The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s “Front Row” digital series has received two 2021 “Telly Awards,” the annual honors for regional video and television content. The orchestra shares the awards with Pittsburgh-based Flying Scooter Productions, which created the series with the PSO. The series won a Telly Gold prize in the “Series—Webseries: Music” category, and a Telly Silver prize in the “General—People’s Telly” category. The PSO’s digital “Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience” platform launched with six episodes in October 2020, when the orchestra was not able to perform before live audiences at Heinz Hall due to the pandemic. Executive producers for the series are Aleta King of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Courtney Gumpf of Flying Scooter Productions. “We are thrilled to be joined by our production partners, Flying Scooter Productions, in this wonderful honor by the Telly Awards. As our country faced the deep impact of the COVID pandemic, our hunger to create and to enjoy music required a reinvention of our season and new ways in the digital world to bring the fantastic sound of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,” said Melia Tourangeau, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
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