The critically acclaimed New Millennium Chamber Orchestra is proud to announce the concluding concert set in its 12th Concert Season, “Spring Serenade” on the first weekend of April. The concerts feature a collaboration with singers from Bryan Baker’s renowned Masterworks Chorale and two winners from NMCO’s Concerto Competition for Young Artists (both students at Saratoga High School).

Saturday evening’s San Mateo offering is on May 3d at 7 PM in the intimate surroundings of Transfiguration Episcopal Church, and Sunday afternoon’s program takes place on May 4 at 4 PM in the lovely acoustics of Palo Alto’s First Presbyterian Church.

Among the highlights of “Spring Serenade”:

• The Serenade Chamber Choir joins the Orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ immensely stirring and tuneful masterpiece Serenade to Music, set to words from the last act of Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice.”
• Soloist Nolan Woo and Assistant Conductor Jason Kneebone lead us through the mysterious rapture of Sergei Prokofiev’s amazing masterpiece for cello and orchestra, the Sinfonia Concertante.
• Perhaps the most unusual composition from our Concerto Competition: the impressionistic harmonies and wild, jazz-influenced virtuosity of American composer Paul Creston‘s celebrated Concerto for Alto Saxophone, with soloist Dylan Huang.
• NMCO’s award-winning concertmaster Colyn Fischer, leading the strings from his violin, brings to life Gustav Holst’s vividly atmospheric “St. Paul’s Suite,” one of the best-loved and liveliest works in the English string orchestra tradition.

Don’t miss this exceptional musical event! Mark your calendars now and get your tickets for the New Millennium Chamber Orchestra’s “Spring Serenade” May 3 and 4!