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JCC Symphony Orchestra
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About the Orchestra
"After intermission, the Tchaikovsky Fifth proved to be a rousing finale. Tchaikovsky is still a good test for an orchestra ... and the JCC Symphony Orchestra gave the symphony an exciting performance ... they put across this piece and its kaleidoscopic moods quite well." -- The Montgomery County Sentinal, 11/23/00
Now beginning its thirty-sixth season, the JCC Symphony Orchestra (JCCSO) is the oldest continuously performing orchestra in Montgomery County, Maryland. Its first concert, on 12 December 1970, was conducted by James Perdue, a faculty member at Catholic University. Joel Berman, then Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the University of Maryland, became the orchestra's conductor later that season and remained through the 1987-88 season, when the present Music Director, Joel Lazar, began his tenure.
The JCCSO is fortunate that a few of its charter members still play in the orchestra, and through the years the membership has comprised a fascinating mixture of musicians, including emeritus members of the National Symphony Orchestra. Some former members of the orchestra, who played as volunteers in the JCCSO when new to DC, are now among the area's busiest professionals. The orchestra also counts among its ranks music teachers and avocational players, the latter a remarkable group of people with extraordinarily diverse backgrounds and experience - "gifted amateurs," in the words of The Washington Post. We have also benefitted from the presence of a number of talented and poised student instrumentalists who have subsequently gone on to study at major conservatories and music schools, among these Curtis, Juilliard, Oberlin, Peabody, Northwestern University, the Shepherd School at Rice University, and the University of Southern California.
Contact
- THE RILEY GUIDE
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- ROCKVILLE MD
- United States 20852-2402
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- +1.3018810122
