2024 Conductors + Repertoire

Week 1

CONDUCTOR

John Morris Russell

REPERTOIRE

  • Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins

Week 2

CONDUCTORLESS ORCHESTRA

  • Andy Akiho: Pillar IV

  • Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin 

  • Bohuslav Martinu: Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra with Erik Behr, oboe

  • Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 88 in G Major

CONDUCTOR

Manuel López-Gómez

REPERTOIRE

  • Evencio Castellanos: Santa Cruz de Pacairigua

  • Astor Piazzolla: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires with Juliana Athayde, solo violin

  • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony no. 2 in E minor

CONDUCTOR

Julia Cruz, NOI+F Assistant Conductor

REPERTOIRE

  • Community Concert at St. Andrew's Church featuring David Houston, organ
  • Brass Ensemble & Unconducted Chamber Orchestra

Week 3

CONDUCTOR

JoAnn Falletta

REPERTOIRE

  • Adolphus Hailstork: Fanfare on “Amazing Grace

  • Max Bruch: Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor with Nikki Chooi, solo violin

  • Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

CONDUCTOR

Julia Cruz, NOI+F Assistant Conductor

REPERTOIRE

  • Family Concert: Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf

Week 4

CONDUCTOR

Mei-Ann Chen

REPERTOIRE

  • Anna Clyne: Restless Oceans

  • Claude Debussy: La mer

  • Michael Abels: Outburst

  • Béla Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

Week 5

CONDUCTOR

Marin Alsop, NOI+F Music Director

REPERTOIRE

Program 1 [Two performances at NOI+F and the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL]

  • Gabriela Ortiz: Antrópolis, conducted by Julia Cruz
  • Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 1 in D major

Program 2 [Two performances at NOI+F and the National Cathedral in Washington, DC]

  • Jennifer Higdon: blue cathedral

  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 in D minor

Week 6

CONDUCTOR

Richard Scerbo, Director of NOI+F

REPERTOIRE

  • The Music of John Williams