CONCERTS

Announcing our Summer 2025 Concerts! Hope to see you this summer!

Saturday, June 7, 2025 – Reading Pops Orchestra Side-by-Side Concert – 7:00 PM – Hamburg Area High School – Guest Conductor Dr. Peter Isaacson

The Reading Pops is excited to welcome more than 20 area high school students to play “side-by-side” with the Pops musicians. Join us for this free concert!

Directions to Hamburg Area High School.

Peter Isaacson, is an Assistant Professor of Music and Director for the Kutztown University Orchestra. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kentucky, a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music. As a violinist, Mr. Isaacson has performed with Soundscapes, the Lenape Chamber Ensemble, Craftsbury Chamber Players and the Absolute Ensemble in New York City. He has also performed on the Musica Viva concert series, the Focus Festival, Music at Marvin, San Angelo Museum concerts and the Wednesdays at One concert series in Alice Tully Hall. He has also been featured on the Woodsongs Radio Hour, WRGV Public Radio in Georgetown, Kentucky and has recorded chamber music works by Josef Rheinberger for Centaur Records. As a member of the Abilene Chamber Players, he has performed concerts in London, England at the Space, St. Georges, Bloomsbury and Southwark Cathedral, the Sala Falck in Milan, Italy and the Milan Conservatory. During his tenure at Hardin-Simmons University, Dr. Isaacson directed productions of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, A Funny Happened on the Way to the Forum, and operas by Mozart, Menotti, and Strauss.

Fathers’ Day – Green Valley – FREE CONCERT

Sunday, June 15, 2025 – Reading Pops Orchestra Annual Fathers’ Day Concert – 3:00 PM – Green Valley Chateau Tent (160 Green Valley Rd, Sinking Spring, PA 19608) – Guest Conductor Ken Kemmerer

Join us for our annual free concert celebrating Fathers’ Day! The Pops has been celebrating fathers since the founding of the orchestra with our traditional Pops concert on Fathers’ Day.

Click here for directions: Green Valley Chateau Tent

After more than 30 years, sitting in the back row of the Reading Pops Orchestra playing tuba, Ken Kemmerer will be standing out in front conducting the Pops for the Father’s s Day Concert. After a 37-year career as a band director, and an avid performer on trombone and tuba, Ken will be presenting “An American Salute” featuring music by American composers.

Saturday, July 26, 2025 – Reading Pops Orchestra Concert – 7:00 PM – Wyomissing High School, 630 Evans Ave, Wyomissing, PA 19610 (Audience should enter from the Evans Avenue side of the High School.) – Guest Conductor Brian Mishler

Our annual concert in Wyomissing, sponsored by Wyomissing Parks and Recreation, has moved from the Stone House (where we had been performing since 1997) to Wyomissing High School’s auditorium. Join us rain or shine for this free concert!

Directions to Wyomissing High School.

Mr. Brian Mishler is the Director of Orchestral Studies at Parkland High School, where he also teaches Piano and has been on staff with the Reading Symphony as a youth orchestra conductor since 2010. As a cellist, he has performed with the Altoona Symphony, Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, York Symphony Orchestra, Reading Pops Orchestra, Reading Symphony Orchestra, Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Allegro, the Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster, and the Dave Stahl Sacred Orchestra.

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