Ryan Socrates

08.13.06 | Home for the YYSO Benefit Concert
All preparations have been made for today's benefit concert (check the see me play section for more details). Some of you I will see in person today, the rest of you I hope you might considering giving a dollar or two to my Youth Orchestra's permanent endowment fund, once we go online.

There's plenty of food ready to be eaten, and my very talented friends have so graciously offered their musical services to help entertain my guests. Here they are in electronic form:

http://www.wrightjazz.com - sax
http://www.myspace.com/georgeaburton - piano
http://www.myspace.com/ianr1 - bass

(official press release below)

08.13.06 | Press Release for YYSO Benefit Concert
Contact: Ryan Socrates
717-817-1609
ryan.socrates@gmail.com

Benefit Concert for the York Youth Symphony
To celebrate the YYSO’s 50th Anniversary, its board and members are announcing fundraising drives for its newly created permanent endowment fund. The first of these events is a benefit concert featuring current members and alumni. The concert will feature classical, jazz, and new works written expressly for this occasion. Ensembles will range from small chamber groups to solo acts.
The concert will be held at the Socrates residence on August 13, 2006 at 8pm. Tickets are first come first serve and are free of charge. Donations are tax-deductible and will be collected before, during, and after the concert. A reception will follow the concert.
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07.07.06 | @ PGSA
Greetings from Erie, PA! I'm currently a department assistant in the music department of the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. PGSA is truly an artist's paradise! It's the only program I know of where you are surrounded by peers who are more than competent in their art. PGSA is true artist's colony. I had the amazing oppurtunity to be a "govie" here in 2000. My time here was pivotal in making me the artist who I am today.

Rising juniors and seniors in high school are hand-picked from a pool of more than 1,000 applicatns across the state of Pennsylvania. The program is fully-funded by the state and 200 students spend five summery weeks at the campus of Mercyuhust College for free cultivating their craft in all of the visual, performing, and creative arts. Instructors come from major higher institutions of learning and are all active practioners of their art.

While I'm here, I'm teaching music theory, making music with technology, teaching private percussion and jazz studies, managing t he music technology lab, and writing for and helping out with the Big Band. While I'm not busy, I get to hang out with amazing people and make tons of new friends along the way.

Kudos to all my fellow past, current, and future govies!!!
~ SOCRATES