Orchestra Directors – Annual Membership
The California Orchestra Directors Association exists to promote school orchestras in California by providing quality honor orchestra experiences for school orchestra students, facilitating an exchange of instructional strategies and ideas for the school orchestra director, and providing a forum and community for school orchestra directors.
Become a member today (2023-24 memberships begin on July 1st) and help take an active role in supporting students, educators, and school orchestra programs across the state of California.
Click here to view membership class information. If you are new to CODA, enter your email address on the login page, create a password, and you will be redirected to the registration page.
2024 California All-State Audition Results
2023 CODA December Audition Results
2023/24 Audition Excerpts and Applications
High School December CODA Honor Orchestras- October 9, 2023
Junior High and High School All-State Orchestras- November 1, 2023
CODA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
CODA serves to promote school orchestras in California by providing quality honor orchestra experiences for school orchestra students. Music continues to be a vehicle to bring our communities together in the ongoing effort to end systemic racism, discrimination, and injustice. We believe that our students deserve respect and representation inclusive of race, religion, socio-economic status, sexuality, and gender identity. CODA also facilitates an exchange of instructional strategies and ideas for the school orchestra director and provides a community and forum for school orchestra directors. We pledge to center the discussion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our ensembles, classroom culture, and music libraries.
Our goal is to help increase access to quality orchestral experiences for all students. Our proposed long-term plans toward increased diversity, equity, and inclusion include:
1. Conductor Diversity
2. Repertoire Recommendation for Honor Orchestras
3. Financial Barriers for Honor Orchestra Participation
4. Teacher Education Regarding Diversity
5. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair & Resources
Click here to learn more about our initiatives.
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2023-24 CODA Events
December CODA Honor Orchestras
December 1-2, 2023
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
December CODA Honor Symphony Orchestra, Paul Phillips, Conductor
Carnival Overture, Op. 92 by Antonín Dvořák
Brownian Motion by Paul Phillips
Seven O’Clock Shout by Valerie Coleman
Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns
December CODA Honor String Orchestra, Molly Turner, Conductor
Holberg Suite, Op. 40, I. Prelude by Edvard Grieg
Sinfonietta No. 1 for Strings, II. Song Form: Largo by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Chamber Symphony in C minor, I. Largo, II. Allegro Molto by Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. by Barshai
Libertango by Astor Piazzolla, arr. by Kazik
CODA All-State Honor Orchestras
February 1-4, 2024
Sacramento, CA
CODA High School All-State Symphony Orchestra, Chaowen Ting, Conductor
The Bamboula, Op. 75 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Sound and Fury by Anna Clyne
Romeo and Juliet, Op.64 (excerpts) by Sergei Prokofiev
CODA High School All-State String Orchestra, Dr. Selim Giray, Conductor
Irish Dance Suite, I. Jig by Quinn Mason
Sinfonietta No. 1 for Strings, I. Sonata Allegro by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 by Samuel Barber
Serenade for Strings, Op. 6, IV. Allegro giocoso by Josef Suk
CODA Junior High School All-State String Orchestra, Katie O’Hara LaBrie Conductor
Unbridled Spirit by Katie O’Hara LaBrie
The Brilliant Red Shandandan Flowers, arr. by Albert Wang
Grit by Lauren Spavelko
Alleluia by Ralph Manuel, arr. by O’Hara LaBrie
Danse Nègre from African Suite, Op. 35, No. 4 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, arr. by Baker Monday
CODA Junior High School All-State Concert Orchestra, Creston Herron, Conductor
Battle by Soon Hee Newbold
O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen, arr. by Dackow
The Winton Suite, V. Finale by Adam Carse
Visions of the Sky by Adrian B. Sims
CODA Board and General Membership Meetings
December 2, 2023- CODA Board, Palo Alto, CA
February 2024 at CASMEC – exact times TBA- CODA Board and General Session, Sacramento, CA
*All CODA members are invited to attend the CODA General Session at CASMEC.
June 1, 2024- CODA Board Meeting