The Arcos Orchestra, based in New York City, is in the midst of an eleven-performance tour of Germany and Switzerland. The tour—launched November 16 in Berlin’s Ernst Reuter Saal and ending on November 27 in Trossingen, Switzerland—features music by Adler, Barber, Bartók, Mozart, Nordgren, Schubert, and Shostakovich, led by John-Edward Kelly, Arcos’s artistic director. Soloists during the tour include Swiss pianists Louis Schwizgebel and Cédric Pescia, and violinist Marc Uys, Arcos’s concertmaster. The tour also includes stops in the German cities of Bad Driburg, Lingen, Worms, Wolfenbüttel, Mülheim/Ruhr, Dortmund, and Calw-Hirsau, and Liestal/Basel in Switzerland. This is the fourth European for the orchestra; it was organized by Arcos’s Berlin-based manager, Andrea Hampl, president of the European Association of Artist Managers. Arcos, founded in 2005 by Kelly and violinist Elissa Cassini, has served as orchestra in residence at Temple Emanu-El in New York since 2010.
Posted November 21, 2013
