RCO Podcasts

Enjoy our program notes for Dreaming Big. Written and read by Chris Morrison. 

Enjoy our program notes for Gershwin: All That Jazz. Written and read by Chris Morrison. 

Alternately named 'Give it a Kuo". Join Catherine Beeson and Kelly Kuo as they dive deeper into what you can expect during Gershwin: All that Jazz. Taking place May 2 & 3 at Nightingale Concert Hall at the University of Nevada, Reno. Get your tickets at renochamberorchestra.org/tickets 

Our audio version of our program notes for Barber: American Voices with the Reno Chamber Orchestra. 

Join Music Director Kelly Kuo and Colorado Symphony's Assistant Principal Viola Catherine Beeson as they discuss Barber: American Voices.  Taking place February 28 & March 1 at the University of Nevada, Reno. 

Our audio version of our program notes for Americans & The Baroque with the Reno Chamber Orchestra. 

Alternatively named : "Go for Baroque with these Relatable Quotes"  Catherine Beeson and Kelly Kuo discuss the pieces to be performed during Americans & The Baroque January 31 and February 1.  

Join Catherine Beeson and Kelly Kuo as they dive deeper into the programing for our Season Premiere. 

In the second episode of Concert Chats, Catherine and Kelly discus the history of the pieces selected for the concert. They also dive deeper into the lives of the composers. 

Finishing off our 22nd Nevada Chamber Music Festival, featuring Galaxy Su. 

An NCMF tradition. This year's performance features Ray Ushikubo 

Songs of the British Isles. Featuring Chicago Fire's Hanako Greensmith. 

Cello Under the Northern Lights featuring Clive Greensmith and James Baik 

Folk Trios Featuring Ravel 

Opening night of the 22nd Nevada Chamber Music Festival. Featuring Trio Azura the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Colburn School and Molly Carr. 

The RCO's second concert of the 25/26 Season features works by composers who immigrated to America. Including Igor Stravinsky's Concerto in E flat Dumbarton Oaks. The piece was written at what Stravinsky refers to as the most difficult time in his life.

Program notes by Chris Morrison 

Talented Nevada youth perform side-by-side with RCO in Barber’s famous Adagio for Strings before the winners of our concerto competition take the stage as soloists. RCO’s Sound Investment commissioning program makes its debut with a new work before the season concludes with a symphony chosen by you, our audience and supporters. One Performance Only ​ Tickets to Salute to Youth must be purchased in...

Handel’s Messiah returns to the RCO after over two decades in a Spanish translation as we highlight Easter selections from El Mesías: Messiah for a New World. A chamber orchestration of Gershwin’s infectious Havana-inspired Cuban Overture and Piazzolla’s fresh tango-jazz-classical Sinfonietta fill out this program influenced by Latin connections. ​ Kelly Kuo , conductor Gerardo de la Torre , barit...

Get ready to jam as the infectious rhythms and tunes of American greats like Ellington, Joplin, and Gershwin will have you dancing in your seats. One of the concert's works get a Reno-themed multi-media treatment by Eve Allen Garza and RCO’s principal strings are featured as soloists in Delights and Dances, a work by Pulitzer-prize winner Michael Abels, known widely for his score to the film...

Guest conductor Luke Poeppel leads a program in Hall Recital Hall juxtaposing arrangements of popular music by the Beatles with beloved works from the Baroque canon of Western classical music by Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel. Mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala and RCO’s own principal bassoon, Dylan Neff, are the featured soloists. Luke Poeppel , Guest conductor The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium Dylan...

December 28 @ 7:30pm Opening Night with Clive Greensmith Celebrate the opening of the 21st Nevada Chamber Music Festival with Clive Greensmith and Quartet Integra . ​ Featuring Beethoven, Schubert, and Reno composer Monica Houghton.​​ ​​ REPERTOIRE * LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN   String Quartet No. 16, Op. 135​​ MONICA HOUGHTON   Epigram FRANZ SCHUBERT String Quintet, D. 956 ​ ARTISTS * Clive Greensmith...

December 29 @ 2:00pm Piano Salon NCMF's Piano Showcase​ with works by Saint-Saëns, Chopin and more. The 2024 festival piano lineup features Steven Vanhauwaert, Hyeyeon Park and James Winn .  ​​ REPERTOIRE * REYNALDO HAHN   Variations chantantes sur un air ancien​​ FRANCOIS COUPERIN   Le Barricades Mystérieuses EMMANUEL CHABRIER   Dix pièces pittoresques, No 6: Idylle FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN   Prélude...

December 29 @ 7:30pm 1920's Songbook Hear Gershwin, Porter and more! Featuring vocalist Chicago Fire's Hanako Greensmith with pianist Steven Vanhauwaert. Enjoy songs of the 1920's paired with Ravel's Violin Sonata No. 2 performed by Ruth Lenz and James Winn, as well as Hindemith's Viola Sonata No. 4, and Gershwin's Three Preludes for clarinet and piano. ​​ REPERTOIRE...

December 30 @ 2:00pm Cello Celebration A Cello-bration, if you will! Celebrate the brilliance of the cello with works by Faure, Britten, Puccini and a grand cello ensemble finale! ​​ REPERTOIRE * GYÖRGY LIGETI   Sonate for Solo Cello​​ GABRIEL FAURÉ   Miniatures for Cello and Piano; Romance, Op. 69; Sicillienne, Op. 78; Papillon, Op. 77 ENRIQUE GRANADOS   Intermezzo from Goyescas BENJAMIN BRITTEN...