The New Century Chamber Orchestra opens their 20th Anniversary Season with a concert at First United Methodist Church in Palo Alto. The program for the evening will include Rodio Shchedrin's irresistible interpretation of Bizet's opera Carmen, plus Ernest Bloch's Concerto Grosso No. 1. Perhaps the highlight of the concert will be a performance of Mendelssoh's Violin Concerto in D Minor featuring Stuart Canin, the orchestra's beloved first music director, as soloist. Canin is a former concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Opera, and most recently served as concertmaster of the Los Angeles Opera under James Conlon and Placido Domingo. He was honored as the first prize winner of the Paganini International Violin Competition, and was the recipient of the Handel Medal, New York City's highest cultural award.

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