Upcoming Events
Concert and Events Calendar
We perform five concerts and recitals throughout each year, fall through late spring.
Before each concert, you can often hear our Interim Music Director, John Eells, and other special guests discussing the program on Conducting Conversations with Mike Maino on Classical 95.9!
Please note that concerts/programming are subject to change.
Season Opener Concert
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 3:00 P.M.
EAST PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL
TCHAIKOVSKY Marche Slave, Op. 31
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin, M.68
PRICE Symphony No. 3 in C minor (1938–40)
Zeke Fetrow, guest conductor
Winter Concert
SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 3:00 P.M.
EAST GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL
HERRYMAN RODRIGUEZ Un Danzon a Mi Manera
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Gideon Rubin, piano
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 7 in C♯ minor, Op. 131
Dr. Luis Viquez, guest conductor
Chamber Concert
SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 4:00 P.M.
CENTRAL CONGREGATION CHURCH, PROVIDENCE
CHAMBER ENSEMBLES and SMALLER ORCHESTRAL WORKS
Program to include member-organized chamber groupings and one or more small-orchestra works conducted by John Eells.
John Eells, Interim Music Director and Principal Conductor
Season Finale Concert
SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 3:00 P.M.
EAST PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL
BRAHMS Tragic Overture, Op. 81
STILL In Memoriam (1943)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
FARRENC Overture No. 1 in E minor, Op. 23
STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite (1919)
John Eells, Interim Music Director and Principal Conductor
Season Finale Concert
SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 3:00 P.M.
THE GAMM THEATER, WARWICK
MOZART Overture to Die Zauberflöte, K. 620
MARQUEZ Danzón No. 2 (1994)
ELGAR Variations on an Original Theme (“Enigma”), Op. 36
John Eells, Interim Music Director
Spring Concert
SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 3:00 P.M.
EAST PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL
BRAHMS Schicksalslied (“Song of Destiny”), Op. 54
BRAHMS Nanie, Op. 82
Both in collaboration with Coro Amante and CCRI Choirs
Joseph J. Amante y Zapata and Krista Wilhelmsen, choral directors
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
John Eells and Joseph Amante, conductors
Winter Concert
SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 3:00 P.M.
EAST PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL
JOPLIN Overture from Treemonisha (1911)
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
featuring Sophia Szokolay, violin
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Kristo Kondakçi, Music Director
Season Opener Concert: Resonance and Revolution
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 7:30 P.M.
EAST PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL
ELGAR Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, Op. 86
BOYD Sheltering Voices (2018)
Krista Wilhelmsen, soprano
in collaboration with Coro Amante
Dr. Joseph J. Amante y Zapata, Music Director
Depicting the five stages of recovery from domestic violence & sexual assault. Please visit the full event page for more information.
BEACH Symphony in E Minor, Op. 32, “Gaelic”
Kristo Kondakçi, Music Director
Season Finale Concert
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
GLAZUNOV Saxophone Concerto, Op. 109
featuring Andy Wilds, alto saxophone
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2, Op. 43
Kristo Kondakçi, Music Director
Chamber Music Recital
Program:
GABRIELI Gloria from Sacrae Symphonia
STRAUSS Serenade, Op. 7
BACH Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
featuring Emily Chen and Christina Dickson-Brownell, violins
MOZART Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K.183
Kristo Kondakçi, Music Director
Spring Concert
GABRIEL FAURE Cantique de Jean Racine
conducted by Dr. Joseph Amante Y Zapata
W.A. MOZART Requiem
CCRI Choirs and Coro Amante
Dr. Joseph Amante Y Zapata, Music Director
Krista Wilhelmsen, soprano
Ilana Goldstein, mezzo
Fred VanNess, tenor
RaShaun Campbell, bass
Kristo Kondakçi, Music Director
Winter Concert
PAUL DUKAS Fanfare La Peri
in memory of Ron Markoff, NaBSCO founding trumpeter
conducted by John Eells
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 “Classical”
KARI JUUSELA and SIDY MAIGA Concerto Mali (World Premiere)
Sidy Maiga, African percussion
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN Symphony No. 104 in D Major “London”
Vincent Mattera, conductor
URI Guitar Festival: Orchestra Night Featuring World Premieres
Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 7:30 PM
Fine Arts Center at the University of Rhode Island
Avner Dorman: Concerto for Mandolin, Guitar and Orchestra (World Premiere)
William Grant Still: Festive Overture
Eduardo Morales-Caso: Concierto de la Herradura for Guitar and Orchestra
Guest Artists: Adam Levin, guitar, and Jacob Reuven, mandolin
Kristo Kondakçi, Music Director
Season Finale Concert
ELLINGTON River Suite
CLARKE Viola Sonata
featuring Consuelo Sherba, viola
MAHLER Symphony No. 5
Kristo Kondakçi, Music Director
For their own protection and that of others around them, we strongly encourage our audience members to remain masked while in the performance venue. Please visit our COVID-19 info page for details.
Winter Concert
BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture
BOULANGER D’un matin de printemps & D'un soir triste
BRAHMS Double Concerto
featuring Sophia Szokolay, violin & Alan Toda-Ambaras, cello
Kristo Kondakçi, Music Director
Please check our COVID-19 protocols page for audience requirements.
Holiday Concert
HANDEL El Mesías (Messiah Part I and Hallelujah Chorus in Spanish)
in collaboration with / en colaboración con Rhode Island Latino Arts
Kristo Kondakçi, Music Director
Season Opener Concert
MONCAYO Huapango
BOYD Dark Sky Soliloquy
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony no. 6 “Pathetique”
Kristo Kondakçi, Music Director
OSPO Summer Concert
Members of NaBSCO join the Ocean State Pops Orchestra for an outdoor concert under the baton of OSPO’s Music Director, Brian Cardany.
Featuring works by Beethoven, Sibelius, John Williams, and John Philip Sousa, among other patriotic and pop-culture favorites!
RAIN DATE: Sunday, August 8, same time and location
Brahms and Shostakovich
BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D Major
featuring Hyun Jee Chung, violin
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
Nathaniel Efthimiou, guest conductor
Strauss, Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn
STRAUSS Serenade in E-flat, Op. 7
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis & Fantasia on Greensleeves
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5 “Reformation”
Jon Ceander Mitchell, guest conductor
Schumann and Prokofiev
SCHUMANN Cello Concerto in D Major
featuring Emmanual Feldman, cello
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
David Feltner, guest conductor
Elgar and Mahler
ELGAR Cello Concerto
featuring Clara Yang, cello
MAHLER Symphony No. 1
Kristo Kondakçi, guest conductor
World Premiere!
BELL Oneiroi: Thieves of Lost Dreams
LANCEN Bass Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony No. 3
Ed Bell and John Masko, guest conductors
Mozart and Castelnuovo-Tedesco
MOZART Overture to Cosí Fan Tutte, K. 588
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra
featuring David McLellan, guitar
MOZART Symphony No. 41 in C Major “Jupiter” K. 551
Vincent Mattera, Assistant Music Director
Mozart and Rachmaninoff
MOZART Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2 in e minor
Vincent Mattera, Assistant Music Director