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 (2025-26 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.
2025/26 Audition Excerpts and Applications
New Audition Due Dates:
High School December CODA Honor Orchestras- October 15, 2025
High School All-State Orchestras- October 15, 2025
Junior High All-State Orchestras- November 3, 2025
*Directors and Students, please take some time to review the new CODA Audition Honor Code as we work together to commit to a fair and honest audition process.
Save the Date! Super Saturday Audition Preparation, September 6, 2025
CODA Composition Consortium Project
CODA is proud to continue the CODA Composition Consortium that aims to highlight historically underrepresented composer voices, to bring new repertoire to the string education field. Follow the link below to learn more about this year’s project and become a member of the consortium!
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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2025-26 CODA Events
CODA Honor Orchestras
December 5-6, 2025
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
CODA Honor Symphony Orchestra, Eric Dudley, Conductor
Lightspeed by Kevin Day
An American in Paris by George Gershwin
CODA Honor String Orchestra, Ruth Brittin, Conductor
Simple Symphony, Op. 4; I. Boisterous Bourée, IV. Frolicsome Finale by Benjamin Britten
River Stories; III. Stream by Yukiko Nishimura
Danse Nègre, from African Suite, Op. 34, No. 4 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, arr. by Deborah Baker Monday
Monte Diablo: A Spanish Tarantella by Ruth Brittin
CODA All-State Honor Orchestras
January 15-18, 2026
Sacramento, CA
CODA High School All-State Symphony Orchestra, Ho-Yin Kwok, Conductor
On the Cliffs of Cornwall by Ethel Smith
Conga del Fuego Nuevo by Arturo Márquez
Medea’s Dance of Vengence, Op. 23a by Samuel Barber
CODA High School All-State String Orchestra, Jean (Rudy) Perrault, Conductor
Sinfonietta No. 2, “Generations”; IV. Allegro Vivace by Coleridge Taylor Perkinson
Exodus by Jean Perrault
Fuga y Misterio by Astor Piazzolla, arr. by Jean Perrault
CODA Junior High School All-State String Orchestra, Juan Felipe Molano, Conductor
Serenade for Strings, Op. 22; I. Moderato, III. Scherzo: Vivace by Antonín Dvořák
Adoration by Florence Price, arr. by Thomas Taylor Dickey
CODA Consortium piece by Jordan Jinosko
Tico Tico by Zequinha de Abreu, arr. by Bob Lipton
CODA Junior High School All-State Concert Orchestra, Daryl Silberman, Conductor
Contrapunctus I, from “The Art of Fugue” by Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. by Gerald Fischbach
A Su Merced, Don José by Nubia Jaime Donjuan
Apricity by Niolás Repetto
Waltz No. 2 by Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. by Paul Lavender
Heart of Fire by Lauren Bernofsky
CODA Scholarship Fund
Please consider making a donation to the CODA Scholarship Fund to help reduce financial barriers for student participation in CODA Honor Orchestras.
CODA Board and General Membership Meetings
October 18 2025- CODA Board Meeting, San Ramon Valley High School
December 6, 2025- CODA Board Meeting, Stockton, CA
January 2026 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.
March 7, 2026- CODA Executive Board Meeting, Zoom
May 30, 2026- CODA Board Meeting, Zoom