February 21st & 22nd, 2026
“Gold and Glass” Concert
The New Millennium Chamber Orchestra presents “Gold and Glass” on February 21st and 22nd, 2026.
This concert will feature the world premiere of local composer Aaron Burger’s suite “Gold and Glass” for chamber orchestra and chorus, conducted by the composer. Antonin Dvořák’s exquisite masterpiece, the Symphony No. 6 in D Major highlights this composer’s mastery of melody and orchestration.
The program concludes with performances by the winners of NMCO’s 2025 Concerto Competition for Young Artists. Flutist Megan Bence plays Cecile Chaminade’s famed “Concertino for flute and orchestra” and violinist Lumi Kim performs the first movement of Benjamin Britten’s enthralling Violin Concerto.
Join us Saturday February 21st at 7 PM at Transfiguration Episcopal Church in San Mateo and Sunday February 22nd at 4 PM at Palo Alto’s First Presbyterian Church for “Gold and Glass”.
Advance Tickets are available on Square or at the door: $25 General/ $15 Seniors/ $10 College.
As always, middle and high school students attend our concerts for free.
DATES/VENUES
Saturday, February 21st 7:00 PM
Transfiguration Episcopal Church, San Mateo
3900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA 94403
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Sunday, February 22nd 4:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto
1140 Cowper St Palo Alto, CA 94301
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November 8th & 9th, 2025
“Elements” Concert
The New Millennium Chamber Orchestra is delighted to announce the first concerts of our 13th season, “Elements”, on November 8th and 9th.
Musical compositions inspired by the four elements take center stage in these performances, featuring works by composers from the classical era to this century.
Saturday evening’s San Mateo performance on November 8th at 7 PM will be in the intimate surroundings of Transfiguration Episcopal Church, while Sunday afternoon’s program takes place on November 9th at 4 PM in the lovely acoustics of Palo Alto’s First Presbyterian Church.
Air, water, fire and earth will all feature in “Elements” :
· Music Director Jenny Beyer Cornell leading the orchestra through George Friderich Handel’s lively and celebratory “Water Music Suite No. 2”
· Canadian composer Katerina Gimon’s immersive soundscape “Ice Forms,” depicting the winter landscape on Lake Ontario
· Movements 4 and 5, the furious storm and its aftermath, from Ludwig van Beethoven’s evocative Symphony No. 6 (‘Pastoral’)
· Associate Director Jason Kneebone conducting Manuel de Falla’s incendiary “Ritual Fire Dance” from the ballet El Amor Brujo
· “Mountains and Rivers without End,” a work inspired by a Korean landscape painting and incorporating natural and Eastern spiritual soundscapes by Alan Hovhaness
Be sure to join us in San Mateo or Palo Alto for an elemental musical experience! Mark your calendars now and get your tickets for the New Millennium Chamber Orchestra’s “Elements” November 8th and 9th.
Advance Tickets are available on Square or at the door: $25 General/ $15 Seniors/ $10 College.
As always, middle and high school students attend our concerts for free.
DATES/VENUES
Saturday, November 8th 7:00 PM
Transfiguration Episcopal Church, San Mateo
3900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA 94403
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Sunday, November 9th 4:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto
1140 Cowper St Palo Alto, CA 94301
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September 14th, 2025
Chamber Music Concert
Join us for New Millennium Chamber Orchestra’s annual chamber music concert featuring members of the orchestra.
Enjoy a rich variety of delightful works including:
Beethoven Piano Trio in B-Flat Major, Op.97 “Archduke” 1. Allegro moderato
Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik
Mckee Vuelta del Fuego (Ride of Fire)
Dvorak String Quartet, Op 51
Haydn London Trio No. 3 in G Major
Dvorak Serenade for Winds Op. 44
This concert will be held on Sunday, September 14th at 3:00 pm at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 178 Clinton Street (at Brewster Ave.) in Redwood City.
DATES/VENUES
Sunday, September 14th 3:00 PM
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
178 Clinton Street (at Brewster Ave.) Redwood City, CA 94062
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May 3 & 4, 2025
“Spring Serenade”
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!
DATES/VENUES
Saturday, May 3rd 7:00 PM
Transfiguration Episcopal Church, San Mateo
3900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA 94403
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Sunday, May 4th 4:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto
1140 Cowper St Palo Alto, CA 94301
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November 9 & 10, 2024
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“The French Collection”
The New Millennium Chamber Orchestra’s twelfth concert season begins November 9 and 10 with “The French Collection”, a journey through the music of the French Impressionist period.
Join us on Saturday, November 9 at 7:00 PM at Transfiguration Episcopal Church in San Mateo or on Sunday, November 10th at 4:00 PM at First Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto as we delve into the lyrical and harmonically complex music of this period.
The performance features two compositions by Maurice Ravel: “Pavane pour une infante défunte”, dance music written for a Spanish princess depicted in a painting by Diego Velázquez, and “Le Tombeau de Couperin”, each of whose four atmospheric movements evoke the distinct personalities of a friend who perished during the First World War.
Gabriel Fauré’s “Sicilienne” from Pelléas et Mélisande is one of the most recognizable works from the French Impressionists, featuring soaring melodic lines and masterful orchestration.
Originally composed for piano four hands, the Petite Suite by Claude Debussy was orchestrated by Henri Büsser and features movements inspired by the poems of Paul Verlaine and the art of dance. Charming in its simplicity, it maintains a distinctly French air throughout.
Join us on Saturday, November 9 at 7:00 PM at Transfiguration Episcopal Church in San Mateo or on Sunday, November 10th at 4:00 PM at First Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto as we delve into the lyrical and harmonically complex music of this period.
The performance features two compositions by Maurice Ravel: “Pavane pour une infante défunte”, dance music written for a Spanish princess depicted in a painting by Diego Velázquez, and “Le Tombeau de Couperin”, each of whose four atmospheric movements evoke the distinct personalities of a friend who perished during the First World War.
Gabriel Fauré’s “Sicilienne” from Pelléas et Mélisande is one of the most recognizable works from the French Impressionists, featuring soaring melodic lines and masterful orchestration.
Originally composed for piano four hands, the Petite Suite by Claude Debussy was orchestrated by Henri Büsser and features movements inspired by the poems of Paul Verlaine and the art of dance. Charming in its simplicity, it maintains a distinctly French air throughout.
DATES/VENUES
Saturday, November 9th 7:00 PM
Transfiguration Episcopal Church, San Mateo
3900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA 94403
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Sunday, November 10th 4:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto
1140 Cowper St Palo Alto, CA 94301
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September 15th, 2024
“At Summer’s End”
Chamber Music Concert
Chamber Music Concert
Join us for New Millennium Chamber Orchestra’s “ At Summer’s End ”, an annual concert of chamber music featuring members of the orchestra. Enjoy a rich variety of delightful works including the Allegro con brio from Johannes Brahms‘ Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major; Robert Muczynski‘s Duos for Flutes, Henri Rabaud‘s Solo de Concours for Clarinet and Piano; Carl Nielsen‘s quintet Serenata in Vano; Nikolai Tcherepnin’s Horn Quartet, Op 35; Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69 1st movement Allegro ma non tanto, and J.S. Bach‘s Suite No. 1 in G Major for solo Viola.
This concert will be held on Sunday, September 15th at 3:00 pm at Transfiguration Episcopal Church, 3900 Alameda de las Pulgas in San Mateo.
This concert will be held on Sunday, September 15th at 3:00 pm at Transfiguration Episcopal Church, 3900 Alameda de las Pulgas in San Mateo.
DATES/VENUES
Sunday, September 15th 3:00 PM
Transfiguration Episcopal Church, San Mateo
3900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA 94403
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April 27th & 28th, 2024
American Landscapes
The New Millennium Chamber Orchestra concludes its 11th Concert Season this April with “American Landscapes“, a journey through music inspired by the urban and natural landscapes of the United States.
Saturday evening’s program on April 27th is at 7 PM in San Mateo’s Transfiguration Episcopal Church. The Sunday afternoon concert on April 28th starts at 4:00 PM at the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto.
From the Bay Area’s own Mason Bates, composer of the GRAMMY-winning opera “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” we are thrilled to present “Rusty Air in Carolina,” a fantastic and imaginative blend of orchestra and “electronica” evocative of the passing of time through a summer’s evening in the South.
Since its inception, NMCO has been honored to perform various works by the late Nancy Bloomer Deussen on our programs. This local composer’s “Peninsula Suite,” a work for string orchestra in the classical style, paints a lyrical picture of our own local environment.
Victoria Bond’s celebrated “Bridges” is a symphonic journey around, under and across five different structures from the Brooklyn Bridge to our own Golden Gate. Each movement has its own distinct harmonic and rhythmic palette.
In 1935, the United States Department of Agriculture commissioned composer Virgil Thomson and filmmaker Pare Lorentz to create “The Plow That Broke the Plains,” a motion picture charting the agricultural destruction of the Great Plains. This deeply affecting and lovely suite of music from the film resonates with the impact of climate change today.
And finally, NMCO will return to a cherished work, Samuel Barber‘s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915.” Our performance of this moving work will feature English soprano Margaret Lingas, who has performed with the Tallis Scholars, Cappella Romana, Ex Cathedra, and the Magdalen College Consort of Voices.
We’re delighted to conclude our 11th season with this evocative program of works inspired by the American landscape, and we look forward to presenting it to you in San Mateo and Palo Alto! Mark your calendars now and get your tickets for the New Millennium Chamber Orchestra’s “American Landscapes” performances on April 27 and 28!
Saturday evening’s program on April 27th is at 7 PM in San Mateo’s Transfiguration Episcopal Church. The Sunday afternoon concert on April 28th starts at 4:00 PM at the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto.
From the Bay Area’s own Mason Bates, composer of the GRAMMY-winning opera “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” we are thrilled to present “Rusty Air in Carolina,” a fantastic and imaginative blend of orchestra and “electronica” evocative of the passing of time through a summer’s evening in the South.
Since its inception, NMCO has been honored to perform various works by the late Nancy Bloomer Deussen on our programs. This local composer’s “Peninsula Suite,” a work for string orchestra in the classical style, paints a lyrical picture of our own local environment.
Victoria Bond’s celebrated “Bridges” is a symphonic journey around, under and across five different structures from the Brooklyn Bridge to our own Golden Gate. Each movement has its own distinct harmonic and rhythmic palette.
In 1935, the United States Department of Agriculture commissioned composer Virgil Thomson and filmmaker Pare Lorentz to create “The Plow That Broke the Plains,” a motion picture charting the agricultural destruction of the Great Plains. This deeply affecting and lovely suite of music from the film resonates with the impact of climate change today.
And finally, NMCO will return to a cherished work, Samuel Barber‘s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915.” Our performance of this moving work will feature English soprano Margaret Lingas, who has performed with the Tallis Scholars, Cappella Romana, Ex Cathedra, and the Magdalen College Consort of Voices.
We’re delighted to conclude our 11th season with this evocative program of works inspired by the American landscape, and we look forward to presenting it to you in San Mateo and Palo Alto! Mark your calendars now and get your tickets for the New Millennium Chamber Orchestra’s “American Landscapes” performances on April 27 and 28!
DATES/VENUES
Saturday, April 27th 7:00 PM
Transfiguration Episcopal Church, San Mateo
3900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA 94403
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Sunday, April 28th 4:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto
1140 Cowper St Palo Alto, CA 94301
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