SOGO Honored to Host Midori’s Orchestra Residencies Program – January 21 – February 4. As a leading concert violinist for over 35 years, Midori and her Orchestra Residencies Program is coming to SOGO!

Midori is offering multiple workshop opportunities to support SOGO’s members. It is Midori’s hope that these live online experiences will help keep young SOGO musicians engaged, motivated, and excited. Topics covered will include How to Practice, Aural Heritage, Encouraging Young People to Keep Music in Their Lives Beyond High School, and Healing Through Music.

All the workshops will be open to the public and we encourage you to join us. No workshop series would be complete without Midori presenting a Violin Master Class. She will be working with SOGO members in a virtual 90-minute session – listening to intermediate and advanced violinists.

No matter what instrument you play, young or old, there are opportunities for you to learn from this one-time opportunity.

The gallery includes a video of the Conservatory Orchestra rehearsing Dvorak’s New World Symphony. The pictures include SOGO’s MOJO ensemble coached by Mrs. Rydholm preparing for a Beatles concert, Mr. May conducting, an unusual cello case at the H.S. Solo and Ensemble Contest, and SOGO’s board members at a retreat.

Join us for Side By Side Sunday, February 28, and experience a SOGO rehearsal free. Maybe you have a friend in SOGO that has invited you or you have heard about the program and are interested in checking us out, either way, we look forward to meeting you. There will be music available for you to play along with. The conductor and the teaching artist will help you.

Side By Side Registration.

Use your $300 taxpayer charitable contribution to meet Student Orchestras of Greater Olympias’s goal to raise $3,000 before the end of the year!

The CARES Act gives you the opportunity to deduct up to $300 of a donation to your favorite charity! For a small organization like SOGO, that keeps the music alive for these young musicians.

While COVID-19 has taken our opportunity to present live concerts away, that didn’t restrain SOGO. Going virtual with our concert this fall struck a chord for over 1,200 households that recently attended the YouTube performance.

We are blessed with the miracle of technology which made our first concert possible – this, however, comes with a price. SOGO is planning a winter concert to share with you and the community so we are asking for your help to secure another virtual performance for the young musicians.

The clock is ticking! Help us guarantee a winter concert for the young musicians to create – and the community to celebrate!

CHRISTMAS MEMORIES  – (Wednesday, December 23, 7pm)

Tune in to hear some traditional and not-so-traditional brass choir music performed by the Conservatory and Academy brass players. This is the 2019 performance celebrating 20 years of HO HO Holiday Brass Shows. Christmas Memories is a compilation of our favorite music conducted by Greg Allison and assisted by Elizabeth Ward. A special guest appearance by The Frog will delight young and old! Thank you to our friends from the Olympia Youth Choir, Nadine Bozeman, director of the Cantabile ensemble, Elizabeth Weisenfeld, emcee, and Anna Garrett, vocals and piano. We would be remiss if we didn’t give a shout-out to our amazing “court composer” Mr. Mark Thome who does so many of the arrangements for the HO HO Holiday Brass Shows.

Now on with the show…