New Century Chamber Orchestra celebrates the holidays with a program of festive classics that shines a light on the Christmas and Hanukkah season. Building upon the orchestra's creative collaborations with distinguished guest artists and ensembles, New Century welcomes the return of the GRAMMY Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus and introduces audiences to the genre-bending, international klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer.
Last season's holiday collaboration with the San Francisco Girls Chorus was billed as "irresistible" by George Rowe of the Contra Costa Times who went on to say "With Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and her players establishing gently rhythmic, lilting waves of sound, the Girls Chorus sang with firm tone and graceful phrasing. The effect was gorgeous..." This year, they team up with New Century for O Divine Redeemer by Charles Gounod and Dixit Dominus by Baldassare Galuppi as well as performing alone for I Wonder as I Wander by John Jacob Niles and a medley of Christmas Carols. New Century opens the program with two of Johann Sebastian Bach's most beloved chorales, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring and Sheep May Safely Graze.
Hailed as a "brilliant clarinetist" (New Yorker), David Krakauer is widely considered to be one of the world's leading exponents of Eastern European Jewish klezmer music as well as a major voice in classical music. Krakauer makes his debut with New Century featuring as soloist in a selection of traditional Jewish works including Hanukkah O Hanukkah, Wedding Dance, Der Gasn Nign and Der Heyser Bulgar. As a member of his Klezmer Madness! Ensemble, Krakauer regularly tours the globe and appears at major international festivals such as the BBC Proms and Carnegie's Zankel Hall. Krakauer is in demand as a guest soloist and performs with some of the world's most esteemed groups including the Emerson and Kronos String Quartets and orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony and Seattle Symphony.
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