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A Place For Us
October 19 & 20, 2024

A photo graphic depicting NCMF artistic director Clive Greensmith, the RCO's featured soloist for their November 2024 concert

Twenty-Somethings
November 9 & 10, 2024

A photo graphic depicting Baroque composers and the members of The Beatles, promoting the RCO's February 2025  concert

Baroque to Beatles
February 1 & 2, 2025

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American Dance Party
March 1 & 2, 2025

A vintage photo depicts the RCO in concert, performing Handel's Messiah, with the UNR choir. Promoting the April 2025 concert

Latin Bridges
April 5 & 6, 2025

A photo graphic depicts members of the RCO in concert with concerto competition winners, promoting their May 2025 concert

Salute to Youth
May 18, 2025

Single Tickets Available Now

Single Ticket Pricing

Nightingale Concert Hall
Section A - $68.50 

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Section B - $55.50
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Section C - $28.50
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Hall Recital Hall
All seats - $50

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Subscription Pricing
available through October 18, 2024

Nightingale Concert Hall
Section A - $295 

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Section B - $245
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Section C - $145
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Subscribers may select any seat in Hall Recital Hall for
Feb 2025 performances, regardless of the price point of their Nightingale Concert Hall seat. 

 

Tickets to the entire RCO season are available now
Subscriptions available through October 18, 2024

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A Place For Us

October 19 & 20, 2024
Nightingale Concert Hall

A Place For Us

ABOUT 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.

MALCOLM ARNOLD  Serenade for Small Orchestra
BÉLA BARTÓK            Divertimento for Strings
RICHARD STRAUSS    Serenade in E-Flat Major, Op. 7
CARLOS SIMON         Breathe
DANNY ELFMAN        Suite for Chamber Orchestra

RCO Saturday concerts are at 7:30pm
RCO Sunday concerts are at 2:00pm

A free 30-minute pre-concert talk begins inside the hall one hour prior to concert time

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Twenty-Somethings

November 9 & 10, 2024
Nightingale Concert Hall

Twenty-Somethings

ABOUT TWENTY-SOMETHINGS

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 on full display in incidental music he wrote for “the most scandalous production (of Hamlet) in the history of Shakespeare,” presented here as a theatrical collaboration with local actors.

Kelly Kuo, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Clive Greensmith, cello

Truckee Meadows Community College Visual & Performing Arts Department
Shea King, Instructor, Performing Arts


Alwin Pizana, Hamlet
Gabrielle Rodda, Ophelia & Queen
Isaias Torres, Horatio
Cody Prewett, Ghost, Laertes & Fortinbras

 

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (orch. Mouton)     Suite Bergamasque
FRANZ SCHUBERT/TABAKOVA     Arpeggione Sonata
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH     Hamlet, Suite from the Theatre Music, op, 32a

RCO Saturday concerts are at 7:30pm
RCO Sunday concerts are at 2:00pm

A free 30-minute pre-concert
 talk begins inside the hall one hour prior to concert time

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Baroque to Beatles

February 1 & 2, 2025
Hall Recital Hall

Baroque to Beatles

ABOUT BAROQUE TO BEATLES

Guest conductor Emily Senturia 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.

Emily Senturia, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Dylan Neff, Bassoon
Adriana Zabala
, Mezzo-soprano

ANTONIO VIVALDI    Bassoon Concerto in A Minor, RV 499
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH    Cantata No. 82, "Ich habe genug"
JOHN LENNON/PAUL MCCARTNEY (arr. Berio)     Beatles Songs

 GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL     Water Music Suite No. 1


RCO Saturday concerts are at 7:30pm
RCO Sunday concerts are at 2:00pm

A free 30-minute pre-concert
 talk begins inside the hall one hour prior to concert time

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American Dance Party

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March 1 & 2, 2025
Nightingale Concert Hall

American Dane Party

ABOUT AMERICAN DANCE PARTY

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 Nope.

Kelly Kuo, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Eve Allen Garza, Choreographer
James Winn, Piano

SCOTT JOPLIN     Overture to Treemonisha
LEONARD BERNSTEIN (arr. Garth Sunderland)     Fancy Free
MICHAEL ABELS     Delights and Dances
DUKE ELLINGTON (arr. Prustman)     Three Songs of Duke Ellington
for Chamber Orchestra
GEORGE GERSHWIN (arr. Farrington)     I Got Rhythm Variations


RCO Saturday concerts are at 7:30pm
RCO Sunday concerts are at 2:00pm

A free 30-minute pre-concert
 talk begins inside the hall one hour prior to concert time

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Latin Bridges

April 5 & 6, 2025
Nightingale Concert Hall

Latin Bridges

ABOUT LATIN BRIDGES

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
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium

GEORGE GERSHWIN (arr. Diaz)    Cuban Overture
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA    Sinfonietta    
GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL     excerpts from The Messiah (en Español)


RCO Saturday concerts are at 7:30pm
RCO Sunday concerts are at 2:00pm

A free 30-minute pre-concert
 talk begins inside the hall one hour prior to concert time

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Salute to Youth

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May 18, 2025
Nightingale Concert Hall

Salute to Youth

ABOUT SALUTE TO YOUTH

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

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Tickets to Salute to Youth must be purchased individually and may be added to your season subscription purchase.

Kelly Kuo, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium

SAMUEL BARBER     Adagio
TANNER PORTER     Sound Investment Commission
Competition Winners Pieces
Cast your vote now for the audience choice piece by clicking here

Salute to Youth tickets are not included in 24/25 subscriptions,
and are sold only as single tickets.


RCO Sunday concerts are at 2:00pm

A free 30-minute pre-concert
 talk begins inside the hall one hour prior to concert time

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