The East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) makes its Concert Series debut at Union’s Memorial Chapel Saturday, April 28, at 8 p.m. courtesy of People’s Symphony Concerts.
Formed in 2001 as a conductor-less chamber orchestra focused purely on making,music, ECCO combines the diversity of experience and the strength and power of an orchestra with the personal, intimate nature of chamber music.
The program will include Antonín Dvorák’s Serenade for Strings in E major, op. 22 (1875); Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto in D for string orchestra (1946); John Adams’ Shaker Loops (1983) and La Folia: Theme and variations for string orchestra by Arcangelo Corelli, arranged by Michi Wiancko.
ECCO is composed of 17 young string players who hail from the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory and Cleveland Institute of Music. Its members are soloists with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics and the Chicago, Richmond, Austin and Boston Symphonies.
The ensemble features award-winning solo and chamber musicians, many of whom were trained at Marlboro and are principals in major American orchestras. They include violinists Alicia Doudna, Meg Freivogel, Jessica Lee, Nelson Lee, Ayano Ninomiya, Susie Park, Annaliesa Place and Michi Wiancko; violists Rebecca Albers, Maurycy Banaszek, Melissa Reardon and Jonathan Vinocour; cellists Susan Babini, Denise Djokic, Daniel McDonough and Karen Ouzounian with Nate Farrington on bass.
The concert is free for the Union College community; $20 for general admission and $8 for area students. For tickets, call (518) 388-6080; for more information, call (518) 372-3651 or visit http://www.union.edu/ConcertSeries/.