Announcing the Launch of the Bard College Community Orchestra

The Bard College Orchestra is expanding to become an orchestra for the entire local community by welcoming players of all orchestral instruments and all ages from high school and above. Membership is free and by informal audition.
 
Bard students, faculty and staff, local high school players, and community members of level 5 New York State School Music Association standard and up are all welcome to audition. Rehearsals will take place in Bard's Olin Hall on Monday evenings from 7:30-10 p.m.
 
There will be an open rehearsal on Monday, September 12th at 7:30 pm in Bard’s Olin Hall, where interested musicians can find out more and enjoy an informal play-through. For additional questions, please send an email to Greg Armbruster at [email protected].

Join conductors Zachary Schwartzman, Bard faculty and assistant conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra; Erica Kiesewetter, Bard faculty and concertmaster of the American Symphony Orchestra; with director of strings Kathryn Aldous, Bard faculty and American Symphony Orchestra violinist, as we rehearse and perform a season of exciting orchestral music.
 
The Bard College Community Orchestra currently has three programs planned for the year, with music to include Grieg’s popular Peer Gynt, Charles Ives’s enigmatic The Unanswered Question, and Bruch's beautiful Double Concerto in E-minor for clarinet and viola with faculty soloists Laura Flax and Marka Gustavsson.
 
There will also be an opportunity to collaborate with students from the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts program, in a staged opera performance. The annual Concerto Competition offers the opportunity to audition to perform a solo with the orchestra. Concerts will be performed at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and at other venues around the Bard campus.

 

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Hall

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