Orchestra
Orchestra - Symphonic Orchestra
Orchestra Director - Ms. Sheila Hershey
The Newark High School Orchestra program provides comprehensive instruction in performance of orchestral instruments and music history/theory in a cooperative learning environment. The curriculum is supplemented with chamber music, visiting artists and clinicians.
The NHS Orchestras maintain an active performance calendar of four major concert programs a year. They have traveled to locations like Virginia Beach, Myrtle Beach, Toronto and Orlando where the musicians have achieved many "superior" ratings in their festival adjudications. In 1997 and 1999, the Symphonic Orchestra was chosen to perform at the Eastern Division Convention of the Music Educators National Conference held in Baltimore, MD and New York, NY, respectively. Each year, many of our members are selected to participate in the Delaware All-State Orchestra. In 2010, our music program was recognized by the Grammy Foundation and our ensembles and members have performed on the stages of the Kennedy Center (2010) and Carnegie Hall (2012).
The NHS Orchestra program offers three levels of study: Orchestra (strings only) and Symphonic Orchestra (with winds & percussion). Students may elect to take a class for Honors Credit, a contracted agreement between student and teacher, which will require a recital performance and research project.
Ms. Sheila Hershey joined Newark High School as the Orchestra Director at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year.
The NHS Orchestras maintain an active performance calendar of four major concert programs a year. They have traveled to locations like Virginia Beach, Myrtle Beach, Toronto and Orlando where the musicians have achieved many "superior" ratings in their festival adjudications. In 1997 and 1999, the Symphonic Orchestra was chosen to perform at the Eastern Division Convention of the Music Educators National Conference held in Baltimore, MD and New York, NY, respectively. Each year, many of our members are selected to participate in the Delaware All-State Orchestra. In 2010, our music program was recognized by the Grammy Foundation and our ensembles and members have performed on the stages of the Kennedy Center (2010) and Carnegie Hall (2012).
The NHS Orchestra program offers three levels of study: Orchestra (strings only) and Symphonic Orchestra (with winds & percussion). Students may elect to take a class for Honors Credit, a contracted agreement between student and teacher, which will require a recital performance and research project.
Ms. Sheila Hershey joined Newark High School as the Orchestra Director at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year.
The Power of Protest in Music
In the spring of 2021, while attending “rehearsals” in the virtual classroom, our NHS Orchestra members practiced, reviewed and revised their individual performances of three powerful compositions of musical protest. Their socially distanced collaboration is brought to you today through the miracle of technology, and the hard work of our student proformers.
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NHS Virtual Orchestra 2020-2021 Enjoy our concert selections, prepared through social distancing, and performed with care and craftsmanship, for our friends and family. (February 3, 2021) |
Orchestra Performances 2021-2022
To add event dates to your calendar, please click here for link to the NHS Music Boosters Calendar. Every effort is made to keep the calendar current. The Music Directors may add an event or adjust the report time which may not be changed in the calendar; however, the information is always given to the student during class and posted on the classroom whiteboard.
To add event dates to your calendar, please click here for link to the NHS Music Boosters Calendar. Every effort is made to keep the calendar current. The Music Directors may add an event or adjust the report time which may not be changed in the calendar; however, the information is always given to the student during class and posted on the classroom whiteboard.
Orchestra Fees
Information coming soon about 2021-2022 school year fees for orchestra students.
There is a yearly fee for each music student. The NHS Music fees are used to pay for concert piano accompaniment for orchestra concerts, clinicians, competition fees, miscellaneous music supplies, and the music banquet. The Music Fee does not include concert attire!
IMPORTANT!
When sending in funds, please send a check or money order (not cash). Checks are to be made payable to NHS Music. Write your child’s name, and the purpose of the check on the memo line.
Note:
YOUR MUSIC FEE IS DUE IN SEPTEMBER! Checks can be deposited in the Music Booster locker in the band room or in the Orchestra room.
Report Time
Report time is always earlier than the event time. Orchestra members usually need to arrive at the orchestra room approximately one hour ahead of time. You will be emailed the report time for events about a week before the actual dates.
“To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is not to be.”
Please make sure your student arrives in plenty of time to have all of their equipment and uniform ready to go at Report Time.
Newark Orchestra in the Press!
On November 23, 30 members of the Newark High School Orchestra traveled to Washington, DC to perform at the Kennedy Center.
Students at Newark High School will be incorporating music from an iPad into an upcoming concert with the school orchestra.
Orchestra students perform alongside Newark Artists at Brandywine River Museum
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Timothy Hegedus, Nathan Harlan, Deborah Occident, Gillian McCarren, Caroline Beston – all members of the NHS orchestra – will play onstage tonight in the hall, one of the most famous performance venues in the world.
“We hope that by sharing our performance, the community will recognize the students’ hard work and dedication that contributed to the project, but most of all, we hope they will share in and support our joy of making music with each other”
Students program their iPads for the cello and adjust scales and volume to avoid drowning out the real violins.
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Anna Dmytrenko, a Newark pianist now studying with the Julliard School, pre-college division, will give a special recital on the University of Delaware campus this weekend to benefit Newark High School music programs.
She learned to play through classes at Wilson Elementary School, stuck with it through Shue-Medill Middle School and is now in the orchestra as a freshman at Newark High School.
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