Bay Area Music Groups
The Bay Area is home to literally hundreds of classical music organizations, from community choruses to world-renowned orchestras, opera companies and chamber ensembles. This listing provides all the vital statistics for Bay Area music groups, as well as a summary of what they do best. Search by type of organization or alphabetically. Note to classical music groups: If your organization is not listed here or there is an error in your listing, please email [email protected].
West Valley College
Groups that perform at the college: West Valley College Concert Choir & Chamber Singers West Valley College Symphonic Band West Valley College Jazz Band West Valley College Theater
West Valley College Chamber Singers
West Valley College Music Department
West Valley Masterworks Chorale
The West Valley Masterworks Chorale is a college-based, community ensemble serving the San Jose area. The mission of the chorale is to perform great works of the choral repertoire in an eclectic and entertaining manner. This auditioned, mid-sized ensemble, founded by the late Fred Gandel, frequently performs major works with The Winchester Orchestra of San Jose under the direction of Henry Mollicone.
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Wet Ink
Named “The Best Classical Music Ensemble of 2018” by The New York Times, the Wet Ink Ensemble is a collective of composers, performers and improvisers dedicated to adventurous musicmaking. Wet Ink is proud to celebrate 20 years of adventurous music-making in NYC and around the world with the 2018-19 concert season. The 20th Anniversary Season highlights the ethos of innovation through collaboration that has guided the work of Wet Ink throughout the ensemble’s history, celebrating the music and the unique performance practice developed in the “band” atmosphere of Wet Ink’s core septet of composer-performers, and presenting exciting new projects with emerging and underrepresented artists and longtime collaborators.
Read more at the Wet Ink website.
Whole Noyse
The group plays brass and wind music from 16th and 17th century Europe
Wild Projects
Wild Projects collaborates with communities world wide through fearless art, film, and performance productions to inspire resiliency in the face of adversity.
Wild Up
Wild Up is a collective of artists who work together at the vanguard of classical music. Wild Up is a laboratory for experimenting with the future of sound. It’s an ethos about what a concert should feel like, how music should function in our lives, and how music can bring us together. To us, the name Wild Up means: the thoughtful, unabashed, hearts open, eyes up feeling that connects us when we make and listen to music.
Willows Theatre Company
Musical Theatre
Winchester Orchestra of San Jose
"The little orchesra that could" said Richard Scheinin, of the San Jose Mercury News, referring to the quality of soloists the orchestra consistently presents.
Windrider Bay Area Film Forum
The Windrider Film Forum takes participants on a journey, exploring our common humanity imaginatively and compassionately, through film. Many filmmakers have become the conscience in our culture, creating films that do more than simply entertain us. Windrider works to find independent feature length and short films exploring the human condition with creativity and respect, hoping to inspire meaningful discussions, and to motivate its audience to respond actively and constructively.
