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. For information on auditions for all ensembles as well as for individual performance study click on this link.

Check out the sampling below from this year’s concerts.  Please understand that you will not be able to register until you audition in the fall for the ensemble(s) of your choice. 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
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Mozart: Overture to Magic Flute

Mixed Ensembles

Eric Benjamin, Coordinator
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Brahms: Quintet in f minor, Op.34
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Dvorak: Quintet, Op81, Allegro

String Ensembles

Eric Benjamin, Coordinator
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Borodin: String Quartet No.2, Allegro moderato

Wind Ensembles

Eric Benjamin, Coordinator
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Klughardt: Quintet Op. 79, IV. Adagio

Mount Holyoke Chorale

Kimberly Dunn Adams, Conductor
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: From Stabat Mater: I. Stabat Mater
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Waldeman Ählén: Sommarpsalm
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Eric Whitacre: From Five Hebrew Love Songs - IV. Eyze Sheleg!
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Five Hebrew Love Songs -V. Rakut

Chamber Singers

Kimberly Dunn Adams, Conductor
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Knut Nystedt: Kärlekens Lov I
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Knut Nystedt: Kärlekens Lov III
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Allen Bonde: To Walk Beyond Dreams

Glee Club

Kimberly Dunn Adams, Conductor
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Ron Jeffers: This We Know
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Hugo Alfvén: Glädjens Blomster
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Benjamin Britten: From A Ceremony of Carols: I. Wolcum Yule!
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Benjamin Britten: From A Ceremony of Carols: IV. Balulalow
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Gabriel Fauré: From Requiem: II. Offertoire (Mount Holyoke and Harvard Glee Clubs)

Early Music

Robert Eisenstein, Director
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Abel: Trio, Moderato
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Festa: Alma redemptoris mate
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Vincenzo: Ruffo-La Gamba

Five College West African Music Ensemble

Faith Conant, Director
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Gahu - recreational music from southern Ghana, originally from Nigeria

Nigerian Talking Drums

Olabode Omojola, Director
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Alujo II (Music for dancing)

Klezmer Band

Adrianne Greenbaum, Director
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Ot Azoy

Mount Holyoke Big Band

Mark Gionfriddo, Director
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Rudolph Toombs/arr. Alan Baylock: One Mint Julep
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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
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Thelonious Monk/arr. Don Sickler: Round Midnight

Mount Holyoke Vocal Jazz

Mark Gionfriddo, Director
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Antonio Carlos Jobim-Jon Hendricks-Jesse Cavanaugh/arr. Paris Rutherford: No More Blues

Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra

Eric Benjamin, Director
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves