RCO Podcasts
Welcome to the audio version of the Reno Chamber Orchestra's program notes! This page is also home to our Concert Chats series with Maestro Kelly Kuo & Catherine Beeson. Subscribe to our podcast and be updated for each concert, and have an opportunity in advance of the performance to listen to the audio version of our program notes!
Episodes
Alternatively named : "Go for Baroque with these Relatable Quotes"
Catherine Beeson and Kelly Kuo discuss the pieces to be performed during Americans & The Baroque January 31 and February 1.
Join Catherine Beeson and Kelly Kuo as they dive deeper into the programing for our Season Premiere.
In the second episode of Concert Chats, Catherine and Kelly discus the history of the pieces selected for the concert. They also dive deeper into the lives of the composers.
Finishing off our 22nd Nevada Chamber Music Festival, featuring Galaxy Su.
An NCMF tradition. This year's performance features Ray Ushikubo
Songs of the British Isles. Featuring Chicago Fire's Hanako Greensmith.
Cello Under the Northern Lights featuring Clive Greensmith and James Baik
Folk Trios Featuring Ravel
Opening night of the 22nd Nevada Chamber Music Festival. Featuring Trio Azura the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Colburn School and Molly Carr.
The RCO's second concert of the 25/26 Season features works by composers who immigrated to America. Including Igor Stravinsky's Concerto in E flat Dumbarton Oaks. The piece was written at what Stravinsky refers to as the most difficult time in his life.
Program notes by Chris Morrison
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
Tickets to Salute to Youth must be purchased individually and may be added to your se...
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
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 28 @ 7:30pm
Opening Night with Clive Greensmith
Celebrate the opening of the 21st Nevada Chamber Music Festival with Clive Greensmith and Quartet Integra.
Featuring Beethoven, Schubert, and Reno composer Monica Houghton.
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 16, Op. 135
MONICA HOUGHTON Epigram
FRANZ SCHUBERT String Quintet, D. 956
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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...
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