroes
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
James conducts the JSO in works by Jewish composers whose lives were tragically impacted by the Holocaust. This concert is made possible by the generous support of The Community Foundation for the Alleghenies Beerman Holocaust Education Fund.
Information: https://www.johnstownsymphony.org/calendar#calendar-cd1bc2b5-978a-4e50-bce2-b2555ca94952-event-lw066snz
June 14-15, 2025
Cape Symphony
To The Sea
West Barnstable, MA (Barnstable Performing Arts Center)
James guest conducts To The Sea, a powerful ocean-themed program featuring music by Maurice Ravel, Toru Takemitsu, and Ralph Vaughan Williams with the Cape Symphony.
Tickets: https://www.capesymphony.org/orchestra/2024-25-season/to-the-sea
Previous Concerts
June 28, 2024
Rheingau Musik Festival | WDR Funkhausorchester
Köln, Germany (Schloss Johannisberg)
James guest conducts the WDR Funkhausorchester in the Rheingau Musik Festival with violinist Daniel Hope in a program entitled “Escape to Paradise.” The concert is one of two open-air concerts that James conducts with the WDR Funkhausorchestra at the stunning Schloss Johannisberg on the banks of the Rhein River. His residency features a new recording with the ensemble.
Tickets: https://www.rheingau-musik-festival.de/programm-karten/programmuebersicht/detail/cuveehof-open-air/spot-on-hollywood-escape-to-paradise
June 29, 2024
Rheingau Musik Festival | WDR Funkhausorchester
Köln, Germany (Schloss Johannisberg)
James guest conducts the WDR Funkhausorchester in the Rheingau Musik Festival with in their summer concert with fireworks. The concert is one of two open-air concerts that James conducts with the WDR Funkhausorchestra at the stunning Schloss Johannisberg on the banks of the Rhein River. His residency features a new recording with the ensemble.
Tickets: Tickets: https://www.rheingau-musik-festival.de/programm-karten/programmuebersicht/detail/cuveehof-open-air-sommerfest-mit-feuerwerk
May 18, 2024
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Season Finale: The Music of The Police
Johnstown, PA (1st Summit Arena @ Cambria County War Memorial)
For the first time ever, we close out our 2023/24 season with a full-scale arena rock concert! Symphony-rock masters Jeans ’n Classics join our orchestra for the first time since our Queen concert, this time performing hits from Sting and The Police. Come sing along to classics like “Every Breath She Takes,” “Roxanne” and “Message in a Bottle.” Music Director James Blachly’s dream of performing at the arena will finally come true as we invite over 2,000 people to attend our largest JSO concert ever.
Tickets here
May 15, 2024
Experiential Orchestra
Opening Night of MATA Festival 2024
New York, NY (Fotografiska New York)
James Blachly conducts the NYC Premiere of Adam Schoenberg’s Automation for solo cello and AI with Experiential Orchestra.
Yves Dhar, cello and halldorophone
A.G.N.E.S., AI learning algorithm and holograph
Sound Design by Adam Schoenberg and Alex Brinkley
Synth Programming and additional Sound Design by Gabriel Bethke
Visual Productions and A.G.N.E.S. Recordings by Yves Dhar
VFX and Motion Graphics Design by Ryan Wise / DASYSTEM
Tickets here
April 27, 2024
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
The Planets and Star Wars
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center )
In a galaxy not-so-far away, experience John Williams’ beloved music of Star Wars in its epic, symphonic grandness. Then take a journey through our solar system with a stunning visual narrative of images from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes as we perform Gustav Holst’s The Planets. Everyone in the family can embark on this cosmic journey.
Tickets here
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic
Pittsburgh, PA (Carnegie Music Hall)
James Blachly, conductor
Michael Vallikappil, tenor
Ethel Smyth Overture to “The Wreckers”– Ralph Vaughan Williams, On Wenlock Edge – William Levi Dawson, Negro Folk Symphony
Tickets here
Julia Perry Centenary Celebration and Festival March 13-16
James Blachly and Dr. Louise Toppin, Co-Directors
March 13, 2024
Opening Night with PUBLIQuartet, Violinist Curtis Stewart, Soprano Laquita Mitchell and Pianist Samantha Ege
New York, NY (Le Poisson Rouge)
Tickets & Information
March 14, 2024
Discussion and Discovery – A Lecture Series Organized by Dr. Louise Toppin
New York, NY (Mannes School of Music)
In Partnership with the Mannes School of Music at The New School College of Performing Arts
Free Registration & Information
March 14, 2024
The Chamber Music of Julia Perry
New York, NY (Mannes School of Music)
In Partnership with the Mannes School of Music at The New School College of Performing Arts
Featuring Soloists from Experiential Orchestra; Donnie Ray Albert, Bass-Baritone; Brandon Patrick George, Flute; and Will Liverman, Baritone
Angela Hammond, Speaker; Chiwoniso Kaitano, Executive Director, MacDowell
Panel Discussion with Afa Dworkin, President and Artistic Director of the Sphinx Organization; Loki Karuna, Interdisciplinary Arts Activist; and Composer Anthony M. Kelley; moderated by Ashleigh Gordon, Co-Founder, Artistic Director & Violist of Castle of our Skins
Tickets & Information
March 15, 2024
Experiential Orchestra in a Side-by-Side Reading with Conservatory Students
New York, NY (The DiMenna Center for Classical Music)
Led by EXO Music Director James Blachly with Violin Soloist Curtis Stewart; Fredara Hadley, Ph.D., Professor of Ethnomusicology, The Juilliard School; and Jennifer Arnold, Violist and Antiracism Advocate
Closed event. Festival participants only.
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Closing Night with Experiential Orchestra, Violinist Curtis Stewart, Soprano Louise Toppin
New York, NY (Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center)
Presented by National Concerts
Featuring Experiential Orchestra; James Blachly, EXO Music Director; Curtis Stewart, Violin Soloist; Louise Toppin, Soprano; Students from Three New York City Conservatories; Ruckel Middle School Chorus (Niceville, FL); Sandra Day O’Connor HS Orchestra (San Antonio, TX)
Tickets & Information
March 9, 2024
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Johnstown, PA (The Grand Halle )
“Taking something old and making it new” is the theme of this family concert, featuring Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks Concerto in Eb and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, plus two surprise guests! Appropriate for kids of all ages, this concert will be held at the historic Grand Halle on Broad Street. Bring your whole family, and we will provide the music!
Tickets here
February 10, 2024
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Classics with Curtis Stewart
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
One of the most sought-after musicians of our generation, three-time GRAMMY® nominated violinist Curtis Stewart makes his JSO debut performing Julia Perry’s long-neglected yet strikingly beautiful Concerto for Violin. Also experience an early work from Perry, Ye Who Seek the Truth, and on the second half, Brahms’s future-looking and culminating achievement of the symphonic form, his Symphony No. 4 in E minor.
Tickets here
January 26 & 27, 2024
Experiential Orchestra
Arvo Pärt’s Passio at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
New York, NY
Soloists include Enrico Lagasca, Haitham Haidar, Elijah McCormack, Oliver Mercer, and Tyler Duncan, and features our collaborators for our sold out Arvo Pärt concerts at the Met Museum, Artefact Ensemble, and composer-conductor Benedict Sheehan.
January 14, 2024
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Johnstown, PA (Greater Johnstown High School, Cochran Auditorium)
Award-winning pianist Henry Wong Doe joins us in commemorating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in our ongoing partnership with the Johnstown NAACP. The concert will feature significant works of American composers Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Margaret Bonds, who are finally being recognized for their towering achievements, as we join together in celebration and reflection.
Tickets here
December 9, 2023
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Handel’s Messiah
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
Ring in the holiday season with Handel’s beloved Messiah triumphantly performed by the orchestra and the Johnstown Symphony Chorus. This year, world-renowned vocalists Chelsea Helm, Steven Caldicott Wilson, Jesse Blumberg and Meg Bragle join us for breathtaking solos that will fill you with comfort and joy.
Tickets here
November 18, 2023
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Candlelight Concert @ The Grand Halle
Johnstown, PA
An intimate, multi-sensory musical experience like no other! Surrounded by candlelight in one of our area’s most gorgeous spaces, the orchestra presents modern master Jessie Montgomery’s haunting Source Code, a work inspired by Alvin Ailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and others; Alfred Schnittke’s theatrical Moz-Art à la Haydn; and Mozart’s timeless and passionate Symphony No. 40 in G minor, all hand-picked for this intimate event.
Tickets here
October 21, 2023
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Opening Night: The Firebird
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
Burst into our 95th season with an exuberant celebration of new beginnings. Acclaimed pianist and fearless improviser Peter Dugan joins the orchestra for a whirlwind rendition of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Raise a champagne glass with Mozart’s celebratory The Marriage of Figaro, and discover how Stravinsky changed the trajectory of modern ballet and orchestral music with his breakout work The Firebird.
Tickets here
October 5, 2023
Experiential Orchestra
Listening to Brahms
New York, NY
In this EXO:Chamber series, EXO expands on their popular Loft Party and Lincoln Center Listening Concerts, as Music Director James Blachly hosts and guides a concert with (optional!) audience interaction and creates an environment of shared discovery, with EXO's extraordinary musicians providing all of the magic of exquisite chamber music, plus offering their unique perspectives and ideas.
Brahms Sextet No. 1 in Bb Major, Opus 18 closes EXO's 2023 residency at Carnegie Hill Concert Series (111 E. 87th street) in a program curated by Henry Wang and Lady Jess, members of the EXO Creative Team, which is led by Pauline Kim Harris. Featuring Lady Jess and Pauline Kim Harris (violin); Edwin Kaplan and Ramón Carrero Martínez (viola); Michael Katz and Sujin Lee(cello), hosted by EXO Music Director James Blachly.
Tickets here
September 9, 2023
Experiential Orchestra
A Field Guide to Imaginary Birds
New York, NY (Inwood Park)
Brad Balliett (bassoonist, composer, and avid bird-watcher), has composed individual imaginary bird songs for seven Experiential Orchestra musicians, spread throughout the forest in Inwood Hill Park. Walk through Inwood Park between 11am-12pm, and 1pm-2pm and try to discover all of them! Pick up your maps at 218th and Indian Road; No tickets required.
Info here
July 13-July 16, 2023
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Detroit, MI
Laquita Mitchell is the soprano soloist in Barber's poignant evocation of American life as seen by a young child. Ethel Smyth takes the listener on a journey from nostalgia to mirth to triumph. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson employs an eclectic mix of musical styles; his Sinfonietta No. 1 is by turns searching and pensive, then rushes to a dramatic finale. A brooding piece for strings by Julia Perry begins the concert.
Information and tickets here
May 6, 2023 7:30pm
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Songs of Comfort: Brahms Requiem, Sarah Brailey sings Barber, and Sounds of Johnstown
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
For our season finale, we pair Brahms’ profound musical exploration of comfort, with something completely new: a commission by composer Tommy Dougherty, whose piece Blue Steel Cranes was premiered as part of our 20th Remembrance of 9/11 in 2021. Tommy will incorporate sounds recorded by YOU of your favorite sounds of the region, as he creates a brand new piece for the JSO depicting and celebrating the industry, agriculture, and natural beauty of our region’s hometowns. The Johnstown Symphony Chorus, directed by Jeffrey L. Webb partners with the choral programs of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown to perform the Brahms Requiem, considered by many to be the pinnacle of choral-orchestral music. Grammy-winning soprano Sarah Brailey sings Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and internationally-acclaimed baritone Tyler Duncan joins as soloist for the Brahms.
April 16, 2023
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
Blachly Conducts Dawson & Beethoven
New Haven, CT
Jessie Montgomery Soul Force
Beethoven Violin Concerto, Simone Porter, violin
William Levi Dawson Negro Folk Symphony
Information here
Tickets here
March 19, 2023
Experiential Orchestra
The Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
EXO returns to the Phillips in a chamber orchestra configuration for a spirited program anchored by Igor Stravinsky’s Chamber Concerto in E-flat, Dumbarton Oaks. Commissioned in 1937 by the original owners of the Georgetown estate, Robert and Mildred Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks exhibits Stravinsky’s Neoclassical style and his ability to generate musical material through the reinvention of old forms, notably the style of the Baroque and its manifestation in the music of J.S. Bach. Exploring these connections in greater depth, Experiential Orchestra pair Stravinsky’s chamber concerto with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, a well-loved work that exhibits the contrapuntal richness and joyous sonority of Bach’s concerto writing, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, a tour de force that draws on Baroque counterpoint and jazz harmonies, written when the composer was only 22 years old.
Tickets here.
March 11, 2023
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven’s Pastorale and Sibelius with Maureen Conlon Gutierrez
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
Sibelius’s Violin Concerto evokes a sense of wonder in the natural beauty of the composer’s home, and brings to mind the panorama we enjoy every day in the Laurel Highlands. Celebrate the artistry of our own Concertmaster Maureen Conlon-Gutierrez as she shares this piece that is close to her heart with you, her JSO family. Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony is written to depict his joy when returning home to the country. Sit back, unplug, and be swept away.
February 11, 2023
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Hometown Who’s Who: Broadway Star Kathy Voytko and Open Mic Night at the Symphony
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
The Johnstown Symphony Orchestra is thrilled to invite Kathy Voytko back to Johnstown and to the stage of the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center on February 11, at 7:30 p.m. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience this amazing vocalist, and sneak a peak at some truly gifted locals who will share the stage with her!
January 27, 2023
Experiential Orchestra and NOVUS NY, Co-Presented by Trinity Church Wall Street
Strauss Four Last Songs Reimagined
New York, NY
Sarah Brailey, soprano & Andrew Yee, cello
James Blachly, conductor
Co-presented by Trinity Church Wall Street, Experiential Orchestra joins with NOVUS NY to perform Strauss’s beloved Four Last Songs twice in one evening – first by soprano Sarah Brailey in a traditional performance, then by cellist Andrew Yee in a re-imagined setting, with audience members embedded in the orchestra and lighting design by Takaaki Ando Aki. The evening is completed by a performance with the two soloists of Caroline Shaw’s By and By.
The evening is something of a homecoming, with Sarah Brailey, conductor James Blachly, and composer Caroline Shaw all former members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and Andrew Yee a current principal cellist in member of NOVUS NY.
Experiential Orchestra Music Director James Blachly says, “these songs are so rapturously beautiful, and we want to invite the audience live in this musical sound-world in two exquisite ways. Bringing them to life with two of my very favorite artists will be a dream come true.”
Info here
January 15, 2023
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
A State Theater Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Johnstown, PA (State Theater)
In honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we present the inspiring music of American composers Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Julia Perry, and Billy Taylor. In partnership with the Johnstown chapter of the NAACP, the Johnstown Symphony performs works for strings in the historic setting of the State Theater of Johnstown.
December 10, 2022
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Home for the Holidays with the JSO
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
December 2, 2022
Experiential Orchestra, in partnership with ChamberMusicNY
An Evening with Curtis Stewart
New York, NY (DiMenna Center)
November 15, 2022
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Young People's Concert
Johntown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
The JSO presents two free concerts for area students of all ages every spring. The concerts introduce these young audiences to the instruments and sounds of the orchestra. Teachers interested in bringing students to these concerts should contact the JSO early in the school year to be part of the nearly 2,000 area students welcomed to the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center each season.
November 13, 2022
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Family Concert: Peter and the Wolf
Johnstown, PA; Somerset, PA
Do you have childhood memories of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf? For many of us, it was our introduction to the powerful sound of a symphony orchestra, and this is your chance to share it with the next generation! The Johnstown Concert Ballet helps bring the story to life with dance and original choreography. Choose the performance location (Johnstown or Somerset) closest to you and join us for this fun and educational musical romp, where costumes are always encouraged!
October 22, 2022
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Homecoming: Opera Returns with Shawn Roth + Ravel Bolero
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
This is an evening you won’t soon forget with emerging opera star tenor Shawn Roth, a native of Johnstown and graduate of Richland High School. Shawn’s career is taking off with credits that include national vocal competition wins and performances with illustrious ensembles such as the Cleveland Orchestra. Enjoy operatic blockbusters alongside an all-star chorus from our region’s high schools anchored by our own Johnstown Symphony Chorus. You’ll be able to say “We knew him when!” And to top it all off, you’ll get to experience the joyful crescendo of Ravel’s blockbuster Bolero. What a night!
June 26th, 2022
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Ready for Takeoff
Johnstown, PA (Johnstown Airport)
John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in collaboration with Nulton Aviation
When was the last time you heard an orchestra play in a hangar from your seat on the tarmac? You’ve come to expect the unexpected from your JSO, and so here goes...announcing our first-ever, one-night-only airport concert, with a star-studded program with music from Top Gun, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Billy Joel, E.T., and Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony.
Info here
May 13, 2022
Experiential Orchestra
A Dawson Celebration
New York, NY (The DiMenna Center)
May 7, 2022
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
A Hero’s Welcome: Paul Jacobs Comes Home
Johnstown, PA (Westmont Presbyterian Church)
Hailed by the Philadelphia Orchestra as “the world’s greatest organist,” Paul Jacobs performs on the great instrument of the Westmont Presbyterian Church. This will be a truly historic concert for our orchestra and this region, and is currently available only to season ticket patrons. One of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Mr. Jacobs hails from Southwestern Pennsylvania, and this concert marks his debut with the Johnstown Symphony.
Info here
April 23, 2022
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
JSO at the Grand Halle: Chorus and Brass
Johnstown, PA (The Grand Halle)
We return to historic Cambria City and the Grand Halle to celebrate the joy and connection to community that comes from the tradition of choral singing. Program to include premiere of Blachly’s A Prayer of David.
Info here
April 9, 2022
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Romeo and Juliet and Rachmaninoff
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center)
Both Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev were inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to write some of their most romantic music. In this concert, we partner with Johnstown’s Band of Brothers Shakespeare Company to create a synthesis of stage and sound as Shakespeare’s language weaves within these powerful and evocative melodies for orchestra. On the second half, we present international pianist Michelle Cann in her Johnstown Symphony Orchestra debut performing Rachmaninoff’s unmatched second piano concerto.
Info here
March 21-26, 2022
Experiential Orchestra
Cali Immersive Residency @ Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ
From the website: “Grammy®-winning conductor James Blachly brings his Experiential Orchestra to Montclair State to join forces with the MSU Symphony Orchestra in an evening of immersive music making. In true Experiential Orchestra style, the audience members will surround and be surrounded by the orchestra in creative ways as the combined ensembles present works by Cali School Artist in Residence Jessie Montgomery, excerpts from Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera, The Prison, and William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, the composer’s only symphony.”
Info here
March 12, 2022
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Introducing JSO Family Concerts: Movie Magic for the Young and Not-So Young!
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center )
This concert is designed with fun in mind: kids, grandparents, moms, dads, even your tweens will love this! Music from your favorite movies including The Lion King, Toy Story, Mary Poppins, and more. And here’s the best part: come dressed as your favorite movie characters! Costumes are encouraged!
Info here
March 5, 2022
New York Philharmonic Debut
Young People’s Concert: Youth as Creator, Celebrating 25 Years of Very Young Composers
New York, NY (Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center)
Info here
February 12, 2022
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
The Great American Songbook: All About Love with Charles Wesley Evans
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center )
Celebrate love with the JSO as we perform the timeless music of Frank Sinatra, Rogers and Hart, and more with your JSO POPS and guest vocalist Charles Wesley Evans. Whether it’s date night or a night out with your besties, this is champagne and strawberries in concert form!
Info here
December 11, 2021
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Handel’s Messiah
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center )
The Johnstown Symphony Chorus, Jeffrey L. Webb, Director, with four soloists: Molly Netter, soprano; Kristen Dubenion-Smith, mezzo-soprano; Brian Giebler, tenor; and Tyler Putnam, bass.
Info here
November 13, 2021
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
V for Victory: The JSO Returns to the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center
Johnstown, PA (Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center )
November 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, and this Veterans Day we honor the courage of our fellow citizens in their service to our country with this special concert. William Grant Still’s Fanfare for American War Heroes, Gene Scheer’s American Anthem, John Williams’s Hymn to the Fallen, and Richard Rodgers’s Victory At Sea will be followed by Beethoven’s fateful and triumphant fifth symphony, which served as a beacon of hope and inspiration for our troops and our allies serving overseas.
Info here
October 31, 2021-November 1, 2021
Celebrating Arvo Pärt at The Met
Soloists from Experiential Orchestra join Artefact Ensemble and Schola Cantorum
New York, NY (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Temple of Dendur is the setting for the haunting world-premiere of O Holy Father Nicholas, commissioned by Nektarios S. Antoniou for The Schola Cantorum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Created by the revered Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, it celebrates the rededication of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and the National Shrine at Ground Zero. Masterpieces from the composer’s seven-decade career are performed by the Artefact Ensemble, under the direction of Grammy-nominated choral conductor Benedict Sheehan. Soloists from Experiential Orchestra are conducted by Grammy Award-winning James Blachly.
Info here
October 9, 2021
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Johnstown, PA (The Grand Halle)
Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring depicts life in a Pennsylvania town as a family establishes themselves in a new home. Before becoming an orchestral conductor, James Blachly devoted himself to composition, with over 40 commissions for ensembles of all sizes. In this one-of-a-kind program, a series of six “musical portraits” he composed over the past year for friends of the JSO will be performed by chamber ensembles and solo instruments. This partnership with Cambria City’s The Steeples Project forms a part of the inSPIREd series, which began during the pandemic and returns by popular demand.
Info here
October 2, 2021
Experiential Orchestra
Renewal: An Evening with Louise Toppin
New York, NY (The DiMenna Center for Classical Music)
Fresh off of winning their first Grammy® Award, Experiential Orchestra will open their 2021-22 season in a concert highlighting their partnership with the African Diaspora Music Project. The program will include two New York premieres by composer Julia Perry, along with works for voice by David Baker, William Grant Still, and Jessie Montgomery, and will include a discussion with Ms. Toppin.
Info here
September 11, 2021
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
Tribute Concert
Johnstown, PA (Wall of Names)
On September 11, the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra will perform Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World,” in a community concert as part of the memorial observance near the Wall of Names. This concert is free and open to the public. Complete information will be available at https://www.nps.gov/flni/planyourvisit/sept11observance.htm
September 10, 2021
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra
20th Memorial Tribute Concert | Music for Strings for the Luminaria Ceremony
Johnstown, PA (Flight 93 National Memorial)
As part of the respectful tribute and peaceful time of reflection, the Johnstown Symphony will participate as the musical component for the Luminaria Ceremony. As the JSO strings play the music of Gustav Mahler, Samuel Barber, and George Walker, forty candle lanterns will be lit and carried by family members, and distinguished guests, and placed below the names of each of the passengers and crew members of Flight 93.
This program is free and open to the public. Complete information will be available at https://www.nps.gov/flni/planyourvisit/sept11observance.htm