Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra

The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra’s inaugural season will consist of three concerts.

Debut Concert:
The Red Violin Concert
January 17, 2009, 8pm
World Financial Center Winter Garden

Violin soloist Elizabeth Pitcairn plays the 1720 “Red Mendelssohn” Stradivarius violin, subject of the acclaimed 1999 film “The Red Violin”

Program
• Bach: Orchestral Overture No. 1 in C
• Corigliano: Suite from “The Red Violin”
• Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs)
• J. Strauss: On The Beautiful Blue Danube


Second Concert:
Bach Cantata Concert
March 15, 2009, 4pm
John Street United Methodist Church

Guest Artists Seraphim, a professional chamber choir based at St. Peter’s Church in Lower Manhattan

Program
• Handel: Concerto grosso in C, “Alexander’s Feast”
• Fagin: Hungarian Suite for Cello and Strings
• J. S. Bach: Cantata No. 4, Christ lag in Todesbanden


Third Concert:
Mozart in the Ballroom
May 15, 2009, 8pm
Venue TBA

Soloist Renowned Spanish clarinet soloist Jose Franch-Ballester, winner of a 2008 Avery Fisher Career Grant

Program
• Frederick II (“The Great”): Symphony in G
• Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A
• Mozart: Symphony No. 21 in A