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PRISM Concert: Unlocking your Inner Composer Series A: Beginner/intermediate

Sat, November 22, 2025 12:00 P.M. Add to your calendar
Music Department at Parkway Central Library

Be the first to hear exciting new works created by community composers in the Free Library’s Unlocking Your Inner Composer workshops.

Check out our events listings here.

Performed by the acclaimed PRISM Quartet with special guests violinist  Diane Monroe,  poet Ursula Rucker, and percussionist Tyshawn Sorey, this FREE concert showcases world premieres written by teens and adults at the beginner and intermediate level.

Fill this link out by Sept 15th if you'd like to participate in the work shops! 

No experience is required—these sessions are open to teens and adults at all levels. You don’t even need to read music!  Participants will compose new works that will be performed live in public concerts at the Free Library. To take part, applicants must commit to all four workshops within their assigned series and attend the corresponding concert

Montgomery Auditorium, Parkway Central Library

Ages
  • Adult
  • Young Adult
Event Type
  • Live Performances

Music Department
Room 126
215-686-5316

Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1189
1-833-TALK FLP (825-5357)

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