Virtuoso violinist Victor Romanul of the Boston Symphony Orchestra joined Wheaton's Great Woods Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto on May 6, 2012.  The concert also featured a solo by tenor Gavin Mackie, '13, winner of Wheaton's annual Concerto-Aria Competition. The 10-member GWCO cello section rounded out the concert with a performance [...]

Senior music major Jesse Shaw completed a semester-long independent study in electronic dance music composition with a remix of Steve Reich's famous piece "Violin Phase" Shaw, a saxophonist and guitarist as well as composer, studied acoustic songwriting at Wheaton before heading out to New Zealand during his junior year, where he became fascinated with dubstep and [...]

Esteemed American composer Alvin Singleton, former Composer-in-Residence with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, visited Wheaton in April. Singleton led a masterclass with students in Prof. Delvyn Case's composition course as they prepared their works for a May 2012 reading session by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble. On April 13, the Great Woods Chamber Orchestra performed Singleton's "Miaka [...]

When he's not leading Wheaton's violinists as Chamber Orchestra Concert Master, Jorge Soto teaches children in the El Sistema program at the Conservatory Charter School in Brighton, MA.