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The Lowell Chamber Orchestra (LCO) to premiere new edition of Julia Perry’s ‘Symphony for Violas and Basses’

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire / -- On Sunday, February 18, 2024, 3 p.m., The Lowell Chamber Orchestra will present the first Massachusetts performance of Julia Perry's "Symphony for Violas and Basses," from a new edition by LCO's music director Orlando Cela. The concert will also include a world premiere by Martin Max Schreiner.
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Lowell Chamber Orchestra Receives 3-Year Barr Foundation Grant to Support Diverse Classical Music

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- The Lowell Chamber Orchestra (LCO) has been inducted into the Barr Foundation's "Creative Vitality Grant Program," in order to continue its mission of providing the greater Lowell area with the most diverse classical music.
Lowell Chamber Orchestra - From left to right: Yoko Nakatani, Brittney Benton, Adam Gallant

Lowell Chamber Orchestra (LCO) Inaugurates its Fifth Season with a Concert that Redefines the Symphony

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- The Lowell Chamber Orchestra opens its fifth season Saturday, September 16, 2023, with music that redefines the symphony as genre. The evening will feature music by Brittney Benton, Yoko Nakatani, Vincent Persichetti, and Arnold Schönberg, bringing a historical approach to the ever changing façade of this genre.
Lowell Chamber Orchestra (LCO) announces fifth season

The Lowell Chamber Orchestra (LCO) announces fifth season, largest yet, with seven concerts in Massachusetts

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- The Lowell Chamber Orchestra has officially announced its fifth season, which will be comprised of seven concerts starting in September of this year, and running all the way until June of next year. Three soloists will be featured with the ensemble this season, two of them members of the orchestra itself.
Lowell Chamber Orchestra winners: Left to right: Wei-Hsing Huang, Martin Max Schreiner, Cory Brodack

Lowell Chamber Orchestra (LCO) in Massachusetts announces the winners of its Call-for-Scores and Concerto Competition

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- The Lowell Chamber Orchestra congratulates composers Cory Brodack and Martin Max Schreiner for winning the orchestra's 2023 Lowell Chamber Orchestra Call-for-Scores, and marimba player Wei-Hsing Nikki Huang, for winning the 2023 Lowell Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition.
Composer Gabriele Vanoni

Lowell Chamber Orchestra’s December performance, ‘Island of Peoples’ contemplates US immigration, history

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- Nearly forty percent of Americans can trace at least one ancestor to Ellis Island, and the Lowell Chamber Orchestra will present a work based on three actual stories of the famous islands that encompass the immigrant experience. "Island of Peoples" is free and open to the public, and will take place on: Saturday, December 17, 2022.
MINIATURE SYMPHONIES album

New MINIATURE SYMPHONIES album is part of an initiative by the Lowell Chamber Orchestra’s Music Director Orlando Cela called ‘Lowell Threads’

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- The Lowell Chamber Orchestra announces the release of its second album, "Miniature Symphonies," a project started at the height of the pandemic, and designed to keep selected composers and musicians active at a time of insecurity in the performing arts.
Armando Bayolo, Rose Hegele, Genevieve Leclair, Leo Eguchi, Estefanía Pardo-Pere

The Lowell Chamber Orchestra announces its fourth season (2022), with five free concerts outside Boston

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire - National News/ -- The Lowell Chamber Orchestra announces its fourth season, with five free concerts that look to entertain, educate, and enlighten Lowell audiences. All of the concerts are completely free, consistent with the LCO's mission to provide extraordinarily high level classical music performances and take down socio-economic barriers to access these concerts.
LCO Pride: A Rainbow of Repertoire

‘LCO Pride: A Rainbow of Repertoire’ chamber concert will celebrate Pride Month by showcasing LGBTQ+ composers from the Lowell MA and...

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire - National News/ -- The Lowell Chamber Orchestra is proud to present "LCO Pride: A Rainbow of Repertoire" on Sunday, June 5, 2022 at Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Massachusetts. This chamber concert will celebrate Pride Month by showcasing LGBTQ+ composers from the Lowell area and around the world.
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Massachusetts’ Lowell Chamber Orchestra makes landmark agreement with Universal Edition music publishing

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- The Lowell Chamber Orchestra and Universal Edition have partnered to give composers an unusual opportunity to promote their works in print. The orchestra recently announced its second call-for-scores in order to stimulate the creation of new works for chamber orchestra.
Composer Dana Kaufman

‘Antique Modernity’ is a concert that revolves around Dana Kaufman’s new work, written for the Lowell Chamber Orchestra

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- On Saturday, February 19, the Lowell Chamber Orchestra will become a vessel through which works explore the concept of new and old. "Antique Modernity" is a concert that revolves around Dana Kaufman's brand new work, written specifically for the Lowell Chamber Orchestra, and works by Francis Poulenc, Georg Philip Telemann, and Jean Philip Rameau, that challenge our concepts of contemporary and traditional.
Tona Brown (left) and Rahze Cheatham (right)

Lowell Chamber Orchestra presents ‘As One’ contemporary opera in Massachusetts with transgender and nonbinary cast

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- Lowell Chamber Orchestra is proud to present "As One" on Saturday, November 20, 2021, 7:30 p.m., at Middlesex Community College. The critically acclaimed, 75-minute chamber opera created by composer Laura Kaminsky and librettists Kimberly Reed and Mark Campbell with film by Ms. Reed, has had nearly 50 productions around the world and, according to OPERA America, is the most produced contemporary opera in North America.
"Lowell Chamber Orchestra music director Orlando Cela (left), and mandolinist Joseph Brent (right). Photo by Adam Noya

Lowell Chamber Orchestra wins third place award in The American Prize Competition for the Performing Arts

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- The Lowell Chamber Orchestra has been awarded third place in The American Prize Competition for the Performing Arts. The orchestra was recognized for their performances in its inaugural season, in a division that appraises professional orchestras around the United States.
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The Lowell Chamber Orchestra of Massachusetts opens its third season with cosmic music

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- The Lowell Chamber Orchestra opens its third season this Saturday, September 25, with music inspired by the cosmos. The three works by Anna Clyne, Micah Roberts, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, all allude to a cosmic object.
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A Season of Inclusion: Lowell Chamber Orchestra returns to live concerts in Lowell, Mass.

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- After successfully ending an entirely virtual second season, the Lowell Chamber Orchestra returns to live concerts with "A Season of Inclusion," its third and most ambitious season to date. The season opens with another world premiere: Micah Roberts' "Hypernovae," a fantastic overture inspired by the cosmos
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Massachusetts’ Lowell Chamber Orchestra makes final round in The 2021 American Prize Competition

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- The Lowell Chamber Orchestra is one of the finalists for The American Prize in the orchestral performance competition, professional divisions. While the competition is still ongoing, the Lowell Chamber Orchestra is being recognized for superb past performances during its three years of existence.
Mouli Ramani CEO Horsepower Technologies

Lowell Plan Appoints Horsepower CEO Mouli Ramani, to Its Board of Directors

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- The Lowell Plan, Inc., a private non-profit economic development organization that ensures the City of Lowell is a successful, thriving place for all to live, learn, work, play, and grow a business in the rapidly changing global economy announced today that Mouli Ramani, CEO of Horsepower Technologies Inc., has formally joined its Board of Directors.
Ms. Yun-Ju Choi

Coalition for a Better Acre welcomes Ms. Yun-Ju Choi as New Executive Director

LOWELL, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- The Coalition for a Better Acre in Lowell today announced the hiring of Yun-Ju Choi as the organization's new Executive Director. Coalition for a Better Acre is a nonprofit membership-based community development corporation dedicated to resident empowerment and sustainable community revitalization for current and future residents of Lowell and the Merrimack Valley.

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