Events
KCO ensembles are available to play at your party or corporate gathering!
To book Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra musicians for your event, please contact Gary S. Fagin, KCO music director, at info@knickerbocker-orchestra.org.
“The musicians from the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra who performed during our Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street this past summer were extraordinary. Our guests loved the music. I was pleased to support Lower Manhattan’s newest cultural institution and gratified that they were of such stellar quality.”
Mary Ellen Pelzer, Director, South Street Seaport Museum, October 2009
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Past Soirees
April 15, 2010
SOIREE: An Intimate Evening of Beautiful Music
Landscape architect Laura Starr hosted a full house of classical music lovers in her Duane Park loft, where KCO quartet played the music of Chopin and Schumann and soprano Jan Horvath sang the songs of Stephen Foster.
January 16, 2010
RECEPTION: Musical Tales and Adventures
Neil Gaiman, Jason Danieley and Gary S. Fagin led a crowd of fans and musicians into Southwest restaurant after the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra’s performance of “Musical Tales and Adventures” in the Winter Garden.
KCO founder Gary S. Fagin talks with author Neil Gaiman and his fiancee, performer Amanda Palmer (at left), and the married Broadway stars Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie (at right).
Neil Gaiman, Gary S. Fagin and Jason Danieley are joined by Nancy Hume, Mr. Fagin's wife.
September 24, 2009
SOIREE: A Distant Love, Songs of John and Abigail Adams
The first KCO Soiree of Season 2, at the beautiful Tribeca home of Audrey Manley and Thomas Fritton, featured soprano Elizabeth Dabney and baritone Peter Clark singing excerpts from "A Distant Love, Songs of John and Abigail Adams" and backed by a KCO string quartet conducted by Gary S. Fagin. The music followed conversation, wine, hors d’oeuvres and an entertaining talk by Wall Street historian/pundit and John Adams biographer James Grant entitled “John Adams: Junk Bond Salesman!”
May 4, 2009
SALON: Great Music from Mozart to Broadway
World-famous jazz drummer Robby Ameen and his wife Anna Suarez hosted a fundraiser for the KCO, and cooked up a sumptuous buffet for 80 guests. The KCO musicians presented a range of 18th- and 19th-century music, including Mozart, Haydn, a lively reel, and Broadway show tunes. Tenor Mark Vietor sang “Sail Away” from the Noel Coward musical and “If I Only Had a Brain” from the Wizard of Oz. See photos below.
A KCO quartet of string players play in a Tribeca loft. Top, KCO board member Jason Balaban chats with Sue Miller, her husband Lloyd and Simon Ritter, who was nominated for a 2009 Tony award for his performance in "The Norman Conquests."