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The San José Chamber Orchestra is a twenty-member professional string orchestra, founded in 1991. Focused on presenting high-quality chamber orchestra repertoire, SJCO is celebrating its twentieth anniversary season and continues to champion living composers with a wide spectrum of ethnic and/or stylistic backgrounds in its regular subscription series, alongside more familiar classical works. Since its inception the orchestra has premiered over 110 compelling new works, mostly by commission.

Conducted by Maestra Barbara Day Turner, SJCO is the winner of three ASCAP/League of American Orchestras Awards for Adventurous Programming. SJCO performs, records, collaborates with the award-winning Choral Project and other established arts groups, runs four youth orchestras and sponsors The Composition Connection in conjunction with the SJSU composition department.

The orchestra maintains a local presence with an annual home season of five subscription concerts at the historic and sonically sumptuous Le Petit Trianon in San José; Winter's Gifts concerts with The Choral Project at Mission Dolores in San Francisco and Mission Santa Clara de Asis in Santa Clara, and additional Young Artist and Youth Orchestra concerts.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Encores

Tango Barocco & Trinitas were tied for first place in our Encores Contest held in January 2012. Saints was tied for second place.

Dragon Year Fanfare by Phil Young

Soloist: Yong-Ping Tian, erhu

Trinitas I by Anica Galindo

Excerpts from Saints by Craig Bohmler

Soloist: Layna Chianakas, mezzo-soprano

Hungarian Dance No. 20 by Brahms

Hora Staccato by Dinicü arr. Stallman/Dodgson

Soloist: Isabelle Chapuis, flute

Tango Barroco by Michael Touchi

Soloists: Patricia Mitchell, English horn & Dale Wolford, soprano saxophone

Adios, Nonino by Astor Piazzolla arr. Pablo Furman

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Sunday, December16, 2012

Winter’s Gifts

SJCO in collaboration with The Choral Project

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Elegy for Lou Harrison was tied for second place in our Encore Contest held in January 2012.

Pizzicato by Vivian Fung

Suite for Violin & Strings by Lou Harrison

EKTA II (Concerto for Piano) by Brent Heisinger (premiere)

Elegy for Lou Harrison by Kerry Lewis

Gwendolyn Mok, piano & Cynthia Baehr, violin

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Octet by Mendelssohn

Appalachian Spring by Copland

Soloist: Nora Chastain, violin

Sunday, March 3, 2013

New work by Clarice Assad

Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky, arr. by Assad

The Fry Street String Quartet

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Adagio and Fugue in c-minor KV 546 by Mozart

Fantasia for strings by Henze

Divertimento in D-major KV 136 by Mozart

Triple Concerto by Beethoven

Soloists: The Delphi Trio

Guest Conductor: Oliver Weder (Germany)

May 19, 2013

Young Artist Concert

The winner of the Irving Klein String Competition

Anthony Quartuccio, conductor