A founding resident company of The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia is a 33-member ensemble led by Dirk Brossé, beginning his first season as Music Director in September 2010. The Orchestra, founded in 1964 by Marc Mostovoy, has a well-established reputation for distinguished performances of repertoire from the Baroque period through the twenty-first century. The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia will perform six pairs of concerts during its subscription season from September through April in the Kimmel Center’s intimate, 600-seat Perelman Theater.
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia will perform six pairs of concerts during its 2010-2011 subscription season from September through April in the Kimmel Center’s intimate, 600-seat Perelman Theater. The 2010-2011 season opens with Maestro Brossé conducting the Mozart | Chopin program, featuring pianist, Gabriela Martinez. For November’s Barber | Puccini | Tchaikovsky concerts, Maestro Brossé is joined by Chamber Orchestra’s principal oboist Geoffrey Deemer and Philadelphia principal cellist Hai-Ye Ni. As the season continues into 2011, The Orchestra performs with conductor Andrew Grams and guitarist Gyan Riley in a wonderful Bizet |Rodrigo program. Maestro Brossé returns for the February performances to conduct Mendelssohn | Beethoven alongside violinist Elena Urioste. For March’s Mozart | Haydyn, Conductor Laureate Ignat Solzhenitsyn returns as conductor and pianist. Maestro Brossé returns in April to close the season with Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat (A Soldier’s Tale).
In the 10-11 season, The Chamber Orchestra will also perform each of its six season concerts at an additional venue. Five of the concert programs will also take place at Temple University’s new Baptist Temple, the pre-opening of the 2010-2011 season will happen at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and the final program of the season will also be performed at the Please Touch Museum. In participation with the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), the Orchestra will perform two concerts of. Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat, a production in collaboration with stage director Robert Smythe and will perform 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 Chamber Orchestra has performed with such internationally acclaimed guest artists as Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mstislav Rostropovich, Issac Stern, Rudolph Serkin, The Eroica Trio, Jean-Pierre Rampal, The Romeros Guitar Quartet, Julie Andrews, Bernadette Peters, Ben Folds, Elvis Costello, Sylvia McNair, Steven Isserlis, Joseph Silverstein, Ransom Wilson, Gerard Schwarz, Jahja Ling and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, among others. The ensemble also travels regularly, having toured the United States, Europe, and Israel.
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia welcomes Maestro Dirk Brossé as its Music Director. A conductor and composer of international acclaim, Maestro Brossé most recently conducted The Chamber Orchestra in its October 2009 Scandinavian Perspectives program and appeared with the orchestra for its 2008 performance of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Maestro Brossé will begin his term at the beginning of The Chamber Orchestra’s 2010-2011 season. He will conduct four of the Orchestra’s concert programs in his first season as Music Director.