2023-24 Auditions!! Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia (SOGO) Virtual Auditions: May 23rd-26th Instrumentalists with 2+ years of experience; elementary through early college. Join Olympia’s stellar student orchestras and play with peers who are just as excited to be playing music as you! 3 orchestras from beginner, intermediate, to advanced levels, small ensembles, and …
SOGO MAY CONCERT Lead. Inspire. Perform. :|| Orchestrating lifelong participation in the arts. Another season draws to a close for Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia! Student violin soloist Maria Aurelio will perform a beautiful work by AntonÃn Dvorák, and we will honor our Class of 2023 graduating seniors. The Conservatory Orchestra will also play …
Lead. Inspire. Perform. :|| Orchestrating lifelong participation in the arts. Sunday March 5th, 4pm at the Washington Center. Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia presents our winter season concert featuring student clarinet soloist Alessandro Martinez, and local composer James DeHart. This concert will also showcase our amazing Teaching Artists performing An American in Paris by …
Sunday, November 6, at 4 pm, join Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia (SOGO) for our Fall Concert at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts! SOGO is pleased to welcome Andy Classen, Professor of Trumpet and Jazz Studies at Drake University, as the featured guest artist for our season opening concert. Professor Classen will perform …
Welcome to SOGO live and in-person! This season we are CELEBRATING being together and bringing you talented young musicians from the South Sound area performing great works of orchestral literature. Two years ago, the Conservatory Orchestra was gearing up to mark the 40th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens by performing the final …
By LUCY VOLKER Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia (SOGO) provides musical education, technical training and performance opportunities for aspiring, young musicians. The group offers a variety of intensive classes and training programs for elementary, middle and high-school-aged youth. SOGO aims to prepare students for careers in classical music. Its programs focus on artistic development, ear …
By Karen Lunde At the conclusion of the 2017-2018 season, after 18 years with Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia, conductor John Welsh retired. With Welsh’s blessing, Portland native Cameron May has taken up the baton as SOGO’s new conductor and music director. He comes to Olympia by way of Champaign, Illinois, where he’s finishing a …
The Olympia Symphony invites you to our first-ever Family Concert! This delightful, interactive program will take you on a journey through the instruments of the orchestra, exploring sounds and stories along the way, and ends with a dance party “Under the Sea”! One hour in length (no intermission), and encouraging movement and laughter, this concert …
By Molly Gilmore Arts Walk, Olympia’s twice-yearly celebration of community and creativity, is back to something like the event South Sound remembers, with a street closure at the center of the action. Washington Street between Fifth Avenue and Legion Way will be closed from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, to create space for …
By Molly Gilmore Two months ago, the Olympia Armory underwent a creative transformation: The 1939 Art Deco building was illuminated with colored lights. Now, the armory is poised for a much bigger transformation — into an arts center, something that the City of Olympia and many in the community have been working toward for 30 …