Interested in finding out some of the repertoire we've played? Here's a list of everything we've done in the past few seasons, with the most recent first:

Spring Concert: Nicholas Music Center

“NBCO IN BLUE”

Chick Corea “Spain”

Mary Lou Williams “Zodiac Suite Selections”
Duke Ellington “Take the A Train”
The Jerry Weldon Sextet
Geroge Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue”
Paul Barbarin “Bourbon Street Parade”
Salon Americana, April 20, May 1, May 11, 2024

“SALON AMERICANA”

Antonin Dvorak “Allegro ma non troppo”

Jennifer Higdon “Sky Quartet: Blue Sky”
Jessie Montogomery “Strum”
George Gershwin “Lullaby”
William Grant Still “Lyric Quartet: The Sentimental One”
Duke Ellingotn “Take the A Trainl”

Holiday Concert: Nicholas Music Center

“HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS”

Leroy Anderson “A Christmas Festival”

R. Vaughan Williams “Fantasia on Greensleeves”
Julius Chajes “Hanukkah Song”
Martin Sedek “Love is Enough”
Morton Lauridsen “O Magnum Mysterium”
George Frideric Handel “Hallelujah Chorus” from Messiah
Leroy Anderson “Sleigh Ride”

NBCO SALON Wednesday, November 1, Sunday November 15, Sunday, November 19, 2023

“HAUNTED DANCE”

Camille Saint-Saens “Danse Macabre”
Joseph Haydn “Witches’ Minuet”
Dmitri Shostakovich “String Quartet #8”
George Cohen “Restless Moon”
William Bolcom “Ghost Rags”
Astor Piazzolla “Death of an Angel”

NBCO SALON Sunday February 5, Saturday February 11 and 25, 2023

“THE CLARINET: Then and Now”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581, 4. Allegretto con variazioni
Max Reger Clarinet Quintet in A Major, Vivace
John Corigliano “Soliloquy”
Samuel Livingston “Quiet Summer Night”
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Quintet Larghetto
Paul Hindemith Clarinet Quintet, Schneller Ländler

NBCO SALON Sundays, October 9, 16, and 29, 2022

S. Rachmaninoff: String Quartet 2
John Cage: String Quartet 4 parts
Leos Janacek: String Quartet 2
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet
Johannes Brahms String Quartet 1

NBCO SALON Sunday April 24, 2022
”RESISTANCE”

Mykola Lysenko: String Quartet No. 1
Kurt Weill: “Wie Lange Noch”
Viktor Ullmann: String Quartet No. 3
Frederic Chopin: “Etude Op. 10, No. 12”
Mikos Theodorakis: String Quartet No. 2
Francis Poulenc: “Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon”
Valentin Silvestrov: “Prayer for Ukraine”

NBCO VIDEO PROJECT February 2022
”SUBVERSIVES”
Charles Ives: String Quartet No. 1
Ethel Smyth: String Quartet in E minor
Igor Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for String Quartet
Ignatius Sachno: from 12 Country Dances
George Antheil: String Quartet No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2 “For Sylvia Beach”

NBCO VIDEO PROJECT January 2021
”CREDO”
Mohammed Fairouz: String Quartet “The Named Angels”
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F Major
Kevin Puts: String Quartet No. 1 “Credo”
Libby Larsen: String Quartet No. 2 “Emergence”
William Bolcom: Three Ghost Rags

LIVING ROOM SALONS - March 2020-September 2021
”Music in the time of COVID”

NBCO SALONS January 19-25, 2020
”EXTENDED TECHNIQUES”
Andrew Norman: Peculiar Strokes
Johannes Brahms - String Quartet No. 1. III Allegretto molto moderato
Lou Harrison - String Quartet Set - III. Estampie
Bela Bartok - String Quartet No. 4 - IV. Allegretto pizzicato
Morton Feldman - Structures
Benjamin Britten - Cello Suite

NBCO SALONS November 9-16, 2019
”MYTHOS”
Alfred Hill “String Quartet No. 2 - A Maori Legend in Four Scenes. 1. The Forest”
Mauricio Kagel “Pan”
Terry Riley “The Wheel and Mythic Birds Waltz”
Aaron Copland “As it fell upon a day”
Molly Herron “Moon Shift" (*world premiere)
Stacy Garrop “Athena Triumphant”

FRAGMENTS June 2, 2019
Elena Kats-Chernin “Zoom and Zip”
Thea Musgrave “Green"
Caroline Shaw “Entr’acte"
Benjamin Britten “Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge”

NBCO SALONS March 30-31, 2019
"HOMAGE"
Timo Andres “Thrive on Routine”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “String Quartet No. 14 - Spring”
Alexander von Zemlinsky “String Quartet No. 4 - Suite”
William Bolcom “Three Rags for String Quartet"
Leoš Janáček “String Quartet No. 2 - Intimate Letters”

TRANSCENDENCE February 9-10, 2019
John Tavener “Mahashakti”
Henryk Górecki “Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40”
Arvo Pärt “Tabula Rasa”

NBCO@Zimmerli January 27, 2019
"AFTER CLARA II"
Jennifer Higdon “Impressions - I. Bright Palette”
Clara Schumann : selected lieder
Germaine Tailleferre “String Quartet”
Ethyl Smith ”String Quartet in E minor - I. Allegretto lirico”
Carrie Jacobs-Bond : selected songs
Libby Larsen “Emergence - II. Reactive”

NBCO@Zimmerli. October 7, 2018
"IMPRESSIONS”
Claude Debussy “String Quartet in G minor - II. Assez vif et bien rythmé"
John Luther Adams “Wind in High Places - I. Above Sunset Pass”
Charles Griffes “Two Sketches on Native American Themes”
Jennifer Higdon “Impressions - III. To the Point”
Missy Mazzoli “Death Valley Junction”
Maurice Ravel "String Quartet in F Major - II. Assez vif

TAKE FLIGHT May 20, 2018
Christopher Cerrone “High Windows”
Howard Hanson “Serenade”
Mason Bates "Icarian Rhapsody"
Shruthi Rajesekar “Son of Pandu”
Bela Bartok “Divertimento”

NBCO@Zimmerli April 22, 2018
"ANGELS & DEMONS"
Franz Schubert "String Quartet No. 14 - Death and the Maiden"
Aaron Jay Kernis “Musica Celestis”
Stacy Garrop "String Quartet No. 2 - Demons and Angels"
Mohammed Fairouz “The Named Angels”
Jessie Montgomery “Voodoo Dolls"

NBCO@Zimmerli January 21, 2018
"WANDERLUST"
Antonin Dvorak “String Quartet No. 12 - American"
David Lang “Ark Luggage"
Gabriela Lena Frank "Leyendas, An Andean Walkabout”
Alexander Glazunov “Five Novelletten”
John Adams "Fellow Traveler"

NBCO@Zimmerli November 19, 2017
"BAD ATTITUDE"
Stacy Garrop “String Quartet No. 2 - Demons and Angels”
George Antheil “String Quartet No. 2 - For Sylvia Beach”
Ludwig van Beethoven "String Quartet No. 11 - Serioso"
Dmitri Shostakovich "String Quartet No. 10"
Libby Larsen "String Quartet No. 4 - Emergence"

NBCO@Zimmerli October 1, 2017
"AFTER CLARA"
Fanny Mendelssohn “String Quartet in E-flat”
Amy Beach “Quartet for Strings”
Jennifer Higdon “Sky Quartet”
Caroline Shaw “Limestone and Felt"
Libby Larsen "String Quartet No. 4 - Emergence"

begBORROWsteal June 3, 2017
Michael Daugherty "Strut"
Alexa Canales "Once More"
Sebastian Currier "Next Atlantis"
John Corigliano "Voyage"
Dmitri Shostakovich "Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a (arr. Barshai)"

NBCO@ZIMMERLI May 7, 2017
"HIDDEN VARIABLES"
Johann Sebastian Bach "Art of the Fugue - Contrapunctus XIV"
Charles Ives "String Quartet No. 1 - From the Salvation Army"
Ludwig van Beethoven "String Quartet No. 10 - Allegretto con Variazioni"
David Wolfson "Deep Woods"
Terry Riley "G Song"
Dmitri Shostakovich "String Quartet No. 8 - Allegretto"

NBCO@ZIMMERLI January 29, 2017
"DARK MATTER"
Jeffrey Ryan "Quantum Mechanics - I. Fission"
Bela Bartok "String Quartet No. 5 - IV. Andante"
Felix Mendelssohn "String Quartet No. 6 - Requiem for Fanny"
John Luther Adams "The Wind in High Places"
Pavel Haas "String Quartet No. 2 - II. The Moon and I"
Jeffrey Ryan "Quantum Mechanics - III. Fusion"

NBCO@ZIMMERLI October 30, 2016
"BEGINNINGS"
Joseph Haydn "String Quartet No. 1"
Ludwig van Beethoven "String Quartet No. 1"
Michael Nyman "String Quartet No. 3 - Beginning"
Caroline Shaw "Entr'acte"
Terry Riley "Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector"

FOUR X 4 June 4, 2016
Judd Greenstein “Four on the floor"
Jinsil Lee “The Beginning”
Mohammed Fairouz “The Named Angels” -I. Mikhael’s Thunder
Alberto Ginastera “Concerto per corde”

NBCO@ZIMMERLI April 24, 2016
Antonin Dvorak: "String Quartet No. 3" III. Allegro energico - Trio
Osvaldo Golijov: "Yiddishbbuk" - II.
Anqi Liu - "Pastoral"
Mohammed Fairouz - "The Named Angels" I. Mikhael's Thunder & III. Jibreel at Hira

NBCO@ZIMMERLI January 30, 2016
Caroline Shaw “Punctum"
Ludwig van Beethoven "String Qt. No. 13 in B-flat Major: IV. Alla danza tedesca V. Cavatina”
Kevin Puts "Credo"

NBCO@ZIMMERLI November 22, 2015
Juan Antonio Simarro "String Quartet No. 1"
Pedro Vilarroig "String Quartet No. 2: 1st and 3rd mvmt"
Joaquin Turina "La oración del torero"
Enrique Granados "Piano Quintet: Molto presto"

REFLECTIONS June 7, 2015
Aulis Sallinen “Aspekteja Peltoniemen Hintrikin surumarssista" (Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik’s Funeral March)
Liza Sobel “Skin”
Wojciech Kilar “Orawa”
Stephen Paulus “Concerto for Organ, Strings and Percussion”

NBCO@ZIMMERLI May 3, 2015
Einojuhani Rautavaara "Notturno e Danza"
Arvo Pärt "Fratres"
Liza Sobel "Skin"
Erkki-Sven Tüür "Conversio"
André Previn "Song"

NBCO@ZIMMERLI March 7, 2015
Caroline Shaw "Punctum"
Augusta Read Thomas "Eagle at Sunrise" from 'Sun Threads'
Terry Riley "Good Medicine Dance" from 'Salome Dances for Peace'
Anqi Liu "⭕️"

NBCO@ZIMMERLI January 11, 2015
Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 2 "Company"
Samuel Livingston: Quintet in C Major
John Corigliano: "Soliloquy"
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7

CELEBRATION WEEKEND June 15, 2014
Edgar Girtain IV "Four Catalan Songs"
Arvo Pärt "Fratres"
Lou Harrison "Estampie" from String Quartet Set
Christopher Theofanidis "Visions and Miracles"
Tarik O'Regan "Triptych"

CELEBRATION WEEKEND June 14, 2014
Aaron Copland "Quiet City"
Igor Stravinsky "Concerto in E-flat Major (Dumbarton Oaks)"
Benjamin Britten "Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings"
Aaron Copland "Appalachian Spring"

CELEBRATION WEEKEND June 13, 2014
Franz Schubert "String Quartet No. 12 in C minor (Quartettsatz)"
Paul Moravec "Vince & Jan: 1945"
Lou Harrison "String Quartet Set"
Astor Piazzola "Tango, for four"

VISIONS May 5, 2013
Franz Liszt "Angelus! Prière aux anges gardiens"
Aaron Jay Kernis "Musica Celestis"
Joel Phillips "Ark of My Dreams"
John Adams "Shaker Loops"

TRANSFORMATIONS February 23, 2013
Geminiani/Wiancko "La Follia - Variations for String Orchestra"
Edgar Girtain IV "Finger of Death about Four in the Morning"
Paul Moravec "Morph"
Astor Piazzola "Quatro Estaciones Porteñas (Four Seasons of Buenos Aires)"