Saturday, June 6, 2026 – Reading Pops Orchestra Side-by-Side Concert – 7:00 PM – Exeter Township Senior High School, 201 E 37th St, Reading, PA 19606 – Guest Conductor Tyler Readinger – Free concert!
The Reading Pops is excited to welcome area high school students to play “side-by-side” with the Pops musicians. Join us for this free concert!
Directions to Exeter Township Senior High School
Tyler Readinger, a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, has quickly gained traction as a dynamic young conductor through his spirited artistry, all-embracing versatility, and collaboratively welcoming approach to music. Recently appointed as Assistant Conductor for the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, he also has served as Cover Conductor for the New York Philharmonic, Assistant Conductor of the Reading
Philharmonic Orchestra, and has been invited to guest conduct groups such as the Berks Sinfonietta, Reading Pops Orchestra, Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic, and Bloomington Symphony Orchestra.
He has assisted and covered numerous conductors such as Thomas Wilkins, Constantine Kitsopoulos, Marzio Conti, Ira Levin, and Angel Gil-Ordoñez amongst others, and has also studied briefly with David
Neely, Christian Capocaccia, and Georgios Vranos. He has previously collaborated with world-class artists such as singers Deanne Meek and Michael Kelly, instrumentalists Kurt Nikkanen and Maria Asteriadou, as well as many guest performers and composers from the Juilliard School, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, and Manhattan School of Music.
Tyler won 2nd prize at the 2024 VIII Atlantic Coast International Conducting Competition in Vila do Conde, Portugal, and was named semifinalist in the 2022 V Nino Rota International Conducting Competition in Matera, Italy. He has also participated in multiple conducting programs, most recently being the 2025 Royal Northern College of Music Conducting Masterclass in Manchester, UK with Nicolás Pasquet, Mark Heron, and the Manchester Camerata. Additionally, he was a participant in the International Conducting Workshop and Festival in Lviv, Ukraine with Carl St. Clair and the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra, fellow of the Conductors Institute of South Carolina under Donald Portnoy, Peter Jaffe, and Jorge Mester,
and participant in the Beyond the Baton conducting seminar with conductor Diane Wittry.
His enthusiastic versatility on the podium has him working comfortably in a wide variety of styles, including the classical symphonic canon, contemporary and new music, pops music, as well as many others. He is currently serving as conductor for the actively-evolving new chamber opera, Swimming In The Dark (an adaptation of Tomasz Jedrowski’s 2020 novel of the same name) alongside composer Martin Hennessy, librettist Stephen Kitsakos, and director Michael Shell. Recently, he conducted the 2025 staged premiere of the opera’s first act in Key West, Florida, through a collaboration between the Jacobs School of Music and The Studios of Key West. Tyler is also an avid conductor of film music both in live-to-picture performances and recording sessions, having worked with composers such as Larry Groupé and Neil Brand. In addition to leading numerous premieres of concert music, he has also conducted live-to-picture premieres and recordings of newly composed scores for multiple early-20th
century silent films including Ebenezer Eferebor’s 2023 score for Dragnet Girl (1933), Yi-Chen Chiang’s 2022 score for Coeur Fidèle (1923), Patrick Holcomb’s 2021 score for Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1925), and Ryn Jorgensen’s 2019 score for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920). Tyler is a doctoral candidate at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University, where he studied under Arthur Fagen and Thomas Wilkins, and was assistant conductor to the IU Opera and Ballet Theater having worked on productions of Bernstein’s Candide, Puccini’s La rondine, and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. He holds a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from Indiana University, and a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. A continuous strong advocate of music education to all ages and backgrounds, Tyler has previously served in the College Music Society as the first student member on the organization’s executive board of directors. His immense love for sharing his musical passion had him working as music educator within communities in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Kenya.
Our Thanks!
The Reading Pops Orchestra, an affiliate of the Reading Musical Foundation, thanks the RMF for their on-going financial support!
The Reading Pops Orchestra thanks the Arthur Judson Foundation for their financial support!
The Reading Pops Orchestra thanks the Music Performance Trust Fund as administered through Local 135-211 of the American Federation of Musicians!
