Chamber Orchestra

The Academy orchestra experience provides the students with a broad range of repertoire and styles from the Baroque era, Classical period, the nineteenth century, and standard twentieth-century repertoire (such as works by Samuel Barber, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Bela Bartok), as well as a variety of music by living composers. Repertoire by female and BIPOC composers is also well represented. 

Students learn to listen to each other, to blend and balance their sounds, and to feel and convey the emotions of the music, whether it is by Mozart or Jessie Montgomery.

• Samuel Adler – Concertino #1; Gedenkfeier (Commemoration)
• C.P.E. Bach – Cello Concerto in A Major
• J.S. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto #3; Violin Concerto in E Major
• Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
• Bela Bartok – Divertimento
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Grosse Fuge, opus 133; Symphonies #1, #7
• Hannah Benn – Where Springs Not Fail
• Ernest Bloch – Concerto Grosso #1
• Arcangelo Corelli – Christmas Concerto
• Sir Edward Elgar – Elegy; Introduction and Allegro; Serenade; Sospiri
• Gustav Holst – St. Paul’s Suite
• Norman Leyden – Serenade for String Orchestra
• Gustav Mahler – Adagietto from Symphony #5
• Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony #4 (Italian); String Symphony #9
• Jessie Montgomery – Strum
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Divertimenti K. 136, 137, 138; 
•     Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Piano Concerti K.449, 466
• Carl Nielsen – Suite for Strings, opus 1
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Chamber Symphony, opus 110a; Piano Concerto #1
• William Grant Still – Dances of Panama
• Peter Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings
• Heitor Villa-Lobos – Bachianas Brasileiras #5
• Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for two cellos; the Seasons
• Anton von Webern – Langsamer Satz
• Dan Welcher – Lone Star Sinfonietta
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – Serenade