RCO Podcasts

December 30 @ 7:30pm Brahms & Beyond Featuring principal second clarinet of the San Francisco Symphony, Yuhsin Galaxy Su . Enjoy this Brahm-wich of a concert that opens and closes with Joannes Brahms, and a meaty center of Haydn's String Quartet in B minor, and Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano. ​​ ​​ REPERTOIRE * JOHANNES BRAHMS   Clarinet Sonata No. 2, Op. 120​​ F...

December 31 @ 2:00pm String in the New Year A finale to remember with your favorite NCMF artists including Renoite Molly Carr . Ring in the new year with string quartets and quintets by Dvorak and Puccini,  plus Rebecca Clarke's Morpheus, a dreamy delight for viola and piano. ​​ REPERTOIRE * GIACOMO PUCCINI   Crisantemi, SC 65​​ CARL MARIA VON WEBER   Clarinet Quintet, Op. 34 REBECCA CLARKE  ...

An intriguing combination of works written by well-known composers when they were in their twenties begins with a Debussy suite which includes Clair de lune, one of the most famous musical pieces of all time, followed by NCMF Artistic Director Clive Greensmith performing Dobrinka Tabakova’s charming arrangement of Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata.   Shostakovich’s acerbic wit and seriousness are then...

The Reno Chamber Orchestra presents A PLACE FOR US Celebrating its 50th season, RCO makes a case for a chamber orchestra of the 21st century with fresh pieces by Carlos Simon, Malcolm Arnold, and renowned film score composer Danny Elfman alongside a strings feature by Bartok from RCO’s first season, and a showcase for winds by Strauss foreshadowing his great operas. Kelly Kuo , conductor MALCOLM A...

Join the Reno Chamber Orchestra for our third annual free community concert at the Feed the Camel food truck festival! New for 2024 we will present this concert with our full orchestra! Bring the family and enjoy the idyllic summer shade, and fantastic music! August 28, 2024 5:00pm ​ In the park at McKinley Arts & Culture Center 925 Riverside Drive Reno, NV Repertoire WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART ...

DREAMING BIG For one performance only, this concert will feature winners of RCO’s reimagined concerto competition which cultivates talent of Nevada youth and highlights the work of Nevada teachers.  String students of RCO’s own musicians also perform side-by-side with their mentors in Victor Herbert’s charming Serenade and Saint-Saëns’ youthful Symphony No. 2 closes the season with a flourish. Pri...

INSIDE-OUT ​Violinist Rachell Ellen Wong , winner of the 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant, leads this program of baroque works that speaks to the human condition, evoking the feelings of hope, loss, exuberance, anger and joy.  A. SCARLATTI   Concerto Grosso No. 3 in F Major PURCELL   Selections from Music for the Theatre TELEMANN   Sonata à 4 in A Minor GETER   Buh-roke HANDEL   Concerto Grosso in G...

Principal musicians of RCO shine in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, with sunny and transparent qualities that lend itself to a fanciful chamber orchestration.  Superstar double-threat Chelsea Guo sings the poetic finale AND takes the keys in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12, one of just three that the composer allowed to be performed with an intimate number of string players. ​ Kelly Kuo , conductor Chelse...

Respighi’s imaginative orchestrations of lute music and Bloch’s challenge to his skeptical students bookend a program of works inspired by early music. Jennifer Corning Lucio , Fort Worth Symphony’s principal oboe, performs Vaughan Williams’ pastoral oboe concerto and the baroque concerto grosso form gets a jazz-inflected rethinking by Errolyn Wallen, “the renaissance woman of contemporary British...

December 29th at 7:30pm Cello Mavericks Harlan O. and Barbara R. Hall Recital Hall BEETHOVEN   Cello Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 5, No. 1 BERIO   Sequenza IV for cello HOLST   Invocation for Cello and Piano DOHÀNYI   Serenade in C major for string trio, Op. 10 FREDDIE MERCURY  Bohemian Rhapsody arranged for Cello Quartet A cello showcase to remember! Featuring Clive Greensmith in a performance of...

December 30th at 2:00pm L'Après-Midi Avec Debussy Harlan O. and Barbara R. Hall Recital Hall DEBUSSY    Violin Sonata in G minor LISZT    Transcendental Etude No. 11 in D-flat major “Harmonies du Soir” DEBUSSY    selection of piano pieces MESSIAEN  Ile de Feu for solo piano DELIUS   Romance for Cello and Piano TAKEMITSU    A Bird Came Down the Walk for Viola and Piano DEBUSSY   String Quartet...

20th Festival Celebration Harlan O. and Barbara R. Hall Recital Hall RAVEL   Tzigane for violin and piano MENDELSSOHN   String Quintet No 2 in B-flat major, Op. 87 SCHUBERT    Piano Trio in B-flat major, D. 898 A celebration of the 20th Nevada Chamber Music Festival. The Mendelssohn and Schubert pieces were performed at the very first NCMF. Ruth Lenz will perform the exciting Tzigane by Ravel, her...

December 31st at 2:00pm Beyond Tomorrow Harlan O. and Barbara R. Hall Recital Hall MONICA HOUGHTON   String Quartet No. 3 ARENSKY    Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32 DVOŘÁK    String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77 The final concert opens with a string quartet by Reno composer Monica Houghton, and ends with the Dvorak string quintet, a beloved piece from the  first festival. ​ Dmitri Atapine,...

KARIM AL-ZAND   String Quartet No. 4 "Strange Machines" (Chamber Music America Commission 2022) MOZART     String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421  DVOŘÁK    Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81, B. 155 NCMF celebrates the return of rising chamber music stars, the Balourdet Quartet. This concert opens with an exciting new piece commissioned by Chamber Music America in 2022 from compos...

MOZART   Sonata in D major for 2 pianos, K. 448 JANACEK   In the Mists SCRIABIN   Piano Sonata No. 4 CLARA SCHUMANN  Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F-sharp minor, Op. 20 JAMES WINN   Three Pieces after William Butler Yeats DVORAK     Selections from Slavonic Dances for four hands The classic NCMF format of the piano showcase returns. All three of the festival pianists, Hyeyeon Park, S...

The program notes podcast for the Reno Chamber Orchestra's second concert of the 23/24 season. Please join us at Nightingale Concert Hall on November 18 & 19, 2023, to experience this storytelling concert for yourself. It will be an event to remember. THE STORIES WE TELL This multifaceted program features opera, narration, and visual art. First, Kevin Lau's fiery portrait of the Gree...

RCO joyfully celebrates Hispanic Heritage month with music by celebrated Venezuelan pianist, Teresa Carreño, Spanish Basque composer Juan Crisótomo Arriaga who tragically died at the age of 20, and a concerto by the founding father of 20th century Mexican music, Manuel Poncé, featuring Grammy-nominated guitarist, Mak Grgić . Attend our performances at Nightingale Concert Hall on October 7, 2023 at...