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Northern Westchester's Local Professional Orchestra!

Join us as we complete our

search for a new music director!

2020/2021 TCO Concerto Competition Winners' Concert!

June 11, 8pm - Paramount Theater.

It is our great pleasure to announce the Concerto Winners' Concert at the historic Paramount Theater in Peekskill, NY on Friday, June 11 at 8 pm. We are delighted that TCO will be performing together for the first time since March 2019. This long-awaited event will showcase two of the talented young winners of the 2021 Concerto Competition held this spring.

Throughout these difficult times, TCO has been making music and I hope you were able to experience some of our streamed performances, either on Facebook, YouTube or on our website. It’s been a challenging year, but it’s never been a more important time for the arts, with its ability to heal, uplift and unite.

Despite the pandemic, we were able to hold the 5th annual Concerto Competition. With students performing from all over the world, this was no small feat, but we made it work and even had a record number of outstanding contestants. The applicants were from many major conservatories, and we were very impressed with the high caliber of submissions. With the wonders of modern technology, we were able to perform the Semi and Final rounds via Zoom. We had a judge calling in from Michigan, contestants from practice rooms at Juilliard and a rehearsal space in China. It was truly a global affair!

The concert will feature our final Music Director candidate Teresa Cheung conducting with the Second-Place winner of the Senior Division, Vivian Chen performing the Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major, and our Junior Division First-Place winner, Sean Yu performing Tchaikovsky’s Pezzo Capriccioso. We will end the concert with Schubert’s Fourth Symphony. Due to covid restrictions, our Senior Division First Place winner, Jiaxun Yao, will not be able to attend as she is currently in China, but she will be performing with us next season.

After such a long time in lock down, we are eager to perform on the stage again in front of a live audience. Please know, we are following strict NY State safety guidelines, and you must wear a mask and show proof of vaccination or a negative covid test to attend this event. There will be a small reception to meet the performers following the concert.

This is a private event with limited seating. Please RSVP to info@chappaquaorchestra.org or call 845-842-0010 by June 4. We look forward to sharing the joy of live music with you on June 11!

TCO Concerto Competition Sponsor

Dear Friends of The Chappaqua Orchestra,

This year has been extremely difficult for arts organizations around the world, and as you are aware, The Chappaqua Orchestra (TCO) has not been immune. We held our last live concert on March 8th at the Tarrytown Music Hall. Music Director candidate Reuben Blundell lead TCO for a beautiful performance of works by women composers, celebrating International Women’s Day. March 8 was the last weekend before the COVID-19 shutdown in New York, and as a result, our concert attendance was very low. With two more concerts left in our 2019/2020 season, we had to cancel everything due to safety concerns. This included our Together in Music Family Concert, with Music Director candidate Barbara Yahr, celebrating children with special needs. We also had to postpone the final rounds of our 5th Annual Concerto Competition, along with our Concerto Winners Concert, with our final Music Director candidate, Teresa Cheung.

We sorely missed the opportunity to enjoy the sunset together and serenade you from the New Castle gazebo this summer. We used that time to record our first “virtual orchestra” performance, and we are proud to present it to you here: Music Director candidate Barbara Yahr conducts TCO in Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46, “In the Hall of the Mountain King”. All of the TCO musicians volunteered their time to record their parts for this exciting performance, we hope you enjoy!

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2020-2021 Season Update

We have continued the hard work of planning for our next season. As of this writing, we will not be able to have in-person concerts this fall. Instead, we will be working on a filmed Chamber Music series. We are hoping to have several chamber concerts, in various venues, without audience. We will film these concerts and distribute them on social media, local television and in email communications. If in-person concerts will be allowed in the new year, we are working on two concerts for spring 2021: the return of our Music is Science Family Concert (tentatively April 2021) and our postponed Concerto Winners Concert (tentatively May 2021).

Virtual Orchestra Giving Campaign

With the stoppage of all live performances in the tri-state area, many of our musicians have had to rely on unemployment just to make ends meet. We would like to offer any help we can to our colleagues, and believe that if we can raise approximately $10,000 in our Virtual Orchestra Giving Campaign, we will be able to compensate our performers for their contributions to these upcoming concerts and recordings.

Virtual Orchestra performances: $6,000

(3 performances at $2,000 each)

Virtual Chamber Music Series: $4,000

(4 performances at $1,000 each)

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We are hoping you will be able to help by contributing what you can to make these virtual events happen. We believe even though live performances have paused, we can continue to offer you the high quality performances you have come to expect from TCO in the comfort and safety of your own home. We are grateful for your continued support of these digital efforts.

Sincerely,

David Restivo

TCO Executive Director

Join the TCO Board!

Are the arts more important to you than ever before during this time of uncertainty? Consider joining the TCO Board! Meetings are approximately once a month (roughly the first Tuesday of the month) in the evenings during our concert season. We are currently conducting all Board meetings via Zoom. Please email chappaquaorchestraexecdirector@gmail.com if you would like more information.

TCO Board

Al Krull, President

Cynthia Peterson, Artistic Director, Chamber Series

David Restivo, Executive Director

Rebecca Quigley, Secretary

Rita Ross

Davis Knobloch

Adam Schommer

David Phelan, Technical Coordinator

Kathleen Feldman, Education Director

Robert Sherman, Artistic Advisor

TCO's Music Director Finalists!

Julie Desbordes

Julie Desbordes

Julie Desbordes

Concert - Nov 3, 2019

Greeley/Lincoln

Reuben Blundell

Julie Desbordes

Julie Desbordes

Concert - Mar 8, 2020

Women Composers Concert

Teresa Cheung

Julie Desbordes

Teresa Cheung

Concert - May 10, 2020

Concerto Winners' Concert

Barbara Yahr

Barbara Yahr

Teresa Cheung

Concert - April 18, 2020

Together in Music

Russell Ger

Barbara Yahr

Russell Ger

Concert - May 5, 2019

Concerto Winners Concert