POP Emerging Artists Collective's Recital has been CANCELLED due to school closures through the remainder of the school year.

Click here to watch the POP Virtual Jubilee! Join us in this time of reflection, appreciation, and celebration for our free POP Virtual Jubilee on Friday, May 29th. The concert will include performances and messages of inspiration and hope by POP students, Astral Artist's Tommy Mesa, and a virtual orchestra performance of an excerpt from Beethoven's Symphony No....

Join us this Friday for a POP community conversation with Kerwin Young. As part of Mr. Young's collaboration with us for POP Summer Virtual, he will speak about his career, which has ranged from hip hop producer to classical music composer, and will answer questions from students interested in going into musical career pathways. The workshop is open to the greater community.  ...

Click here to watch the POP Summer Showcase! On Friday, August 7th, we invite you to experience the artistic works and hear the voices of each of our POP Virtual Summer students at our POP Summer Showcase: Lifting Our Voice. Join us to celebrate our students' work including the premiere of an original composition written...

Drexel University’s ExCITe Center Director Youngmoo Kim and Play On Philly (POP) Program Director Jessica Zweig will host Creative Conversations for a Changing World, a free online series of discussions with Philadelphia cultural, education, and technology leaders centered around innovation through the COVID-19 pandemic. The first discussion How Arts and Education are Innovating through the...

Drexel University’s ExCITe Center Director Youngmoo Kim and Play On Philly (POP) Program Director Jessica Zweig will host Creative Conversations for a Changing World, a free online series of discussions with Philadelphia cultural, education, and technology leaders centered around innovation through the COVID-19 pandemic. The second discussion will focus on collaboration. Panelists for this session...

Drexel University’s ExCITe Center Director Youngmoo Kim and Play On Philly (POP) Program Director Jessica Zweig continue hosting Creative Conversations for a Changing World, a free online series of discussions with Philadelphia cultural, education, and technology leaders centered around innovation through the COVID-19 pandemic. The third and final discussion will focus on will talk about...

click here to watch the POP Virtual Winter Showcase! On Friday, December 18th, we invite you to celebrate our students' work, including the premiere of an original composition written together with Dr. Iman Habibi and performed by our students. We will also share our students' collaborative works created in partnership with BalletX and Fleisher Art...

This virtual performance will feature works performed by POP's chamber groups, including our string quartets, brass and wind quintets, woodwind trio, and percussion ensemble.

In this series of virtual concerts, Astral and Play On Philly have joined together to create small groups of chamber musicians of all ages and levels of experience. Each concert pairs works from the Mural Arts collection with a specific instrument group- brass, percussion, woodwinds, harp, and strings. Every day at from Monday, April 26th...

This virtual performance will feature POP's chamber groups and solos by students from the POP Emerging Artist Collective (PEAC). PEAC students express an interest in pursuing music in their educational and occupational futures and receive one-on-one instrumental instruction. Join us to celebrate the progress that these young musicians have made over the school year! For security...

Watch the recorded performance! In this milestone performance, we highlighted the musicianship and dreams of our students while reflecting on POP's achievements as we head towards a new decade of transformative music education. Community members from around the world joined us to celebrate through a series of virtual musical performances by POP ensembles of all...

Due to COVID concerns, we had to cancel our in-person Winter Concerts scheduled for this month, but our staff is pulling off another miracle at the very last minute to create a recorded performance in their place. Our Teaching Artists and students have demonstrated flexibility and dedication as we pivot, working hard to get ready...