Ensemble Sampler

Welcome to Mount Holyoke!   Do you want to sing in a chorus or in vocal jazz? Play in an orchestra, a jazz band, Klezmer band, flute choir? Is chamber music your passion?   If music is important to you, you will want to participate in one or more of our fine ensembles.

Check out the sampling below from this year’s concerts.  Auditions for all ensembles are either during orientation or the first week of classes.  The contact person for each ensemble is listed so that you can email her/him with questions about dates or requirements for the audition.

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Flute Choir Alison Hale, Director chapman-hale1@juno.com	Mozart: Overture to Magic Flute
Mixed Ensembles Eric Benjamin, coordinator ebenjami@mtholyoke.edu	Brahms: Quintet in f minor, Op.34 Dvorak: Quintet, Op81, Allegro
String Ensembles Eric Benjamin, coordinator ebenjami@mtholyoke.edu	Borodin: String Quartet No.2, Allegro moderato
Wind Ensembles Eric Benjamin, coordinator ebenjami@mtholyoke.edu	Klughardt: Quintet Op. 79, IV. Adagio
Mount Holyoke Chorale Kimberly Dunn, Conductor kdunn@mtholyoke.edu	Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: From Stabat Mater: I. Stabat Mater Waldeman Ählén: Sommarpsalm Eric Whitacre: From Five Hebrew Love Songs - IV. Eyze Sheleg!, V. Rakut
Chamber Singers, Kimberly Dunn, Conductor kdunn@mtholyoke.edu	Knut Nystedt: Kärlekens Lov I Knut Nystedt: Kärlekens Lov III Allen Bonde: To Walk Beyond Dreams
Kimberly Dunn, Conductor kdunn@mtholyoke.edu	Ron Jeffers: This We Know Hugo Alfvén: Glädjens Blomster Benjamin Britten: From A Ceremony of Carols: I. Wolcum Yule!; IV. Balulalow Gabriel Fauré: From Requiem: II Offertoire (Mount Holyoke and Harvard Glee Clubs)
Early Music Robert Eisenstein, Director reisenst@mtholyoke.edu	Abel: Trio, Moderato Festa: Alma redemptoris mate Vincenzo: Ruffo-La Gamba
Five College West African Music Ensembles Faith Conant, Director fconant@acad.umass.edu	Gahu - recreational music from southern Ghana, originally from Nigeria
Nigerian Talking Drums Olabode Omojola, Director bomojola@mtholyoke.edu	Alujo II (Music for dancing)
Klezmer Band Adrianne Greenbaum, Director agreenba@mtholyoke.edu	Ot Azoy
Mount Holyoke Big Band Mark Gionfriddo, Director mgionfri@mtholyoke.edu	Rudolph Toombs/arr. Alan Baylock: One Mint Julep Ira and George Gershwin/arr. Dave Wolpe: Nice Work If You Can Get It (featuring Vocalist Kara Dalton '07)
Mount Holyoke Chamber Jazz Mark Gionfriddo, Director mgionfri@mtholyoke.edu	Thelonious Monk/arr. Don Sickler: Round Midnight
Mount Holyoke Vocal Jazz Mark Gionfriddo, Director mgionfri@mtholyoke.edu	Antonio Carlos Jobim-Jon Hendricks-Jesse Cavanaugh/arr. Paris Rutherford: No More Blues
Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra Eric Benjamin, Director ebenjami@mtholyoke.edu	Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves