The Orchestra offers discounts to early subscribers, new season ticket buyers, seniors, students, and groups. Also, everyone eighteen years of age and younger can attend Reno Chamber Orchestra concerts for free.

The season includes the following performances:

Saturday, September 20, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 21, 2008, 2:00 p.m.

Composer Joseph Schwantner will be in attendance for the World Premiere of his composition Chasing Light... Also on the program, conducted by music director Theodore Kuchar, will be Schwantner's New Morning for the World, for orchestra and narrator reciting texts by Martin Luther King, and two works by Beethoven, his famous Symphony No. 5 and the Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus.

Saturday, November 1, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 2, 2008, 2:00 p.m.

Clarinetist Daniel Gilbert – professor at the University of Michigan, longtime member of the Cleveland Orchestra, and a performer at the Reno Chamber Orchestra's Nevada Chamber Music Festival – is the soloist in Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto. Maestro Theodore Kuchar will also lead the Orchestra in Haydn's "Miracle" Symphony and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 1

Saturday, January 24, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 25, 2009, 2:00 p.m.

Jonathan Shames, music director of the Wyoming Symphony and faculty member at the University of Oklahoma School of Music, makes his first appearance with the Reno Chamber Orchestra, leading a program featuring the "Pelleas and Melisande" Suite by Sibelius and Schubert's Symphony No. 1. James Winn, RCO principal pianist and professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, will be the piano soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 and will be joined by Mr. Shames in Bach's Concerto for 2 Pianos.

Saturday, March 14, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 15, 2009, 2:00 p.m.

Bassist Edgar Meyer, a winner of the MacArthur Fellowship "Genius" grant who has been hailed by The New Yorker as "the most remarkable virtuoso" of his instrument, will perform his own Double Bass Concerto and a virtuoso work by Bottesini. Also on the program, led by Reno Chamber Orchestra music director Theodore Kuchar, are the Concerto in D by Stravinsky and Mozart's "Prague" Symphony.

Saturday, April 4, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 5, 2009, 2:00 p.m.

The concluding concerts of the season, conducted by Theodore Kuchar, will include the "Ruy Blas" Overture by Mendelssohn and Schumann's "Spring" Symphony, as well as a performance by the winner of the Reno Chamber Orchestra's 22nd annual College Concerto Competition. -- www.renochamberorchestra.org