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    An Orchestra Unlike Any Other

    Learn about the New Conductors Orchestra’s mission: nurturing the future of classical music through collaboration with emerging conductors, composers, and musicians from diverse backgrounds.

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  • Orchestral Voices

    Concerts on October 17 and 18, 2026

    Paul Dukas Fanfare from La Peri
    Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon Septimi Toni No. 2 and Canzona per Sonare No. 2
    Billy Joel And So It Goes (arr. Gareth Lewis) 
    W.A. Mozart selections from Gran Partita (Wind Serenade No. 10)
    Edvard Grieg Holberg Suite
    Samuel Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Sydney Kucine, soprano)
    Joel Toews Mirrors in Haida Gwaii (2022) (U.S.premiere)

    Conducted by Valentina Paolucci, Jacob Niemann and Mark Powell

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View fullsize 💐 Huge thanks to everyone who made our concert series a success! The photo gallery for "Fire and Flow" is now live on our website (link in bio). We extend our deepest gratitude to our extraordinary conductors, Tanya Chanphanitpornkit (@bas
View fullsize Meet Tanya Chanphanitpornkit (@bass.icallytanya); a double bassist from Thailand, a conductor, and an educator. This May 16 and 17, she will be conducting Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in Movements 3 and 4 at our "Fire and Flow" concerts. As a
View fullsize Meet Alex Stephenson, composer of "An Elemental Music," which will premiere in New York in our “Fire and Flow” concerts this May 16 and 17, 2026. This week we had the honor of interviewing Stephenson in an exclusive story you c
View fullsize Dean Whiteside returns to guest-conduct for the New Conductors Orchestra! In our latest concert series, "Fire and Flow," Mr. Whiteside will be conducting Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in Movements 1 and 2 and Stephenson's "An Elemental Mus
View fullsize #BTS shots from rehearsals with Tanya Chanphanitpornkit (@bass.icallytanya), for our "Fire and Flow" concerts 🪄🎼. Don't miss this chance to see Tanya and our other guest conductor, Dean Whiteside, conducting for NCO on May 16 and 17, 202
View fullsize We're thrilled to announce our exciting new concert series, "Fire and Flow," 🔥 on May 16 and 17, 2026. Fire and Flow presents a fascinating dialogue between darkness and light, intensity and lyricism, tradition and innovation. It's a con
View fullsize In honor of Women's History Month, we are joining the #PurpleBaton campaign, led by Marin Alsop and the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship (@marinalsop.conductor & @takialsopfellowship)—a movement advocating for greater representation of wome
View fullsize Give it up for Robin Haigh (@haigher): Acclaimed Ivor Novello and British Composer awardee, whose piece 'Concerto for Orchestra' will have its US premiere with NCO this February 21 and 22. Lying at the heart of Haigh’s music in 'Concerto for O

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.