Fairview High School

The Fairview High School Orchestra program consists of 95 students across three ensembles. The Chamber Orchestra is an audition-only orchestra consisting of our top students, regularly performing masterworks by Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, and others. In the spring, they combine with winds and percussion in the Fairview Wind Ensemble to form the Fairview Symphony Orchestra to perform symphonic repertoire. Students in the orchestra are regularly accepted by competitive audition into Western States Honor Orchestra and All State Orchestra. Many of our musicians are in private lessons, participate in the Boulder Suzuki Strings, Greater Boulder Youth Orchestras, and Denver Young Artists Orchestra.

The Chamber Orchestra has a long history of success, with 10 separate performances at the Colorado Music Educators Association conference in its history. They consistently receive Superior ratings at the Colorado ASTA Large Group Festival, both at the regional and state levels. Most recently, Chamber Orchestra earned 3rd Place at the 2024 ASTA National Orchestra Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The Fairview Orchestras also have a commitment to programming new and diverse music by underrepresented composers. They have performed works by composers such as Reena Esmail, Caroline Shaw, Joanna Marsh, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Takashi Yoshimatsu. The orchestra collaborates regularly with guest artists for clinics and workshops, with recent visits by The Koa String Quartet, violinist Alex Gonzalez of the Sphinx Virtuosi, composer Chris Pilsner, and composer Andrea Casarrubios.