The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra

With pride and delight, the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra concluded our second season with a performance April 23, 2010 at the historic John Street United Methodist Church.

Two seasons of concerts, soirees, appearances by KCO musicians at private events, free presentations to Lower Manhattan students – and thousands of people transported by superb musicianship.

We've performed in the soaring atrium of the World Financial Center Winter Garden, at Trinity Church and at Pace University's Schimmel Center for the Arts.

We've featured soloists of world-renown at these concerts, and given prominence to KCO's own stellar musicians. Audiences have risen to waltz in the Winter Garden, and children have sat entranced at school absorbed by the subtlety and majesty of classical music.

Under the direction of Gary S. Fagin, the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra was founded to reintroduce people to their musical heritage by performing great music in distinctive downtown venues and by offering innovative educational outreach.

The orchestra comprises 25 of the region's top musicians, and was launched on January 17, 2009 at the World Financial Center Winter Garden with "The Red Violin Concert" featuring Elizabeth Pitcairn playing her 1720 Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius violin. One year later, after a triumphant first season, the KCO returned to the Winter Garden and drew 1,500 fans to "Musical Tales and Adventures," a concert starring renowned author Neil Gaiman narrating Prokofiev's "Peter & the Wolf" and Broadway star Jason Danieley in Mr. Fagin's composition "And Bold to Fall Withal – Henry Hudson in the New World" celebrating the 400th anniversary of Hudson's sail into New York Harbor.

The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra is a meshing of the old and the new—classical music played by top contemporary musicians, performed in the fast-growing neighborhoods of old New York, in venues steps away from cobblestone streets and wireless skyscrapers.