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Castro Valley Orchestra

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Established in 2002, the Castro Valley Orchestra (also known at various times as the Castro Valley Symphony and Castro Valley Adult School Chamber Orchestra) is a community orchestra under the direction of Joshua Cohen. It is sponsored as a class by the Castro Valley Adult and Career Education Center (http://www.cvadult.org)

The orchestra is made up of amateur musicians from throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and performs three to four concerts a year. The orchestra collaborates with many other musical groups around the San Francisco Bay Area and has performed concerts with other groups such as the Mount Eden High School Choir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Eden_High_School), Opera on Tap, the Alameda Community Chorus, the San Francisco Balalaika Ensemble, and many guest artists from around the world.

The Castro Valley Orchestra Association (CVOA) is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that was founded in 2014 to support and promote the Castro Valley Orchestra.

The orchestra's website can be found at HTTP://www.cvorchestra.org/

History
The Orchestra's first concert was in December 2002 at the Castro Valley High School Auditorium (Hayden Trumpet Concerto, and the Saint Paul Suite), and for several years afterwards held its concerts at the Castro Valley Neighborhood Church Chapel. When the Castro Valley Center for the Arts was completed in 2005, the orchestra moved its concerts to that venue where it performs today. --PoochiniC (talk) 18:34, 26 March 2015 (UTC)