Tuesday, January 27, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra & Stella Chen
Seasons Of Change
Starting Wednesday, August 13, Members will get early access to buy tickets before they go on sale to the general public on August 20.
Renowned for their collaborative spirit, the GRAMMY-Award winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has played without a conductor since their inception, performing with “edge-of-the-seat intensity” and displaying an “infectious love for making music” (The New York Times) for audiences around the world. Violinist and Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Stella Chen ventures into the sultry, scintillating tango atmosphere of Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. Tune into hidden nuances in the wondrous counterpoint of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and let the richness of the Orpheus strings carry you on a timeless reverie through Villa-Lobos’ Aria from Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5.
Program
- Villa-Lobos
Aria from Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5
Arranged by John Krance - Piazzolla
Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Arranged by Leonid Desyatnikov for Stella Chen, Violin - Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Orchestrated by Dmitry Sitkovetsky
About Stella Chen
American violinist Stella Chen garnered worldwide attention with her first-prize win at the 2019 Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition, followed by the 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant and 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. Since then, Stella has appeared across North America, Europe, and Asia in concerto, recital, and chamber music performances. She recently made debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Baltimore Symphony, Belgian National Orchestra, and many others and appeared in concertos at the Vienna Musikverein, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Berlin Philharmonie. In recital, recent appearances include Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Phillips Collection, Rockport Music Festival, and Nume Festival in Italy. She appears frequently with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center both in New York and on tour. For her all-Schubert debut album, released in March of 2023 to critical acclaim on the Apple Music label Platoon, Stella was named the 2023 Young Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a radical experiment in musical democracy, proving for over fifty years what happens when exceptional artists gather with total trust in each other and faith in the creative process. Orpheus began in 1972 when cellist Julian Fifer assembled a group of New York freelancers in their early twenties to play orchestral repertoire as if it were chamber music. In that age of co-ops and communes, the idealistic Orpheans snubbed the “corporate” path of symphony orchestras and learned how to play, plan, and promote concerts as a true collective, with leadership roles rotating from the very first performance. It’s one thing for the four players of a string quartet to lean into the group sound and react spontaneously, but with 20 to 30 musicians together, the complexities and payoffs are magnified exponentially. Within its first decade, Orpheus made Carnegie Hall their home and became a global sensation through tours of Europe and Asia.
Ticket & Visitor Information
For assistance and to make purchases by phone, call the box office at 973-971-3706. The ticket price includes a non-refundable $3.00 service fee. Programs are subject to change.
Image credit: Photo by Fay Fox.
