Christopher Ramaekers
conductor
Spring, 2022
Middleton Community Orchestra
Wednesday, February 22, 7:30 PM
Middleton Performing Arts Center
Middleton, WI
Tickets available at: https://middletoncommunityorchestra.org/
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major
David Perry, violin
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, March 5, 7:30 PM
Young Auditorium
Whitewater, WI
Tickets available at: https://www.uww.edu/youngauditorium
Glinka Overture to Ruslan und Lyudmila
Finzi Cello Concerto, mvt II
Hannah Filipiak, cello
Hue Fantasie for flute and orchestra
Emma Phelps, flute (2021-2022 UW-W Concerto Competition winner)
Glazunov Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra
Cameron Vinson, alto saxophone (2019-2020 UW-W Concerto Competition winner)
Brahms Tragic Overture
Lake Forest Civic Orchestra
Sunday, March 13, 4:00 PM
Gorton Community Center
Lake Forest, IL
Tickets available at: http://lakeforestcivicorchestra.org/
"Immigrant Stories"
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
Eva Sharman, piano
Rosales Concert Suite from Andina
Dvorak Symphony No. 6 in D major
Symphony847
Friday, April 8, 7:30 PM
Gorton Community Center
Lake Forest, IL
Tickets available at: https://middletoncommunityorchestra.org/
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 ("Little Russian")
MacIntyre Industrial Cityscape *WORLD PREMIERE*
Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919)
Lake Forest Civic Orchestra
Sunday, May 1, 4:00 PM
Gorton Community Center
Tickets available at: http://lakeforestcivicorchestra.org/
"From the Four Corners: Music from the North, South, East, and West"
Enesco Rumanian Rhapsody No 2 in D
Arutunian Trumpet Concerto
Marquez Danzon No. 2
Copland 4 Dances Episodes from Rodeo
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Friday, May 6, 7:30 PM
Young Auditorium
Whitewater, WI
Tickets available at: https://www.uww.edu/youngauditorium
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major
MyungHee Chung, piano
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in e minor
Middleton Community Orchestra
Wednesday, May 25 7:30 PM
Middleton Performing Arts Center
Middleton, WI
Tickets available at: https://middletoncommunityorchestra.org/
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
Thomas Kasdorf, piano
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Madison Savoyards
August 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14
Bartell Theater
Madison, WI
tickets available at: https://www.madisonsavoyards.org/
Gilbert and Sullivan Ruddigore
2019-2020
Access Contemporary Music
Monday, September 9, 7:30 PM
Davis Theater
4614 N. Lincoln Ave.
$20 general, $12 students
Tickets available at: https://www.acmusic.org/current-production-season/
PROGRAM
Full Faith and Credit by Jonathan Russell
Hilos by Gabriela Lena Frank
Tessellatum by Donnacha Dennehy
PERFORMED BY
Alyson Berger – cello
Liam Byrne – viol
Nadia Sirota – violist
Cory Tiffin – clarinet
Arianne Urban – violin
Amy Wurtz – piano
Lake Forest Civic Orchestra
Sunday, October 6, 4:00 PM
Gorton Community Center
Tickets available at: http://lakeforestcivicorchestra.org/
Bernstein Overture to Candide
Lita Grier Renascence (Concertino for flute and orchestra)
Erin Murphy, flute
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 1 in e minor, op. 39
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Friday, October 18, 7:30 PM
Young Auditorium
Whitewater, WI
Tickets available at: https://www.uww.edu/youngauditorium
Mussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain
Arensky Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, op. 35a
Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in c minor, op. 67
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Holiday Gala Concert
Saturday, December 7, 7:30 PM
Young Auditorium
Whitewater, WI
Tickets available at: https://www.uww.edu/youngauditorium
Victor Hely-Hutchinson Carol Symphony
Holst Christmas Day
Beethoven Hallelujah from Christ on the Mount of Olives
Access Contemporary Music
Monday, December 16, 7:30 PM
Davis Theater
4614 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago
$20, $12 students
Tickets available at: https://www.acmusic.org/current-production-season/
PROGRAM
Chant by Vivian Fung
To Stare Astonished at the Sea by Lois Vierk
lauschgut by Charlotte Seither
The Banshee by Henry Cowell
Plus newly commissioned works by:
Pierce Gradone
Jeff Kowalkowski
Lisa Neher
Roger Tréfousse
Randall West
PERFORMED BY
Marianne Parker – piano
Amy Wurtz – piano
Access Contemporary Music
Monday, February 10, 7:30 PM
Davis Theater
4614 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago
$20, $12 students
PROGRAM
Stars in Dead Reflection by Christopher Stark
Alcmaeon by Inés Thiebaut
Specific Gravity by Lansing McLoskey
Quasare/Pulsare by Olga Neuwirth
Red Shift by Lois Vierk
Horizons by Paul Lansky
PERFORMED BY
Alyson Berger – cello
Cory Tiffin – clarinet
Trevor Patrick Watkin – flute
Amy Wurtz – piano
Lake Forest Civic Orchestra
Sunday, March 8, 4:00 PM
Gorton Community Center
Tickets available at: http://lakeforestcivicorchestra.org/
Amos Gillespie The Noise of Bromius
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Leanne League, violin
Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in c minor, op. 67
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Friday, March 13, 2020, 7:30p
Young Auditorium
Whitewater, WI
Tickets available at: https://www.uww.edu/youngauditorium
Rosales Concert Suite from Andina (World Premiere)
DeFalla Three Cornered Hat, suite No. 1
Access Contemporary Music
Sound of Silent Film
Saturday, March 28 7:00 and 9:30
PROGRAM
Will be announced as soon as our review panel chooses this year’s films in February, 2020.
ACM’s popular Sound of Silent Film Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary this year with an all-new crop of modern silent films in every conceivable genre.
As usual we’ll commission several accomplished composers to write new scores for the films and perform them live. Both shows will sell out!
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, April 30, 2020, 7:30
Young Auditorium
Whitewater, WI
Tickets available at: https://www.uww.edu/youngauditorium
Overture
Student Concerto Competition winner - TBD
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in e minor, op. 64
Access Contemporary Music
Monday, May 11, 7:30 PM
Davis Theater
4614 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago
$20, $12 students
PROGRAM
Blue Dress by Julia Wolfe
The Full Range of Blue by Laura Kaminsky
Nina C. Young – L’heure bleue
Clara Latham – Devil in Blue-Blue Sea
The Blue-Footed Booby for flute and piano by Tristan Murail
Blue Sprks Burn by Melissa Hui for violin and piano
PERFORMED BY
Alyson Berger – cello
Cory Tiffin – clarinet
Trevor Patrick Watkin – flute
Amy Wurtz – piano
Whitewater Chamber Players
Sunday, October 2, 2016
7:30p Light Recital Hall
Whitewater, WI
Mozart Divertimento in D Major, K. 136
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Gonoud Petite Symphonie
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, October 9, 2016
3p Young Auditorium
Whitewater, WI
Sibelius Finlandia
Dvorak Symphony No. 8
UW-Whitewater Chamber Orchestra
Sunday, October 16, 2016
3p Light Recital Hall
Whitewater, WI
Elgar Serenade for Strings
Holst Brook Green Suite
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
October 30, 2016
3p Ackermann Center
Chicago, IL
Mussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain
Saint-Saens Danse Macabre
Dvorak The Noon Witch
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Intermission -
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
IV. March to the Scaffold
V. Dream of the Witches Sabbath
Williams Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (part I)
UW-Whitewater Symphony and Chamber Orchestras
Sunday, November 13, 2016
7:30p Young Auditorium
Whitewater, WI
Mozart Overture to La clemenza di Tito
Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, November 20, 2017
3:00p North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
Skokie, IL
Grieg Peer Gynt Suite
Smetana The Moldau
Haydn Symphony No. 94
UW-Whitewater Holiday Gala
Saturday December 3
7:30p Young Auditorium
Whitewater, WI
Delius “Sleigh Ride” from Winter Night
Bloesch Three Carols
I. Ding Dong Merrily on High
II. Go Tell it on the Mountain
III. Joy to the World
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
Friday, December 9, 2016
7p St. Benedict Parish
Chicago, IL
Sieving Firelight, Candlelight
Rimsky-Korsakov Polonaise from Christmas Eve
Anderson Christmas Carol Festival
Schubert Mass in G
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Evening DANKHaus
Chicago, IL
Soloist: Amanda O’Donnell
Mendelssohn Finale from Symphony No. 5
Reger Mariae Wiegenlied
Sieving Firelight, Candlelight
Rimsky-Korsakov Polonaise from Christmas Eve
Adolphe Cantique de Noel
Gruber Stille Nacht
Anderson Christmas Carol Festival
Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra
February 19, 2017
North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
Skokie, IL
Delius The Walk to Paradise Garden
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2
Liszt Hamlet
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
Sunday, March 5, 2017
3:00 St. Benedict Parish
Chicago, IL
Debussy Petite Suite
Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte
Saint - Saens Symphony No. 3 “organ”
Jeremy Kiolbassa, organ
Richard Corrigan, piano
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Friday, March 10, 2017
7:30p Young Auditorium
Whitewater, WI
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
TBA Student Concerto Competition winner
Schumann Symphony No. 4 in d minor
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
Sunday, March 12, 2017
4:00 St. Sylvester’s
Chicago, IL
Debussy Petite Suite
Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte
Saint - Saens Symphony No. 3 “organ”
Michael Krump, organ
Richard Corrigan, piano
Whitewater Symphony, Chamber Orchestra, and Chorus
Sunday April 30, 2017
7:30p Young Auditorium
Whitewater, WI
Wagner Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nuremburg
TBA Concerto
TBA Choral Work
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Evening DANKHaus
Chicago, IL
Copland An Outdoor Overture
Barber Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Karen Schriescheim, soprano
Lita Grier Renaissance
Erin Murphy, flute
Kelsey Green Meditation (World Premiere)
-- intermission --
Copland Rodeo
2015-2016 Season
September 18
Andina
Athenaeum Theater
Chicago, IL
7:30p
Come see the world premiere of a long-lost opera! Composed
in the 1930's by Eustasio Rosales, one of Chicago's first latino
composers, Andina was packed into a box after his death.... where
it sat for over 80 years.
Alison Wahl, Rosa
Nathalie Colas, Ines
Harrah Friedlander, Ana
Tobias Wright, Juan
Daniel Berry, Don Carlos
Chicago Composers Orchestra
Christopher Ramaekers, conductor
October 11
UW-Whitewater Chamber Orchestra
Greenhill Center for the Arts
3p
Vivaldi - Concerto in A Major
Kalinnikof - Serenade for Strings
Glazunov - Theme and Variations
October 18
UW-Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Greenhill Center for the Arts
3p
Haydn - Symphony No. 101 "The Clock"
Debussy - Petite Suite
Beethoven - Symphony No. 8 in F Major
October 26
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
St. Benedict's Parish
Chicago, IL
3:00p
Purcell - Overture and Lament from Dido and Aeneas
Bach/Stokowski - Komm, süßer Tod
Palmgren - Dance of the Falling Leaves from Vuodenajat
Prokofiev - Selection from Romeo and Juliet
November 1
Whitewater Chamber Players
Greenhill Center for the Arts
Whitewater, WI
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Stravinsky - Concerto in E-flat for Chamber Orchestra ("Dumbarton Oaks")
November 8
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
St. Sylvester Parish
2915 W Palmer St., Chicago
Purcell - Overture and Lament from Dido and Aeneas
Bach/Stokowski - Komm, süßer Tod
Palmgren - Dance of the Falling Leaves from Vuodenajat
Prokofiev - Selection from Romeo and Juliet
December 11
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
St. Benedict Parish Choirs
Vivaldi - Gloria
selection of holiday favorites
February 14
Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra
Music Institute of Chicago Chorale
Faure - Requiem
Brahms - Symphony No. 4 in E minor
March 5
CHAI Collaborative Ensemble
Unity Lutheran Church, 1212 W Balmoral Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
8p
Stravinsky - Septet
March 12
UW-Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Greenhill Center for the Arts
7:30p
Handel - See the Raging Flames Arise from Joshua
Zachary Frarnk, Baritone
Pablo Santiago Chin - In the Form of a Shell
Dahlia Chin, flute soloist
Sibelius - Symphony No. 3
March 20
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
DANKHaus Chicago
3p
Mozart - March of the Priests from Don Giovanni
Schubert - Ballet Music from Rosamunde
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
May 1
UW-Whitewater Symphony and Chorus
Greenhill Center for the Arts
7:30p
Schubert - Overture in c minor, D. 8
Doppler - Concerto for 2 flutes
Brittany Pfaff and Alexis Wendling, flutes
Schubert - Symphony No. 5
Brahms - Schickalslied
May 22
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
St. Sylvester's Parish
3p
Palmgren - May Night
Popper - Hungarian Rhapsody
Philip Bregant, cello
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5
2014-2015 Season
September 28
Lake Forest Civic Orchestra
Gorton Community Center Theater
400 E. Illinois Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045
4:00p
Rossini - Overture to La gazza ladra
Bizet - Carment Suite No. 1
Haydn - Symphony No. 100 "Military"
http://lakeforestcivicorchestra.org/th_event/655/
October 12
UW - Whitewater Chamber Orchestra
Light Recital Hall
Greenhill Center of the Arts
Whiewater, WI
7:30p
Mozart - Adagio and Fugue in c minor
October 19
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Young Auditorium
Greenhill Center of the Arts
Whiewater, WI
3p
Rossini Overture to An Italian in Algiers
Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D Major (“London”)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 in c minor (“Little Russian”)
October 25
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
Saint Benedict's Parish
Ackermann Center
2215 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago
November 1
UW - Whitewater Chamber Orchestra
Light Recital Hall
Greenhill Center of the Arts
Whiewater, WI
7:30p
December 5
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
Saint Benedict's Parish
Ackermann Center
2215 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago
December 6
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Gala Concert
Young Auditorium
Greenhill Center of the Arts
Whiewater, WI
7:30
March 7
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
Saint Benedict's Parish
Ackermann Center
2215 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago
March 8
UW - Whitewater Chamber Orchestra
Light Recital Hall
Greenhill Center of the Arts
Whiewater, WI
3p
March 14
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Young Auditorium
Greenhill Center of the Arts
Whiewater, WI
3p
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet
Student Concerto Competition Winner (TBA)
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
May 3
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Young Auditorium
Greenhill Center of the Arts
Whiewater, WI
7:30p
Mozart Symphony No. 25 in g minor, K. 183
Student Concerto Competition Winner (TBA)
Schubert Symphony in b minor “Unfinished”
Lizst Les Préludes
2013-2014 Season
July 21
Encore/Coda Chamber Orchestra
Deertrees Theater
Sweden, ME
7:30p
"Musical Gifts"
A benefit for the Lakes and Environmental Association
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Haydn - Symphony No. 50 in C Major
June 21
Make Music Chicago
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
Humboldt Park Boathouse
3:30p
Part of a city-wide event!
Brahms - Hungarian Dance #1
Brahms - Variations on a Them by Haydn
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 2
Sousa - The Belle of Chicago
May 17
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
St. Benedict's Parish - Ackermann Center
7:30p
Ravel - Vales nobiles et sentimentales
Satie - 2 Gymnopedies
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 2
May 4
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Young Auditorium
3p
Mozart - Symphony No. 21 in A Major
Bizet - Habanera from "Carmen"
Offenbach - Les oiseaux dans charmelle from "Tales of Hoffman"
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
Mozart - Mass in C Major, K. 317 "Coronation Mass"
March 9
University of Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra
Light Recital Hall
3p
Part - Cantus in Memorium Benjamin Britten
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049
Robin Fellows, flute
Jennifer Korducki Nielsen, flute
Leanne League, violin
March 15
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
St. Benedict's Parish - Ackermann Center
7:30p
Rossini - Overture to Semiramide
Smetana - The Moldeau from ma vlast
Sibelius - Valse Triste
Brahms - Variations on a theme by Joseph Haydn
March 16
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Young Auditorium
3p
Copland - An Outdoor Overture
Saint-Saens - Morceau de Concert, op. 94
Jennifer Jones, horn
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 in e minor ( from the New World)
May 4
Whitewater Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus
Young Auditorium
3p
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
Mozart - Coronation Mass
May 21
Sound Wired and VOX 3 Vocal Collective
Music Institute of Chicago (Evanston)
7:30p
http://www.soundwiredconcerts.com/
Morten Feldman - Rothko Chapel
October 13
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chamber Orchestra
Light Recital Hall
3p
Vivaldi - Concerto á ripieno, RV 158
Mozart - Symphony No. 14 in A Major
Diamond - "Rounds" for string orchestra
October 20
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Symphony Orchestra
Young Auditorium
7:30p
Bizet - Carmen Suite No. 1
Prokofiev - Sinfonia Concertante, op. 125 (Benjamin Whitcomb, cello)
Borodin - Symphony No. 2
October 27
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
Ackermann Center at St. Benedict's – 2215 W Irving Park Rd., Chicago
3p
Halloween Concert, featuring:
Mozart - Overture to Don Giovanni
de Meij - Symphony No. 1 (“The Lord of the Rings)
November 10
Fonema Consort
Constellation – 3111 N Western Ave., Chicago
7:30p
Mauricio Pauly – Dust Unsettled (WORLD PREMIERE)
June 21
Ravenswood Community Orchestra
"Make Music Chicago"
Humboldt Park Boathouse
6:30pm - FREE
Sibelius - Finlandia
Dvorak - Symphony No. 8, mvt. I
Delibes - Prelude
Delibes - Waltz
June 24
Joint Concert featuring the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony,
Hyde Park youth Symphony, and Ravenswood Community Orchestra
Logan Center for the Arts - 915 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL
7:30pm - FREE
Bizet -l'Arlesienne Suite no. 1
Sibelius- Finlandia
Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 1 g minor
Pirates of the Caribbean
July 15
Encore/Coda Chamber Orchestra
Benefit Concert for the Lakes and Environmental Assiciation
Deertrees Theatre
Harrison, ME
http://www.deertreestheatre.org/index.html
7:30pm
Beethoven - Overture to "The Creatures of Prometheus," Op. 43
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525
Haydn - Symphony No. 104 in D Major “London”
CONCERTS
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