Ensemble Performances

Delaware’s premier ensembles for children, teens and adults present family-friendly programs.
ORCHESTRAL ENSEMBLES

Delaware Youth Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, December 20, 2025 • 7pm • Wilmington Concert Hall • Free
Saturday, March 21, 2026 • 7:30pm • Wilmington Concert Hall • Free
Saturday, June 6, 2026 • 7pm • Las Americas Aspira Academy • Free Conducted by Maestro Simeone Tartaglione, the DYSO is coached by highly qualified artists from the Music School and major orchestras along the East Coast as well as guest conductors from renowned institutions. Simeone Tartaglione music director

Wilmington Community Orchestra

This accomplished amateur orchestra, directed by Joseph Hodge with noted soloists, presents music from the standard symphonic repertoire.

Afro-American Symphony
Sunday, April 12, 2026 • 3pm • Wilmington Concert Hall • $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students (Music School students get 2 complimentary tickets) Florence Price Dances in the Canebrakes (orch. by W. G. Still)
George Walker Lyric for Strings
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Danse Negre
William Grant Still Symphony 1
RESERVE TICKETS
Joseph Hodge, music director
DE Concerto Competition for Young Musician Winners
Friday, May 15, 2026 • 7:30pm • Wilmington Concert Hall • $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students (Music School students get 2 complimentary tickets) Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major K. 414: I. Allegro
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: I. Allegro maestoso
Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor: I. Allegro molto moderato
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26: I. Vorspiel: Allegro moderato
Holst Mars and Jupiter from the Planets
RESERVE TICKETS
Joseph Hodge, music director

Suzuki Academy Orchestras
Saturday, January 31, 2026 • 4:30pm • Wilmington Concert Hall • Free
Saturday, May 16, 2026 • 4:30pm • Wilmington Concert Hall • Free The Music School’s Suzuki orchestras perform rounds, traditional and folk songs, as well as age-appropriate transcriptions of major orchestral pieces. Jennifer Lang conductor

CHORAL ENSEMBLES

Delaware Women’s Chorus: Now Let Us Sing!
Sunday, May 17, 2026 • 3pm • St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 200 Second Street, Lewes, DE 19958 • Free-will offering Celebrate spring with the Delaware and Cantabile Women's Choruses. Joanne Ward, conductor



This organization is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.

The Music School of Delaware is proud to be an active partner in the IN Wilmington Arts Campaign.
 
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