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Academy Concert Showcases Young Artists
Area residents will have an opportunity to hear rising stars in the music world at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music's Winter All-School Concert on Friday, December 15 at 7:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church on East Orange Street in downtown Lancaster. Young musical artists, all students at the Academy, will perform in a program featuring vocal and instrumental ensembles. The concert is free and open to the public.
Ensembles slated to perform include the Academy's Sinfonia and Philharmonia orchestras, the Academy Chorale, the Preparatory Singers and the Children's Choir, as well as several chamber music groups. Holiday music will be on the program along with works by well-known classical composers. More than 100 students will perform as part of this festive event.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music is a non-profit pre-collegiate institution dedicated to the musical advancement of its students. Founded in 1990, the Academy attracts students from an immediate nine-county area as well as from around the world, who study disciplines ranging from instrumental, chamber music, orchestra, opera and vocal performance to music composition and theory, improvisation, accompanying ,jazz and recording. The Academy has a widely accomplished international faculty and is one of only 12 autonomous pre-collegiate music schools in the country accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
