All City Orchestra

Director: Cara Bergantino, Bigelow Middle School

Assistant Director: Olivia deGeofroy, Peirce Elementary

All City Orchestra is open to all students proficient on their instrument in grades 4 – 8. Students must be enrolled in their own school instrumental group. Rehearsals take place at Bigelow Middle School on Wednesday afternoon from 3:45-5:00 PM.

All City Music Ensembles require an audition and selection process. No registrations should be entered or fees paid until after you received a confirmation of being selected for an All City Ensemble. Students in 4th or 5th grade who have registered and paid a fee to participate in elementary instrumental music are exempt from paying an All City Ensemble fee.

Audition Requirements:

• a short solo of your choice.
• violinists: two octave scales in G, C, and B flat major
• violists, cellists, and bassists: one octave scales in G, C, and B flat.

*All students should play their scales in eighth note patterns with the metronome set at 100 (two notes per click)

More information about All City Orchestra: https://www.newton.k12.ma.us/Page/781