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PRISM Concert: Unlocking your Inner Composer Group 2: Intermediate and Advanced

Sat, November 22, 2025 2:30 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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PRISM Concert: Unlocking your Inner Composer Group 1: Beginner and Intermediate
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PRISM Concert: Unlocking your Inner Composer Group 2: Intermediate and Advanced
Monday, November 24, 2025
6:00 P.M.
PRISM Concert: Unlocking your Inner Composer Group 3: Advanced

Upcoming Live Performances Events

Saturday, November 15, 2025
3:00 P.M.
PhilHarmonia Presents: Crossing the Narrow Bridge | Parkway Central Library
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
5:15 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Concert Series: Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell, performed by Ray Drezner and the Troubled Child Orchestra | Chestnut Hill Library
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Jared Radichel plays the lute | Parkway Central Library
Friday, November 21, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Open Mic Night at the Library | Nicetown-Tioga Library
Saturday, November 22, 2025
12:00 P.M.
PRISM Concert: Unlocking your Inner Composer Group 1: Beginner and Intermediate | Parkway Central Library
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