NAU Orchestras


2009/2010 Season

The NAU Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra present concerts under the direction of Nicholas G.M. Ross throughout the year. All concerts take place in Ardrey Auditorium. For more information, please contact Orchestra @ nau.edu.

Fall 2009

October 9, 2009: 7:30pm
  NAU Chamber & Symphony Orchestras

  • NAU Symphony & Chamber Orchestras
  • NAU Wind Symphony
  • Shrine of the Ages Choir

November 4, 2009: 7:30pm view concert poster
  An Evening of Symphonic Jazz featuring the
  Chamber Orchestra & Jazz Ensemble I in
  Their First Collaborative Performance!

  • view concert poster
  • Scott Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag
  • Duke Ellington - Sophisticated Ladies
  • Leonard Bernstein - Some Other Time
  • Cole Porter - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
  • Klenner/Lewis - Just Friends
  • Hoagy Carmichael - Stardust
  • Chick Corea - Times Lie
  • Billy Strayhorn - Take the A Train
  • additional rep TBA

November 22, 2009: 3:00pm
  NAU Symphony Orchestra in Concert

  • Gioacchino Rossini - Overture to William Tell
  • Bruce Reiprich* - Weeping Willow with guest soloist Deborah Raymond*
  • Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
  • additional rep TBA
  • * NAU Faculty Member

Spring 2010

February 14, 2010: 3:00pm
  NAU Chamber & Symphony Orchestras

  • Diamod - Rounds
  • Carter - Three Poems of Robert Frost
  • Hovhaness - Psalm and Fugue
  • Copland - "Four Dance Episodes" from Rodeo
  • Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

April 1-4, 2010: NAU Opera Production
  Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

  • Weill - Threepenny Opera

May 2, 2010: 3:00pm
  NAU Symphony Orchestra

  • "Dance from Argentina to Arizona", featuring Guest Artists: Trio Garufa
  • Repertoire TBA

May 3, 3:00pm
Symphony Orchestra featuring the 2008 NAU Concerto Competition Winners

  • Berlioz - "Villanelle", "Sur les Lagunes" and "Absence" from Les Nuits d'Ete
  • Villa-Lobos - Fantasia
  • Mendelssohn - Concerto No. 1
  • Hanson - Symphony No. 2 "Romantic"