Reno Philharmonic Association

The orchestra, led by Music Director Laura Jackson, is made up of ore than 60 professional musicians. They perform in Reno, Carson Valley, and the Lake Tahoe region in various outdoor and indoor venues. The popular MasterClassics Series is presented from September to April. The orchestra also presents over 10 specialty performances throughout the year from the holiday classic, Spirit of the Season to Fourth of July in Genoa, Lake Tahoe Music Festival, and the perennially sold out, Pops on the River.

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Reno Phil’s 2011 Summer Events Calendar

Brass on the Grass
June 11, 2011, 4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Graciously hosted by Nancy Flanigan
$75 for adults ($50 is tax-deductible), $10 for children 16 and under
Spend a lazy summer Saturday afternoon out on a lush green lawn listening to the Reno Philharmonic’s brass musicians at Brass on the Grass. Get out your sun block, hats and lawn chairs and make your way over to Nancy Flanigan’s sprawling southwest ranch on June 11th. You and your family can enjoy garden games, food, drink and the sounds of the Reno Philharmonic Brass section. Address and map will be supplied following reservation confirmation.

Pops at the Ranch
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Jason Altieri conducting
Sunday, July 3, 8:00 p.m.

Bartley Ranch, Reno NV
Free
For more information: Renophil.com or 775/323-6393
The Reno Philharmonic kicks off the summer season with a free community concert for Monday, July 3 at Bartley Ranch. Pops at the Ranch will feature the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra. This concert will present patriotic music to get the crowd ready for the 4th of July weekend. The orchestra will be lead by Jason Altieri, Associate Conductor as well as conductor of the Reno Philharmonic Youth Orchestras and the UNR orchestra.

Pops in the Park, presented by The Sierra Philharmonic League
The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Jason Altieri conducting
Monday, July 4th, 2011, 4:30 p.m.

Mormon State Park, Genoa, Nev.
Free
For more information: League@renophil.com.
The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra has performed at "Pops in the Park" in Genoa to capacity crowds for over 25 years, and could be a best kept secret up north in Reno. The Sierra Philharmonic League organizes the family friendly event with clowns, strolling musicians, along with silent and live auctions. Bring the family, a picnic and a blanket. The Philharmonic Orchestra with Associate Conductor Jason Altieri caps off the day performing at Mormon State Park at 4:30 p.m. Festivities begin at 1 PM and the main concert is at 4:30 PM. Pops in the Park is the major fundraising event produced by the Sierra Philharmonic League. Proceeds from this event help support the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra and the three Youth Orchestras.

Discover Music
Discover Strings Ensemble
Friday, July 8th, 2011, 9:30 am

McKinley Arts and Culture Center
Free
For more information: RenoPhil.com.
Explore music through the instruments and the musicians! The Discover Music Program is comprised of musical ensembles of two to five musicians, who perform interactive child-friendly music programs. These are designed to give elementary school children a close-up look at symphonic musicians, music, and instruments through performances, demos, and participatory activities. Fun for all.

Young Musicians Showcase
Presented by the Reno Philharmonic Association
Monday, July 11th, 2011, 6:00 pm

Trinity Episcopal Church
Free
For more information: RenoPhil.com.
This is a rare opportunity to experience the region’s elite young musicians, up close and personal. Many of the featured musicians have served in principal positions in the award winning Reno Philharmonic Youth Orchestras. With top-notch performances, soloists and ensembles, The "Young Musicians Showcase" is a chance to hear the best local musicians in the lovely setting of Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Reno.

Pops on the River; Summer Lovin’
The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson Conducting
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Wingfield Park, Reno Nev.
Special guests: Broadway stars Doug Labrecque and Stephanie Block
Gates open for table decorating at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. - gates open, 8 p.m. - show
RenoPhil.com/PopsontheRiver
For more information: popsontheriver@renophil.com; 775/331-4217
On Saturday, July 11, 2010, the Reno Phil presents the hottest event of the summer, Pops on the River. This fabulous event will take place at Wingfield Park in downtown Reno along the Truckee River with Broadway stars Doug LaBrecque and Stephanie Block singing all the songs you love, along the Reno Phil. One of the most prolific concert performers of his generation, Mr. LaBrecque has been a soloist with some of the world's finest symphony orchestras including The National Symphony, The Israel Philharmonic (Tel Aviv), as well as Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, and San Francisco. Mr. LeBrecque performed with the Phil in 2008, with Broadway star Debbie Gravitte at Pops on the River to smashing reviews. Ms. Block's most recent Broadway smash was 9-to-5 working alongside Dolly Parton and Allison Janney. Prior to 9-to-5, she was starring as "Elphaba" in the Broadway Company of Wicked.

Proceeds from this event help support the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra and the three Youth Orchestras. Sponsorship tables range from $5000 to $350, individual seats are $35 and sold through by the Pops on the River volunteer committee. Tickets are available online at RenoPhil.com/PopsontheRiver. For more information: popsontheriver@renophil.com; 775-331-4217.

Broadway on the Beach
The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson Conducting
Monday, July 18, 2011, 7:30 pm

Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, Nev.
Special guest: Broadway stars Doug LaBrecque and Stephanie Block
For tickets laketahoeshakespeare.com, 800/74-SHOWS
A matching of two of the finest parts of our community, the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra and the pristine nature of Lake Tahoe, Broadway on the Beach is one of the hottest Tahoe events of the summer. Grab your beach chair, stick your toes in the sand and enjoy the magical music of the Phil with Broadway stars Doug LaBrecque and Stephanie Block singing all the songs you love. One of the most prolific concert performers of his generation, Mr. LaBrecque has been a soloist with some of the world’s finest symphony orchestras including The National Symphony, The Israel Philharmonic (Tel Aviv), as well as Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, and San Francisco. Mr. LaBrecque performed with the Phil in 2008, with Broadway star Debbie Gravitte at Pops on the River to smashing reviews. Ms. Block’s most recent Broadway smash was 9-to-5 working alongside Dolly Parton and Allison Janney. Before that, she was starring as “Elphaba” in the Broadway Company of Wicked.

Tickets are $79, $45 and $23, They are sold through the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival box office. For tickets laketahoeshakespeare.com, or call (800) 74-SHOWS.


Reno Phil’s 2011 MasterClassics and Phil Up! Seasons Calendar

Master Classics Season, October 2011-April 2012
Welcome Home
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson conducting
October 2 & 4, 2011

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
Season Opener of the Reno Philharmonic’s MasterClassics Series
Erich KORNGOLD Concerto for Violin in D Major, op. 35, featuring Ruth Lenz, violin
Sean SHEPHERD Desert Garden (World Premiere)
Antonín DVORÁK Symphony No. 9, op. 95 in E Minor, From the New World
Tickets are $73-20, with senior and student discounts
For more information: Renophil.com or 775/323-6393

We open our season by celebrating the wealth of musical talent here at home, in America and right here in Nevada. This concert launches an ongoing collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art’s “Art +Environment” and features two of Reno’s finest talents—one a violinist and the other a composer. The concert begins with Ruth Lenz, the RPO’s recently appointed concertmaster, performing the virtuosic and lyrical violin concerto of Erich Korngold, a composer recruited by Hollywood for classic 1930s scores such as The Adventures of Robin Hood because of his Romantic Austro-Hungarian pedigree.
Reno born-and-raised composer Sean Shepherd will present a second world premiere with his hometown ensemble. Sean grew up listening to the Reno Philharmonic and playing in the RPO Youth Orchestras. He has since become a composer of international repute, and we are thrilled to sponsor and perform a second composition following in the wake of February’s world premiere of “Silvery Rills.”
We close the concert with one of the most beloved symphonies of all time, Antonin Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World. Dvorak was brought to America to encourage young American composers to find a distinctive style of composition, an American musical voice. In his New World Symphony, Dvorak sought to capture the vibrancy of life in his ‘new world’ quoting Native American song and African American spirituals as a sonic guide to the wonders of musical culture in the United States.
“[Ms. Lenz] has a lovely sound and an assured technique and the heart-on-the-sleeve sensitivity of a vibrant young woman…” Jack Neal January 2005, Ms. Lenz’s debut solo performance.

Legend and Triumph
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson conducting
October 23 & 25, 2011

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
Part of the Reno Philharmonic’s MasterClassics Series
Richard WAGNER Overture to The Flying Dutchman, op. 63
Sergey PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, op. 26, featuring Damon Meng, piano
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67
Tickets are $73-20, with senior and student discounts
For more information: Renophil.com or 775/323-6393

Whether at its most abstract or most pictorial, symphonic music often tells the story of triumph over adversity. This concert features three works that represent this basic theme whether musically or in the lives of their composers. Most famously, Ludwig van Beethoven overcame deafness to create the best-known symphony in classical music. Its opening four notes serve as an emblem for the composer’s determination. Initially a failure in America, Prokofiev took refuge in post WWI Paris to avoid returning to Russia a failure, when the opportunity arose to premiere both an opera and piano concerto in Chicago. His third concerto would become his most popular and be known among the composer’s greatest musical triumphs. Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman (1843) was inspired in part by his own stormy sea crossing from Riga to London, during a time of financial ruin for the composer. Written in Paris, the opera would premiere in 1843 and help restore the composer’s career. In the overture, written after the entire opera had been completed, Wagner works with Leitmotif, short musical ideas or melodies symbolic of characters or ideas in the drama. This technique would come to define his later artistic triumphs.

Trained at Juilliard, Damon Meng won first place in national and international competitions, performed with orchestras in Canada, Mexico and China and is the only pianist accepted into the joint program at Harvard University and the New England Conservatory.

“[Meng is]..a prize-winning, world-traveling, Liszt-playing wunderkind.” New York Times

Beyond Imagination
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson conducting
November 13 & 15, 2011

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
Part of the Reno Philharmonic’s MasterClassics Series
John CORIGLIANO Promenade Overture
Paul CRESTON Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, op. 26, featuring Timothy McAllister, saxophone
Hector BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
Tickets are $73-20, with senior and student discounts
For more information: Renophil.com or 775/323-6393

Great composers know that expressive power lies not in following but in breaking the rules. This concert features works that still surprise listeners, in the case of Berlioz’s inimitable Symphonie fantastique, even after nearly two centuries. Inspired by his obsession with actress Harriet Smithson, Berlioz takes his listener on a hypnotic journey through the fantastic. American composers Paul Creston and John Corigliano pick up on the same imperative to originality in featuring the non-orchestral saxophone in a show-stopping virtuosic concerto and inventive Promenade Overture that begins the program. Come find out why the musicians have to memorize their parts!

“Higdon's Soprano Sax Concerto began and ended in a pastoral mood (a la Copland's Clarinet Concerto) and featured smooth, sweet and virtuosic playing by Timothy McAllister.” Metro Santa Cruz

Romantic Journeys
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson conducting
January 15 & 17, 2012

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
Part of the Reno Philharmonic’s MasterClassics Series
Jean SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, op. 39
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, op. 23, featuring Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Tickets are $73-20, with senior and student discounts
For more information: Renophil.com or 775/323-6393

Rather than radical breaks with history, musical creativity builds upon the past. New ideas do not trample tradition so much as transform it. Heard as one of music’s great classicists (in comparison to contemporaries like Wagner) Brahms did not imitate his predecessors, but imagined new soundscapes appearing from the shadows of Beethoven, such as his-one-and-only violin concerto written for his friend and superstar, Joseph Joachim. After extending Romanticism to its breaking point with the adventurous harmonies in his tone poems Salome and Elektra, Richard Strauss turned to opera and to more traditional harmony with Der Rosenkavalier [The Knight of the Rose, 1911], which contains some of his most sublime music. Chinese American composer Zhou Tian offers a colorful 21st century take on the tone poem with his Palace of Nine Perfections, based on 17th century scroll paintings by Yuan Jiang.

"His playing takes on a truly magical, communing ease and finesse... Nakamatsu's brilliantly engaged performance paints a portrait of a remarkably wide-ranging and stylish artist." Gramophone


Inspired Tradition
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson conducting
February 26 & 28, 2012

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
Part of the Reno Philharmonic’s MasterClassics Series
Johannes BRAHMS Concerto for Violin in D Major, op. 77, featuring Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Zhou TIAN The Palace of Nine Perfections
Richard STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, op. 59
Tickets are $73-20, with senior and student discounts
For more information: Renophil.com or 775/323-6393

Rather than radical breaks with history, musical creativity builds upon the past. New ideas do not trample tradition so much as transform it. Heard as one of music’s great classicists (in comparison to contemporaries like Wagner) Brahms did not imitate his predecessors, but imagined new soundscapes appearing from the shadows of Beethoven, such as his one-and-only violin concerto written for his friend and superstar, Joseph Joachim. After extending Romanticism to its breaking point with the adventurous harmonies in his tone poems Salome and Elektra, Richard Strauss turned to opera and to more traditional harmony with Der Rosenkavalier [The Knight of the Rose, 1911], which contains some of his most sublime music. Chinese American composer Zhou Tian offers a colorful 21st century take on the tone poem with his Palace of Nine Perfections, based on 17th century scroll paintings by Yuan Jiang.

"An exciting, boundary-defying performer - Pine displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon." The Washington Post

Verdi’s Requiem
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson conducting
April 1 & 3, 2012

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
Season Finale of the Reno Philharmonic’s MasterClassics Series
Giuseppe VERDI Messa da Requiem, featuring Reno Philharmonic Chorus
And Jennifer Check-Soprano, Susana Poretsky-Mezzo Soprano, Gregory Carroll-Tenor and Alfred Walker-Bass Baritone
Tickets are $73-20, with senior and student discounts
For more information: Renophil.com or 775/323-6393

Verdi wrote his Requiem Mass (1874) in memory of an Italian poet he admired, Alessandro Manzoni. This epic Mass draws upon the dramatic and expressive resources of a double choir, orchestra and four soloists to deliver a spiritual reading of the traditional Latin text of the Roman Catholic mass for the dead. The five bass drum strokes that open the “Dies Irae” [Day of Wrath], for example, attempt to strike fear of judgment into mortal hearts, while the combined orchestral and choral forces of the call to judgment result in some of the loudest, acoustic music ever conceived. In contrast, four vocal soloists offer transcendent melodies of hope, forgiveness, and peace. The work is among the most powerful and emotional pieces in the choral-orchestral repertory.

Phil UP!
Dave Bennett celebrates Benny Goodman
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson conducting
Saturday September 10, 8:00 p.m.

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
Part of the Reno Philharmonic’s Phil Up! Series
Tickets are $65-25
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The season opens the new Phil Up! series with the young talent of clarinetist Dave Bennett who seems to channel a musician 78 years his senior. Mr. Bennett doesn’t just look like Benny Goodman–his sound, pitch and musicality is matched note-for-note. The concert on Saturday, September 10 (8:00 p.m.) will be held at the Pioneer Center. Dave Bennett’s six-piece band will front the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra with Laura Jackson conducting.
“a jaw dropping phenom on the clarinet…his mellifluous playing and gorgeous tone are inspired by Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman” THE WINDSOR STAR (ONT.)

Spirit of the Season
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson conducting
Kip Wilborn, Guest Artist
Saturday, December 3, 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 4, 2:00 p.m.

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
Part of the Reno Philharmonic’s Phil Up! Series
Tickets are $60-10
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As part of the new The Phil Up! series, the traditionally popular, Spirit of the Season holiday show is added to its line up of amazing concerts. The concert set will be held on Saturday, December 3 (7:00 p.m.) and Sunday December 4 (2:00 p.m.) at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts. As always, it will feature the full orchestra with many local, regional and national acts. The hair on the back of your neck - be warned! Kip Wilborn, a frequent SF Opera performer and former “Phantom” will lend his amazing pipes to the music of the holidays. The focal point of the Spirit of the season is always the incredible 180-member Reno Philharmonic Chorus.
"Credit Laura Jackson for doing what she does best - conducting and hosting with brief and enlightening comments. Musically, the concert could not have been more beautifully designed nor splendidly executed.”— Jack Neal, Arts critic

“Kip Wilborn is a tenor to die for. At least the audience at Knoxville Opera’s opening performance of Giacomo Puccini’s ‘La Boheme’ thought so after Wilborn’s Rodolfo endured the death of Mimi, his true love”.- Knoxville News-Sentinel

Trio Voronezh
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson conducting
Sunday, March 10, 8:00 p.m.
Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
Part of the Reno Philharmonic’s Phil Up! Series
Tickets are $65-25
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The Reno Phil looks to something completely different for the conclusion of the first Phil Up! season, with the Russian group Trio Veronezh. This band, renowned for its conventional usage of Russian musical instruments and folk melodies, is composed of three male members, Vladimir Volokhin on the domra, Sergei Teleshev on the bayan, and Valerie Petrukhin on the double-bass balalaika. The concert on Saturday, March 10, 2012 (8:00 p.m.) will be held at the Pioneer Center. The trio will perform folk ballads, classical compositions, and pop music with the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra with Laura Jackson conducting.
“Subtle, playful, brilliant-hot, classy, fresh.” The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon

Special Concerts
Phil’s Family Show
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Laura Jackson Conducting
Saturday, October 1, 2011, 10:00 a.m.

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets are $10 and $5 for kids 18 and under.
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Introduce your kids to music making with your guide, Composer-in-residence and internationally acclaimed artist, Sean Shepherd. Sean gives the audience an inside-view on how to make music with his composition “Silvery Rills.” This multi-media concert is part learning, part entertainment, and all fun. The concert also One of the most well-known orchestral works written especially for the young listener is Benjamin Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,” which begins and ends with an overview of the whole orchestra, sprinkled with demonstrations of each instrument. The music will open the ears of new concertgoers — young and old — to all the instruments of the orchestra. Tickets are $10 and $5 for kids 18 and under.


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