Recent Repertoire - University Chamber Orchestra
2025-2026 Season
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November 15, 2025
- Gioachino Rossini: Overture to Tancredi
- Ernest Bloch: In Memoriam
- Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga: Symphony in D Major
March 6-8, 2026 – The Gondoliers
Three staged performances with the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company
April 25, 2026 – Concerto Showcase
with the University Symphony Orchestra and the University Wind Ensemble
- Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Overture in C Major
- Cécile Chaminade: Concertino pour flûte, Op. 107
Julie Sun, flute – Second Place Winner, 2026 Concerto Competition
May 17, 2026
- Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Overture in C Major
- Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 11
2024-2025 Season
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November 17, 2024
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527
- Erich Korngold: Tänzchen im alten Stil
- Camille Saint-Saëns: Suite for Orchestra, Op. 49
February 8, 2025
- Gioachino Rossini: Overture to Il signor Bruschino
- Gabriel Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande
- Arthur Sullivan and William Schwenck Gilbert: Selections from Pirates of Penzance
March 7-9, 2025 – Pirates of Penzance
Three staged performances with the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company
May 17, 2025
- Mikhail Glinka: Kamarinskaya
- Amy Beach: Bal masqué, Op. 22
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
2023-2024 Season
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November 11, 2023
- Manuel de Falla: Ritual Fire Dance from El amor brujo
- Eward Elgar: Elegy
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor
February 3, 2024
with the Middle East Music Ensemble
- Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
- Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
- arr. Wanees Zarour: Khodaya
with the Middle East Music Ensemble - arr. Wanees Zarour: Yara Yara
with the Middle East Music Ensemble - Hossein Dehlavi, arr. Wanees Zarour: Sabokbal
with the Middle East Music Ensemble - arr. Wanees Zarour: Morghe Sahar
with the Middle East Music Ensemble - Abdolhossein Mokhtabad, arr. Wanees Zarour: Tamanaye Vesal
with the Middle East Music Ensemble - Javad Lashgari, arr. Wanees Zarour: Gisoo
with the Middle East Music Ensemble
March 1-3, 2024 – Ruddigore
Three staged performances with the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company
May 11, 2024
- Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga: Overture No. 1
- Gabriel Fauré: Élégie
- Emmanuel Chabrier: Habanera
- Henry Purcell: Suites No. 1 and 2 from The Gordian Knot Untied
2022-2023 Season
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November 12, 2022
with the Motet Choir
- Franz Joseph Haydn: Overture to L’isola disabitata
- Franz Schubert: Selections from Mass No. 5 in A-flat Major, D 678
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Selections from Mass in F Major, BWV 233
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 31, “Paris”
February 4, 2023
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
- Georges Bizet: “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” from Carmen
- Felix Mendelssohn: “Nocturne” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Gioachino Rossini : “Ecco, ridente in cielo” from The Barber of Seville
- Gioachino Rossini : “Temporale (Storm Music)” from The Barber of Seville
- Gioachino Rossini : “Cruda sorte” from L’italiana in Algeri
- Jules Massenet: “Meditation” from Thaïs
- Jacques Offenbach: “Infernal Galop” from Orpheus in the Underworld
March 3-5, 2023 – HMS Pinafore
Three staged performances with the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company
May 13, 2023
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
- Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 99 in E-flat Major
2021-2022 Season
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November 13, 2021
- Gioachino Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
- Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 1 in D Major
March 6, 2022
- Gustav Holst: St. Paul’s Suite
- William Grant Still: Danzas de Panama
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Coriolan
May 14, 2022
- Edward Elgar: Selections from The Wand of Youth, Suites No. 1 and 2
- Antonín Dvořák: Czech Suite
2019-2020 Season
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November 24, 2019
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: Rhosymedre: Prelude on a Welsh Hymn Tune
- Ottorino Respighi: Gli uccelli (The Birds)
- Sam Suggs: Concerto after Haydn
Sam Suggs, double bass – 2016 Concert Artists Guild Winner
February 8, 2020
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
- Edward Elgar: Dream Children
- Jules Massenet: Le Roman d’Arlequin: Pantomime
- Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert: Selections from Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty
with singers from the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company
2018-2019 Season
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November 17, 2018
- Franz Schubert: Overture to Der Teufel als Hydraulicus, D.4
- Edward Elgar: Chansons de Matins et de Nuit, Op. 15
- Albéric Magnard: Suite d’orchestre dans le style ancien
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Selections from Don Giovanni
Patrice Michaels, soprano and Jeffrey Ray, baritone
February 9, 2019
- Gioachino Rossini: Overture to Tancredi
- J.S. Bach: Sinfonia No. 9
- Jean Sibelius: Suite from Belshazzar’s Feast
- Edward German and Basil Hood: Selections from Merrie England
with singers from the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company
March 15-17, 2019 – Edward German and Basil Hood’s Merrie England
Three staged performances with the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company
May 18, 2019
- Henry Purcell: Overture to The Rival Sisters
- Charles Gounod: Petite Symphonie
I. Adagio—Allegretto
IV. Allegretto - Charles Ives: Fugue from Symphony No. 4
- Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major, “London”
2017-2018 Season
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November 19, 2017
- Wolfang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to Così fan tutte
- Igor Stravinsky: Eight Instrumental Miniatures
- Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E-flat Major, “Drumroll”
February 3, 2018
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Egmont, Op. 84
- Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
- Mikhail Glinka: Kamarinskaya, Fantasy on Two Russian Songs
- William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan: Selections from Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride
with singers from the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company
March 9-11, 2018 – Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride
Three staged performances with the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company
May 20, 2018
- Gioachino Rossini: Overture to Il Signor Bruschino
- Paul Hindemith: Suite of French Dances
- Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 6 in C Major, D. 589 “The Little”