2011-2012 Concert Season

The Pearl and Julius Young Rising Stars Music Competition
March 10, 2012, 12:00 pm
Dolan Hall, The College of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, NJ
Free admission

The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey is pleased to announce the 2012 Pearl and Julius Young Rising Stars Music Competition for young instrumental artists. 

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Date Location
March 25, 2012 Family Concert Grace Church, Madison
April 29, 2012 Beethoven's 9th Dolan Hall, College of Saint Elizabeth
June 9, 2012 Chamber Music Celebration Grace Church, 4 Madison Ave., Madison
June 10, 2012 Zeigler Plays Gershwin Dolan Hall, College of Saint Elizabeth
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American Prize Awarded to BONJ

In July 2011, The American Prize named The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey one of the top three community orchestras in the United States. Artists are judged on artistic quality, based on the full breadth of possible criteria, including the overall effect of the performance, musicality, rhythmic incisiveness, ensemble tone quality, accuracy, intonation, knowledge of style.

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Jarred Tafaro Plays Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor

Our Conductor

 

Meet Maestro Robert Butts, whose creative energies are a driving force behind the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey.

Conductor and Music Director Robert Butts has been the creative energy behind The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey from its beginning. He also serves as the Music Director for The New Jersey Concert Opera and Conductor for Opera at Florham. Since 2006 he has been the Artistic Director of the Summer Festival of Baroque Music held in Madison, New Jersey every August. Other conducting appearances have included performances featuring The New Jersey Symphony, The Plainfield Symphony, The Society of Musical Arts Orchestra, Harmonium Choral Society, the Oratorio Singers and the Masterwork Chorus. Maestro Butts has been a regular guest conductor with orchestra and opera companies in Eastern Europe.

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