2023 - 2024 Season

National Symphony Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, Music Director Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor

Octcober 6, 7, 8, 2023

Celebrating the Eternal City - Respighi’s Roman Trilogy

Ottorino Respighi:

Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome) Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) Feste Romane (Roman Festivals)

October 29

Cali Orchestra at Montclair State University Kyle Ritenauer, Music Director Alexander Kasser Theatre - Monclair, NJ

Igor Stravinsky - Firebird Suite (1919)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony no. 5, op. 64

November 10

Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (original version)

Valerie Coleman - Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes

Wynton Marsalis - A Fiddler’s Tale Suite

Manhattan School of Music Camerata Nova Kyle Ritenauer, Conductor Greenfield Hall - New York, NY

November 12, 2023

Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble Kyle Ritenauer, Director Ades Performance Space - New York, NY

Jonathan Dawe - Gibbons, Gongs, and Gamelans

Yalan Chan - Umbra for eight percussionists and piano (World Premiere)

Jose Eduardo Munoz - Murales II for percussion orchestra (World Premiere)

Chris Cerrone - Goldbeater’s Skin for percussion and mezzo-soprano

December 2, 2023

Cali Orchestra at Montclair State University Kyle Ritenauer, Music Director Alexander Kasser Theatre - Montclair, NJ

Maurice Ravel - Bolero

Jean Sibelius - Symphony no. 2, op. 43

December 14, 15, 16, 17, 2023

National Symphony Orchestra Laurence Equilbey, Conductor Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor

George Frideric Handel - Messiah

Winter/Spring 2024

January 27 & 28, 2024

Cali Opera at Montclair State University Kyle Ritenauer, Principal Conductor Alexander Kasser Theatre - Montclair, NJ

Francis Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmélites

March 5, 2024

Queens College Orchestra Kyle Ritenauer, Guest Conductor Flushing, Queens - New York, NY

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major

with works by Haydn, Vivaldi, Bach, and Sietz

March 7, 8, 9, 2024

New York Philharmonic Elim Chan, Conductor Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor David Geffen Hall - New York, NY

Jerod Impichcha̲achaaha' TATE  Pisachi (World Premiere of orchestral version) 

MARTINŮ  Cello Concerto No. 1

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV  Scheherazade

March 24, 2024

Edvard Greig - Peer Gynt Suite no. 1

Aaron Copland - Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra, with Harp and Piano

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 6 ‘Pastorale’, Op. 68

Cali Orchestra at Montclair State University Kyle Ritenauer, Music Director Alexander Kasser Theatre - Montclair, NJ

April 12, 2024

Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble Kyle Ritenauer, Director Niedorf-Karpati Hall - New York, NY

Steve Reich - Six Marimbas

Jason Treuting - Extremes

Paolo Marchettini - In Landlessness… (commissioned by Kyle Ritenauer and the Manhattan School of Music)

Alberto Ginastera - Cantata para America Magica

April 24, 2024

Cali Orchestra at Montclair State University Kyle Ritenauer, Music Director Alexander Kasser Theatre - Montclair, NJ

Valerie Coleman - Seven O’Clock Shout

Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (original version for 13 instruments)

Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs

Paul Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis

May 2, 3, 4, 2024

National Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck, Guest Conductor Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven - Overture to Fidelio

Ludwig van Beethoven - Romance nos. 1. & 2 for violin Nurit Bar-Josef, violin

Anton Bruckner - Symphony no. 9

May 9, 10, 11, 2024

National Symphony Orchestra Daniele Rustioni, Guest Conductor Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor

Bryce Dessner - Mari (co-commission)

Franz Liszt - Piano Concerto no. 1 Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique

May 17, 18, 19, 2024

National Symphony Orchestra Thomas Wilkins, Guest Conductor Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor

Anne Clyne - This Moment

Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto Randall Goosby, violin

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Danse nègre

Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations

May 30, 31, June 1 2024

National Symphony Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, Music Director Kyle Ritenauer, Cover Conductor

Gustav Mahler - Symphony no. 7 “Song of the Night”