Recent Seasons
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia engaged Dirk Brossé as its Music Director in September 2010. A conductor and composer of international acclaim, Brossé had guest-conducted The Chamber Orchestra in, among other appearances, its October 2009 Scandinavian Perspectives program and its 2008 performance of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Brossé will conduct four of the Orchestra’s concert programs in his first season as Music Director.
The Chamber Orchestra performed six pairs of concerts during its subscription season from September through April 2010 in the Kimmel Center's 600-seat Perelman Theater. Five of the concert programs will also be performed at The Baptist Temple at Temple University; an introduction to the 2010-2011 season was given at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts; and the final program of the season, Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat, was performed at the Please Touch Museum. As a participant in the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), the Chamber Orchestra performed three concerts of L’Histoire in a collaborative production with stage director Robert Smythe. The Orchestra also performed the world premiere of a PIFA commission, Hope: An Oratorio by Jonathan Leshnoff, with the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, the Mendelssohn Club Chorus of Philadelphia, and soloists Angelique Kidjo and David Linx, in the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall.
The orchestra is scheduled to accompany Jackie Evancho on August 25, 2012 at the Mann Center.
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