Oak Ridge Civic Music Association announces expanded season … – Oakridger
The Oak Ridge Civic Music Association – home of the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Chamber Music Series – opens its 2023–2024 season with a bang, presenting a concert from each series in the first 30 days.
All ticket and subscription prices remain frozen and are available for purchase online at https://orcma.org/concerts-and-tickets, or by contacting the ORCMA Office at (865) 483-5569 or at office@orcma.org, according to a news release. All subscription concerts will be held in Oak Ridge on Sundays at 3 p.m. New this season, Music Director Régulo Stabilito will lead the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra in its four subscription concerts in locations outside of Oak Ridge on the Saturday night prior to the Sunday matinee concert in Oak Ridge. Tickets must be purchased separately and are available on ORCMA’s website. All subscription concerts are free for youths 18 and younger.
“Music Director Régulo Stabilito has designed a thought-provoking season that will engage community partners and address social challenges we face in today’s world. It is a reflection of ORCMA’s new tag line: Innovative and Inclusive Classical Music,” Executive Director Lisa Muci Eckhoff wrote in the release.
“Once again, we are fortunate to welcome world-class musicians to perform chamber music concerts in Oak Ridge,” Chairperson Bill Schwenterly stated. “The award-winning Trio Matisse opens the concert season on Aug. 27, 2023, at First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge. Clarinetist Nickolas Hamblin, who concert-goers will remember as the fantastic soloist from Maestro Stabilito’s audition concert last season, will be joined by violist Benjamin Penzner and pianist Ariya Laothitipong performing virtuosic music by Mozart, Bruch, Liebermann, and Stolz.”
Named after the eclectic French artist Henri Matisse, Trio Matisse was formed in 2021, and in their first year as an ensemble received grand prizes in the Dale and Nancy Briggs, New York International Young Musician’s, and Charleston Chamber Music Competitions.
Stabilito leads the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra in “A Musical Exploration of Cultures” at Pollard Auditorium on Sept. 10. Inspired by the 2023 “Roots of America” Lecture Series, the concert will include music by Gonzalo Castellanos-Yumar, Carlos Simon, Szymon Laks, Aaron Copland, and Louis Ballard. The concert features a small sinfonietta of the orchestra’s principal players immersing listeners in music representative of indigenous heritage, Latino immigration, American Black music, and hate crimes.
On Sept. 24, Choral Director Finalist Sarah Henrich is expected to bring the community together through songs that express grief, passion, joy, and hope in her audition concert, “Loss & Love.” The concert features the Oak Ridge Chorus performing music by Claudio Monteverdi, Amy Beach, Mark A. Miller, Eric Whitacre, and Eleanor Daley at First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge.
The fall season continues on Nov. 12, at the Performing Arts Center at Oak Ridge High School, when Maestro Stabilito and the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra perform “Tradition & Innovation,” featuring special guest guitarist Nirse González, in a performance of the beloved “Concierto de Aranjuez” composed in Braille by composer Joaquin Rodrigo. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No 8 and Mason Bates’ “Auditorium for Chamber Orchestra & Electronica” complete the program.
On Nov. 19, Choral Director Finalist Kirstine Buchanan leads the Oak Ridge Chorus in music that moves people and helps them find meaning in varying seasons of their lives. Her audition concert “Our Spirits Sing,” includes composers Felix Mendelssohn, Rosephanye Powell, Reginal White, Guiseppi Pitoni, and John Rutter performed at First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge.
The subscription series continues on Jan. 14, 2024, when the Cumberland Piano Trioof Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Karen Kartal, cellist and former Music Director Dan Allcott, and Principal Pianist Emi Kagawa, warms people up with lush music by Johannes Brahms at First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge.
On Feb. 18, 2024, Stabilito leads the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble in a selection from J.S. Bach’s The Art of the Fugue, the Sinfoniæ Profanæ for Organ & Brass Quintet by the Colombian composer Diego Vega, Samuel Barber’s Mutations from Bach, and Fanfares by Aaron Copland, Joan Tower, and Valerie Coleman. “Bach & Friends,” features guest organist Sarah Simko at First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge.
Rock to Bach returns for 10th year
ORCMA’s Fundraising Committee is excited to announce the 10th All-Day Rock to Bach Music Festival, Auction & Fundraising Dinner on March 9, at Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church. Chairperson Lois McKeever asks all to “Mark your calendars for another exciting day with a special twist or two.”
Canta Libre, a unique chamber ensemble of harp, flute and three strings – a combination popular with French composers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries – performs on March 10 at First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge. The ensemble specializes in ravishing repertoire that will draw you in to the music and cultural atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Paris. Sally Shorrock, flute; Bradley Bosenbeck, violin; Veronica Salas, viola; Bernard Tamosaitis, cello; Karen Lindquist, harp will also perform on ORCMA’s Rock to Bach Fundraising Dinner on March 9.
The internationally acclaimed Ariel String Quartet closes the chamber music series with their “American Dream” program. Founded in Israel when they were teenagers, the ensemble is the recipient of numerous prestigious and international awards, and is currently the faculty quartet-in-residence at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. Their theatrical program has a purposefully unannounced concert half “serving as a musical metaphor for the way we aspire to see others and want to be seen ourselves: free of expectations, unprejudiced, and with a truly open mind and heart.”
Stabilito leads the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and Guest Choruses in the season finale concert, “Transformation & Triumph.” The concert is dedicated to the necessary and continual transformation of society – globally, nationally, and locally. Plan to attend special community events leading up to what will be a historical and moving performance by the full Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra in music by Arthur Roberts and Dmitri Shostakovich, with the Oak Ridge Chorus and special guest choruses joining for the Tennessee premiere of “Seven Last Words of the Unarmed” by rising composer Joel Thompson. The Performing Arts Center at Oak Ridge High School provides the community setting for this concert.
Music education and community events
ORCMA’s 2023–2024 season also includes numerous music education and community events: the Free Family Concert & Instrument Discovery Zone, Free Coffee Concerts, the Adolf King Free Summer Strings Camp, and more. Information will be announced at later dates.
The Oak Ridge Civic Music Association is a 501(c)(3) presenting organization dedicated to enriching lives throughout the community and supporting local musicians and composers through the performance of a diverse and inclusive range of orchestral, choral, and chamber music in its many forms. This project is supported in part by federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the state of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Association is also funded in part by the Tennessee Arts Commission & TN Specialty Plates. ORCMA thanks its numerous individual donors and corporate sponsors for their support.
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