Members of the CUA Symphony Orchestra backstage at Carnegie Hall with conductor David Searle and faculty performers, Sharon Christman, Jody Gatwood, and Ira Gold. Three 2011 concerts involving CUA students and faculty were presented in part by the La Gesse Foundation.
Instrumental Music at CUA
Welcome to the Instrumental Music Division. We are a thriving program in which students enthusiastically embrace the discipline and joyous work of bringing great music to life, while developing their technical skill and musical imagination. Explore the varied aspects of our work here at CUA.
Student Joins National Philharmonic
DMA student Arminé Chamasyan Graham has recently won membership in the National Philharmonic after competing in a rigorous blind audition involving two dozen professional violinists. The orchestra is in residence at the Music Center at Strathmore, has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, with world renowned soloists such as Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leon Fleisher and Richard Stoltzman, and each year performs for 20,000 elementary school students in Montgomery County Maryland.
