Events
KCO ensembles are available to play at your party or corporate gathering!
To book Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra musicians for your event, please contact Gary S. Fagin, KCO music director, at info@knickerbocker-orchestra.org.
“The musicians from the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra who performed during our Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street this past summer were extraordinary. Our guests loved the music. I was pleased to support Lower Manhattan’s newest cultural institution and gratified that they were of such stellar quality.”
Mary Ellen Pelzer, Director, South Street Seaport Museum, October 2009
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Upcoming Soirees
October 3, Sunday in the Park
Soiree in Tenafly
KCO heads to the Garden State for the season's first soiree
2010 is the 200th anniversary of the births of Frederick Chopin and Robert
Schumann. You are invited to hear their music as they often presented it,
among an intimate circle of friends. KCO musicians with Music Director
Gary S. Fagin will also perform the music of Stephen Foster, Chopin's and
Schumann's contemporary. Lively mazurkas, lyrical nocturnes, beautiful
songs -- just as would have been experienced in a 19th-century salon!
Please join us Saturday, October 3, 4pm to 6pm, at beautiful Davis Johnson
Park in Tenafly, New Jersey (Engle St. & Westervelt Avenue). Music,
conviviality and hors d'oeuvres on a Fall evening, hosted by KCO board
member Jason Balaban and his wife Susan. Suggested donation: $125 per
person. Click here to reserve your place!
October 7
Sail on the Historic Ship Bernice
Only ten spots available on this magnificent vessel
Hosts Pamela Tillinghast and Alex Dubitsky invite you to join them and
KCO Music Director Gary Fagin and wife Nancy Hume on a champagne
cruise to benefit the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra on their historic
wooden sailing ship, the Bernice. Leaving from Battery Park City's North
Cove, you'll sail by the Statue of Liberty and enjoy the evening sunset and
the best view of New York City, from New York Harbor. Limited to ten
people, this will be an evening to remember. Suggested donation: $250 per
person. Please click here to reserve your spot.
October 18
Soiree in Tribeca
A night of 19th-century music and literature on Duane Park
An extraordinary evening of literature, music and history, as only the the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra can present. A KCO string quartet and Music Director Gary Fagin, joined by New York Harbor historian and master storyteller Jack Putnam, will entertain with musical and literary illustrations from 19th-century New York: the words of Herman Melville and the works of great 19th-century writers and composers. The soiree will be hosted by Tribecan Meredith Kane and performed in the beautiful Duane Park home of Madelyn Wils. Suggested donation levels: $125 KCO Supporter, $250 KCO Friend, $500 KCO Charter Member.
To reserve your place at the October 18 Soiree in Tribeca
Please choose one of the following:
$125 KCO Supporter
$250 KCO Friend
$500 KCO Charter Member
Past Soirees
April 15, 2010
SOIREE: An Intimate Evening of Beautiful Music
Landscape architect Laura Starr hosted a full house of classical music lovers in her Duane Park loft, where KCO quartet played the music of Chopin and Schumann and soprano Jan Horvath sang the songs of Stephen Foster.
January 16, 2010
RECEPTION: Musical Tales and Adventures
Neil Gaiman, Jason Danieley and Gary S. Fagin led a crowd of fans and musicians into Southwest restaurant after the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra’s performance of “Musical Tales and Adventures” in the Winter Garden.
KCO founder Gary S. Fagin talks with author Neil Gaiman and his fiancee, performer Amanda Palmer (at left), and the married Broadway stars Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie (at right).
Neil Gaiman, Gary S. Fagin and Jason Danieley are joined by Nancy Hume, Mr. Fagin's wife.
September 24, 2009
SOIREE: A Distant Love, Songs of John and Abigail Adams
The first KCO Soiree of Season 2, at the beautiful Tribeca home of Audrey Manley and Thomas Fritton, featured soprano Elizabeth Dabney and baritone Peter Clark singing excerpts from "A Distant Love, Songs of John and Abigail Adams" and backed by a KCO string quartet conducted by Gary S. Fagin. The music followed conversation, wine, hors d’oeuvres and an entertaining talk by Wall Street historian/pundit and John Adams biographer James Grant entitled “John Adams: Junk Bond Salesman!”
May 4, 2009
SALON: Great Music from Mozart to Broadway
World-famous jazz drummer Robby Ameen and his wife Anna Suarez hosted a fundraiser for the KCO, and cooked up a sumptuous buffet for 80 guests. The KCO musicians presented a range of 18th- and 19th-century music, including Mozart, Haydn, a lively reel, and Broadway show tunes. Tenor Mark Vietor sang “Sail Away” from the Noel Coward musical and “If I Only Had a Brain” from the Wizard of Oz. See photos below.
A KCO quartet of string players play in a Tribeca loft. Top, KCO board member Jason Balaban chats with Sue Miller, her husband Lloyd and Simon Ritter, who was nominated for a 2009 Tony award for his performance in "The Norman Conquests."