Expanded Performing Opportunities for the 2024-2025 Season
We have been thrilled with the high level of interest in playing with the VACB! Since our founding, it has been our mission to provide opportunities for community members to make music. We are excited to share the details of our expansion to two bands for the 2024-2025 season.
Both Bands - What Has Not Changed about VACB?
It is our primary goal to ensure that both bands feel like the VACB we have known and loved for the past 13 years!
- Concert themes and programming philosophy will continue. Check out our Concerts page to get a sense of the type of repertoire we will continue to program for both bands.
- Friendly community of musicians where all are welcome
- Shared concerts for the 2024-2025 season
VACB Concert Band
- Tuesday night rehearsals
- No audition required
- No limits on instrumentation (for now)
- Sign-up per concert (quarterly)
- Commit to attend almost all rehearsals
- Opportunities to sub for absences
VACB Wind Symphony
- Thursday night rehearsals
- Members selected by audition
- Limited section sizes for balanced instrumentation (approximately 60 performers total)
- Slightly harder repertoire at times
- Sign-up per concert; commit to at least 3 of 4 concerts per season
- Commitment to regular rehearsal attendance
- Sub and alternate opportunities by audition
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Auditions for the 2024-2025 season
- Auditions for performing members concluded at the end of July 2024
- For those who have not yet had an opportunity to audition, we will provide the opportunity to audition for the Wind Symphony sub list approximately quarterly. We will share information by email with everyone on our Musicians List.
