Sunday, December 3, 2023

Join us as we bring our 10-Year Anniversary Season to a close at Freight & Salvage on Sunday, December 3!

Thursday, October 26, 2023

An event with Halloween-themed film music, fun interactive science exhibits, AND costumes? Sign us up! No, literally—make sure to sign yourselves up for our most popular event of the year—Session 94 at The Exploratorium in SF! Costumes encouraged!

Friday, September 15, 2023

This event has been rescheduled for Spring 2024

Saturday, August 19

It's been ten years since Session #1, where we gathered as friends and musical colleagues in a West Oakland warehouse to drink PBRs and play some of our favorite orchestral works in a laid-back setting. We've since grown into this huge, wonderful, and AWESOME family of musicians, audience members, crew members, visual artists, vocalists, MCs, and the list goes on and on.

Friday, August 18, 2023

Join us at the world famous Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland for an epic new arrangement of a Billie Holiday classic and new music by Bay Area composer Sandi Poindexter and John Sims.

Sunday, July 9, 2023

The Ferry Building is celebrating 125 years of operation since the first ship docked and they’ve asked us to serenade the community! But we’re celebrating with a twist - we’ll be doing Christmas in July with a special Nutcracker session!

This event has been postponed until 2024

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Back by popular demand! It’s a repeat of our most DINO-MITE session EVER—Jurassic NightLife! (but our sequel will be much better than Jurassic Park 2) We’ll be revisiting our most popular session—complete with music from Jurassic Park and The Land Before Time.

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Come join Awesome Orchestra in celebrating Earth Day on Saturday, April 22 from 4-6pm for our first time playing in the Ask Jeeves Planetarium at Chabot Space & Science Center! We'll be playing a set of pieces for chamber orchestra based on nature and astronomy! Beginning with the rarely performed "Anakin's Theme" from The Phantom Menace, followed by a mysterious and evocative new piece about our perspective of Earth from outside ourselves called Inner Eye by Australian composer Alicia Grant. We'll conclude our planetarium adventure with Stephen Schwartz's epic mini tone-poem "Meadowlark" featuring local opera singer Molly Mahoney. Come ready for another unique musical adventure with us!

Thursday, March 23, 2023

The Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) descends on SF this week, so we’re teaming up with Cal Academy’s NightLife for a video game themed evening of music, games, and leveling up! The Awesöme Chorus will be joining us for some of your favorite video game music, curated by Awesöme Ambassadors Travis Kindred and Criss Bürki!

Saturday, February 25, 2023

We’re hopping over to SF to kick off our 10-Year Anniversary Season! Join us for a musical adventure including excerpts from Mississippi River Suite by Florence Price, and “Sunday” from Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim (arr. Jason Robert Brown) for orchestra and SATB chorus, and one other piece (rep still being finalized and will be announced 2/7).