The Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra originated in 1970 as the Valley Camerata Orchestra, in association with Cedar Crest College. At its conception, the orchestra was a community-based performing group with 30 to 40 musicians, primarily local volunteers, who gathered together to play classical music literature for chamber orchestra. In 1982, it was incorporated as the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra - an independent, non-profit, regional professional chamber orchestra.
PSO has attracted musicians of the highest caliber from the Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore and beyond, to form an ensemble which is acclaimed by critics as “technically the best in the Lehigh Valley”. Programming has steadily evolved from the original three-concert series to the present five-concert Subscription Series plus the popular four-concert summer Valley Vivaldi Series. The Sinfonia has been a leader in the promotion of exceptional artistic projects, as indicated by the versatile range of commissioned works and premieres it presents.
Bringing classical music to the youth of the Lehigh Valley is central to the PSO’s mission. An extensive educational outreach program provides music education and enrichment for thousands of area students each year. To date, almost 43,000 students have participated in Sinfonia outreach programs.
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