2024/2025 

Celebrating our 50th season with the commissioning of a new work

TANNER PORTER, RCO Sound Investment Composer 

 

How does a composer know which notes to put on the page? How do they know which instruments should play at a certain time? If these are questions that have ever permeated your thoughts, then we have a unique opportunity for you! Beginning this fall you will be able to learn about music composition from composer Tanner Porter. Ms. Porter has been commissioned to compose a new work for the RCO’s 50th season that will be funded by you, our Reno Chamber Orchestra investors! 

 

Investors in this commission were invited to three exclusive hour-long salons where Ms. Porter described the tools and techniques she used to compose the new work for the RCO. Donors were able to ask questions during the salons and at the reception following each event. At the first salon Ms. Porter shared her inspiration and other ideas for how the work began to take shape. During the second salon Ms. Porter and musicians from the RCO performed selections from the work still in progress. At the third and final salon donors will receive a draft of the score and learn how the piece has taken its final shape. Donors will be the first to hear the orchestra reading the new work! 

 

Following the premiere and after any adjustments have been made to the score, investors will receive their very own full-size score with investor names printed on the inside cover and signed by Ms. Porter.  

 

Investors had access to three exclusive composer-led salons with

A reception with the composer following each salon 

Access to the first reading of the composition and a draft score  

Autographed final score 

 

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