This website is being revised and is mostly out
of date. The links above for Concerts, Announcements and
Events have not been updated since 2013. But we are now
working on it. Please be patient. (27 May 2018)
The Next concert will be:
The Collegiate Orchestra is a community orchestra based at the
University of Otago. The players are made up of students, staff
and alumni from the University of Otago, College of Education,
Otago Polytechnic, Otago Language Centre, Foundation Year, local
schools as well as the greater Dunedin community. We provide an
excellent training on orchestral techniques and expose players
to a wide range of repertoire, from Baroque works to 20th
Century Chinese symphonic works - the 2009 Semester Two
programme included the violin concerto "Liang Shanbao and Zhu
Yingtai" (小提琴協奏曲《梁山伯與祝英台》) (or known as "Butterfly Lovers"). See
here for our past programmes.
We always welcome new members. If you play an orchestral instrument at approximately grade 6 or above (grade 8 for flute and first violin), please feel free to contact us to arrange for a try-out at the next rehearsal. Potential percussion candidates should also be able to play a string, woodwind or brass instrument. Orchestra members, please check here for announcements and upcoming events. We urgently need oboe, brass, cello, viola and first violins.
If you currently live outside Dunedin and want to join us, please register with us now before you depart and don't forget to bring your instrument with you.
If you use the open-standard score-typesetter Lilypond or Lilypond GUI frontends such as LilypondTool and Frescobaldi, or WYSIWIG editors capable of generating Lilypond outputs, such as MuseScore and Denemo, please let us know. We may need your help to re-typeset some full scores to get orchestral parts.
Orchestra rehearsals are on every Tuesday 5:45pm - 7:30pm between late February and December. Additional rehearsals are scheduled before concerts.