August 12, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Chamber Orchestra of New York Announces 2011-2012 Concert Season
– Fourth Season Repertoire Includes U.S. Premieres
The Chamber Orchestra of New York “Ottorino Respighi” and its Music Director Salvatore Di Vittorio has announced details of their Fourth Season, 2011-2012:
Saturday, December 3 at 8:00 PM - The seasons’ opening concert will be presented at the Church of St. Jean Baptiste, Lexington Avenue at 76th Street in Manhattan.
Featured artists will be The Virgin Consort choral ensemble in the U.S. Premiere of Scarlatti’s oratorio “Il Giardino di Rose” and organist Kyler Brown in Respighi’s Suite for organ and strings.
Other upcoming season highlights include a restoration of Ottorino Respighi’s orchestration of Claudio Monteverdi’s extant Il Lamento di Arianna (from his lost second opera “Arianna”), and other rediscovered early works of Respighi such as his Tre Liriche for mezzo-soprano and orchestra – once championed by Luciano Pavarotti. These works will be showcased alongside staples of the classical repertoire, including: Beeethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”, Barber’s Adagio for strings, Grieg’s Holberg Suite, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on Theme of Paganini, and Mozart’s Missa Brevis in B flat Major.
Venues for 2012 concerts will include Caspary Auditorium of The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue (for the February 3 concert), the Church of St. Jean Baptiste (for the April 21 concert) and Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street (for the May 10 concert). Repertoire and soloists for these concerts are TBA.
For season details, including ticket information, please call 646-397-1879 or visit this webpage for updates in the coming weeks.
These concerts celebrate the recent release of the Chamber Orchestra of New York’s internationally acclaimed debut Naxos CDs, which feature Respighi’s rediscovered string works and first Violin Concerto (in A Major) as well as Salvatore Di Vittorio’s homage, Overtura Respighiana.
The all-Respighi album (Naxos 8.572332) was named WQXR “Album of the Week” in New York (June 27, 2011), “Album of the Month” in Italy (for June and July 2011), and listed on Gramophone’s Top 20 Classical Chart for several weeks. The recordings are airing on national and international radio stations, including BBC and RAI Radio, and receiving many wonderful reviews. Much more about these CDs visit our Discography and Reviews webpages.
Chamber Orchestra of New York is a professional orchestra founded in 2006 by composer/conductor Salvatore Di Vittorio. It is composed of leading young professional musicians in the early stages of their careers, and serves as the premier orchestra devoted to the Italian classical repertoire in New York and the U.S. It was established in honor of Ottorino Respighi to present the great orchestral repertoire, with a focus on ancient music and its influences on later composers, including the works of Italian masters and undiscovered (or rarely performed) gems which complement and extend the classical tradition. Following Respighi’s legacy, the Chamber Orchestra of New York fosters a deep respect for antiquity by incorporating into its programming masterpieces of the baroque and classical eras alongside neo-baroque and neo-classical repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
In collaboration with Honorary Board Members, Respighi's great nieces Elsa and Gloria Pizzoli, archive curator Potito Pedarra, and musicologist Luigi Verdi, Music Director Salvatore di Vittorio and the Chamber Orchestra of New York have established The Respighi Prize Music Competition with the City of Bologna (Respighi's birthplace) and the Ottorino Respighi Publications Series with publisher Edizioni Panastudio of Palermo, Italy. For more about these projects, visit our Respighi Prize Competition and Ottorino Respighi Publications webpages.
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