This concert
will include String Symphony #7 by
Mendelssohn and a new composition
by our very own Matthew Donnelly!
The Strings Sing!
A Concert of Gratitude
3:00 pm Sunday December 6th, 2020
Reid Spencer, Bass-Baritone
Carol McFadden, Piano
Featuring Sondheim, Handel, Mozart, Quilter, Sullivan, Loesser, Betts, and Arden
Concert of in-house delights
Sunday, May 30th, 2021Featuring solos and duets from our orchestra members, including interviews with our Music Director, Matthew Jones.
Continue readingThe Call of the Birds
Sunday March 28th, 2021Special guests The Contemporary School of Dance join us to perform Uccilli (The Birds) by Respighi. Our annual Silent Auction will be held during this concert (from our website or in person).
Continue readingChamber Music to Spark the Spirit
Sunday October 18th, 2020Join our live-streamed performance of chamber music for strings by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Borodin and finishing with Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat major.
Continue readingMusic of the Imagination Concert
Sunday May 24th, 2020
Our season will close with Jung Tsai, Associate Concertmaster of the KWS, joining us to perform Violin Concerto#5 by Mozart. We look forward to performing Pavane by Faure and Pastorale by Honegger as well as works by Bloomfield and Purcell.
30th Anniversary Winners’ Showcase
Sunday April 19th, 2020
Our 30th annual Concerto Competition will be held this season (open to all full time students), and we look forward to performing with the winners. We will add some Schumann to this concert, but most of the concert will be a delightful surprise!
Old Friends & Fairytales
Sunday February 9th, 2020We are thrilled to welcome back the Contemporary School of Dance to perform our rendition of the Mother Goose Suite by Ravel. To offer a second course of French repertoire, the orchestra will also perform Ravel’s beautiful Tombeau de Couperin. Rounding off the program is Symphony #3 by Schubert.
Continue readingThe Orchestral Café
Sunday November 24th, 2019Our annual silent auction concert will feature J.S. Bach’s miniature comedic opera The Coffee Cantata, with soloists Gordon Burnett, Elizabeth Lepock, and Steven Surian. The beautiful Serenade for Strings by Elgar and Janacek’s Suite for String Orchestra will also be performed. This concert will include an extended intermission for silent auction bids and coffee drinking!
Continue readingProdigious Sounds of Music Concert
Sunday October 20th, 2019We open our 35th anniversary season with a world premiere featuring virtuoso Guy Few performing Concerto for Trumpet & Piano by local renowned composer Boyd McDonald. Also on this program is Symphony#1 by Mendelssohn and works by Archer & Glazunov.
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