The Academy Spring Concert is entitled “Concerto at the Double” and will feature concertos for two instruments! With performances from both the Senior and Junior Academy Orchestras, there will be seven young soloists.

In a celebration of the baroque double concerto the Senior Academy performs three of the most famous – the Bach Double Violin Concerto, the Concerto for Two Violins and the Concerto for two Celli by Vivaldi! The Junior Academy will perform the first movement of the Violin Concerto in A Minor by Vivaldi and the famous Air from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 by Bach with a selection of other movements.

Soloists: (clockwise) Tabitha Rea, Abby Edwards, Ian Dalmas, Aleksia Nenadovich, Wren Page, Charlotte Ries, Audrianna Hall.

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Senior Academy Orchestra

Bach Double Violin Concerto – Tabitha Rea and Abby Edwards
Concerto for Two Violins by Vivaldi – Ian Dalmas and Audrianna Hall
Concerto for Two Celli by Vivaldi – Charlotte Ries and Wren Page
Pavanne by Faure
Troika by Prokofiev

Junior Academy Orchestra

Vivaldi A Minor Violin Concerto Movt 1 – Aleksia Nenadovich
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major by Bach – Selected Movements
– Air
– Gavotte No 1 No 2
– Bourree

Concert Master Amelia Piscitelli (Top left), Senior Academy Orchestra (Top right), Junior Academy Orchestra (Bottom)

The Academy was featured last year on the 98.7 WFMT radio show Introductions.

The Academy Fall Semester Concert will take place on December 3 and will feature performances from both the Senior and Junior Academy Orchestras.

You will be delighted by Schubert’s Konzertstück for Violin and Orchestra performed by Concert Master Amelia Piscitelli, Fantasia on Green Sleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg.

Enjoy an excellent selection of Christmas Carols performed by the Junior Academy, who will also play Gabriel’s Oboe by Morricone from the motion picture The Mission performed by violinist Audrianna Hall.

The Academy was featured earlier this year on the 98.7 WFMT radio show Introductions.

Concert Master and Soloist Amelia Piscitelli (Top left), Senior Academy Orchestra (Top right), Junior Academy Orchestra (Bottom)

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Senior Academy Orchestra

Konzertstück for Violin and Orchestra by Franz Schubert with violinist and Academy Concert Master Amelia Piscitelli

Fantasia on Green Sleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg

Junior Academy Orchestra

Selection of Christmas Carols

Gabriel’s Oboe by Morricone
From the motion picture The Mission performed by violinist Audrianna Hall.

The Senior and Junior Academy orchestras were professionally recorded on December 18, 2020as part of the Camerata Chicago Academy classroom learning program. This performance was recorded without an audience in place of an end of semester concert.

The Academy Spring Concert will take place on May 14 and will feature performances from both the Senior and Junior Academy Orchestras.

You will be delighted by Rossini’s Barber of Seville Overture, the Capuzzi Double Bass Concerto performed by Lawrence Hall and the Danse Macabre by Saint-Saëns.

Enjoy Pachelbel’s Canon and the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by Handel performed by the Junior Academy. They will also entertain you with the Pavane by Fauré and a Rondeau by Mauret.

The Academy was recently featured on the 98.7 WFMT radio show Introductions.

The Senior Academy Orchestra

The Junior Academy Orchestra

Founded in 2014, the Camerata Chicago Academy is an elite chamber orchestra program comprising advanced students. The Academy provides a marvelous opportunity for young musicians to perform in a professional atmosphere with the Camerata Chicago faculty which manifests the educational spirit of Camerata Chicagoís founder and Music Director Drostan Hall. Maestro Hall has thirty years experience training aspiring young musicians. Many of the Academy’s members plan to study music at university and subsequently go on to have professional careers in music.

Lawrence Hall, Double Bass

Capuzzi Double Bass Concerto

Double Bass soloist Lawrence Hall (17) is a Junior at Clapham School in Wheaton. He began playing the double bass at the age of nine when Jeanne Johannesen, the orchestra teacher at Washington School, introduced the instrument to him. Lawrence has been a member of the Camerata Chicago Academy since 2017 and plans to major in music at college. In addition to the bass he enjoys improvising at the piano, composing and attending Lyric Opera!

Full Repertoire

Senior Academy Orchestra

Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre
Rossini Overture to the Barber of Seville
Capuzzi Concerto for Double Bass

Junior Academy Orchestra

Pachelbel Canon
Fauré Pavane
Mauret Rondeau
Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

The Senior and Junior Academy orchestras were professionally recorded on December 18 as part of the Camerata Chicago Academy classroom learning program. This performance was recorded without an audience in place of an end of semester concert.