Ensembles

VCU Music ensembles perform regularly at VCU as well as numerous venues both locally and nationally. The following list provides just a sample of their works.

• Symphonic Wind Ensemble (VCU Bands web pages)
  Conducted by Terry Austin, Director of Bands
  • Visit the VCU Bands web pages for sample recordings.
    
    
• Jazz Orchestra I
  Conducted by Antonio J. Garcìa, Director of Jazz Studies
  • Splat 9, Robby Sinclair (VCU Student Composer)
    
    
• Commonwealth Singers
  Conducted by John Guthmiller, Chair and Director of Choral Activities
  • New York Girls, Kirke Mechem
• And So It Goes, Billy Joel, arr. Simon Carrington
• Elijah Rock, arr. Moses Hogan
  
  
• VCU Symphony Orchestra (VCUSO) (VCU Orchestra web pages) Conducted by Daniel Myssyk, Director of Orchestral Studies
  • Trittico Boticellino, La Primavera, Ottorino Respighi
    
    
• Opera Theatre VCU [Opera Theatre homepage]
  Melanie Day, Director
  Brandon Wood, tenor
  Chris Brumfield, baritone
  Opera Theatre VCU
  • Duet, Act I, Elixir of Love, Gaetano Donizetti
    
    
• VCU Guitar Ensemble [Guitar Program homepage]
  Conducted by John Patykula, Coordinator of Guitar Program
  • Malegueña, Ernesto Lecuona, arr. John Patykula
    
    
• The Madrigalists L. Wayne Batty, Conductor
  • Mentre il cuculo il suo cucu cantava, Caimo (1540-1584)
    
    
• Percussion Ensemble
  Percussion Ensemble Conducted by Kris Keeton, Percussion
  • Two Movements for Mallets II, Prelude William Steinhort
    
    
• Gretchen Peery, Piano
  • Sonata Op. 31, No. 1 in G Major, Allegro Vivace, Ludwig van Beethoven
    
    
• Leilani Mork, Piano
  • Suite de Danzas Criollas Op. 15, Scherzando-Coda, Alberto Ginastera