23/24 SEASON
Welcome to the Reno Chamber Orchestra’s 49th Season
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Single concert tickets available starting August 1
Please remember that venues, dates, repertoire and guest artists are all subject to change.
23/24 season concerts are presented on the UNR campus.
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Saturday concerts are presented at 7:30 pm
Sunday concerts are presented at 2:00 pm
Subscriptions must be purchased over the phone or by returning completed renewal packets by mail to 925 Riverside Drive, Suite 5, Reno, NV 89503
Call our offices at 775-348-9413 W Monday - Friday W 10 am to 3 pm with questions or to complete your purchase
October 7 & 8, 2023
ALEGRÍA
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.
Kelly Kuo, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Mak Grgić, guitar
Sponsored by Holly Walton-Buchanan
& Kel Buchanan
CARREÑO Serenade for String Orchestra
PONCE Concierto del sur
ARRIAGA Symphony in D Major
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November 18 & 19, 2023
THE STORIES
WE TELL
Sponsored by Lynn Bremer
Meteorologist Mike Alger narrates Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s musical telling of a beloved children’s book in a program of works which use music to tell stories. Kevin Lau’s fiery portrait of the Greek Goddess, Artemis, demands immediate attention while Rossini’s signature wit and sparkle are on full display in his take on the Cinderella fairy tale.
Kelly Kuo, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Mike Alger, Narrator
David Portillo, Tenor
LAU Artemis
SHAW The Mountain that loved a Bird
ROSSINI Excerpts from La cenerentola
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February 17 & 18, 2024
THE OLD STYLE
Respighi’s imaginative orchestrations of lute music and Bloch’s challenge to his skeptical students bookend a program of works influenced by traditions of an earlier style of music. In between, Jennifer Corning Lucio, Fort Worth Symphony’s principal oboe, performs Vaughn Williams’ pastoral oboe concerto and the baroque concerto grosso form gets a jazz-inflected rethinking by Errolyn Wallen, “the renaissance woman of contemporary British music.”
Kelly Kuo, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Jennifer Corning Lucio, Oboe
RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oboe Concerto
WALLEN Concerto Grosso
BLOCH Concerto Grosso No. 1
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March 16 & 17, 2024
SMALL BUT MIGHTY
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
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Chelsea Guo, Piano & Soprano
Sponsored by Jennifer Smith & John Thayer
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414
MAHLER (arr. Simon) Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Sponsored by Peter Lenz & Cecilia Lee
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April 6 & 7, 2024
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.
PRESENTED AT HALL RECITAL HALL
Rachell Ellen Wong, Violin & Conductor
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 Major, Op. 6, No. 1
DURANTE Concerto No. 8 in A Major, "La pazzia"
VIVALDI Concerto for Violin in G Major, RV 307
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May 19, 2024
Special Additional Concert
Sponsored by Chris & Parky May
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. Priced separately from our season subscriptions, with the first chance to buy tickets given to our season subscribers.
CLICK HERE for information on how to enter the concerto competition.
This single concert event WILL sell out
Kelly Kuo, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Two Concerto Competition Winners, Soloists
HERBERT Serenade
SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 2 in A Minor, op. 55
Winning Concertos
DREAMING BIG
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Call our offices at 775-348-9413 W Monday - Friday W 10 am to 3 pm