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SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Oklahoma City University Symphony Orchestra is a student ensemble comprised of music and non-music majors, graduates and undergraduates. Numbering over 80 musicians, all members are selected based on an audition process. Under the direction of Mark Parker, the Symphony Orchestra has been honored by ASCAP with the Adventurous Programming Award and in 2004, represented the United States at the “Meet in Beijing” arts festival. The Symphony Orchestra was also the honor group at the 2009 OMEA State Convention.
The Symphony Orchestra gives numerous concerts a year, performing a wide range of standard orchestral repertoire and maintaining a commitment to performing and promoting new music. The Symphony Orchestra also serves as the basis for the pit orchestras in the Opera & Music Theater productions as well as the orchestra for the annual Christmas Vespers at Oklahoma City University. Students receive vast experience and training through rehearsals, both full and sectional rehearsals, two to three times a week. The experience students gain plays a significant role in developing and preparing them to be professional musicians.
Watch video clips of the Symphony Orchestra!
 Oklavision Interview with Ben Nilles highlighting the
2010-2011 Symphony Orchestra Season (.mov)
 Organ Concerto – Francis Poulenc (.mov)
Mark Parker, conductor; Louise Bass, organ
March 26, 2009
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – Ralph Vaughan Williams (.mov)
Benjamin Nilles, conductor
March 26, 2009
CONCERT REPERTOIRE 2010-2011
All concerts begin at 8:00pm in Petree Recital Hall
Pre-Concert Dinners begin at 6:30pm in the Bass Atrium
Video: Symphony Orchestra Season Highlights 2010-2011 (.mov)
Concert No. 1, "Vienna" - October 7, 2010
Light Cavalry Overture – Franz von Suppé
Cello Concerto No. 1 – Franz Joseph Haydn
I. Moderato
Alejandro Acosta, cello
Violin Concerto No. 4 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I. Allegro
Angelica Pereira Espitia, violin
Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor – Ludwig van Beethoven
I. Allegro
Eunkyung Park, piano
Intermission
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 – Johannes Brahms
On the Beautiful Blue Danube – Johann Strauss II
Concert No. 2, “Rome” – November 30, 2010
Overture to La forza del destino – Giuseppe Verdi
Intermezzo from Pagliacci – Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Fountains of Rome – Ottorino Respighi
Intermission
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, Italian – Felix Mendelssohn
Capriccio Italien – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concert No. 3, “New York” – February 17, 2011
Three Dance Episodes from On the Town – Leonard Bernstein
Newsreel – William Schuman
Quiet City – Aaron Copland
Lollapalooza – John Adams
Rhapsody in Blue – George Gershwin
Concert No. 4, “Paris” – April 3, 2011 (First Presbyterian Church)
Requiem – Hector Berlioz
In collaboration with the University Choral Ensembles
CONCERT REPERTOIRE 2009-2010
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