2026 PCYO End of Year Concert

Students 3 and up from Peninsula Community Youth Orchestra will present their first public End of Year Concert on Monday, May 18th at 4pm at First United Methodist Church in Port Angeles. Admission is free. The program is expected to be under an hour, and naturally, children are welcome.

Students will present their work from various string classes and ensembles held in Port Angeles and Sequim. Very young children between 3 and 6, known as Suzuki Sprouts, have been studying music basics and how to play the violin since January with teacher Christine Faught. Children between 6 and 13 have been studying violin, viola, cello, or bass since September, in beginner or intermediate classes with Jesse Ahmann in Port Angeles and Sara Baldwin in Sequim. An adult beginner violin lab class that began in January with Christine Faught will also present their work.

The Peninsula Community Youth Orchestra is a program for students administered by the Sequim Community Orchestra. The program began in Sequim in 2012 as “SCO String Kids”, and this year has expanded to cover students in both Port Angeles and Sequim and to welcome young children as young as 3 years old and also welcomes friends, parents, and grandparents as old as they like, so long as they are youths at heart. In Port Angeles, the program aims to supplement the incredible public school program by offering programming to younger children or to children from private schools or home school. In Sequim, the program is the only string education available.

This fall, the Peninsula Community Youth Orchestra will be expanding their offerings in both Port Angeles and Sequim to cover a more intermediate level middle school aged youth orchestra. Students with at least one full year of 5 day per week classes or one year of private lessons are invited to join. This year, the Port Angeles Youth Orchestra ensemble will welcome winds and strings, and the Sequim Youth Orchestra ensemble will welcome strings.

The program will also be offering music education classes for very young children 0 and up, known as “Sound Sprouts”. These students will sing, wiggle, and dance to learn the foundations of music literacy. Children can begin Sound Sprouts as young as infancy, listening and participating as best they can, so that music becomes a natural aspect of life, almost like a second language. Parents are empowered to be the primary teacher, allowing children the opportunity to practice regularly at home.