Sequim Community Orchestra

09/18/2026

Summer is almost over! 🍂🍁

Tuesday will be our first rehearsal - come join us at Swisher at 7pm. Meet our new director, play some fun music, and come enjoy the company.

08/24/2026

Day 7: Sequim 6+ Beginner Strings!

Beginner Strings in Sequim is where it all started. In 2012, the Sequim Community Orchestra began a strings program to provide strings instruction to young students in Sequim who had no school orchestra option to choose. Originally, our classes were run out of school district classrooms and the idea was that someday our program might be passed along to the Sequim school district.

These days, we hold most of our *Sequim* classes at Swisher Hall in Carrie Blake Park. We continue to be funded and administered by the board of the Sequim Community Orchestra, but our instructors and inspiration (and now students) are drawn from across the peninsula, from as far south east as Quilcene and as far northwest as Forks.

Beginner strings will welcome a brand new cohort of students to class on September 14th that attends classes twice a week: Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30-5:00. Instrument checkout days are on September 7th in Sequim or September 9th in Port Angeles, and the kids first concert will be November 13th. Our Sequim Beginner classes will be taught this year by Amber Roskamp.

Registration for Sequim Beginners is filling up quickly, and closes August 31st.

Sneak in on our Jovial: https://jovial.org/pcyo/hello

08/04/2026

Are you a stressed out parent who just needs some me time?

Did you happen to play an instrument in high school, and then your career got in the way?

Maybe you tried to play with PASO, and found your skills were not quite up to s***f?

Come join the Sequim Community Orchestra. We are a training orchestra playing at a roughly high school level. We rehearse on Tuesdays and have 3 concerts a year, scheduled well in advance, always on Saturdays.

Get a babysitter on Tuesdays, and come join this fall. Rehearsals start Sept 22nd at Swisher Hall in Sequim in Carrie Blake Park.

Personally I've been playing with the SCO since 2016 through IVF, the birth of both of my kids, and now toddlerhood. The only time I felt the need to pause was right after my C-section when I couldn't drive yet.

For me, playing with this group gives to my soul and helps me feel connected. I WFH and getting out each Tuesday night and playing my instrument really helps with the isolation.

You can sign up for fall on our website: https://sequimcommunityorchestra.org/

We are a training orchestra. Our focus is on the musical development of our orchestra members. Whatever your experience, if you would enjoy honing and sharing your skills, we invite you to play with us. There are no auditions. We double wind parts, but reserve the right to limit the number of wind p...

07/23/2026

07/10/2026

Are your children interested in music? Bring them by the North Olympic Library System's Raymond Carver room at the Port Angeles Library on July 25th to see and touch string instruments in person.

Free! Bring your littles to come see and touch instruments. Local private studio teacher Melodies with Madison will be joining us with rhythm instruments, guitar, ukulele, and more!

07/09/2026

Edit July 9: We're back up!

Hey friends. We are having some downtime with our website and email at the moment. We hope to have the problem with our hosting buttoned up soon, but for the meantime, you can use FB messenger if you need to ask questions.

07/03/2026

Every day is a good day to practice (your intonation)

If your chops need work, come work on them with us this fall. Rehearsals will start September 22nd.

06/24/2026

As an amateur orchestra, we believe this. Humans are musicians.

Do you think of yourself as a musician?

In a world of machines and artificial intelligence, art still matters.

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06/11/2026

Thanks to our incoming artistic director Anne Gantz Burns, along with educators Jesse Ahmann and Christine Faught for auditioning students. Is your student ready for youth orchestra? Or maybe they're *already* ready for the SCO?

Find out July 27.

Is your student ready for youth orchestra? Find out at auditions: July 27th 4-6pm at St. Andrew's!

These auditions will cover entry to both Port Angeles and Sequim Youth Orchestra ensembles: http://pcyo.kids/classes/youth-orchestra

Youth Orchestra is a new ensemble beginning this fall, intended for students roughly middle school age who have mastered the basics of their instrument but are not ready for the Sequim Community Orchestra. Students who are not ready for youth orchestra, because they are in the first 3 years of their studies or haven't started yet, may instead join our 30-45 minute beginner or intermediate group classes, also held in Port Angeles and Sequim.

Read about the details of the audition and sign up at: https://forms.gle/gb21dzeWSKCmbxxj8

05/27/2026

Registration for Olympic Strings Summer Sight Reading Workshop is open!

Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFF_UKZpnq_MxAexVHGQ836Ek06OfTspFOfhBXgCOPhKFwqA/viewform