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His past positions include with the Palau de Les Arts in Spain, the New World Symphony, and the Tucson Symphony.<\/p>\n<p>Since graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Orfaly has performed with orchestras worldwide, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra. He has composed a number of works for percussion, including his\u00a0<em>Concerto for Brass and Percussion<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Divertissement No.\u00a0<\/em>2 for timpani soloist and large ensemble. His <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Mean Man\u2019s March<\/em>\u00a0for solo xylophone and orchestra (2010), <em>Cowboy Bill<\/em>\u00a0for narrator and orchestra (2012), and <em>Breaking Light<\/em> for five percussionists and orchestra (2015) were written for and premiered with the Sun Valley Music Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2296,"template":"","class_list":["post-2295","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"instrument_department":"Timpani","sun_valley_title":"Principal","home_organization_title":"Principal Timpani, Symphony San Jose  ","performance_dates":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alex Orfaly - Sun Valley Music Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alex Orfaly - Sun Valley Music Festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"San Francisco Bay Area timpanist Alex Orfaly is currently Principal Timpanist of Symphony San Jose, the California Symphony, and the Stockton Symphony. 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