Welcome to the Iowa State University Orchestra Program homepage! The 2012-2013 year is filled with fantastic musical experiences for students and audiences alike. Amazing orchestra concerts, opera, student and faculty soloists, and a new ensemble are some of the great opportunities the ISU Orchestra Program offers this year!
The ISU Orchestra Program has expanded! In addition to our full Symphony Orchestra, the ISU Department of Music and Theatre is now offering the ISU Chamber Orchestra to fulfill the expanding repertoire needs of the department. This new ensemble will be represented by some of the very best members of the ISU Symphony. In the Fall of 2012, it will serve as the pit ensemble for the ISU Opera production of Candide by Leonard Bernstein. For the spring semester, the ISU Chamber Orchestra will continue as its own performing ensemble and will be joined in concert by our own Associate Professor of Flute, Sonja Giles.
The ISU Symphony Orchestra continues its tradition of presenting exciting, intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving concerts. This year features a host of audience favorites including Dvorak's Cello Concerto performed by ISU's Professor of Cello, George Work; our newly appointed Assistant Professor of Violin, Borivoj Martinic-Jercic, will also solo with the orchestra performing Mendelssohn's famed Violin Concerto. Orchestral fireworks abound with Capriccio Espagnol by Rimsky-Korsakov, Respighi's Pines of Rome, and our end of the year grand finale, Ravel's brilliant orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.
The ISU Orchestra Program is social! The ISU Symphony is on Facebook and Twitter, and now we have created our own YouTube Channel. Check out the links and take a look at clips from our past performances! Now that you can watch us, be sure to like us, and follow us too!
Continuing our celebration of the American orchestral tradition, the ISU Orchestra Program is excited present works by Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein. And sustaining our commitment to the performance of living composers, the ISU Symphony Orchestra will be presenting works by Jennifer Higdon, Mason Bates, Samuel Zyman, and Osvaldo Golijov.
I am excited about the musical and educational opportunities this year. I hope you will join us either as a member of our orchestras or as a member of our audience. Please explore our newly updated site to find out more about upcoming concerts, how to join the orchestra, scholarship opportunities, and ways you can be a part of the amazing work these students do.
Thank you for your continued support!
Dr. Jacob Harrison
Director of Orchestral Activities
jgharris@iastate.edu | 515.294.3978
Have questions? Contact:
Dr. Jacob Harrison
Director of Orchestral Activities
jgharris@iastate.edu | 515.294.3978
109 Music Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
