2025-2026 Youth Concert Series
Be sure to explore our curriculum online for each concert, which will help you prepare your students for their concert experience.
We hope you will join us this season at Kleinhans Music Hall!
Building Harmony: For 1st-4th Grades
Using a variety of musical selections this youth concert tackles the topics of respect, personal responsibility, cooperation and community, all through the orchestra. The BPO has a unique platform for this topic: 73 individual voices all working together to create a beautiful sound. This concert also features selections from Leonard Bernstein’s famous West Side Story, a musical known for its powerful story about the impacts of intolerance.
Building Harmony: For 5th-8th Grades
Using a variety of musical selections this youth concert tackles the topics of respect, personal responsibility, cooperation and community, all through the orchestra. The BPO has a unique platform for this topic: 73 individual voices all working together to create a beautiful sound. This concert also features selections from Leonard Bernstein’s famous West Side Story, a musical known for its powerful story about the impacts of intolerance.
Friday Morning Concerts
These full-length (2 hour) BPO concerts on Friday mornings give middle and high school students a chance to hear complete pieces of repertoire in a casual atmosphere.
Accessible Concerts
Developed specifically to enhance the BPO experience for audience members with disabilities, this visual and interactive concert is performed in the Mary Seaton Room at Kleinhans Music Hall to accommodate the flexible seating needed for wheelchairs and the audience to react to the music in any way they feel comfortable.
This online hub of free youth concert content is for use in virtual or in-person classrooms. Explore video resources with accompanying suggested lesson plans under thematic units like Musical Stories, World Dances, American Voices, Art & Music, Celebrating WNY, The Orchestra at Work, Melody & Meaning, BPO Musical Passport, Our Musical Heritage, and Instruments of the World.
The BPO is a proud partner of Erie 1 BOCES Arts in Education and Exploratory Enrichment programs. For more information please click here.