Orchestral Program

The Boston University School of Music Orchestral Program, which includes the Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra, plays a central role in the education of the School’s pre-professional instrumentalists aspiring to professions as chamber musicians, chamber musicians, teachers, or a combination of all three. The repertoire of the three ensembles reaches wide and deep, from vital standard repertoire, to compelling if less familiar older works, and to music from the 20^th and 21^st centuries.

The ensembles are supervised and conducted by professors David Hoose (orchestras) and William Lumpkin (opera orchestra), as well as by an array of faculty and guest conductors; they present more than sixteen concerts each season, including collaborations with the opera and choral departments, and at least two performances in Boston’s Symphony Hall. While challenging repertoire and rigorous schedule are designed primarily to serve the professional training and education of the School of Music’s students, dedicated avocational musicians from the Boston University student body have also participated as members of the ensembles, when there is available space in the ensemble and when the student’s musical qualifications are at a sufficiently high level.