Temple Music Prep

Making waves with Mozart in May 🌊🎻
Congrats to the Center for Gifted Young Musicians Poseidon Quartet (Jack Nazarian, Harrison Leibowitz, Sylvie Chiaccetti, Oliver Leibowitz), coached by Ralph Allen, on their performance at the Fort Washington Synagogue. In May, the ensemble played all movements of Mozart’s Divertimento in B-flat Major, K.137/125b as part of a bar mitzvah benefit concert. Bravi tutti! 🙌

Grow as a chamber musician and collaborate with dedicated peers at the Center for Gifted Young Musicians
🎶 Join us for auditions on September 12 - Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/TempleCGYM

Yesterday was National Children’s Day, the perfect moment to celebrate the young musicians who made this year so special at Temple Music Prep! 🎶✨

It was a year full of exciting concerts and collaborations across CGYM and CMSP.

Here are just a few highlights:
🎻 Chamber music took center stage in this year’s CGYM Masterclass Series. Thanks to the generous support of PCMS, students worked throughout the spring semester with artists from leading chamber ensembles, including the Miró Quartet, Isidore String Quartet, and Dover Quartet. At the end of the semester, the CGYM Youth Chamber Orchestra returned to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Ardmore for another beautiful performance.

🎼 Our CMSP and PSP students had a fantastic time at String Fest, a collaboration with the School District of Philadelphia and WRTI that brought young musicians together to make music and build community. The CMSP Jazz Orchestra also participated in the Essentially Ellington Festival, where high school jazz bands from across the region came together to perform Ellington’s music and take part in workshops led by renowned jazz artists.

🔗 Learn more and apply for the 2026-27 season of CGYM or CMSP here: https://linktr.ee/TempleMusicPrep

We’re celebrating some of our graduating 2025–26 seniors in weekly Senior Spotlight! Follow along and join us as we congratulate our seniors every Sunday 🎓🙌

🎶 Daniel Qi, violin 🎻
Daniel has been a dedicated member of the Temple Music Prep community for over a decade, first studying in the violin studio of Charles Parker, Jr. before joining the CGYM Youth Chamber Orchestra in 2019. Since then, Daniel has been a committed member of the orchestra, and is one of the featured soloists on the YCO’s newest album, Voyages. In the fall, Daniel will attend Stanford University to pursue a degree in Biomedical Computation 🧬🔬

Congrats, Daniel! 🎵✨

Congratulations to the piano students of Dr. Silvanio Reis and Jay Epstein on a delightful spring recital last Saturday 🎹💐 It was a wonderful way to wrap up the semester and celebrate all the hard work that went into this year’s lessons.

Thank you to everyone who joined us, and we hope you have a fantastic summer ❤️

Congratulations to Danae Truxler on her beautiful performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Four African Dances at the PMAY Artists' Initiative Graduation Concert! 🎓🎉

Danae has been a member of our Center for Gifted Young Musicians for five years, and we are so grateful to have been part of her musical journey. We cannot wait to see all she accomplishes as she begins her next chapter at Eastman. 🎻

Thank you to PMAY for supporting Danae and helping nurture her growth as a young artist. 🫶

Keep an eye out for Danae’s Temple Music Prep Senior Spotlight in the coming weeks!

Fall Enrollment is Open for the Brass & Wind Project and the Philadelphia String Project! ✨ For only $35 a semester, students participate in weekly large and small group classes to support the earliest stages of their instrumental music education.

🎺 Brass & Wind Project
The Brass & Wind Project at Temple University (BWP) serves students, grades 3rd-6th, interested in learning the musical skills essential to playing a band instrument. In weekly large and small group classes, fundamental skills will be taught, allowing the student to thrive in a low-pressure and supportive environment. No prior experience with instrumental music is required.
Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/BWPatTempleMusicPrep

🎻 Philadelphia String Project
The Philadelphia String Project at Temple University (PSP @ TU) serves beginning string (upper & lower) players in grades 2-7 from the Philadelphia area in this weekly 3-year program incorporating group lessons and string ensembles. No audition or previous musical experience required. Student must provide their own instrument.
Learn More: https://tinyurl.com/PhiladelphiaStringProjectatTU

Families interested in learning more are encouraged to attend our September 12 Open House, where you can meet the instructors and join an info session about both programs.

CMSP Open House
📅 September 19, 9 AM–11 AM
📍 Presser Hall, 2001 N. 13th St., Philadelphia

We’re celebrating some of our graduating 2025–26 seniors in weekly Senior Spotlight! Follow along and join us as we congratulate our seniors every Sunday 🎓🙌

🎶 Ian Sellers, trombone 🪊
Ian Sellers has been a member of the Community Music Scholars Program Jazz Orchestra since 2023. This year, he was selected as a 2025-2026 All-City Jazz Fellow with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts. In the fall, Ian will officially join the Owl Nest and attend Temple University to pursue a degree in Jazz Education with a concentration in trombone.

Congrats, Ian and welcome to the nest! 🦉✨

We are excited to recognize the achievements of Elliot Anderson, one of our outstanding musicians in the Center for Gifted Young Musicians Youth Chamber Orchestra! 🎻

Elliot was recently awarded the 2026 Springboard Grant from the Bruce Montgomery Foundation for the Arts, along with the 2026 Peter Benoliel–Willo Carey Grant, a special award presented to an especially gifted violinist.

He was also named the winner of the Warminster Symphony Orchestra’s 2026 Young Artists Competition Youth Division and will perform with the orchestra during its 2026–27 season under the direction of Maestro Joseph Lovecchio.

Congratulations, Elliot!