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2016 - 2017 Season

2015 - 2016 Season

2014 - 2015 Season

2013 - 2014 Season


  • Saturday November 9, 2013
    Alessio Bax, piano
    Jonathan Yates, conductor
    Mendelssohn: Overture and Scherzo from "Midsummer Night's Dream"
    Webern: Five Movements for String Orchestra
    Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major
    8:00 PM  •  Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church


  • Saturday March 1, 2014
    Rebecca Ringle, mezzo-soprano
    Jonathan Yates, conductor
    Stravinsky: Eight Instrumental Miniatures for 15 players
    Bartok: Divertimento
    Ravel: 3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallaré
    Haydn: Symphony No. 87 in A major
    8:00 PM  •  Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church


  • Saturday May 3, 2014
    Jonathan Yates, conductor
    Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Battalia à 9
    Ryan Beppel: motion, movement before (World Premiere)
    Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major "Eroica"
    8:00 PM  •  Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church

2012 - 2013 Season

2011 - 2012 Season

2010 - 2011 Season

2009 - 2010 Season

2008 - 2009 Season

  • Saturday June 27, 2009
    Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
    Christopher Rohrs, clarinet
    Weber: Concertino for Clarinet, Op. 26
    Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major
    Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
    8:00 PM  •  Church for All Nations

  • Hands Solo Saturday April 25, 2009
    Soloists abound on this concert, as we showcase the virtuosic talent of both our own ensemble and of our guest musicians, including the esteemed Gilbert Kalish, and Dalit Warshaw, master of that most enigmatic instrument, the theremin.
    Dalit Warshaw, theremin
    Jihyun Kim, cello
    Gilbert Kalish, piano
    Jonathan Yates, piano
    Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in F Major for Two Oboes, Bassoon,
    Two Horns and Violin
    Dalit Warshaw: "The Departure" for Theremin and
    String Orchestra (2005 - NY Premiere)
    Glazunov: Chant du ménestrel
    Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat Major
    Strauss: Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings
    8:00 PM  •  Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church


  • Gustav and Gusty Saturday March 7, 2009
    A program with Gustav Mahler as the central figure - works composed by, arranged by, and inspired by the last great composer in the German romantic tradition. Featuring the New York premiere of Absolute Ocean, which Augusta Read Thomas wrote specifically to be performed with the music of Mahler.
    Chris Pedro Trakas, baritone
    Amelia Watkins, soprano
    Allegra Lilly, harp
    Augusta Read Thomas: Absolute Ocean (2008 - NY premiere)
    Beethoven/Mahler: Quartetto Serioso, Op. 95 (arr. for string orchestra)
    Schnittke: Piano Quartet (1988)
    Schoenberg: Six Little Pieces for Piano, Op. 19
    Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children)
    8:00 PM  •  Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church


  • Folked Up! Saturday November 8, 2008
    Camerata Notturna brings three folk-song specialists from around the globe for an evening that sheds new light on folk-inspired orchestral works - by integrating them with the songs that inspired them.
    Andre Emelianoff, cello
    Fang-Tao Jiang, soprano
    Ana Mihanovic, mezzo-soprano
    Thomas Young, tenor
    Zhou Long: Chinese Folk Songs (2004 - NY Premiere)
    Ives: Three Places in New England (1929)
    Dvorak: Rondo for Cello and Orchestra
    Haydn: Symphony No. 104 ("London")
    8:00 PM  •  Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church


2007 - 2008 Season


  • Saturday July 19, 2008
    Jessica Lee, violin
    Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies for Strings Op. 34
    Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A K. 219
    Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B flat
    8:00 PM  •  Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church


  • Saturday May 17, 2008
    Colin Carr, cello
    Dan Coleman: Songs and Conversations (1996 - NY Premiere)
    David Popper: Requiem for Three Cellos, Op. 66
    Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
    Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite (1945)
    Wiancko: La Follia Variations for String Orchestra
       after Geminiani and Corelli (2006)
    8:00 PM  •  Washington Irving Auditorium


  • Saturday March 15, 2008 "Meet the Orchestra"
    Stefan Jackiw, violin
    Edward Klorman, viola
    Program to include Mozart Sinfonia Concertante;
    works by Dvorak, Mendelssohn and Gounod
    8:00 PM  •  Advent Lutheran Church


  • Saturday March 1, 2008
    Anthony McGill, clarinet
    Chester Biscardi: Recognition (2004/2007 - World Premiere)
    Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622
    Stravinsky: Pulcinella (1920)
    8:00 PM  •  Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church


  • Saturday December 1, 2007
    Fang Tao Jiang, soprano
    Gilbert Kalish, piano
    Huang Ruo: Leaving Sao for Soprano and String Orchestra
       (2004 - World Premiere)
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
    Kurt Atterberg: Symphony for Strings Op. 53
       (1959 - US Premiere)
    8:00 PM  •  Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church
    152 West 66th Street, New York, NY
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2006 - 2007 Season

  • Saturday May 12, 2007
    Gilbert Kalish, piano
    Elgar: Serenade for Strings
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 in F
    Augusta Read Thomas: Prayer and Celebration (2006 - NY Premiere)
    Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony Op. 110a

    8:00 PM  •  Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church
    152 West 66th Street, New York, NY


  • Saturday March 24, 2007
    Ayano Ninomiya, violin
    Melissa Reardon, viola
    Lutoslawski: Overture for Strings (1949)
    Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante
    Tchaikovsky: Serenade


  • Saturday December 9, 2006
    Colin Jacobsen, violin
    Jonathan Gandelsman, violin
    Mozart: Adagio and Fugue
    Adam Silverman: Peterborough Elegy (2006 - World Premiere)
    Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 1
    Chen Yi: Romance and Dance for 2 Violins (1998 - NY Premiere)
    Grieg: Holberg Suite