Guest Conductor Chris Hisey returns this October with music by Strauss and Shostakovich. Winter brings music of Mozart, Bartok and Dvorak with music director Michael Tietz and guest viola soloist William Frampton. The spring concert features more Mozart, plus Delibes and Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto with guest soloist Abraham Appleman.
Guest conductor Brandon Keith-Brown and a great array of soloists join us in a season of classic works.
Join us this year for music of Haydn, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Townsend, Sibelius, Mozart, and of course Bach!
Our 2009-2010 season was highlighted by our joint concert with the New Amsterdam Singers, an upper west side institution which we share a performance space with. Also, old friend Maxine Neuman joined us again for a performance of the Lalo concerto, and Guerguan Tsenov made his first appearance as guest conductor.
The 2006-2007 season featured several special programs, including a Halloween concert, an all-Brahms program and a fully staged production of Mozart’s “The Impresario.”
The 2005-2006 season was highlighted by Diane Wittry leading a concert of music on Scottish themes, with music of Bruch, Maxwell-Davies, and Mendelssohn. Also the Brahms “Double Concerto,” the “Classical” Symphony of Prokofiev, and the epic Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24.
Known commonly as the Christmas Concerto, this work was commissioned by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni and published posthumously in 1714. Read more →
Still writing under the influence of classically-oriented German masters like Mendelssohn and Brahms, scored the Serenade for a wind ensemble very similar to that of Mozart’s great Serenade for Thirteen Winds. Read more →
A New York City premiere! Heralded as a “promising new compositional voice” by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Kansas City native Stephanie Berg’s music has been met with enthusiasm, and has been described as fun, creative, vivid and unabashedly cinematic. Read more →
The piece established Rachmaninoff's fame as a concerto composer and is one of his most enduringly popular pieces. Read more →
Nico Giacalone has recently won second prize in the International Mozart Competition in Vienna. He also graduated this past year with a Master’s Degree from the Mannes Conservatory and was awarded the Steinway Award for outstanding work as a performer and supportive classmate. Read more →