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2011-2012 Season

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SJCO Youth Orchestras

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Next concert:

March 12, 2012

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SMULE

for sponsoring our 20th Anniversary Concert.

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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. Read more >

IBM Volunteer

Outreach Council

for their generous support of our youth orchestra programs.

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THANK YOU!

The results are in...

                  ...and your voice was heard!

First place piece:  A TIE!

Tango Barocco by Michael Touchi & Trinitas I by Anica Galindo.

Both will be performed on Oct 28, 2012.

Second place piece:  Another TIE!

Saints by Craig Bohmler & Elegy for Lou Harrison by Kerry Lewis

Excerpts from Saints will be performed on Oct. 28, 2012 & Elegy will be performed on Jan. 6, 2013.

Our October 28th concert will also feature a popular soloist's favorite encore piece and an SJCO encore favorite, Addios Nonino by Piazzolla, arr. by Pablo Furman.

Many of you voted without letting us know who you are, so we can't recognize our voters. Watch your email for a voucher to be redeemed for an SJCO CD or concert ticket.   THANK YOU!!!!

San José Chamber Orchestra makes music that matters!

Choose Life

Uvacharta Bachayim

Choose Life, Uvacharta Bachayim, is a dramatic oratorio by composer Mona Lyn Reese and librettist Delores Dufner OSB, that draws on Jewish and Christian music and scripture, as well as the writings of Holocaust survivors, to create an interfaith commemoration of the Holocaust. The Otto Bremer Foundation subsequently gave Reese a grant to write the symphonic version of Choose Life, which was nominated for a Pulitzer in 1995.

The San José Chamber Orchestra, soloists, and choristers from The Choral Project, Choral Cosmo, and Prince of Peace Lutheran Church recorded the symphonic version at Skywalker Sound. The CD, released last month, is now available from the San José Chamber Orchestra for $17.00, including tax and shipping.

For more details about Choose Life, visit the official Choose Life web site. Or read the wikipedia article.

The stunning cover art was created by Marie Olofsdotter.

CDs are available online from SJCO.

SJCO CDs

Now available online

Our newest release, Choose Life, plus old favorites like Mikey, by Michael Touchi, whose Tango Barocco will be featured in our special event with sjDANCEco, can now be purchased from our online site >

We also have a limited edition section featuring previous guest artists like Jon Nakamatsu and Ann Licater. There are not many of these left, so get them before we run out.

The $17.00 purchase price includes tax and shipping.

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Other Notes

This new column by writer/violinist Samuel Thompson will appear approximately once a month. Keep reading for his first interview with Jennifer Kloetzel, our guest cellist for our January 8 concert.

Samuel Thompson is a Baltimore-based violinist and graduate of Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He has contributed to Strings Magazine, Nigel Kennedy Online & violinist.com.

Jennifer Kloetzel

To live a full life requires a combination of commitment to one’s true self and one’s mission and a true ability to remain both open and curious to possibility. Through having made the decision to leave an enviable life of working as a freelance musician in New York City fifteen years ago to embark on a journey that includes championing the works of living composers, Jennifer Kloetzel is one of the many who embody that philosophy. Ms. Kloetzel, cellist of the San-Francisco based Cypress String Quartet, is the featured soloist in The Art of the Cello, an evening of music being presented by the San José Chamber Orchestra that includes the premiere of Cloud Atlas, a work for cello and orchestra written by longtime collaborative partner Elena Ruehr.

“San Francisco is filled with an ‘entrepeneurial spirit’,” Jennifer says about her current city, “and when...

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March 4, 2012

Mahler Symphony #4

Talise Trevigne, soprano

Set for chamber orchestra, this warm and lyrical work takes us on a journey through the existing world to the ultimate blissful fulfillment of our wishes.

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Samuel Thompson

Announcing Our 2012-2013 Season

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March 25, 2012

Spring Zing

Eric Kujawsky, guest conductor

Michael Corner, clarinet

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