The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall
Tickets required.

Ever wondered what happens in the rehearsals before the concert? Here's a unique opportunity to hear the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic in rehearsal. Audience seating will be in the choir loft so you can hear every note!

As a courtesy to the musicians, please arrive early and be seated prior to the start of the rehearsal. Late seating will occur during orchestra breaks and at the discretion of the usher. All open rehearsals are “working” rehearsals and therefore the program may not be played in its entirety.

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall
Tickets required.

The spirit of the NOI Philharmonic’s Take the Reins concert is put to the test in this self-conducted exploration of over 200 years of classical composition. Performing sans conductor is always a daunting exercise for an ensemble, but this evening's efforts offer a particular challenge with a program of precisely orchestrated and up-tempo works, each showcasing a different section of the orchestra. The program starts with Pillar IV, American contemporary composer Andy Akiho's intricate, boomingly raucous feature for percussion from 2021. Next, a clever re-orchestration of Maurice Ravel's baroque-inspired suite for piano, Le Tombeau de Couperin, takes the Dekelboum Concert Hall stage. We progress to a woodwind masterwork with Czech-born composer Bohuslav Martinů's 1955 Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra. The work's beautifully complex solos, which become particularly knotty in its third movement, will be presented by Erik Behr, Principal Oboe of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and a proud NOI+F alum. The concert closes with a Classical cornerstone in Haydn's rousing Symphony No. 88 from 1787. This cunningly elaborate symphony inventively embellishes on a singular lyrical theme, punctuated with melodic solos from flute, violin and oboe.

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall
Tickets required.

Venezuela's national network of public conservatories and highly-regarded El Sistema music program have established the coastal nation as among the world's leading producers of contemporary classical conductors, composers and instrumentalists. One such luminary is the phenom Manuel López-Gómez. López-Gómez serves as Associate Conductor of the Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra and is active in music education across the globe. For this evening's night at the podium, his third with the NOI+F, Maestro López-Gómez contrasts two creative trailblazers separated by country and century: Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla and The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, alongside his musical predecessor Sergei Rachmaninoff and his Symphony No. 2 in E Minor. Piazzola's work cleverly references Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, but does so within the form of nuevo tango, resulting in a uniquely South American take on the classical tradition. Juliana Athayde, longtime NOI+F faculty member and Concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic, joins the orchestra as violin soloist for Piazzola's masterpiece. The second symphony is likewise Rachmaninoff's tour de force and it is no less complex than it is lyrical. The concert begins with another work from a Venezuelan artist: Evencio Castellanos' ruggedly energetic and nearly evangelical composition Santa Cruz de Pacairigua.

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Free, no tickets required.

In partnership with St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, members of the NOI Philharmonic perform a concert for our College Park, MD community.

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Clarice Courtyard
Free

Clarice Presents brings outdoor movies to campus! Join us for the timeless film West Side Story (1961). Rival New York street gangs war in Manhattan over turf boundaries while two youths fall in love, but they are from opposing groups!