Embracing the Classics.
Exploring the Future.

2012-2013 Concert Season

FREE Concert at Zilker Park!

Missed It By That Much
Friday, June 7 and Saturday, June 8 at 8:00 pm

Join us for our last concert of this season for a free concert that is sure to please everyone in your family.  During the past year, several movie anniversaries passed by without any observance from the Orchestra.  We will attempt to remedy this by playing selections from Star Wars, The Titanic, Grease, Cats, Les Miserables to name a few. The evening is topped off by a guest conductor - selected by a raffle of audience members -- leading the Orchestra in Stars and Stripes Forever.  Bring your blankets, your family and friends for an enjoyable evening on the lawn of the Zilker hillside theater.




This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future.  Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com. 
 
Thanks to our 2012-2013 sponsors!
· Austin 360   · Law Firm of Paul Schorn
  
· Benke Piano   · Mary Moody Northen Theatre
  
· Blackerby Violin Shop   · Molly Maid  
· Chorus Austin   · Natural Gardener
  
· Clavier-Werke School
       of Music		   · Ogletree Deakins Nash
       Smoak & Stewart, P.C
  
· Fiat of Austin   · Barbara Prashner, CPA
  
· Global Printing Solutions   · Sam Bass Music
  
· Hill Country Pet Sitters   · Sarofim School of Fine Arts
  
· Hill Country Design + Gallery   · Strait Music
  
· Jacob Simmons Violins   · Tank Town Rainwater Collection
  
· Jan Hill Mortgage   · The Urology Team
  
· KMFA Radio   · Violins Etc  
   

News & Notes

21-May-2013

ACO Featured

AustinOT.com posted a blog on our last concert with info on the next concert.  Check it out!

06-Mar-2013

$19,415

Thanks to all who donated  through Amplify Austin.  $19,415 was donated and will be amplified.  The Cow Bell fund can now be used to purchase our very own percussion equipment.  Your donation has made a difference!

06-Mar-2013

The Future of Classical Music
Austin, March 6, 2013 – For years, the Austin Civic Orchestra has been highlighting some of the best young musicians in the country through the Pearl Amster Youth Concerto Festival.  This spring will be no different. 
On March 23rd,  The Church at Canyon Creek, 9001 F.M. 620 North, will be hosting the highly anticipated festival.  The theme of the night will be in two parts, Marches and Winners. The ACO will commence the evening with a chronological array of marches, ranging from Beethoven’s Turkish March to John Williams' theme from Raiders of the Lost Ark.  

The second half of the night will be devoted to the future of classical music. The orchestra will be performing ACO Composition Contest winner Joshua Hummel's original piece, Haiku Symphony No. 2. Also featured on the program are three of the most extraordinary young musicians in Central Texas, the winners of the Pearl Amster Concerto Competition. Two of these young virtuosos, John Walden, age 16, and Beatrice Hoang, age 11, will be performing pieces on the piano. The third rising star, Hesoo Cha, age 14, will be performing on the violin. 

AM Technical Solutions, the leading worldwide provider of on-site engineering, technical, project management and logistical services, has generously underwritten this event because of their strong commitment to the community and the arts.

The concert starts at 7:30 pm with tickets available both online or at the door. 

About the Orchestra
The 2012-2013 ACO season is ushering in a new and exciting concept: Embracing the Classics. Exploring the Future. Music Director Lois Ferrari believes that in order for classical music to truly realize its potential as a relevant and important art form it must embrace its future as much as it’s past. With this in mind, the ACO will program the usual beloved classics alongside new and eclectic works, some of which might be considered offbeat, cross-genre, or even radical, all while exploring ways to bring the audience closer to the music!   

23-Feb-2013

Amplify Austin
Join us in Austin’s first community-wide giving festival. The challenge to our community is to raise $1 million in 24 hours. The ACO is one of 330 community nonprofits participating in this day of giving from 7 pm March 4 through 7 pm, March 5.

With Amplify Austin, ACO is drumming-up dollars for new percussion instruments so that our beat goes on! Donate at Amplify Austin (https://amplifyaustin.s3.amazonaws.com/npo6040.html). During this event, all donations to ACO are amplified 16%.

We can go beyond 16% by winning our "Donation Power Hour" from 8-9 PM on March 4th! If we have the highest donor activity or most total donations during this time, I Live Here I Give Here will award ACO with a $1,000 bonus donation!


Can't play the video? Sorry! Try this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjmqYdx9Rx0.


What specific instruments do we need you ask? Here is our complete wish list:

Storage Cabinet $1,600
Orchestral Xylophone $3,500
Vibraphone $3,800
Orchestral Bass Drum $1,500
Orchestral Snare Drum w/ stand $800
17" Suspended Cymbal w/ stand $400
20" Suspended Cymbal w/ stand $500
16" Crash Cymbals $700
Crash Cymbal Cradle $100
Orchestral Tambourine $160
6" Triangle $80
9" Triangle $80
Orchestral Castanets $120
Orchestra Chimes $5,000
Orchestral Gong w/ stand $1,200
Orchestral Timpani (Setof 5) $16,000
Various sound effects and small specialty instruments     $10 - $250


If you wish to donate the entire amount for any instrument costing $500 or more, that instrument will be named in your honor and designated as your honorary instrument in future ACO concert programs!

13-Jan-2013

Flute Auditions
Calling all flute players!  Would you like to play with the ACO from time to time as a substitute?  Sometimes our regular players can't attend a rehearsal or can't play a scheduled concert.  Please contact our principal flutist, Sharon Davis at sharondavis100@hotmail.com or 512-965-8942.

Auditions for the 2nd flute position will be held in early August .  Contact Sharon for the application and repertoire list.