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The Oberlin Chamber Orchestra is one of more than 25 student ensembles at the Conservatory; 75 members of the chamber orchestra will appear on stage for the performance at Severance Hall, for which J Freivogel, of Kirkwood, Missouri, will be concertmaster. He is a student of Professor of Violin Marilyn McDonald and is completing his fourth year in Oberlin's double degree program; he will graduate in 2006 with a bachelor of music degree as well as a bachelor of arts in politics. A recipient of the Presser Music Award and the Kaufman Prize, he was named one of Northeast Ohio's Best and Brightest in 2004 by Northern Ohio Live magazine. Freivogel is first violinist of the Jasper Quartet; with them he will attend the Advanced Quartet Studies Program at the Aspen Music Festival this summer.
The Oberlin Chamber Orchestra follows a demanding schedule of six hours of rehearsal each week as well as concerts every three to four weeks. Students are exposed to a cross section of orchestral literature, and perform well-known works from the standard orchestral repertoire as well as less familiar works ranging from the baroque to the contemporary. The orchestra also collaborates with the Oberlin Opera Theater and the Conservatory's larger choral ensembles.
Robert Spano, music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, is professor of conducting at the Oberlin Conservatory. Other conductors on the Oberlin faculty are Timothy Weiss, Hugh Floyd, John Knight, Wendell Logan, and Philip Highfill. Guest conductors of the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra have included Sir Simon Rattle, Robert Shaw, Michael Morgan, Hugh Wolff, Catherine Comet, Oscar Shumsky, Eve Queler, and composer John Williams - most recently at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
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