The String Orchestra of Brooklyn
The SOB was formed in the Summer of 2007 with the idea of providing a musical commnunity for the many talented and beautiful non-professional classical musicians living in and around Brooklyn, NY. Members of the SOB are students, professors, architects, lawyers, executives, editors, designers, and artists. While specializing in the diverse string orchestra repertoire, the SOB is also able, through collaboration, to tackle works from many genres and periods. We are particularly interested in working with contemporary composers, and presented a concert in the Spring of 2008 dedicated to the work of young American composers working in the United States.
Auditions
The SOB holds auditions for entrance into the orchestra on a rolling basis. If you are interested in playing with us, please send an email to Eli Spindel including a short paragraph about your playing history, repertoire studied, and sight-reading ability.
Repertoire
The SOB has performed the following works:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Piano Concerto No. 1 in d minor, BWV 1052
Johann Sebastian Bach: Piano Concerto No. 5 in f minor, BWV 1056
Johann Sebastian Bach: Erbarme Dich, from St. Matthew's Passion
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
John Corigliano: Voyage for String Orchestra
Samuel Barber: Dover Beach for Baritone and Strings
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Osvaldo Golijov: Muertes des Angel
Antonio Carlos Gomes: Sonata for Strings
Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite
Georg Frederic Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 3 in D Major
Ian Hartsough: Stick Figures
Paul Hindemith: Acht Stücke, Op. 43/3
Leos Janacek: Suite for Strings
Gabriel Lubell: Quomodo sedet sola
Matt McBane: 2 x 4
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenata Notturna, k239
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio and Fugue, k546
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, k364
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40, k550
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: sull'aria, from Le Nozze di Figaro
Arvo Pärt: Fratres, version for String Orchestra and Percussion
Tristan Perich: I am not without my eyes open
Claudio Santoro: Mini Concerto for String Orchestra
Guiseppe Torelli: Christmas Concerto
Ralph Vaughn Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Violins in a minor
Artistic Director
Eli Spindel is a violinist and conductor, and the founder of the String Orchestra of Brooklyn. He studied violin with Betty-Jean Hagen and Liz Chang, and conducting with Eduardo Navega and Harold Farbermann. An alumni of Vassar College, he also studied at the Bard Conducting Institute, the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, and the preparatory divisions of the Longy School and the New England Conservatory. In New York he has played with Brooklyn Repertory Opera, Empire State Opera, the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, and the contemporary music ensemble at the CUNY Graduate Center. He works as an editor in Manhattan and lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
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