• Halo; Civilization IV; Bounty Hunter and Kingdom Hearts
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
• Stephen Schwartz
• Themes from Star Trek; The Next Generation; Deep Sapce 9;
Voyager
• Moving music from the 10 part Spielberg/Hanks mini-series
about the WWII parachute Balttalion "Easy Company"
• Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, arr. Bob Krogstad
• Star WarsWarsEpisode V
• Sequal to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,the 3rd in the
Harry Potter film series
Heralded by The New York Times as a violinist of “tireless energy and bright tone” and The Washington Post as “dangerously gifted”, Courtney Orlando specializes in the performance of contemporary and crossover music. She is a founding member of the acclaimed new music ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, which has premiered works by and collaborated with some of the foremost composers of our time, including Hans Abrahamsen, John Adams, John Luther Adams, Oscar Bettison, Tyondai Braxton, Donnacha Dennehy, Michael Gordon, Georg Friedrich Haas, David Lang, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, Wolfgang Rihm, Tyshawn Sorey, Augusta Read Thomas and Julia Wolfe. Performances with AWS include those at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, L.A.’s Disney Hall, the Kimmel Center, London’s Barbican Theatre, the Library of Congress, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Amsterdam’s Holland Festival, Columbia University’s Miller Theater, Merkin Hall, Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, EMPAC, Caramoor, Boston’s Gardner Museum, the Bang on a Can Marathon and in cities across Europe and Asia. The group has recorded for Nonesuch Records, Cantaloupe Music, and Indirecto.
Courtney is also a member of Ensemble Signal, a collective of musicians under the direction of conductor Brad Lubman. Signal has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, L.A.’s Disney Hall, the Guggenheim Museum, The Shed, the Lincoln Center Festival, the Big Ears Festival, the Ojai Festival and the Bang on a Can Marathon. Signal has collaborated extensively with Steve Reich; the group gave the U.S. premieres of Reich’s Runner and Reich/Richter. Signal has also premiered works by Luca Francesconi, George Lewis, and Nico Muhly, and has collaborated additionally with Hans Abrahamsen, Unsuk Chin, Michael Gordon, Georg Friedrich Haas, Oliver Knussen, Helmut Lachenmann, David Lang, Hilda Paredes, Kaija Saariaho and Julia Wolfe. The group has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, Mode, and Cantaloupe Music.
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the fall of 2008, Courtney took part in the premiere of Michael Gordon’s Lightning at our feet, a multi-media song cycle on poems of Emily Dickinson. In this work, she was able to explore her interest in simultaneously singing and playing the violin; since then, composers have written music for her that highlights this combination. Additional ensemble work includes performances with Dublin’s Crash Ensemble, the Wordless Music Orchestra, Princeton Pro Musica, and the Princeton Symphony. She has performed and/or recorded with Björk, the Dirty Projectors, Vampire Weekend, Yoko Ono, Sigur Rós’s Jónsi and Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry, and has worked with jazz and experimental musicians Theo Bleckmann; Uri Cain; Michael Formanek; Medeski, Martin, and Wood and Joshua Redman. In addition to the aforementioned recordings with Alarm Will Sound and Signal, Courtney has recorded for Bridge, Chandos, ECM, Sonnabilis, Tzadik and Winter and Winter.
Courtney is currently on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, where she is Assistant Professor of Ear Training and Sight Reading. During her time at Peabody, she founded and ran the new music ensemble Now Hear This and coached chamber music. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in violin from Temple University, and received a Master’s degree in Theory Pedagogy and a Doctoral degree in Violin Performance and Literature from Eastman. Courtney lives in Princeton, NJ, with her husband, composer Donnacha Dennehy, three children and their Bernedoodle, Walter.
March 12, 2023
3:00 p.m.
Bloomfield Middle School
60 Huck road
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Annual POPS Concert
for the
Entire Family!
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Fun for ALL with lots of Great Music
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Find Out:
What is a Symphony Orchestra?
What instruments are in a Symphony Orchestra?
What do they look like?
What do they sound like?
Season 88, 2019- 2020
November 17, 2019
W. A. Mozart
Overture to Don Giovanni
W. A. Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218 Christopher Jones, violin
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 589 (The Great C Major)
Season 87, 2018- 2019
November 18, 2018
Gioacchino Rossini
Overture to The Barber of Seville
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Christopher Jones, violin
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 6 in C Major, D. 589 (Little C)
March 17, 2019
Giuseppe Verdi
Overture to Nabucco
W. A. Mozart
Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491 Victoria Chow, piano
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 (Italian)
Season 86, 2017 - 2018
March 11, 2018
Gioacchino Rossini
Overture to The Barber of Seville
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Christopher Jones, violin
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 6 in C Major, D. 589 (Little C)
November 12, 2017
Mozart with a Shade of Italy Music of Spain, France and Italy
Giuseppe Verdi
Overture to Nabucco
W. A. Mozart
Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491 Victoria Chow, piano
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 (Italian)
Sunday, March 5, 2017 3:00 p.m.
Bloomfield Middle School
60 Huck Road
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
A Mini Schubertiade in Bloomfield
The Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra and The Bloomfield Chorale
present a joint concert
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D579 (Unfinished)
SCHUBERT Mass in G, D. 167 — Kyrie and Agnus Dei
BALAKIREV Overture on Three Russian Themes
Bloomfield Chorale
PAUL SIMON Bridge Over Troubled Water
LEROY ANDERSON/MITCHELL PARISThe Syncopated Clock
CLOSING CONCERT
for the
2017 SEASON
Sunday, June 11, 2017 3:00 p.m.
Bloomfield High School160 Broad Street
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Gioachino Rossini
Overture to La Gazza Ladra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture toEgmont
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Season 76, 2007 - 2008 November 18, 2007 The International Delights Music of Spain, France and Italy
Manuel de Falla Selections from Three Cornered Hat, Suites 1 & 2 Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra in D Charles Gounod Symphony No. 1 in D
February 24, 2008 Family Concert
Jean Sibelius
Finlandia
W. A. Mozart
Overture to Don Giovanni
Leroy Anderson
The Typewriter
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dances Nos. 5, 6, and 7
Leroy Anderson
The Syncopated Clock
Richard Rodgers
Selections from The Sound of Music
May 18, 2008 Prometheus Unbound
Peter de Mets
Prometheus: A Symphonic Poem
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture to The Creautres of Prometheus
Pablo de Sarasate
Ziegeunerweisen,, op. 20 (Gypsy Airs)
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Season 77, 2008 - 2009
November 16, 2008 3:00 p.m. The Scottish Highlands and A Bit O' Heaven
F. Mendelssohn
Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave), Op. 26
Hamilton Harty
The Londonderry Air Rachel Matthews, violin
Niels Gade
In the Highlands (Scottish Overture), Op. 7
F. Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5 in D minor (Reformation), Op. 107
February 22, 2009 3:00 p.m. Family/Children's Concert
Gustav Holst
Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity from The Planets
Dave Rimelis
Phil Harmonic and his Fabulous Orchestra Dave Rimelis, narrator
Various
Movie and Show Tunes
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano, No. 3, in
C minor, Op. 3 Drew Peterson, piano
May 17, 2009 3:00 p.m. Voices in Season
Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite, No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven
Allelulia from Christ on the Mount of Olives Hopewell Valley Chorus
Hopewell Valley Chorus
Selections for Chorus
Ludwig van Beethoven
Choral Fantasy, Op. 80 Drew Nielsen, piano Hopewell Valley Chorus and soloists Marjorie Herman, Director