Orchestra Performances

Selected Concert Programs with Video Links* of Pacific University Philharmonic Orchestra

Spring 2021* – Concerts that Teach: Encounter with George Bridgetower and Florence Price – video

Fall 2020* – Concerts that Teach: Beethoven in the Stars – video

Fall 2019* – Concerts that Teach: Alliance of the Arts: Music, Dance, and Film – video

Fall 2018 – Concerts that Teach: From the New World – concert program with notes

Fall 2017 – Concerts that Teach: Music Tells the Stories concert program with notes

Spring 2017 – Concerts that Teach: Pictures at an Exhibition – concert poster

Fall 2016 – Concerts that Teach: Music Inspired by William Shakespeare  – concert poster

List of Selected Orchestral Repertoire

  • W. A. Mozart – Symphony No. 40
  • P. I. Tchaikovsky – Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy
  •  M. Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
  • M. Mussorgsky – Night at Bald Mountain
  • E. Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
  • S. Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf
  • L. Bernstein – Overture to West Side Story 
  • A. Marquez – Danzon No. 2
  • A. Marquez – Conga Del Fuego
  • A. Dvorak – New World Symphony
  • A. Glazunov – Saxophone Concerto in E flat Major

Additional Examples of Pacific University Philharmonic Orchestra Performances

Libertango – Astor Piazzolla, arr. Damien Bradley

Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte – Maurice Ravel

La Conga del Fuego – Arturo Márquez

Examples of Sprague High School Orchestra Performances 

2010 District Qualifying Festival (Placed 1st)

2011 OSAA State Orchestra Contest (Placed 1st)

Guest Conducting Examples

Ihas, D. (2018). Conductor for Music in May Festival, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR

Ihas, D. (2016). Conductor for All-City Honor Orchestra, Evergreen School District, Vancouver, WA

 Ihas, D. (2013). Conductor for All-City Honor Orchestra, Evergreen School District, Vancouver, WA

Ihas, D. (2012). Conductor for the 3rd Annual Evergreen Public Schools All-District Honor Orchestra

Suite for Strings by John Rutter – video