Forest Park Orchestra
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About Forest Park Orchestra
Welcome to the Forest Park Orchestra
Ohana! Many orchestra students enjoy the orchestra program and love to grow and play music with friends. The concerts are something to NOT miss, so make sure you tell ALL your friends and family to come out and support. We do have some incredible trips that we planning for the future, including seeing the National Symphony Orchestra and performing with Doc Nix and Green Machine at George Mason University. These are only a few reasons to be excited about orchestra. Additionally there is a never-ending list of benefits from studying music. Our favorite is to grow together and learning to work together. You may be thinking ahead to the future, even beyond high school, but know this, taking a music class such as orchestra is a guidance and an advantage for success.
Orchestra Classes
The Forest Park Orchestra program consists of 3 orchestras; Intermediate, Advanced, and Consort.
Intermediate Orchestra:
This class performs music at the VBODA grade 3-4 level. Students meet daily where we continue to reinforce good posture habits and focus on tone production. Most students from middle school will place in this orchestra as they begin high school. Daily home practice is expected.
Advanced Orchestra:
This class performs a VBODA grade 4-5 music in our repertoire. Advanced techniques, including exploration of upper register pitches, advanced bowing styles and musicality along with tone production are addressed here. Daily home practice is expected.
Consort Orchestra:
This class is an experienced ensemble performing VBODA grade 5-6 literature. Students can expect to have outside-of-class expectations beyond the regular concert schedule. Students in this ensemble have mastered basic techniques. Daily home practice is expected.
About Mr. Pereyra
Benjamin Pereyra graduated from George Mason University with a Bachelor of Music in Instrumental Music Education. While at Mason, Mr. Pereyra studied viola with National Symphony violinist/violist Edwin Johonnot, National Sympony Orchestra violist Raymond Scavelli and Kennedy Center Opera House violist Phillippe Chao. He was a principal violist of the Symphony and Chamber Orchestra and was one of the first string players to perform with the school’s pep band, Doc Nix and the Green Machine. While at George Mason University, Mr. Pereyra was a charter member of the Phi Mu Alpha Music Fraternity, Rho Omicron Chapter and was inducted as an Honorary Member of Kappa Kappa Psi Band Fraternity, Mu Omicron Chapter.
Mr. Pereyra is a graduate of Prince William County School, Gar-Field Senior High School, where he began taking private viola lessons with Patty Plombom. Returning to Prince William County, Benjamin Pereyra is the orchestra director, adaptive music teacher and the assistant director to the Marching Bruin Band at Forest Park High School in Woodbridge Virginia. Mr. Pereyra regularly performs with the American Festival Pops Orchestra, Manassas Chorale and Fredericksburg Symphony. Previously to teaching in the public school system Mr. Pereyra worked for nearly a decade with the National Symphony orchestra’s Summer Music Institute. During his time at the Kennedy Center he was able to participate in rehearsals with the National Symphony Orchestra, and has had the privilege of performing on both the Millennium stage and the Orchestra Concert Hall. When Mr. Pereyra is not at school teaching, he can be found with his wife and two children, smoking a brisket and jamming on other instruments.
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New Members
WELCOME TO THE FOREST PARK ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
We are so excited that you are joining us and we know you’re going to experience some of the greatest times! Forest Park Music is used as our main source of communication and information, so please check back here frequently for updates.
ARE YOU NEW TO THE ORCHESTRA?
Please fill out the New Member Info Form!
Volunteering
If you are a parent or caregiver, please consider filling out our Volunteer Form! It is imperative that we have the parental support to make our goals for the Forest Park Orchestra Program to become reality. We would greatly appreciate parental support at concerts and competitions.
Payments & Donations
Donations
Outside of volunteering at competitions, shows, or fundraising events, the best way to help the Orchestra Program is to consider making donations to the Orchestra Boosters, the non-profit parent organization that exists to support all aspects of the FPHS Orchestra Program. Below are a few methods of which you can make a donation:
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