2026 Auditions!

The Heights Chamber Orchestra is seeking viola and cello players to join us for our upcoming 2026–2027 season!

We rehearse on Monday evenings in the Cleveland Heights High School orchestra room. Auditions will be held on Monday, August 17, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Please sign up for an audition time here. We look forward to hearing you!

Our 2026-2027 season in here!
“Celebrating American Music”

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: St. Paul’s
Soloists: Emily Cornelius, violin; Ross Karre, percussion

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach — Summer Dreams, Op. 47
Arvo Pärt — Fratres
Margaret Brouwer — Century’s Song
Franz Joseph Haydn — Symphony No. 99 in E-flat Major

Sunday, November 22, 2026

Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Fairmount Presbyterian Church

Antonín Dvořák — American Suite, Op. 98b, B. 190, in A Major
George McKay — Scenes from the Southwest
Clare Grundman — Second American Folk Rhapsody
Alan Hovhaness — Symphony No. 2, Op. 132, Mysterious Mountain

Sunday, February 14, 2027

Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: First Baptist Church of Shaker Heights
Soloist: Emily Cornelius, violin

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Hiawatha: Suite from the Ballet Music, Op. 82a
Marcus Norris — Glory for Violin and Chamber Orchestra
Florence Price — Negro Folk Songs in Counterpoint
Margaret Bonds — Montgomery Variations

Sunday, April 4, 2027

Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: St. Paul’s
Soloist: Brian Wendel, trombone

Virgil Thomson — The Plow That Broke the Plains: Suite
Henri Tomasi — Trombone Concerto
Aaron Copland — The Tender Land: Suite
Daniel Perttu — To Spring

Sunday, May 9, 2027

Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: St. Paul’s
Soloist: Allison Hillier, piano

Ferde Grofé — Grand Canyon Suite
Leonard Bernstein — West Side Story: Selections
Francis Poulenc — Piano Concerto