A progressive, comprehensive program allows students to develop sight-reading, technical and musical skills while playing selections from standard orchestral repertoire. Music is selected to represent various origins, genres and historical periods. Musical selections for the first concert set are less difficult technically. Rehearsals focus on sight-reading technique, intonation, rhythm, ensemble, listening skills, and sound quality. As the year progresses, the focus of the program widens to include more challenging repertoire and discussion of motives, themes, phrases, forms, and more complex musical ideas.
Music is selected from standard orchestral repertoire.
Our Staff Music Director and Conductor Ann Krinitsky will take the podium for her tenth season with the Berkeley Youth Orchestra. Ann also conducts the Community Women s Orchestra and the award-winning Acalanes Chamber Orchestra. She has conducted summer orchestras at Laney College and Cazadero Performing Arts Camp. She has guest-conducted the Women s Philharmonic, the Camellia Symphony, the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra, and the Marin Chamber Orchestra. An active violinist, Ann played in the Honolulu Symphony while on leave from her Bay Area posts during the 1997-98 season.