One of the elite orchestras in New Jersey, the Rutgers University Orchestra is an ensemble of 70-75 players enrolled in the undergraduate and graduate music programs at Mason Gross School of the Arts. The Orchestra performs an ambitious concert series that includes three Fall and two Spring concerts at the University, in addition to a major opera production in February. For the past several years it has also performed in New York City, and in Fall 1999 there was a gala performance at NJPAC. In Spring 2001 the Orchestra performed in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In the past two seasons the Orchestra's concerts have included some of the most challenging works of the Classical, Romantic, and 20th-century repertory: symphonies by Berlioz, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, and Mahler, and other orchestral showpieces by Smetana, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, and Bartok. Each year there are also concerto performances by winners of an orchestra-sponsored competition.