Orchestra meets every day during period 2.
In addition to the daily class, there is a weekly pull-out small group lesson rotating between periods 3-5 and 8-9.
Students will learn how to independently:
Perform on your instrument with fluency of motion and excellent posture:
Advanced orchestra repertoire
Advanced etudes
Chamber music piece
Orchestral audition excerpts
Practice using IDEA + practice strategies, including marking music + scores
Decipher written notation and translate into sound (music literacy + sight-reading)
Perform the following skills on your instrument:
Full tone using all parts of the bow
Variety of articulation, including spiccato, sautille and ricochet
Finger velocity exercises
Scales (2 or 3 octaves)
Shifting
Vibrato/Dynamics / phrasing
Improvisation
Composition