Surrounded
by the beautiful mountains, lakes, and forests of northern
Idaho,
Coeur d'Alene is a major year-round recreational area that
attracts visitors from all over America and Canada. We are
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community
through our symphony orchestra. The Coeur d'Alene Symphony
is proud to offer superior musical entertainment.
We invite you to learn about our orchestra
and its volunteer support organization. Perhaps you will decide
to join us for a concert, or perhaps you will want to get
involved in our many educational and artistic endeavors.
Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra
Mission Statement
The mission of the Coeur d’Alene Symphony
Orchestra is to promote and perpetuate appreciation of classical
and semi-classical music and to provide the opportunity to
perform and to hear this music in an annual series of concerts.
Who We Are
We, the Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra, with our history
of over twenty-five years performing classical as well as
popular music in the Coeur d’Alene area, are one of
the leading performing arts organizations of the region. With
our broad base of corporate and individual sponsors, we are
an integral part of the community, and an asset to the community.
We draw our musicians and our audiences from Coeur d’Alene
and the surrounding Inland Northwest area, including northern
Idaho, eastern Washington, and western Montana.
Our Values
We believe that the presence of a symphony orchestra in a
community is a vital necessity, a defining spirit of the cultural
life of a community. As such, a symphony orchestra is a marker
of the development, both cultural and educational, of a community.
A symphony orchestra is a source of pride and serves to attract
newcomers who are accustomed to having access to the higher
culture, who understand the importance of arts requiring high
levels of skill and training.
• In addition to performing the core
classical orchestral repertoire, in Coeur d’Alene, using
musicians from Coeur d’Alene and the surrounding areas
(including the five northern counties, eastern Washington,
and western Montana), we also perform new music by living
composers. We actively partner with other local groups to
engage in opera, dance, and choral performances.
• An important part
of our overall mission is to encourage young musicians.
• With an Annual Young Artists Competition that is growing
in scope and numbers.
• With an annual Family Concert with programming that
appeals to young people and is either free of admission or
discounted to youths 18 and under.
• With our scholarship program that awards scholarships
to deserving college-level music students throughout our service
area.
• We also reach out
to the senior citizen population of the Coeur d’Alene
area.
• Through providing concerts in venues such as senior
centers and retirement homes.
• Through offering tickets at a discount to seniors.
• We actively campaign through
marketing and publicity to increase awareness of the orchestra
and the esteem in which it is held.
• We grow the orchestra in terms of increasing audiences,
increasing annual budget and revenues, increasing the size
and quality of the orchestra in all sections, and increasing
capital in terms of the endowment fund and equipment owned
by the orchestra.
The Coeur d'Alene Symphony Orchestra is
a non-profit organization supported by dedicated volunteers
and much appreciated donations from patrons. If you would
like to be a part of this wonderful organization as a sponsor,
patron, or volunteer, you can reach our message phone at:
Phone: (208)765-3833
e-mail: admin@cdasymphony.org
Mail: CDA Symphony Orchestra
P. O. Box 898
424 Sherman Ave. (Next door to Crickets in the Old City Hall)
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816
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2008
Season Schedule:
Our
Next Event!!
Autumn
concert
Saturday,
October 11, 2008 - 7:30pm
Elgar
Enigma & Variations
Arutunian Trumpet Concerto
featuring David Turnbull, soloist
Beethoven Symphony
No. 6
Schuler Auditorium, Boswell Hall, NIC campus
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Interested
Musicians!
Openings are available in the
following positions:
Section Viola
Section Violin
Section Cello
3rd and Bass Clarinet
Musicians who are interested in auditioning for the Coeur
d’Alene Symphony Orchestra should contact David Demand,
Artistic Director, for audition excerpts and to schedule
a time for audition. Phone: 509-279-9474 or e-mail at conductor@cdasymphony.org
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Endowment Fund
Established in 2004, the fund will accept donations and memorial
gifts to be invested in perpetuity. The proceeds will be used
to support the many projects and efforts of the Symphony,
from scholarships, to guest artists, to capital acquisitions.
For more information, please call 208.765.3833
or e-mail the Coeur d’Alene Symphony: admin@cdasymphony.org.
The Coeur d'Alene Symphony
is a non-profit organization under IRS § 501 (c) (3).
Your contribution may be tax deductible, please contact your
tax advisor.
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For information
on the Coeur d'Alene Symphony Orchestra: Please contact
David Demand, Artistic Director
Phone: 509-279-9474 or e-mail at conductor@cdasymphony.org
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