Performing Opportunies

The Kennesaw State University Orchestra began in the Fall of 2004. The orchestra performs a wide variety of repertoire from all time periods and styles. Students in the orchestra are made up of music majors and non-music majors with an interest in orchestral repertoire and come from distinguished high school programs and honor ensembles including the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony, and Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra..

In its brief time, the KSU Orchestra has already collaborated with several groups and artists. Guest soloists have included David Watkins, pianist, Cathy Lynn, viola with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Jana Young, soprano, and Charae Krueger, Principal Cellist with the Atlanta Opera. In addition, each year the orchestra accompanies the winners of KSU Concerto Competition. Guest conductors in the past have been Laura Jackson, Conducting Fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Richard Prior from Emory University. This February the KSU Orchestra will be under the baton of Kevin McMahon, Music Director of the Illinois Valley Symphony. Other collaborations have included a performance of Mozart's Requiem in the Spring of 2006 and the KSU Opera productions of The Elixir of Love by Donizetti in 2007 and Gianni Schicchi by Puccini and Menotti’s The Old Man and The Thief in the Spring of 2005.

The KSU Orchestra has also been fortunate to benefit from some exciting residencies including the Pro Arte Quartet, the Miami String Quartet, the American Horn Quartet, Alan Baer, Principal Tuba with the New York Philharmonic, and violinists Joseph Lin and Peter Zazofsky. The orchestra has also collaborated with several area schools including performances at Harrison High School and this year at Kennesaw Mountain High School. The group has also performed at Brenau University’s Pearce Auditorium and will perform this year at the new Dozier Centre for the Performing Arts.

For more information or to join the orchestra, contact Michael Alexander at
678-797-2141

or

malex919@kennesaw.edu

2007-2008 KSU Orchestra Season

September 20
Festive Overture- Shostakovich
Brandenburg Concerto #6- Bach
Cathy Lynn and Allyson Fleck, violas
Symphony #3 (Rhenish)- Schumann

October 18
Symphony in D- Franck
KSU Concerto Winners
“Batti, batti” from Don Giovanni- Mozart
Concerto for Flute in G, Mvt. 1- Mozart
Concerto #1 for Piano, Mvt. 1- Tchaikovsky

November 8
Masquerade Suite- Khachaturian
The lark ascending- Vaughan-Williams
Helen Kim, violin
Lord Nelson Mass- Haydn
KSU Chamber Choir
Leslie Blackwell, conductor

February 7
Suite #2 for Small Orchestra- Stravinsky
Fountains of Rome- Respighi
Piano Concerto #1- Brahms
David Watkins, piano

March 27
Egmont Overture- Beethoven
Concerto for Bass- Koussevitzky
Doug Sommer, Bass
Symphony #2 "Little Russian"- Tchaikovsky

April 10-13
KSU Opera Production of Yeoman of the Guard
Russell Young, Conductor