Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra         

The Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1997 to explore repertoire for a smaller orchestral forces, both standard and seldom-heard pieces. The Chamber Orchestra has the same high artistic standards as the Symphony, performs four programs yearly, and uses professional leaders as coaches for the ensemble. Concerts have included two all-Mozart programs, "Pattern-Pulse: Baroque-Postmodern" (works by Bach, Boyce, Glass, Pärt, and Riley), "Music of Nature" (a three-concert collaboration with the Symphony and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences), and "Music of Russia" (Prokofiev, Glazunov, Kancheli), “Ives and Dvorak”, “Voices of Asia and the Pacific,” “American Originals,” “Natural Wonders” (Respighi and Roussel), and “Symphonies” (Beethoven’s no. 1 and Honegger’s no. 4).

See the Repertoire List for both orchestras.

“The performance [of Ives Symphony no. 3 “Camp Meeting”] was so beautiful and played with such infectious spirit. …I've never heard a performance that went quite as directly to the core of the matter as this one did. The third movement, in particular, seemed to grow organically before our very ears — it is probably the best part of the Symphony — and when it ended, with off-stage chimes, it was truly ethereal.” - John Lambert, cvnc.org October, 2004, “Ives and Dvorak” concert