2023 - 2024 Season
National Symphony Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, Music Director Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor
Octcober 6, 7, 8, 2023
Celebrating the Eternal City - Respighi’s Roman Trilogy
Ottorino Respighi:
Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome) Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) Feste Romane (Roman Festivals)
October 29
Cali Orchestra at Montclair State University Kyle Ritenauer, Music Director Alexander Kasser Theatre - Monclair, NJ
Igor Stravinsky - Firebird Suite (1919)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony no. 5, op. 64
November 10
Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (original version)
Valerie Coleman - Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes
Wynton Marsalis - A Fiddler’s Tale Suite
Manhattan School of Music Camerata Nova Kyle Ritenauer, Conductor Greenfield Hall - New York, NY
November 12, 2023
Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble Kyle Ritenauer, Director Ades Performance Space - New York, NY
Jonathan Dawe - Gibbons, Gongs, and Gamelans
Yalan Chan - Umbra for eight percussionists and piano (World Premiere)
Jose Eduardo Munoz - Murales II for percussion orchestra (World Premiere)
Chris Cerrone - Goldbeater’s Skin for percussion and mezzo-soprano
December 2, 2023
Cali Orchestra at Montclair State University Kyle Ritenauer, Music Director Alexander Kasser Theatre - Montclair, NJ
Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Jean Sibelius - Symphony no. 2, op. 43
December 14, 15, 16, 17, 2023
National Symphony Orchestra Laurence Equilbey, Conductor Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor
George Frideric Handel - Messiah
Winter/Spring 2024
January 27 & 28, 2024
Cali Opera at Montclair State University Kyle Ritenauer, Principal Conductor Alexander Kasser Theatre - Montclair, NJ
Francis Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmélites
March 5, 2024
Queens College Orchestra Kyle Ritenauer, Guest Conductor Flushing, Queens - New York, NY
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major
with works by Haydn, Vivaldi, Bach, and Sietz
March 7, 8, 9, 2024
New York Philharmonic Elim Chan, Conductor Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor David Geffen Hall - New York, NY
Jerod Impichcha̲achaaha' TATE Pisachi (World Premiere of orchestral version)
MARTINŮ Cello Concerto No. 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
March 24, 2024
Edvard Greig - Peer Gynt Suite no. 1
Aaron Copland - Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra, with Harp and Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 6 ‘Pastorale’, Op. 68
Cali Orchestra at Montclair State University Kyle Ritenauer, Music Director Alexander Kasser Theatre - Montclair, NJ
April 12, 2024
Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble Kyle Ritenauer, Director Niedorf-Karpati Hall - New York, NY
Steve Reich - Six Marimbas
Jason Treuting - Extremes
Paolo Marchettini - In Landlessness… (commissioned by Kyle Ritenauer and the Manhattan School of Music)
Alberto Ginastera - Cantata para America Magica
April 24, 2024
Cali Orchestra at Montclair State University Kyle Ritenauer, Music Director Alexander Kasser Theatre - Montclair, NJ
Valerie Coleman - Seven O’Clock Shout
Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (original version for 13 instruments)
Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs
Paul Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis
May 2, 3, 4, 2024
National Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck, Guest Conductor Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven - Overture to Fidelio
Ludwig van Beethoven - Romance nos. 1. & 2 for violin Nurit Bar-Josef, violin
Anton Bruckner - Symphony no. 9
May 9, 10, 11, 2024
National Symphony Orchestra Daniele Rustioni, Guest Conductor Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor
Bryce Dessner - Mari (co-commission)
Franz Liszt - Piano Concerto no. 1 Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique
May 17, 18, 19, 2024
National Symphony Orchestra Thomas Wilkins, Guest Conductor Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor
Anne Clyne - This Moment
Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto Randall Goosby, violin
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Danse nègre
Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations
May 30, 31, June 1 2024
National Symphony Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, Music Director Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor
Gustav Mahler - Symphony no. 7 “Song of the Night”