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Image Caption: Lowell Chamber Orchestra announces fifth season.<\/em><\/p>\n
This season will be the most ambitious yet in LCO\u2019s history in many ways – not only there will be more concerts than ever in one season, but also will feature more living composers, more soloists, will perform in new venues, will encompass some of the most challenging chamber orchestra repertoire, and will collaborate with not one, but two other musical groups.<\/p>\n
Three women composers will be the center of the living composers\u2019 feature. All of them commissioned by the LCO for different projects – Brittney Benton and Yoko Nakatani, who were previously commissioned for LCO\u2019s \u201cLowell Threads\u201d initiative, and currently Betsy Schramm, whose piece will be premiered in December. The other two living composers are the winners of the LCO\u2019s annual international call-for-scores: this year, two composers tied and agreed to share the prize – Cory Brodack and Martin Schreiner. Both of them were selected after an anonymous process of selection from over 180 scores.<\/p>\n
Three soloists will be featured with the ensemble this season, two of them members of the orchestra itself. Principal chair trumpet player Adam Gallant will perform Persichetti\u2019s \u201cThe Hollow Men,\u201d and concertmaster Katharina Radlberger will perform Mozart\u2019s Concerto No. 3 in G major. The third soloist is the winner of LCO\u2019s International Concerto Competition, Taiwanese marimbist Nikki Huang, based currently in Canada. She will be featured in S\u00e9journ\u00e9\u2019s Concerto for marimba.<\/p>\n
Each concert of the season is centered around an iconic work of the classical tradition, chosen for its historical importance. In September, audiences will hear Sch\u00f6nberg\u2019s First Chamber Symphony, which changed how the symphony was defined as a genre; In December, Charles Ives\u2019 Third Symphony, a Pulitzer Prize winning score, depicting a very traditional American gathering in the inimitable style of Ives; In February, Bart\u00f3k\u2019s mesmerizing \u201cMusic for String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta,\u201d made famous in Kubrik\u2019s film \u201cThe Shining.\u201d Finally, May culminates the season with the monumental Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, through a first time collaboration with Boston Cecilia, and its music director, Michael Barret, who will conduct one of its two performances.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a celebratory year for us.\u201d says LCO\u2019s Music Director Orlando Cela. \u201cWe managed to remain active and relatively unscathed during the pandemic, and now in our fifth year, we are looking to share much more with our audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
As usual, the concerts are free to the public, although donations are requested from those who can afford them – LCO is committed to demolish the socio-economic barriers to classical music by providing the best professional grade classical music concerts without an onerous financial burden.<\/p>\n