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New Jersey Chamber Orchestra To Debut Friday in Sewell

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Some of the region's most accomplished performers have come together in New Jersey's newest professional orchestra
Some of the region's most accomplished performers have come together in New Jersey's newest professional orchestra (The Music Barn)

Classical music fans in South Jersey pining for superb live performances as the pandemic recedes are welcoming the arrival of the New Jersey Chamber Orchestra, New Jersey’s newest professional orchestra, taking the stage Friday, July 9, 2021 at 7 p.m. at The Music Barn in Sewell, NJ at Bunker Hill Presbyterian Church.

The NJCO is led by Music Director Thomas Hong, Artistic Director and Conductor of the University of Pennsylvania Orchestras. He brings together distinguished musicians from the greater Philadelphia area and beyond, among them:

Rachel Ku, Viola, The Philadelphia Orchestra

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Rebecca Simon, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra and faculty, Haverford/BrynMawr/Swarthmore Colleges

Robin Leigh Massie - Soprano

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Jonathan Moser - Tenor

Rick Barrantes, Teaching Artist and Performer

Benjamin Harding, Dean of the School of Music at Cairn University

Madison Day, Assistant Artistic Director of the Philadelphia International Music Festival

Natalie Rudoi DaSilva, Cairn University Faculty

The inaugural concert, during this season of re-openings and fresh starts, is “An American Dream: Music of Aaron Copland,” featuring iconic works by the composer in a program that the ensemble hopes will “encapsulate the hope, optimism and earnestness of the American spirit present in Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Tender Land Suite.”

Tickets are available here: https://themusicbarn.thundertix.com/events/186829

This event has been moved INDOORS to Bunker Hill Presbyterian Church in Sewell, NJ.

Bunker Hill Presbyterian Church

330 Greentree Road

Sewell, NJ 08080

NJCO makes its home this season at The Music Barn, an outdoor performance venue that since last fall has brought the Escher Quartet, Catalyst Quartet and Sybarite5 in concert to music lovers starved for live performance during the pandemic. News about future NJCO concerts this summer will be posted at its website: https://www.themusicbarn.org/ and at NJCO’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/newjerseychamberorchestra.

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