Our season started early in July performing as guests of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in a Celebrate America concert at CMAC in Canandaigua. Also in July we traveled to Chautauqua for a repeat performance of our world premiere of Glenn McClure’s Emancipation Oratorio; in January we were again guests of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra performing Boulanger’s Psalm 130 and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Ode to Joy; ROS had two of its own productions this season: in October we collaborated with Houghton College Choir in performances of the Mozart Requiem both in Rochester and at Houghton College Campus; in March we collaborated with the SUNY Brockport Sankofa African Dance and Drum Ensemble with with music of Ramirez, Haagen, Thomas and more, performances both in Rochester and SUNY Brockport Campus; in May we performed at Asbury First United Methodist Church as a pre-tour concert including works by Monteverdi, Gorecki, Poulenc, and Tyzik’s Psalm 150, commissioned and premiered by ROS on the occasion of our 60th Anniversary; with guest performance by the Rochester School of the Arts.
The season ended with a two-week concert tour to Eastern Europe, accompanied by guest soprano soloist Elena O’Connor and accompanist Kevin Nitsch, with performances in Kromertz, Opava and Prague, Czech Republic and Krakow Poland, sister-city of Rochester.
