The orchestra program at Lake Zurich Middle School North offers students an opportunity for personal growth and enrichment through the study of orchestral music literature, string performance, and music history. The curriculum will emphasize practice of proper performance technique, study of music literature & history, and the exploration of musical expression through performance, composition, and improvisation. Students explore technology in music through amplification, effects processing, and recording.

The two orchestras offered are based on grade level. Sixth grade students make up the the Intermezzo Orchestra and seventh and eighth grade students make up the Chamber Orchestra. Both orchestras rehearse every day for 30 minutes as a large ensemble and each student receives small group lessons once a week during the regular school day.

In rehearsals, students not only prepare orchestral music for performance but also work on musical projects such as composing, improvising, conducting, and rehearsing in small ensembles.

Chamber Orchestra 2008-09

Intermezzo Orchestra 2008-09

Atomic Strings 2008-09

Photos of the Orchestra

Mr. Broach holds a Masters of Music Education from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL; a Bachelor of Music Education; and a Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he performed in the University Orchestra and other small ensembles. He has performed with the various community symphony orchestras, has performed in the past with the eclectic jazz ensemble, The Viper and His Famous Orchestra, and has performed in many rock bands such as The Firebird Suite, and I am the Earth made for Man, to name a few. He is currently composing a rock opera.