The Imagine Orchestra
The Imagine Orchestra is a chamber jazz ensemble. It is an eclectic approach to a creative composing /performing ensemble where the music is both fully orchestrated and improvised. There are 3 groups combined; string trio, rhythm trio and percussion, and winds and brass. It also represents how creative artists come to collaborate and "imagine" what the music whispers to musicians to reach for.
The orchestra performs at Dr. Banfield’s Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony
Fall 2023, Jamaica Plain
The orchestra performs at the institute of contemporary art boston
Summer 2022, Seaport
Dr. Julius Williams and Michael W. Bradley lead dress rehearsal for the November 2022 production of Dr. Banfield’s Symphony no. 10 “Affirmations”, featuring Sweet Honey in the Rock and the Boston Arts Academy Spirituals Chorus
Dr. Banfield leads the second performance of “Affirmations” at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Dr. Banfield and Zahili Zamora conduct rehearsals at the Longy School of Music, where the orchestra is currently an ensemble-in-residence.
The Imagine Orchestra is led by Bill Banfield (artistic director), Zahili Gonzalez Zamora (musical director), and Danny Thornburg (orchestra manager, arranger, librarian, copyist).
Listen to the Imagine Orchestra’s album “Imagine That”, released in 2017 with Jazz Urbane Recordings