Orchestral & Instrumental Music
American Guild of Organists, Dayton Chapter
daytonago.org
Dayton
The Dayton chapter of the American Guild of Organists has been promoting the organ and church musicians in the Miami valley for 70 years. The Chapter provides a wide variety of programs, educational opportunities and services for the whole spectrum of our members and the community. The programs include recitals from internationally known organists, workshops, tours, and "organ crawls" where organists get a chance to play some of the best organs in the area.
ArtsLIVE at the University of Dayton
udayton.edu
Dayton • 937-229-2787
Established in 1961 as a speaker and performance series, ArtsLIVE now primarily presents concerts by visiting professional ensembles from around the world. Their mission is simple: to present outstanding arts experiences, and cultivate cultural curiosity. Each year, the series showcases a broad range of traditions - classical, jazz, and world music - and musicians may travel from as far away as Brazil and Pakistan, to as near as Michigan and New York. ArtsLIVE events are open to both campus and community.
Butler Philharmonic
butlerphil.org
Hamilton • 513-895-5151
Founded in 1951, The Butler Philharmonic organization consists of the Butler Philharmonic Orchestra, the Butler Philharmonic Chorus, the Butler Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, and the Butler Philharmonic Guild. Based in Hamilton, Ohio, the Butler Philharmonic strives to perform a wide variety of high-quality orchestral and choral music throughout the Butler County region.
Cedarville University Music Ensembles
www.cedarville.edu
Cedarville
Cedarville University offers performances for the enjoyment of the public from their Jazz Band, University Orchestra, and Wind Symphony.
Centerville Community Band (CCB)
centervillecommunityband.org
Centerville • 937-825-0691
The Centerville Community Band provides adults an opportunity to play in a concert band for enjoyment and continuing education, and to give back to the community via performances throughout the year. Membership in the band is open to anyone who plays or has played an instrument and is out of high school. There are no auditions and all are welcome to participate.
Chamber Music in Yellow Springs
cmys.org
Yellow Springs • 937-374-8800
Chamber Music in Yellow Springs produces concerts by established and emerging chamber music ensembles of the highest professional quality. CMYS is a not-for-profit organization fostering interest in chamber music and enriching the cultural life of our community.
COCOA Music
levantmusicstudio.com
Dayton • 937-361-8520
COCOA (Composers of Ohio Collaborative Organization for Acoustic Music) provides a noncompetitive platform for composers of all ages to have their work performed and recorded by professionals. Each composer receives an audio file of the performance for their own use. The concerts are free and open to the public. They also offer master classes in Music Composition, usually linked to a call for scores.
Dayton Guitar Society
daytonguitarsociety.wordpress.com
Centerville • 937-287-7755
The society's mission is the fostering, developing, and maintaining of high interest in the guitar, guitar music and guitar performance throughout the Miami Valley region. Emphasis is the classical guitar and related styles. Their signature event is GuitarFest, a fabulous outdoor three-hour show at Stubbs Park in Centerville in early September featuring local and nationally known performers.
Dayton Jazz Orchestra (DJO)
daytonjazzorchestra.com
Dayton • 937-212-2056
The Dayton Jazz Orchestra presents the exciting sounds of modern and traditional big band music. The 16-piece jazz orchestra plays selections from the music libraries of Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Bob Mintzer, Rob McConnell, Duke Ellington, and more. The DJO presents concerts and educational clinics throughout the Dayton area.
Dayton Music Club
daytonmusicclub.org
Dayton
The Dayton Music Club presents quality music programs and enhances music education for young musicians. They currently have over 100 members and provide a number of services to the Dayton community, including a forum for auditioned, active members to share music at monthly musicales that are free and open to the public, opportunities for students of Dayton Music Club members to audition for scholarships and perform at a yearly honors recital, and club sponsored activities including Junior Music Clubs, concerts throughout the greater Dayton area, and programs in hospitals and retirement centers.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance
daytonperformingarts.org
Dayton • 937-224-3521
Founded in 1933, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra has a distinguished place in the Gem City’s history as one of the Miami Valley’s oldest and longest-standing cultural institutions. A regional orchestra with 83 contracted musicians and rich in artistic tradition, led by Artistic Director and Conductor, Neal Gittleman, the Dayton Philharmonic family includes five chamber ensembles, a professional concert band, a 140-voice all-volunteer Chorus and three youth orchestras.
Englewood Civic Band (ECB)
www.englewood.oh.us
Englewood
The Englewood Civic Band is a volunteer concert band that began in 1990. The band started as the Trotwood Municipal Band in 1973 and moved to Englewood in 1990. Band members range in age from high school students to members in their late eighties and nineties with some original Trotwood Band members still playing. The band plays a wide variety of music including marches, pop tunes and concert band literature.
Greene County Adult Concert Band (GCACB)
www.greene-band.org
Xenia
The Greene County Adult Concert Band was organized in the summer of 1988. The purposes of the group were and still are to afford an opportunity for accomplished band musicians of Greene County and surrounding areas to express their talent and interest and to provide high quality summer concerts for the communities within the county. The group functions during the months of June, July and August only, and plays from four to six concerts per summer. The band’s repertoire includes marches, overtures, orchestral transcriptions, contemporary symphonic music and novelty selections.
Greenville Municipal Concert Band
www.facebook.com/GreenvilleMunicipalConcertBand
Greenville
The Greenville Municipal Band program presents a summer season of performances for the community each year the Marling Band Shell in beautiful Greenville City Park. The band is comprised of talented musicians of all ages from Greenville and the surrounding area. Concerts are free to the public.
Kettering Civic Band
www.ketteringcivicband.org
Kettering • 937-296-0294
The Kettering Civic Band is a 70-member ensemble that rehearses weekly and performs five to ten concerts annually at venues throughout the Dayton area. With roughly 70 amateur volunteer musicians, the band's repertoire includes a variety of marches, show tunes and traditional concert band music.
Lebanon Symphony Orchestra
musicinlebanon.org
Lebanon • 513-630-4066
The Lebanon Symphony Orchestra’s mission is to make the classical music experience educational, attractive, accessible, and affordable for families, and to provide performance opportunities for the advanced musician (the Lebanon Symphony Chorus), the professional musician (the Lebanon Symphony Orchestra), and the aspiring young musician (the Lebanon Symphony Youth Orchestra).
Miami University Symphony Orchestra
miamioh.edu
Oxford • 513-529-3014
The Miami University Symphony Orchestra (MUSO), with a history dating back to 1890, is dedicated to the quality performance of the orchestral repertoire from the Baroque era until our days, including world premieres by contemporary composers. The ensemble combines undergraduate and graduate students of all majors in pursue of high artistic standards, as well as the professional and artistic growth of its members. The ensemble has an extensive performance schedule on and off campus, which includes in addition to the orchestral repertoire, a full opera production, concertos with renowned soloists as well as student soloists, choral-symphonic repertoire, ballet and music from other traditions and genres.
Miami Valley Pipes & Drums
mvpipesdrums.org
Dayton
Based in Dayton, Ohio, the band has a fully fledged drum core consisting of a bass drum, tenors and snare. They also have a pipe corp made up of solo competitors as well as the "average joe" who loves a parade performance. Whatever your skill level, they will build you into the musician you were meant to be! The band is available for hire as a group or for soloist inquiries for your event.
Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra (MVSO)
mvso.org
Dayton • 937-530-0515
Founded in 1989, the Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra presents programs that entertain, enrich, and inspire our community. This all-volunteer orchestra is comprised of dedicated and accomplished musicians and is pleased to offer concerts ranging from classical and pop to collaborations in dance and musical theatre.
Mountain Dulcimer Society of Dayton
daytondulcimers.com
Tipp City
The MDSD has taken the traditional music of the mountain dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, guitar and other acoustic instruments to all types of events in the Dayton area since the mid 1970s. They are one of the oldest dulcimer groups in the US and their goal is to further the knowledge of the mountain dulcimer (and other folk instruments) to the public.
New Horizons Music Program at the University of Dayton
udayton.edu
Dayton • 937-239-7445
The University of Dayton New Horizons Music Program is an adult music education program founded in 2000. It currently has beginning, intermediate and advanced concert bands; beginning and intermediate string orchestras; intermediate and advanced jazz bands; and several small ensembles. Regular performances are shared with the public.
Ohio Valley British Brass Band (OVBBB)
www.facebook.com/ovbbb
Dayton
The ensemble is comprised of professional musicians, active as well as retired educators at the secondary and collegiate levels, students, and lay people from the Ohio Valley. The band's mission is to perform a variety of worthwhile and engaging literature while providing an opportunity for the area's finest brass players to participate in a quality musical ensemble.
PHS Alumni Band
www.phsalumniband.org
Piqua
The Piqua High School Alumni Band was formed in 1971 and has participated in high school football halftime shows, area parades, and concerts over the years. Their goal is to support the instrumental music program in the Piqua City Schools and to have fun performing at the annual halftime show at Alexander Stadium/Purk Field.
The Piqua Civic Band
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Piqua • 937-320-9516
The Piqua Civic Band provides a series of free concerts each summer and an annual Holiday Concert in December. The band traditionally has performed at the historic Hance Pavilion, but has moved to Piqua Intermediate School.
Sauerkraut German Band
www.facebook.com/SauerkrautGermanBand
Dayton
For more than fifty years, the Sauerkraut German Band has been entertaining the community at festivals, Oktoberfests, and concerts. Their repertoire includes polkas, waltzes, schottisches, marches, and specialty numbers in traditional "oompah" style, along with many of the big band sounds of the '40s and '50s.
Sinclair College Music Programs
sinclair.edu
Dayton
Sinclair's Music Department works to consistently offer students, faculty and staff, as well as the community, a wide variety of musical performances and events. Throughout the year, the Arts Calendar is filled with student choir performances, guest artists, symphonies, and much more that feature the Sinclair Jazz Ensemble, Concert Band, and guitar performing groups.
Sinclair Community Bands
sinclair.edu
Dayton • 937-512-2753
The Community Bands are composed of woodwind, brass and percussion musicians from Sinclair and the greater Dayton area. Membership includes students from high schools and colleges, music educators, and instrumentalists from a wide variety of professions. Music selections include the best of traditional and contemporary literature for both the large and small ensembles. The bands perform concerts in Blair Hall on the Sinclair campus each spring and fall.
Southwest Ohio Philharmonic
swophil.com
Mason/West Chester • 513.813.7967
The Southwest Ohio Philharmonic is a professional symphony orchestra within the southwest corner of the state of Ohio. Their musicians have been performing for many years in the area and reside throughout the entire region. The Philharmonic’s vision is to touch everyone with music and to provide music at the highest possible degree of excellence, to provide performance opportunities for area musicians, and to provide the cultural benefits of a Symphony Orchestra to the southwest Ohio region.
Springboro Wind Symphony
www.springborowindsymphony.com
Springboro • 513-508-2948
The Springboro Wind Symphony is a non-profit premier ensemble providing a professional musical experience for the greater Dayton & Cincinnati regions. They provide concerts, chamber ensembles, and educational opportunities for the City of Springboro & surrounding communities.
Springfield Symphony Orchestra
springfieldsym.org
Springfield • 937-328-3874
Music Director Peter Stafford Wilson conducts some of the area’s finest professional musicians in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra at the Clark State College Performing Arts Center, presenting renowned guest artists for concerts and outreach programs. The Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra, directed by Jazz at Lincoln Center’s VP Todd Stoll, performs in the John Legend Theater.
University of Dayton Early Music Ensemble
udayton.org
Dayton
Members of this ensemble present performance of vocal works from the Middle Ages to the present day. Students perform using the University of Dayton's collection of recorders, lutes, cornamuses, krumhorns, viola da gambas and keyboard instruments.
University of Dayton Orchestra
udayton.edu
Dayton
The University Orchestra is an auditioned ensemble that performs a broad repertoire for string orchestra in the fall semester and full symphony orchestra in the spring semester. In addition to four concerts presented each year, the orchestra regularly collaborates in choral and operatic performances with the University Chorale and Opera Workshop.
University of Dayton Javanese Gamelan Ensemble
udayton.edu
Dayton
The Gamelan Ensemble plays traditional music from Central Java, as well as contemporary compositions, on campus and around Dayton. Participants learn to play all of the instruments in the ensemble, which were custom made for the University of Dayton in Indonesia.
University of Dayton Jazz Ensemble
udayton.edu
Dayton
The Dayton Jazz Ensemble is an auditioned big band that offers a traditional and contemporary experience combining the skill of interpreting challenging written music with the art of improvisation. The ensemble performs at local and regional concerts, at high school and college jazz festivals, and other invited musical events, including the Ohio Music Education Association conference. DJE also performs frequently with local, regional, and internationally known jazz artists.
West Chester Symphony Orchestra
westchestersymphony.org
West Chester • 513-829-2779
The West Chester Symphony Orchestra, a nonprofit organization founded in 1997, is comprised of volunteer musicians who provide free entertainment to the community. The mission is to educate, enrich, and expose the local community and students to the arts while providing an artistic musical opportunity for orchestral musicians in the region.
Wind in the Woods Early Music Ensemble
windinthewoodsearlymusic.com
Dayton • 937-304-1211
Wind in the Woods is a versatile ensemble whose mission is to encourage interest in early music, to entertain, and to educate. Instruments used to bring to life medieval, renaissance, and baroque music include recorders, crumhorns, cornamuse, kordholt, gemshorn, viola da gamba, and lute. The group has been bringing the delightful sounds of renaissance music to the Miami Valley and beyond for almost 30 years!
Wittenberg University Music Ensembles
www.wittenberg.edu
Springfield
Wittenberg offers the opportunity for students and community members to collaborate musically through their Chamber Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, Symphonic Band, and Percussion Ensemble.
Wright State University Chamber Orchestra
liberal-arts.wright.edu
Dayton
The Chamber Orchestra has been Wright State University's premier orchestra for more than two decades. A unique performing ensemble comprised of faculty and students, the orchestra provides students an opportunity to perform side by side with their mentors. The Chamber Orchestra has distinguished itself with outstanding performances of music from Bach, Handel, Beethoven, and Schubert to Ravel, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Piazzolla. Performances have led the Chamber Orchestra in concerts statewide, including invitations to perform at many Ohio Music Education Association Professional Conferences in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Dayton. The orchestra has appeared in performances throughout the Miami Valley, including performances at the Schuster Performing Arts Center, Dayton Arts Institute, and Corbett Auditorium at CCM and has been heard in radio broadcasts on classical radio WGUC, Cincinnati.
Wright State University Concert Band
liberal-arts.wright.edu
Dayton
The WSU Concert Band is open to all Wright State students and community members. The band performs four concerts per year with an emphasis on providing a diverse program for all ages.
Wright State University Symphony Orchestra
liberal-arts.wright.edu
Dayton
The Wright State University Symphony Orchestra has been continuously active in the Miami Valley of Ohio since 1966. It draws its members from the entire Dayton community, including university students, faculty, and other area musicians. The orchestra studies and performs a large repertoire of classical music from the Baroque to the Twenty-first Century. It also performs regularly with distinguished guest artists, choral ensembles, and outstanding student musicians selected in annual competition.
Wright State University Wind Symphony
liberal-arts.wright.edu
Dayton • 937-775-2346
The WSU Wind Symphony is the university’s most elite band organization. The ensemble is typically comprised of 50 members chosen annually by audition.
Yellow Springs Chamber Orchestra
www.facebook.com/yellowspringscommunitymusic
Yellow Springsright.edu/fine-and-performing-arts/bands
Operating under the Yellow Springs Community Music umbrella, the YSCO welcomes string players of all ages who are proficient on their instruments. They aim to enrich the musical lives of both members and audiences through the performance of varied and challenging repertoire for orchestra, and/or orchestra and chorus. They usually present three to four concerts per year.
Yellow Springs Community Band
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Yellow Springs
YSCB welcomes woodwind, brass and percussion players of all ages. They aim to provide enjoyment for their members through rehearsing and performing a varied and challenging repertoire, and enrichment to audiences in the greater Yellow Springs area.
Yellow Springs Strings
Yellow Springs
www.ysyoa.org
Yellow Springs Strings is a string orchestra made up of adults, and occasionally invited students, who play at an intermediate level or above. They play a variety of music, but mostly classical, and perform one-to-two times annually.