The Prometheus Symphony Orchestra

29/10/2025

Members of the Prometheus Symphony Orchestra.

16/10/2025

Today is the deadline for submitting applications to the 2025-2026 Khuner Young Artist Concerto Competition.

Our 2025-2026 Khuner Young Artist Concerto Competition will start accepting applications next week on September 1, 2025.

15/10/2025

Prometheus violin section.

06/10/2025

Steve Levitow, PSO's principal violist, will present a chamber recital on Sunday, October 26, 2025 3pm at the Berkeley Hillside Club featuring works by Mozart, Bruch, and Rebecca Clarke. Hope you can come!

06/10/2025

01/10/2025

We had a great concert last Sunday! 200 people attended. The audience clearly enjoyed the music and were appreciative of the parking, acoustics and nice seats. We hope the audience will be even larger in the concerts to come at VCPA. See the first comments for link of the concert photos.

21/09/2025

Join us on September 28, 2025 3:00 PM (concert lecture at 2:40 PM) for our upcoming concert at our new venue — the stunning Valley Center for Performing Arts (formerly Holy Names University), located at 3500 Mountain Blvd, Oakland, CA 94602.

Enjoy a gated entrance, free parking, and a gorgeous auditorium with cozy seating and amazing acoustics.

19/09/2025

Our first concert of the season is coming up soon on September 28, 2025! See the first comment for the link to get your tickets.

17/09/2025

Preview the concert program notes on the music we will perform on September 28, 2025. Read our orchestra member profiles including a tribute to PSO late principal clarinetist John Pangia. See the first comment for the link.

12/09/2025

🏆 Prometheus Symphony Orchestra was listed in September issue of Best of East Bay 2025 - Readers' Picks for Best Classical Music Organization (Bronze Medal).

05/11/2023

Orchestra Member Profile: Amy DeMane, Viola

Amy grew up in up-up-Upstate New York, about an hour south of Montreal (sheesh, she’s practically Canadian!). Her older sister played violin, so of course Amy picked one up too, when she was about five. She had violin lessons through elementary school. Then came middle school—and the universal search for violas. “My school orchestra needed a viola so I switched. And I loved it from the moment I picked it up; the pitch and the sound. Plus, it’s a more unusual instrument than violin.” She formed a quartet with friends and played weddings and community events. Oh, and Amy also just picked up a flute and played that through high school as well.

While attending Cornell University, Amy majored in Industrial and Labor Relations and Employment Law while playing in the orchestra and getting the chance to tour with the orchestra to Ireland. After graduation she got a job at a Bay Area tech company, thinking she’d maybe stay here a couple of years. Six years later, she loves it here.

Amy works in human resources for Off the Grid, which manages food trucks at events throughout the Bay. During the Covid shut down she had a chance to play more and realized she was missing an orchestra. “I found Prometheus online and I just emailed Eric out of the blue in the summer of 2022. It’s so much fun! It’s my artistic outlet. We’re all playing for fun, but we want to put on great performances.” And, by golly, you’re in the middle of a great one today!

~ Joyce Vollmer