Montpelier Chamber Orchestra

04/08/2026

Sunday, April 12, 2:00, at the Chapel at College Hall in Montpelier.

04/08/2026

n the beautiful Chapel at College Hall, on April 11 and 12, Montpelier Chamber Orchestra will present musical sentiments of spring. We invite in hope, light, blossom, and beauty to unite us through the season of mud. This spring program aims to inspire and expand our feelings of anticipation and yearning so characteristic of this time of year.

Tchaikovsky’s well known, Serenade for Strings, ventures from classical elegance to Russian folk melodies. It presents a danceable waltz, light and singable, balanced by a sad, yet painfully beautiful elegy. Like springtime itself it embraces dramatic contrasts between light and dark, pensive depth and joyful dance.

Flautist Laurel Mauer, one of Central Vermont’s musical treasures of worldwide renown, plays Dana Paul Perna’s, Songe de Voix Perdues (dream of the forgotten voices), a contemporary expression for flute and strings.

The enticement and delayed resolution of the changing seasons are encompassed in Emilie Mayer’s symphony No. 1 in cm. Mayer, oft referred to as the “female Beethoven of the 19th century.” Here unresolved chords are extended, and then give way to resolution.

Come celebrate spring along with Montpelier Chamber Orchestra. We will take you there.

03/01/2025

Tickets are live for our March 23rd concert at LNT at City Hall Arts Center. Enjoy music of Mozart, Grieg and Walker. Buy them while you can - one show only Sunday at 3 pm.

https://sevendaystickets.com/events/mco-presents-spring-notes-3-23-2025

The program includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor. This work presents an iconic and graceful melody of both darkness and light. It is softly elegant, like the promise of spring, and yet includes moments of angst and jubilation. The melody is recognizable; this is a piece that we all know and love. Next, in the vein of enhancing a longing for springtime, the orchestra will play Edvard Grieg’s, Holberg Suite, a compilation of traditional dance forms in melody and rhythm. The show will end with the Fanfare, Interlude and Finale by our own Vermont composer, Gwyneth Walker. This has elements of jazz, Latin clave and pure joy.

Montpelier Chamber Orchestra presents its Spring 2025 program: Spring NotesDan Bruce, Music DirectorMontpelier Chamber Orchestra will celebrate the coming of spring with their upcoming concert, Spring Notes, on Sunday, March 23 at 3 pm, at the Montpelier City Hall Arts Center (Lost Nation Theater).....

03/01/2025

Our friends at LNT are putting on an amazing show this weekend. Music and dance for everyone to enjoy.

It’s Theater For Kids By Kids! At Lost Nation Theater as we present the TYA adaptation of the Broadway Musical Tuck Everlasting - in our state of the art home w

01/19/2025

Today's performance at 4 pm is SOLD OUT!
Missed your chance to buy tickets? You can still see the show online! View the full program on our website with performer bios.
Suggested donation by check or Paypal: $5.

The Montpelier Chamber Orchestra is committed to elevating contemporary and classical music through intimate performances, outreach in schools, and connecting the Central Vermont community around music. 

01/16/2025

The show for Sunday is SOLD OUT!

Want to see it? We have a few volunteer slots left. Get in touch with us and view from the balcony (best seats in the house...)

01/12/2025

Looking forward to the MLK, Jr. Commemorative Concert Sunday, January 19th.

Today's artist spotlight:
Willie Docto, MCO guest concertmaster, performs on the "Aunt Lulabelle" violin handcrafted by Thurmond Knight of Glover, Vermont. In 2006 he founded the Eleva Chamber Players in Waterbury. He has been a principal player in the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra and the Vermont Philharmonic for the past two decades. Willie has served on the boards of the Monteverdi Music School and the Vermont Arts Council. Prior to moving to Vermont, Willie performed as a freelance musician in the Washington, DC area for over 15 years. He has performed in the Georgetown Symphony, Capital City Symphony, Prince William Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, the Veterans Administration Medical Musical Group and Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra. Willie studied violin at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK, and graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

(photo credit: Robin Pendergrast)

01/11/2025

Jim Lowe interviewed pianist Michael Arnowitt on his program for the upcoming MLK, Jr. Commemorative Concert at City Hall Arts Center. Thanks, Jim!

When pianist Michael Arnowitt first performed in Montpelier in the 1980s, he was better known in Vermont for his social justice activism than his pedigreed musical virtuosity. When he joins

01/07/2025

From our friends at LNT. Tell your friends with kiddos.

You've One More Day to get the "early bird" tuition price for our Winter Break Dance Theater Intensive and its production of TUCK EVERLASTING!
Led by Taryn Noelle, Tim Guiles and Jessica Della Pepa Clayton - much of the team that brought us "The Prom" last summer.
www.lostnationtheater.org
A fun, challenging, inspiring opportunity for those age 9-17.
Join Us!
2 half-day sessions Feb 15 & 22; followed by a weeklong full day intensives and three fully designed & staged public performances.
Get details at www.lostnationtheater.org


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01/07/2025

Warm jazz sounds from our musical guest, Michael Arnowitt, at the next MCO concert.

The Crying CandleMichael Arnowitt and ImproVisions JazzPerformers on this track:Shirley Crabbe, vocalsAl Roman, violinDave Smith, trumpetDan Silverman, tromb...

01/03/2025

Performer update for our Sunday, January 19th, 4-6 pm MLK, Jr. Commemorative Concert at Lost Nation Theater at Montpelier City Hall Arts Center:

Pianist Michael Arnowitt will present a variety of classical and jazz pieces, including selections by the outstanding Black composers George Walker and Leslie Adams, and Joshua Uzoigwe’s “Ukom” from the composer’s set “Talking Drums,” music evoking the traditional drumming and singing of celebratory memorial music of southeastern Nigeria. Arnowitt will wear his jazz pianist hat to close his set with his original jazz composition “Chicago Avenue” in memory of George Floyd and a performance of “Afro Blue,” made famous by the saxophonist John Coltrane.

First 50 youth tickets are FREE and all tickets available here: https://sevendaystickets.com/events/we-shall-overcome-an-mlk-commemorative-event-1-19-2025

12/03/2024

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