2019-20 CONCERT SEASON
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Organ Spectacular
“Once Upon a Castle”
artist: Katie Scott
Sunday, September 15, 2019, 2:30pm
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 420 N Nevada Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Pre-concert talk with Donald Zimmerman, D.M.A., Music Director, Immanuel Lutheran Church, begins 45 minutes prior to the performance

Joseph Rheinberger                    Organ Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, op. 177                                
Carol Wilson, organ
Francis Poulenc                             Organ Concerto in G Minor
Simon Jacobs, organ
Michael Daughery                       Once Upon a Castle
Dr.  Joseph Galema, organ

The Chamber Orchestra’s 2019-2020 season opens with an exotic trip through Germany and France, ending at the mysterious Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California--home of Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane fame.  Simon Jacobs, the new Music Director at Grace Episcopal Church, makes his solo debut with the Chamber Orchestra while longtime friends Carol Wilson and Dr. Joseph Galema return for a powerful and diverse program.  The local premiere of Michael Daugherty’s Once Upon a Castle rounds out the program with a mind-boggling tour of Hearst Castle’s Neptune Pool and opulent parties in the Xanadu style, with a nod to Citizen Kane’s famous “Rosebud.”
Singing & Soaring
artist: Ani Rose Whaleswan
Saturday, October 12, 2019, 7pm
BROADMOOR COMMUNITY CHURCH 315 Lake Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80906
Sunday, October 13, 2019, 2:30pm
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH 16 E Platte Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Pre-concert talk with Donald Jenkins begins 45 prior to the performance

Randall Thompson                      Frostiana   
Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble
Ralph Vaughan Williams          The Lark Ascending
Timothy Hsu, violin
Marc-Antoine Charpentier     Te Deum    
Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble

Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble--Colorado’s finest chamber choir--joins the Chamber Orchestra for an incredible program celebrating the poetry of Robert Frost and sounding the trumpets in Charpentier’s brilliant Te Deum.  Timothy Hsu, Concertmaster of the Pueblo Symphony and Artist-in-Residence at Colorado State University-Pueblo, sings from the highest altitudes in Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending.  This will be one of the best collaborative performances all season.
Bluegrass Beginnings
artist: Ani Rose Whaleswan
Sunday, November 24, 2019, 2:30pm
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 420 N Nevada Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Pre-concert lecture with composer George Lewis 45 prior to the performance

Jessie Montgomery                           Starburst       
George Lewis                                        Double Concerto for Trumpet & Piano (World Premiere)  
Susan Grace, piano; Glen Whitehead, trumpet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart         Symphony No. 34 in C Major, K.338 
Felix Mendelssohn                            Scherzo in G Minor from the Octet, op. 20  
Michael Torke                                      Sky: A Bluegrass Concerto (Regional Premiere)
Tessa Lark, violin

The Chamber Orchestra has joined with orchestras across the country to commission a new Bluegrass Concerto from one of America’s most prominent composers, Michael Torke, for the incandescent violinist Tessa Lark.  In addition to diverse music from Mendelssohn, Mozart and a newcomer to the Chamber Orchestra, Jessie Montgomery, the orchestra presents another world premiere featuring Susan Grace and Glen Whitehead--a brand new concerto for trumpet and piano by George Lewis.  This will be a fun, adventurous weekend.
Emergence
artist: Julia McMinn Evans
Saturday, January 18, 2020, 7pm
BROADMOOR COMMUNITY CHURCH 315 Lake Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80906
Sunday, January 19, 2020, 2:30pm
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH 16 E Platte Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Emerging Soloist Competition Winner 
Richard Harvey                             Concerto Antico for Guitar & Small Orchestra     
Colin McAllister, guitar
Franz Joseph Haydn                   Symphony No. 101 in D Major “The Clock”                    

To celebrate our 2019-2020 season, the Chamber Orchestra has launched a new competition for emerging soloists.  Young musicians through recent college graduates will compete for an opportunity to solo with the orchestra here in beautiful Colorado Springs, giving us the opportunity to meet one of the music world’s emerging artists.  Adding firepower to a spectacular weekend is UCCS’s Colin McAlister, playing a charming and exciting guitar concerto by Richard Harvey that will be a thrill to new listeners, while the Chamber Orchestra rounds out the program in more familiar territory--Haydn’s humorous and quirky “Clock” Symphony.
Baroque Tangents
artist: Ani Rose Whaleswan
Saturday, March 7, 2020, 7pm
BROADMOOR COMMUNITY CHURCH 315 Lake Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80906
Sunday, March 8, 2020, 2:30pm
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH 16 E Platte Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Georg Philipp Telemann             Ouverture in D TWV55:D18       
Johann Sebastian Bach                Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046       
Johan Helmich Roman                 Violin Concerto in D Minor,
Elisa Wicks, violin
Frank Martin                                      Petite Symphonie Concertante
Zahari Metchkov, piano

The Chamber Orchestra’s resident expert in Baroque music, Elisa Wicks, lets her talent shine in a Baroque concert with a twist.  Bach and Telemann provide more familiar fare, while Elisa brings us a stunning and overlooked violin concerto by Johan Helmich Roman.  Frank Martin’s Baroque-inspired Petite Symphonie Concertante bridges musical ideas across centuries to end the concert on an exciting high note.
Triumph of the Spirit
artist: Julia McMinn Evans
Saturday, April 18, 2020, 7pm
BROADMOOR COMMUNITY CHURCH 315 Lake Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80906
Sunday, April 19, 2020, 2:30pm
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH 16 E Platte Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Louise Farrenc                           Overture No. 2 in E-flat Major, op.24                  
Johannes Brahms                     Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 77                         
Jacob Klock, violin
Felix Mendelssohn                   Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major, op. 52a (Sinfonia)       
Ludwig van Beethoven           Leonore Overture No. 3, op. 72b        
                         
The 2019-2020 seasons ends in triumph with four stunning Romantic works.  Audience favorite Jacob Klock brings his astonishingly diverse talents--even his fiddling!--to an uniquely exciting performance of Brahms’ Violin Concerto, while Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony ends the orchestra’s tour of his symphony cycle.  Under the surface is a second theme--strong women--with the astonishing music of overlooked composer Louise Farrenc and Beethoven’s exciting tale of Leonore, who risked everything to free her husband.  It’s a triumphant finale to an exceptional season.
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