2025-26 Season
All concerts held at Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church
152 West 66th Street, New York, NY
Uncharted Journey
Join the New Conductors Orchestra for an Uncharted Journey! This season's Fall concerts will feature two world premieres and two renowned works from the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. Take the path less traveled and discover repertoire that moves you from dreams and meditations to joy and exuberance.
Matt Curlee Decay No. 3 (World premiere, commissioned for NCO) (2024)
Pierre Fontaine Three Dances for Orchestra (World premiere) (2024)
Claude Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 6
Conducted by Sara Jobin, Eric R. Stewart, and Mark Powell
Learn More about our composers and conductors
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NCO’s 2025-26 season will open with its Fall concerts, "Uncharted Journey" -- two world premieres and two iconic works of the late 19th century and mid-20th century.
“Three Dances for Orchestra” by Pierre Fontaine (a winner of our “call for scores”) is an homage to the composers of La belle epoque, mixing baroque European dances and modern musical techniques. Learn more about Pierre Fontaine here.
Matt Curlee’s “Decay No. 3” was commissioned for NCO and is a meditation on the frailty of memories and the passage of time. Learn more about Matt Curlee here.
NCO will also perform Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun”, an alluring call beckoning the listener with hushed, captivating intensity.
This program will be anchored by Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 6, created between and outside the political influences that defined his 5th and 7th symphonies. Alternately melancholy in its Largo passages, and then suddenly drunk, happy and lightning fast, it follows no standard symphonic form, theme or structure. It is Shostakovich unleashed – which he rarely was.
Uncharted Journey
Join the New Conductors Orchestra for an Uncharted Journey! This season's Fall concerts will feature two world premieres and two renowned works from the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. Take the path less traveled and discover repertoire that moves you from dreams and meditations to joy and exuberance.
Matt Curlee Decay No. 3 (World premiere, commissioned for NCO) (2024)
Pierre Fontaine Three Dances for Orchestra (World premiere) (2024)
Claude Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 6
Conducted by Sara Jobin, Eric R. Stewart, and Mark Powell
Learn more about our composers and conductors
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NCO’s 2025-26 season will open with its Fall concerts, "Uncharted Journey" -- two world premieres and two iconic works of the late 19th century and mid-20th century.
“Three Dances for Orchestra” by Pierre Fontaine (a winner of our “call for scores”) is an homage to the composers of La belle epoque, mixing baroque European dances and modern musical techniques. Learn more about Pierre Fontaine here.
Matt Curlee’s “Decay No. 3” was commissioned for NCO and is a meditation on the frailty of memories and the passage of time. Learn more about Matt Curlee here.
NCO will also perform Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun”, an alluring call beckoning the listener with hushed, captivating intensity.
This program will be anchored by Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 6, created between and outside the political influences that defined his 5th and 7th symphonies. Alternately melancholy in its Largo passages, and then suddenly drunk, happy and lightning fast, it follows no standard symphonic form, theme or structure. It is Shostakovich unleashed – which he rarely was.
New Composers, New Conductors: 2026
Tōru Takemitsu Rain Coming
Benedikt Brydern Night Train (NY premiere) (2018)
Robin Haigh Concerto for Orchestra (US premiere) (2023)
Tomos Owen Jones Flow: Journey of a River (US premiere) (2022)
David Vess Perpetual Dream Machine (US premiere) (2024)
Igor Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite
Conducted by Nico Olarte Hayes, Michelle DiRusso, Andrew Hill, and Mark Powell
New Composers, New Conductors: 2026
Tōru Takemitsu Rain Coming
Benedikt Brydern Night Train (NY premiere) (2018)
Robin Haigh Concerto for Orchestra (US premiere) (2023)
Tomos Owen Jones Flow: Journey of a River (US premiere) (2022)
David Vess Perpetual Dream Machine (US premiere) (2024)
Igor Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite
Conducted by Nico Olarte Hayes, Michelle DiRusso, Andrew Hill, and Mark Powell
Fire and Flow
Hector Berlioz Overture to Les Francs-juges (The Judges of the Secret Court)
Alex Stephenson An Elemental Music (NY premiere) (2022)
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 9 (“The Great”)
Conducted by Jacob Niemann, Tanya Chanphanitpornkit, and Mark Powell
Fire and Flow
Hector Berlioz Overture to Les Francs-juges (The Judges of the Secret Court)
Alex Stephenson An Elemental Music (NY premiere) (2022)
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 9 (“The Great”)
Conducted by Jacob Niemann, Tanya Chanphanitpornkit, and Mark Powell
The New Conductors Orchestra's concerts are made possible in part by public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by private funds from generous individuals.