Camerata Notturna is a NYC-based volunteer ensemble comprised of distinguished amateur and professional classical musicians
Founded in 2006, Camerata Notturna is a dynamic chamber orchestra comprised of accomplished amateur players as well as a few professional musicians. The group’s “amateur” musicians have won prizes in numerous national and international competitions, performed as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Pops, and were members of the St. Louis, Columbus, New World and Jupiter Symphonies as well as the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra.
Camerata Notturna has collaborated with soloists such as singers Susanna Phillips, Hera Hyesang Park, and Jamie Barton; violinists Cho-Liang Lin, Jonathan Gandelsman, and Benjamin Beilman; violist Kim Kashkashian; cellists Colin Carr and David Finckel; clarinetist Anthony McGill; pianists Alessio Bax, Gilbert Kalish, and Orion Weiss; and Latin jazz legend Samuel Torres. Camerata Notturna has also collaborated with composers such as Elliott Carter, Augusta Read Thomas, Joan Tower, Jesse Jones, Jonas Tarm, and Huang Ruo on world or regional premieres of their works, and has performed regional premieres of works by Benjamin Britten, Alberto Ginastera, Unsuk Chin, and Mikhail Glinka.