Arizona Opera Orchestra Musicians Association

Formed in the year 2000 to support its members, the Arizona Opera Orchestra Musicians’ Association is a diverse organization of highly-trained music professionals from the Arizona Opera Orchestra. Our fifty members reside mainly in one of three major cities in Arizona: Flagstaff, Phoenix or Tucson. We join world- class singers and conductors in Arizona Opera's main stage productions.

We are proud members of the American Federation of Musicians (a branch of the AFL-CIO) and have earned bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from some of the world’s finest conservatories and universities. We aim to deepen our commitment to our local communities. As one of the few large performance ensembles active in Arizona, we desire to strengthen these bonds on multiple levels - artistic, cultural and personal.
Our mission is:

To offer entertaining, live music performed at the highest artistic level for our community
To promote and support our musician colleagues - their activities and livelihoods
To raise awareness and reach out to the community in support of the Arizona Opera and its programs