BAND:
Alexandria Citizen's Band
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US Army Band
For over 83 years, The U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” has maintained a tradition of excellence as the premier musical organization of The United States Army. The Band was founded in 1922 by Army Chief of Staff General John J. "Blackjack" Pershing to emulate European military bands he heard during World War I. The Band continues to play an important role in events of national and international significance, staging performances from the battlefields of World War II to our Nation’s Capital.
US Marine Corps Band
Founded in 1798 by an Act of Congress, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band is America’s oldest professional musical organization. Today, “The President’s Own” is celebrated for its role at the White House and its dynamic public performances. “The President’s Own” encompasses the United States Marine Band, Marine Chamber Orchestra, and Marine Chamber Ensembles, and performs regularly at the White House and for more than 500 public performances across the nation each year.
West Springfield High School Band
Our band enrollment includes approximately 250 of the 2,450 students attending West Springfield High School. Course offerings include: Beginning Band, Brass & Woodwind Class, Percussion Class, Concert Band Orange, Concert Band Blue, Symphonic Band, Wind Symphony, Jazz Ensemble, Music Theory, and A.P. Music Theory. Co-Curricular offerings include Marching Color Guard, Winter Guard, Percussion Ensemble, Indoor Drumline, Chamber Ensembles, and the Marching Spartans. We have an active and supportive student population and parent booster organization. In addition to the two band directors, the Spartans have large supplemental instructional staff of teachers and clinicians. We believe that our course of music study through band will help our students to grow and succeed in their musical and academic pursuits. Please contact the band office for more information.
Woodbridge Flute Choir, The
Although the Woodbridge Flute Choir began as a modest background music group, it quickly grew into a serious performance ensemble. Realizing the need for music written specifically for flute choir, the WFC has commissioned original works and presented world premieres for composers from across the nation. The Woodbridge Flute Choir is now the largest ensemble of its type in Northern Virginia. Because of its unique focus on educating the flutist, members are given the opportunity to perform with and for professional artists, take private lessons, receive small ensemble coaching, and participate in weekend long events such as the Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair and Long Beach Island Retreat. The choir is a member of the Prince William County Arts Council, a division of the Prince William Park Authority.
ORCHESTRA:
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra
American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra
Under the artistic direction of Maestro Luis Haza, the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras offers an opportunity for intense orchestral training, development and performance under outstanding conductors and coaches. Consisting of four separate ensembles—the String Ensemble, Concert Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra, and Philharmonic Orchestra—the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras provides talented young people an opportunity to perform in one of this nation’s premier youth ensembles, offering them musical experiences of the highest caliber.
Levine School of Music
Washington, D.C.'s Levine School of Music serves as a vital community resource by embracing two principles central to its mission: excellence and accessibility. One of the nation's largest and most prestigious community music schools, it offers music education for students of every age, ability and background. To maintain the school's accessibility, it offers an extensive scholarship program that is both need and merit based.
Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic
An auditioned community orchestra composed of professional and non-professional musicians, and the orchestra in residence at Northern Virginia Community College's Alexandria Campus, the goal of the Orchestra is to introduce the community and musicians to challenging contemporary and classical music.
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VOCAL:
Cathedral Choral Society
The Cathedral Choral Society is the resident symphonic chorus of Washington National Cathedral. The 240-voice chorus is the oldest choral group in Washington, having been founded in 1941 by Paul Callaway, who served as music director until 1984. Since 1985, J. Reilly Lewis has conducted the Society in musical masterpieces from plainsong to contemporary works. The four major concerts each season are often performed with full symphony orchestra. In its 63-year history, the Cathedral Choral Society has presented numerous world premieres, many of them commissioned by the Society, and has maintained a tradition of showcasing both promising young soloists and internationally known artists.
Celebr8! Entertainment | 703-385-1880
Celebr8! is a group of for-hire singers and instrumentalists who join talents to learn and perform both sacred and secular music from a wide variety of genres. We have shared our music in a number of venues throughout the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area, including community events (such as the Pageant of Peace at the National Christmas Tree), weddings, churches, retirement centers, and even self-sponsored benefit concerts.
Choral Arts Society
Now celebrating its fortieth season, The Choral Arts Society of Washington is one of the major symphonic choruses in the United States. Consisting of 200 professional-caliber volunteer singers, The Choral Arts Society of Washington has performed under the world’s leading conductors and symphony orchestras, recorded a number of acclaimed recordings, and toured internationally. The Chorus is regularly called upon to help inaugurate presidents, honor world leaders, celebrate national holidays and participate in televised performances.
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Fairfax Choral Society
The Fairfax Choral Society is a major choral association that offers a wide range of opportunities for singers to perform choral masterworks, provides music and voice education for youth choristers, presents premiere performances of choral works, and regularly performs in such venues as the George Mason University Center for the Performing Arts and the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall & Arts Center, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus.
Merriweather Post
Conveniently located in the Baltimore/Washington corridor off Route 29 in Columbia, Maryland, Merriweather is nestled within the 40 preserved acres known as Symphony Woods. The natural, outdoor concert setting is one that simply can’t be matched. For more than 35 years, Merriweather has hosted a diverse range of artists and events, offering the area’s absolute best in contemporary entertainment. At Merriweather, we are committed to delivering a concert experience that is the best in every way.
Metropolitan Chorus
The Metropolitan Chorus regularly performs in venues throughout the D.C. area, including the Kennedy Center, Constitution Hall and the National Building Museum. They also join forces with other musical organizations for unique performances and present several free concerts each year as a special service to the community.
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Potomac Harmony Showtime Chorus
Potomac Harmony Showtime Chorus of Arlington, Virginia is an award-winning chapter of Sweet Adelines International. We perform a variety of music, from traditional favorites to the fifties sound to modern jazz, all in four-part harmony, barbershop style. The chorus is made up of a diverse group of women from the Washington metropolitan area who all share a love of harmonizing and entertaining.
Summer Opera Theatre Company, Inc., The
The Summer Opera Theatre Company is a nationally recognized company that seeks, promotes and presents young artists ready for work with major opera and musical theatre companies, offers more established artists the opportunity to prepare and perform new roles before a critical audience, and brings fully mounted professional opera to the public at the lowest possible ticket prices. Now entering its 27th consecutive season, Summer Opera continues its legacy with a renewed commitment to bring the metropolitan area exciting dramatic works at the highest level of excellence.
Virginia Opera
The Virginia Opera Company is known and respected nationwide for the identification and presentation of the finest young artists, for the musical and dramatic integrity of its productions and for the ingenuity and variety of its education and outreach programs. The Company has a working budget of $6 million with 36 mainstage performances in three markets reaching nearly 80,000 attendees, and a donor base exceeding 6,000 contributors.
Washington Choral Ensemble
For twenty seasons the Washington Choral Ensemble (WCE), formerly the Capitol Hill Choral Society, has won critical acclaim for its performances throughout the nation's capital. Directed by William Usher II, the Washington Choral Ensemble strives to enhance the life of the community by performing great choral music at the highest level. The ensemble seeks the joy of music making in rehearsal and performance for the singer as well as the audience.
Washington Chorus
A GRAMMY® Award Winner, The Washington Chorus is considered one of the foremost choruses in the nation and a cultural leader in the Washington metropolitan area. Each year, the 200-member Chorus presents its own subscription series at the Kennedy Center and frequently appears at the invitation of the National Symphony Orchestra, having appeared with them in more than 280 performances. The Washington Chorus has recorded GRAMMY® nominated and winning CDs, been nationally broadcast and internationally televised, and has performed as part of a motion picture soundtrack.
Washington Opera
Washington National Opera continues to move confidently forward on a great adventure that began when the company was founded in 1956. Four and a half decades and countless artistic leaps later, the Opera has achieved the stature of a world-class company and plays to standing-room-only audiences at the Kennedy Center Opera House. The company recently received the designation "The National Opera" by the Congress of the United States of America.
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Wolf Trap Opera Company
The primary mission of the Opera Company is to discover and encourage the finest emerging talent in the opera field. It serves young singers of exceptional achievement and potential who are at an interim point between academic training and full-time professional operatic careers. Opportunities are also available for an apprentice coach and apprentice director. All solo roles – leading, featured, and supporting – are cast from among the group of 12-15 resident young artists of the Wolf Trap Opera Company, known as the Filene Young Artists. All productions are professionally conducted, directed, coached, and designed. They are performed in original language with full orchestra.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Canadian Arts
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Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center, located on 17 acres overlooking the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., is America’s living memorial to President Kennedy as well as the nation’s busiest arts facility, presenting more than 3,000 performances each year. As part of the Kennedy Center’s Performing Arts for Everyone outreach program, hundreds of free performances are offered each year featuring national and local artists; these include early-evening concerts on the Millennium Stage, dozens of performances during the annual Open House Arts Festival, and daily concerts of seasonal music in December as part of Holidays at the Kennedy Center.
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