Now in its 45^th season, the Chestnut Hill Orchestra presents free concerts of great music throughout the Philadelphia area. The group rehearses on Sunday evenings from 7:45 to 10 pm at St. Paul’s Reformed Episcopal Church in Springfield Township Montgomery County. It presents as many as 12 performances at various venues throughout the Philadelphia area.  Past achievements of the Orchestra include performances of all the Beethoven Symphonies, a complete cycle of the Haydn London Symphonies and the major works of Mozart, Schubert and Dvorak.  The orchestra regularly celebrates Mozart’s birthday with a special concert and party in late January.  

 

In addition to regular symphonic repertoire, the Orchestra plays performances of complete operas and oratorios in concert in conjunction with the Northeast Oratorio Society and the Bucks County Choir. Past opera repertoire includes all the major Mozart operas, Fidelio, The Barber of Seville, Don Pasquale, Rigoletto and La Traviata.  They have also presented complete performances of Haydn’s Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elija, Handel’s Judas Maccabeaus  and semi annual performances of Messiah as well as choral works of Mozart, Schubert and Vivaldi.  

 

Conductor Martin Knoblauch has served as the orchestras’s Music Director since 1986.

2006-07  Season

Sunday  Nov 12.    CHRIST CHURCH  and St. MICHAEL’s  PHILADELPHIA

Mozart  Overture to  The Impresario 

Schubert, Symphony No.3  in  D Major

Mozart,  Simphonia Concertante for Violin and Viola

                 Soloists  Jeffrey Michaels, Violin

                                Oscar Shumsky, Viola

Sunday. Dec 3  Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Philadelphia

Sunday,  Dec 10   Sher Ami, Newtown

    Handel,  Judas Maccabeus

Saturday, January 27  St. Luke UCC Church  Philadelphia

      Annual Mozart Birthday Party

              Bastie and Bastien

Sunday February 18   Maternity BVM Church

       Handel,  Julius Caesar  ( concert performance)

Sunday, March 25     St Luke the Evangelist   Glenside

  Jeffrey Bradbury, Guest Conductor

       Dragonetti   Bass Concerto

       Beethoven,  Symphony No 6

                       Soloist,  Jennifer Stulman  String Bass

Sunday June 10    St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Oaklyn NJ

     Mozart,  Cosi fan tutte    (Concert performance)

2007-08 SEASON WITH REPERTOIR AND CONCERT VENUES WILL BE POSTED ON JUNE 30.

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

Orchestra Musicians interested in playing with the orchestra are invited to contact the Music Director.  String players are always needed but there are also opportunities in the woodwind (particularly oboe) brass and percussion sections.

For information email   CHO@gophilamusic.org or call 215-676-3245