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SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Oklahoma City University Symphony Orchestra is a student ensemble composed of music and non-music majors, graduates and undergraduates.The more than 90 musicians in the ensemble are selected based on an audition process. The Symphony Orchestra has been honored by ASCAP with the Adventurous Programming Award and in 2004, represented the United States at the “Meet in Beijing” arts festival. The Symphony Orchestra was also the honor group at the 2009 OMEA State Convention.
The Symphony Orchestra gives numerous concerts a year, performing a wide range of standard orchestral repertoire and maintaining a commitment to performing and promoting new music. The Symphony Orchestra also serves as the basis for the pit orchestras in the Opera & Music Theater productions, as well as the orchestra for the annual Christmas Vespers at Oklahoma City University. Students receive vast experience and training through rehearsals, both full and sectional, two-to-three times a week. The experience students gain here plays a significant role in developing and preparing them to be professional musicians.
Watch video clips of the Symphony Orchestra!
 Oklavision Interview with Ben Nilles highlighting the
2010-2011 Symphony Orchestra Season (.mov)
 Organ Concerto – Francis Poulenc (.mov)
Mark Parker, conductor; Louise Bass, organ
March 26, 2009
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – Ralph Vaughan Williams (.mov)
Benjamin Nilles, conductor
March 26, 2009
CONCERT REPERTOIRE 2011–2012
All concerts begin at 8:00 p.m. in Petree Recital Hall.
Pre-concert talks begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Bass Atrium.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
AMERICANA
The orchestra kicks off its season with an Americana-inspired evening, featuring music inspired by Oklahoma and Oklahomans. Also featured: Michael Daugherty's musical take on Route 66 and Howard Hanson's lush, melodic Symphony No. 2, Romantic.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
SYMPHONIC POEMS
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's energetic, melodic epic Symphony No. 4 will be presented in the orchestra's post-Valentine's concert. Also on the program: Edward Elgar's In the South, written during his time in Italy, and the opening movement of Jean Sibelius' Violin Concerto, featuring student concerto winner Angelica Pereira Espitia.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
AROUND THE WORLD
The season finale concert will open with Hector Berlioz' rousing Roman Carnival Overture, followed by international works spotlighting student concerto winners. Jae Hee Cha will perform the first movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Jaclyn Paul will be featured on Emmanuel Séjourné's Marimba Concerto. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's beloved Scheherezade will close the concert.
CONCERT REPERTOIRE 2010–2011
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SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL
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