The Reno Chamber Orchestra has announced five programs for the 2016-17 season, beginning with a September “Viva Italia” program featuring works by Verdi, Cherubini, and Rossini, led by Music Director Theodore Kuchar. Also featured on the program will be piano soloists Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Emanuela Frisconi in Respighi’s Piano Concerto in A minor and Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos. The season will also feature symphonies by Beethoven, Dvorák, and Mozart; Wu Man in a performance of Tan Dun’s Concerto for Pipa; and violinist Bella Hristova in a new violin concerto by David Ludwig. The season will conclude in April with “Spiritual Masterworks: Mourning—Healing,” featuring Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 and Dvorák’s Stabat Mater, Op. 58 with the University of Nevada, Reno Chamber Singers.

Posted July 13, 2016