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| | NCMF Presents: The Calidore Quartet with Clive Greensmith
Thu Dec 26 - 7:00pm
St John's Presbyterian Church - 1070 Plumb Ln
Tickets - $45 Adult, $10 Student
Celebrate the opening of the 16th annual Nevada Chamber Music Festival with the Calidore String Quartet. One of classical music's most heralded young ensembles, the Calidore has been the receipient of 2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, and the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2018. Their program opens with a work written for the quartet by Pulitzer prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, followed by a lovely early Beethoven quartet. The evening concludes with a glorious quintet by Franz Schubert, as festival Artistic Director Clive Greensmith joins the ensemble.
Caroline Shaw: Three Essays
Beethoven: String Quartet Op 18 No 4
Schubert: String Quintet in C, D. 956 | Buy tickets |
| | Basically Baroque
Fri Dec 27 - 3:00pm
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral - 200 Island Ave
Tickets - $45 Adult, $10 Student
The tradition of festival concerts in the intimate acoustics of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral continues. This program showcases the wide range of sounds from the 17th and 18th centuries, including some of music's most beloved composers. Early music specialist Ian Pritchard joins the ensembles as harpsichordist, and celebrates the season with Corelli's beautiful Christmas Concerto.
Corelli: Christmas Concerto, Op. 68
Bach: Ich Ruf Zu Dir’
Handel: Harp Concerto in B-flat major
Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba No. 2 in D major
Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006
Vivaldi: Concerto for 4 Violins in B minor RV 580 | Buy tickets |
| | Soaring Strings
Fri Dec 27 - 7:00pm
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral - 200 Island Ave
Tickets - $45 Adult, $10 Student
This evening program begins where the afternoon concert left off, with a surprising Baroque work for strings led by harpsichordist Ian Pritchard. Next, audiences are treated to three smaller works by 20th century masters, including a rarely heard gem by British composer and violist Rebecca Clarke. Dvorak's lush, romantic piano quintet- featuring Steven Vanhauwaert- brings the program to a close.
Biber: Battalia
Prokofiev: Duo
Clarke: Morpheus
Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major
Dvorak: Piano Quintet | Buy tickets |
| | Three's Company
Sat Dec 28 - 3:00pm
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada - 780 Del Monte Ln
Tickets - $45 Adult, $10 Student
A trio of piano trios marks the first program for the chamber festival at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. The pensive, brooding elegaic trio of Rachmaninov sets the scene, followed by a beautiful and haunting second trio of Shostakovich. All the complexity of the first two works is balanced by the final work, with a grand romantic ending only Johnnes Brahms could create.
Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque No 1 in G minor
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, op 67
Brahms: Piano Trio, Op. 87 | Buy tickets |
| | Classical Connections
Sat Dec 28 - 7:00pm
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada - 780 Del Monte Ln
Tickets - $45 Adult, $10 Student
Take a trip back to one of classical music's golden eras, with a collection of chamber music by some of the masters composers of the Germanic traditions. The anchor work on this program -a string quintet of Mozart -showcases all the complexity of his later period of works, and provided inspiration to both Beethoven and Schubert as contemporaries.
Haydn: Quartet Op 50 No 5
Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
Schubert: Moments Musicaux, D 780
Mozart: String Quintet in E flat major, K. 614 | Buy tickets |
| | A French Feast for the Senses
Dinner and Concert
Sun Dec 29 - 5:00pm
Renaissance Reno Downtown Hotel - Topaz Room (2nd floor) - 1 South Lake St
Tickets - $75 (includes meal)
Experience the festival's first dinner concert! A bit of French flair runs throughout this evening, which features your choice of fine cuisine prepared by the fine staff of the Renaissance. A no-host bar is also provided, and guests will sit together at round tables. Masterworks from two centuries of great composers will pair perfectly with the meal and ambience- don't miss this unique classical experience!
Ravel: Tzigane
Ravel: Sonata for Violin & Cello
Saint-Saens: Piano Trio No. 1 in F major
Faure: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op. 15 | Buy tickets |
| | NCMF Presents: WindSync in Recital
Mon Dec 30 - 3:00pm
UNR Hall Recital Hall - 1300 N Virginia St
Tickets - $45 Adult, $10 Student
One of the most exciting young ensembles today performs the festival's first public performance in the new Harlan & Barbara Hall Recital Hall at UNR. The five musicians perform music from memory to create joyful, intimate performances which connect quickly with audiences. Take in the wide range of sound available to a woodwind quintet, in one of the most acoustically perfect spaces for chamber music in Northern Nevada!
Beethoven/arr. Rechtman: Quintet in E-flat major Op. 4
Marc Mellits: Apollo
Offenbach: Ballet of the Snowflakes from A Trip to the Moon | Buy tickets |
| | Chamber Rarities
Mon Dec 30 - 7:00pm
UNR Hall Recital Hall - 1300 N Virginia St
Tickets - $45 Adult, $10 Student
The collection of chamber music for both wind and string instruments is both wonderfully diverse, and rarely performed. The selections on this program explore that unique soundscape, culminating with the full WindSync quintet performing for winds and piano.
Mozart: Oboe Quartet KV 370
Brahms: Trio in A minor, Op. 114
Thuille: Sextet in B flat major, Op. 6 | Buy tickets |
| | New Year's Sampler
Tue Dec 31 - 5:00pm
UNR Hall Recital Hall - 1300 N Virginia St
Tickets - $45 Adult, $10 Student
Let the New Years festivities begin, with this tour of entertaining and intriguing chamber works. From tango to techno, this fast-moving concert is the perfect start to a night out- or a final hurrah for those heading to bed early. Whether you make it to midnight or not, this concert will ensure your 2019 ends with a celebration!
Connesson: Techno Parade
Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet
Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes, op. 34
Rossini: Duo for Cello and Bass
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 – Aria
Piatti: Caprice for Solo Cello on a Theme from Niobe by Giovani Pacini, Op. 22
Miranda, arr. WindSync: Recuerdos de Borinquen | Buy tickets |
| | Festival Finale
Wed Jan 1 - 3:00pm
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral - 200 Island Ave
Tickets - $45 Adult, $10 Student
The 16th chamber music festival comes to a close inside the historic Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Winds, strings and piano combine once again for a lush mix of works. The performance culminates in one of the largest works of the festival, Louis Spohr's rarely-heard Nonet, for five wind players and four strings. Start the new year off inspired and transported by the beauty of live classical performance.
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds
Victoria, arr. Marckx: O Magnum Misterium
Spohr: Nonet | Buy tickets |
| | RCO Music Director Finalist #3: Nicholas Carthy
Saturday Jan 25, 2020 - 7:30pm
Sunday Jan 26, 2020 - 2:00pm
Nicholas Carthy, conductor and Music Director finalist
Hope Briggs, soprano
SCHUMANN Introduction, Scherzo & Finale
BEETHOVEN Ah, Perfido!
GABRIELA LENA FRANK Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
KODALY Dances of Galanta
British conductor Nicholas Carthy is the fourth finalist to take the stage with the RCO. He studied at the Guidhall School of Music in London as well as the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and spent a period of time as assistant to famed conductor Daniel Barenboim. He is currently Professor of Music and Opera Music Director at the University of Colorado and visiting tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in his native Great Britain.
Maestro Carthy continues the Beethoven connection throughout the season with a wonderful solo aria for soprano and orchestra. It is paired on the first half with a light and moving concert piece by Robert Schumann. The second half of the performance brings two exciting works with the rhythms of dance throughout. Living American composer Gabriela Lena Frank's Leyendas brings the sounds of the Andes, and Zoltan Kodaly's brilliant Dances of Galanta closes the program. | Buy tickets |
| | RCO Music Director Finalist #5: Kelly Kuo
Saturday Mar 14, 2020 - 7:30pm
Sunday Mar 15, 2020 - 2:00pm
Kelly Kuo, conductor and Music Director finalist
Bion Tsang, cello
Lau Artemis
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1
Bion Tsang, cello
Beethoven Symphony No. 2
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| | RCO Music Director Finalist #6: Conner Gray Covington
April 4, 2020 - 7:30pm
April 5, 2020 - 2:00pm
Conner Gray Covington, conductor and Music Director finalist
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
Ligeti Romanian Overture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
Cole Death of the Poet
Haydn Symphony No. 88
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