The Reno Chamber Orchestra will present its ten-concert 2019 Nevada Chamber Music Festival this winter from December 26 to January 1, curated by cellist Clive Greensmith in his inaugural season as the festival’s artistic director. Concerts featuring Reno Chamber Orchestra musicians, wind quintet WindSync, the Calidore String Quartet, and other guest performers will take place at multiple Reno venues. The festival will open with Caroline Shaw’s Three Essays, Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18, No. 4, and Schubert’s String Quintet in C, D. 956. Featured festival repertoire will include Rebecca Clarke’s Morpheus, Marc Mellits’s Apollo, Guillaume Connesson’s Techno Parade, Erwin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet, and Ludwig Thuille’s Sextet in B flat major, Op. 6, as well as music by composers ranging from Bach and Ravel to Shostakovich and Villa-Lobos. Clive Greensmith was a member of the Tokyo String Quartet from 1999 until its final year, 2013.
Posted November 5, 2019
