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.

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Kelly Kuo, conductor

Gerardo de la Torre, baritone
Zulimar López-Hernánde...

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 G...

Guest conductor Luke Poeppel 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.

Luke Poeppel, Guest conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Dylan Neff, Bassoon
Adriana Zab...

December 29 @ 2:00pm

Piano Salon

NCMF's Piano Showcase​ with works by Saint-Saëns, Chopin and more.

The 2024 festival piano lineup features Steven Vanhauwaert, Hyeyeon Park and James Winn. 

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REYNALDO HAHN   Variations chantantes sur un air ancien​​

FRANCOIS COUPERIN   Le Barricades Mystérieuses

EMMANUEL CHABRIER   Dix pièces pittoresques, No 6: Idylle

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN   Prélude, Op. 28 No. 3 in G Major

CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS  ...

December 29 @ 7:30pm

1920's Songbook

Hear Gershwin, Porter and more! Featuring vocalist Chicago Fire's Hanako Greensmith with pianist Steven Vanhauwaert. Enjoy songs of the 1920's paired with Ravel's Violin Sonata No. 2 performed by Ruth Lenz and James Winn, as well as Hindemith's Viola Sonata No. 4, and Gershwin's Three Preludes for clarinet and piano.

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GEORGE GERSHWIN/IRA GERSHWIN    Fascin...

December 30 @ 2:00pm

Cello Celebration

A Cello-bration, if you will! Celebrate the brilliance of the cello with works by Faure, Britten, Puccini and a grand cello ensemble finale!

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GYÖRGY LIGETI   Sonate for Solo Cello​​

GABRIEL FAURÉ   Miniatures for Cello and Piano; Romance, Op. 69; Sicillienne, Op. 78; Papillon, Op. 77

ENRIQUE GRANADOS   Intermezzo from Goyescas

BENJAMIN BRITTEN   Cello Sonata, Op. 65

LUIGI BOCCHERINI   Cel...

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.​​

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JOHANNES BRAHMS   Clarinet Sonata No. 2, Op. 120​​

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN   String Quartet in B mino...

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.

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GIACOMO PUCCINI   Crisantemi, SC 65​​

CARL MARIA VON WEBER   Clarinet Quintet, Op. 34

REBECCA CLARKE   Morpheus

ANTONIN DVORAK   String Quintet No....

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...

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 ARNOLD  Serenade for Small Orchestra...

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

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In the park at
McKinley Arts & Culture Center
925 Riverside Drive
Reno, NV

Repertoire
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART      Marriage of...

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. Priced separately from ou...

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 Major, Op. 6, No. 1

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
Chelsea Guo, Piano & Soprano

MOZART  ...

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 music.”

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Kelly Kuo, conductor

Jennife...

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 perform...

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 Q...

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 per...