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Recent Examples of chamber orchestraVenue: Park Avenue Armory Georg Friedrich Haas encircles the audience with a chamber orchestra plus 50 pianos tuned to explore the microtonal world of notes between the notes.—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025 The chamber orchestra meets every Wednesday from 7-8:50 p.m. in Music Building Room 1039, E Loop Rd., Hayward.—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025 The 70-voice chorale will be accompanied by an organist and a chamber orchestra.—Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025 Also on the program will be Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings and the New York premiere of Reena Esmail’s The History of Red, a piece for chamber orchestra and soprano inspired in part by Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915.—Jane Levere, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chamber orchestra
As a violinist, Cristi spent several years as a member of the Miami and Houston symphony orchestras and seems to have a special affinity for those musicians seated in front of him.
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David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Oct. 2025
The date is part of a short-run of gigs where the chart-topping band will be performing with symphony orchestras.
Wesley Hitt / Getty Images Somewhere, off in the distance, the faint sound of a brass band seems to be closing in.
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Dan Wiederer,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Faithful to tradition, the festival’s 800 volunteers were feted with a walk-around the concert hall to the sound of a brass band, before guests were invited to the stage to officially open the festival by reading a sentence in unison – a joyous cacophony that drew complicit laughter from the crowd.
Many of his children and grandchildren created multiple orchestras after his death, all still playing his golden repertoire.
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NPR,
NPR,
13 Oct. 2025
Sprott, with the Black Orchestral Network, which reached out to Jones shortly after his tenure was denied, said many Black musicians feel isolated in an orchestra setting.
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