Orchestra Directors – Annual Membership
The California Orchestra Directors Association exists to promote school orchestras in California by providing quality honor orchestra experiences for school orchestra students, facilitating an exchange of instructional strategies and ideas for the school orchestra director, and providing a forum and community for school orchestra directors.
Become a member today (2024-25 memberships begin on July 1st) and help take an active role in supporting students, educators, and school orchestra programs across the state of California.
Click here to view membership class information. If you are new to CODA, enter your email address on the login page, create a password, and you will be redirected to the registration page.
2024/25 Audition Excerpts and Applications
New Audition Due Dates:
High School December CODA Honor Orchestras- October 15, 2024
High School All-State Orchestras- October 15, 2024
Junior High All-State Orchestras- November 2, 2024
Super Saturday Audition Preparation, September 7th
Join us for Super Saturday 2024: clinics with esteemed professionals on all band & orchestra instruments, offered at 6 locations throughout California! Details and registration can be found here. (Note that String Instrumentalists should also register through the CBDA website as linked).
CODA Composition Consortium Project
CODA is proud to launch the CODA Composition Consortium that aims to highlight historically underrepresented composer voices, to bring new repertoire to the string education field. Follow the link below to learn more about this year’s project and become a member of the consortium!
CODA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
CODA serves to promote school orchestras in California by providing quality honor orchestra experiences for school orchestra students. Music continues to be a vehicle to bring our communities together in the ongoing effort to end systemic racism, discrimination, and injustice. We believe that our students deserve respect and representation inclusive of race, religion, socio-economic status, sexuality, and gender identity. CODA also facilitates an exchange of instructional strategies and ideas for the school orchestra director and provides a community and forum for school orchestra directors. We pledge to center the discussion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our ensembles, classroom culture, and music libraries.
Our goal is to help increase access to quality orchestral experiences for all students. Our proposed long-term plans toward increased diversity, equity, and inclusion include:
1. Conductor Diversity
2. Repertoire Recommendation for Honor Orchestras
3. Financial Barriers for Honor Orchestra Participation
4. Teacher Education Regarding Diversity
5. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair & Resources
Click here to learn more about our initiatives.
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2024-25 CODA Events
December CODA Honor Orchestras
December 6-7, 2024
Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, CA
December CODA Honor Symphony Orchestra, Elias Brown, Conductor
Slavonic Dances Op. 46, Nos. 1 and 2 by Antonín Dvořák
Testament (from Vishwas) by Reena Esmail
The Firebird Suite (1919 version) by Igor Stravinsky
IV. Danse Infernale, V. Berceuse, VI. Finale
December CODA Honor String Orchestra, Lucy Lewis, Conductor
Radiant Joy by Brian Balmages
Symphony No. 2, 2nd Movement by William Grant Still, arr. by Parrish
Serenade for Strings, Op. 11, I. Praeludium by Dag Wiren
Born by the River by Karen Sunabacka
CODA All-State Honor Orchestras
January 16-19, 2025
Sacramento, CA
CODA High School All-State Symphony Orchestra, William Eddins, Conductor
Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein
As Dancing is to Architecture by Christopher Theofanidis
D’un matin de printemps (“Of a Spring Morning”) by Lili Boulanger
El sombrero de tres picos (“Three-Cornered Hat”): Suite No. 2 by Manuel de Falla
CODA High School All-State String Orchestra, Dr. Jacob Sustaita, Conductor
Air and Simple Gifts by John Williams
Entr’acte: A Minuet & Trio by Caroline Shaw
Strut by Michael Daugherty
CODA Junior High School All-State String Orchestra, Dr. Tammy Yi, Conductor
To Those Who Made Us by Mia Ruhman
Take the L.A. Train by Charley Harrison (CODA Composer Consortium 2025)
Pizzicato by Vivian Fung
Testament (from Vishwas) by Reena Esmail
Habari Gani by Quenton Blache
CODA Junior High School All-State Concert Orchestra, Dr. Rachel Dirks, Conductor
Concerto Grosso in G, Op. 6, No. 1 by George Frideric Handel, arr. by McCashin
Snowberry by Yukiko Nishimura
Asturias by Isaac Albeniz, arr. by Chin
Incantations by Richard Meyer
CODA Scholarship Fund
Please consider making a donation to the CODA Scholarship Fund to help reduce financial barriers for student participation in CODA Honor Orchestras.
CODA Board and General Membership Meetings
December 7, 2024- CODA Board Meeting, Santa Monica, CA
January 2025 at CASMEC- exact times TBA- CODA Board and General Session, Sacramento, CA
*All CODA members are invited to attend the CODA General Session at CASMEC.
March 1, 2025- CODA Executive Board Meeting, Zoom
June 7, 2025- CODA Board Meeting, Zoom