Ensembles

For Orchestras, click here.

In addition to the ensemble opportunities listed below, trios and quartets are often offered by string teachers in collaboration with woodwind and piano teachers. While many of these small ensembles include students taking private lessons who are matched according to ability level, you do not have to take lessons at Pakachoag in order to participate. Please call the Director for more information.

Chamber Ensembles

In addition to informal trios and quartets organized by individual teachers as interest permits, Pakachoag also offers:

Flute Choir with Amy Carroll
Trumpet Choir with Jon Clark

  
  • Beginning & Intermediate levels
  • Each of these groups meets once-a-month.
  • Tuition (8 meetings of 30 or 45 minutes): $110

The Unison of Strings with Amy Matherly - Adults and High School

  
  • The Unison is a great way to enjoy ensemble playing and work with a collaborative/congenial group of violinists (both high school aged and adult students) without needing to make a significant scheduling commitment.
  • Includes two montly group rehearsals, usually on the first and third Friday of each month from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
  • The Unison generally performs at least once each semester. This includes a performance at a school recital and sometimes an additional outreach, off-site performance.
  • In past years, the Unison has been featured in concerts at the Worcester Art Museum, the Hanover Theatre, the Fitchburg Public Library Performing Arts Series, Mechanics Hall (in collaboration with the Worcester Youth Symphony) and with First Night Worcester.
2011-2012 Schedule and Tuition

Announcing: A New Season of Unison of Violins
 
The Unison of Violins is a group of upper high school aged and adult
violinists who meet twice a month to enjoy playing music together.
Our repertoire for a semester usually includes a solo work that we play in
unison, a duet, trio or quartet, a contemporary piece and an arranged
fiddle tune.
This semester we will perform at the Pakachoag winter recital on Saturday,
Dec. 10th, 2011 and at First Night Worcester on December 30th.
 
Unison will meet on the first and 3rd Friday of each month from 6:30-7:30
at the Pakachoag Music School as follows:
 
Sept. 9, 23
Oct. 7, 21
Nov. 4, 18
Dec. 2, 9 (rehearsal hall is unavailable on Dec. 16th)
 
The tuition for the fall and springer semesters is determined by the number of
participants, and will range somewhere between $100 and $200 for 10 gatherings (rehearsals and performances).