The Philharmonic Society of Orange County presents Grammy-Award winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Isata Kanneh-Mason
The Philharmonic Society of Orange County presents the Grammy Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Isata Kanneh-Mason on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m., at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. This highly anticipated concert marks the return of both artists to Orange County.
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Photos by Neda Navaee
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performs on November 10
Kanneh-Mason last appeared in the region in 2024, performing with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vasily Petrenko as part of its Orchestra Residency with the Philharmonic Society. Isata, alongside her brother, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, also served as the Philharmonic Society’s Virtual Artists-in-Residence in 2020. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra returns following its 2022 performance with celebrated jazz musician, Branford Marsalis.
The program includes works by Mozart and Haydn, selections from Handel’s Water Music Suite, and the Southern California premiere of Elixir of Life, a newly commissioned work by multi-award-winning Welsh composer and producer, Katie Jenkins. A pre-concert lecture will take place at 7 p.m. by Classical California’s Brian Lauritzen. This performance is made possible with support from The Segerstrom Foundation.
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String section of The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a radical experiment in musical democracy, proving for more than 50 years what happens when exceptional artists gather with total trust in each other and faith in the creative process. Orpheus began in 1972 when cellist Julian Fifer assembled a group of New York freelancers in their early 20s to play orchestral repertoire as if it were chamber music. In that age of co-ops and communes, the idealistic Orpheans snubbed the “corporate” path of symphony orchestras and learned how to play, plan and promote concerts as a true collective, with leadership roles rotating from the very first performance.
It’s one thing for the four players of a string quartet to lean into the group sound and react spontaneously, but with 20 to 30 musicians together, the complexities and payoffs are magnified exponentially. Within its first decade, Orpheus made Carnegie Hall their home and became a global sensation through tours of Europe and Asia.
Isata Kanneh-Mason is first and foremost a pianist but is also a composer and arranger who is passionate about chamber music, romantic repertoire and loves to bring a range of styles and composers to her performances.
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall is located at 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Ticket prices start at $31 and are available at the Philharmonic Society box office at 949.553-2422, or online at www.philharmonicsociety.org and at the Center’s box office at 714.556.2787.
All artists, dates, venues, programs and prices are subject to change.
Renée & Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa.
