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2015-2016 Season Tickets
Season tickets are no longer available, but please join us for our remaining concerts!
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Advertise with QUO
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$35.00 – $150.00Advertising in our QUO programs supports QUO and your business!
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Queer Urban Orchestra (Attn: Fundraising)
PO Box 438
Radio City Station
New York, NY 10101-0438Quick View -
Join us for A Magical Farewell
TONIGHT: Doors open at 7:15 PM. Tickets are no longer available online but may be purchased at the door. If you bought tickets, they will be available at the door.
QUO kicks off its 11th season on October 19th with a pre-Halloween concert of macabre and fantastical pieces. And bring the kids: children under 12 will be admitted for free!
This will be the final concert with our amazing outgoing Artistic Director, Julie Desbordes. Come join us for a evening of celebration and music, including:
- Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
- Greig: In the Hall of the Mountain King
- Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
- Liszt: Melediction
- Williams: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Suite for Orchestra
Doors open at 7:30. All tickets will be held at the door.
Saturday, October 19 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYThe Church of the Holy Apostles is handicap accessible.
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Join us for Be Our Guest
TONIGHT: Tickets are no longer available online but will be sold at the door. Adult tickets are $25; students and seniors are $15. Door opens at 7:15 pm.
QUO’s 2022-2023 season opens October 22 with “Be Our Guest”
We are very lucky to have four guest conductors for our opening concert:
- David Bloom, who will conduct Margaret Bonds’ Troubled Water and Johannes Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
- Conrad Chu, who will conduct Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 and Richard Wagner’s Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
- Matthew Oberstein, who will conduct Gioachino Rossini’s Overture to The Barber of Seville and John Corigliano’s Gazebo Dances
- Derek Weagle, who will conduct Christopher Theofanidis’ Rainbow Body and Felix Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides
All tickets will be held at the door.
Saturday, October 22 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYThe Church of the Holy Apostles is handicap accessible.
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Join us for Besties!
With its 2023-2024 season Chosen Family, Queer Urban Orchestra dedicates a full year to celebrating the liberating and healing power of kinship bonds rooted in friendship.
Besties launches our season. Two scintillating overtures celebrate the longtime romantic relationship and even longer friendship between two of America’s most important composers: Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti. “Luminous, expressive” (The New York Times) soprano Ariadne Greif joins the orchestra to perform works by three of her best buddies — Jessie Montgomery, Eve Beglarian, and Alex Temple — along with music by great friends Alma Mahler and Alexander von Zemlinsky. With each movement embodying the spirit of one of the composer’s dear friends, Edward Elgar’s sweeping Enigma Variations anchors the program. Plus, Youth Pride Chorus sings in the full version of the theme song to The Golden Girls!
We’re excited to announce that this concert will be performed at Peter Norton Symphony Space. Symphony Space has its own box office — you can buy tickets online or in advance at the box office for $30 adult/$25 students seniors. Day of tickets are $35/$30. All ticket prices includes a $5 service charge per ticket from Symphony Space.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Peter Norton Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th StreetPeter Norton Symphony Space is handicap accessible.
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Join us for Come Together
TONIGHT: Tickets are no longer available online but may be purchased at the door. Pre-concert talk with our artistic director and guest artists begins at 7:15. Concert starts at 8.
In our 2018-2019 season, QUO presents Queer We Are. Join us for our next concert: Come Together. This concert highlights QUO members Seyed Safavynia and Paul Robertson, winner of our annual concerto competition. We also present a symphony by William Grant Still, the dean of African-American composers, and we’re thrilled to announce the return of violinist Lindsay Deutsch, who will join us for a more contemporary take.
- Safavynia: Discovery
- Mayuzumi: Concertino for Xylophone and Orchestra (with Paul Roberston)
- Barber: Essay No. 2, Opus 17
- Goulet: Beatles Fantaisie (with Lindsay Deutsch)
- Still: Symphony No. 1 (1930)
We are returning to our usual venue: the Church of the Holy Apostles. Join us at 7:15 for a pre-concert talk with artistic director Julie Desbordes, composer Seyed Safavynia, and soloists Lindsay Deutsch and Paul Robertson.
Saturday, March 2 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYQuick View -
Join us for Fantastic Dreams
$15.00 – $25.00 Select options
Join us for Fantastic Dreams
$15.00 – $25.00SOLD OUT: Tickets for our normal seating area are sold out. We are working with our venue to make more of the church space available for seating, but we will not know how that works out until Saturday night. Hopefully that means we will have limited seating available at the door. If you would like to be notified about additional seating possibilities on Saturday, please email us at [email protected].
We are excited to return to live performance on March 12!
This concert opens with NYC composer Gilbert Galindo’s Prelude to Hymns of the Sky, a “musical response to the expansiveness of that [New Mexico] sky, setting the stage for it to divulge its secret celestial melodies.” We’re then joined by James Adler, a pianist who “can create whatever type of music he wants at the keyboard” (Chicago Sun-Times) for Rachmaninoff’s dreamy Piano Concerto No. 2. And speaking of dreams, what better piece to conclude with than Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique.
Doors open at 7:15. All tickets will be held at the door; see our important covid protocols below.
Saturday, March 12 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYThe Church of the Holy Apostles is handicap accessible.
Covid Protocols
The situation in NYC is changing by the minute, but QUO will follow guidelines for performing arts organizations in NYC. Currently, that means:
- All patrons, musicians, and staff must be fully vaccinated to attend. All attendees who are eligible for a booster must have also received a booster. Proof of vaccination and a state-issued ID must be shown at the door; acceptable forms are
- NY Excelsior Pass
- NYC Covid Safe
- Physical Vaccination Card
- All patrons, musicians, and staff must be masked. During the performance, orchestral string members will remain masked; wind and brass players will be unmasked.
- We will be selling concessions during intermission and post-concert; you may briefly remove your mask while actively eating and drinking
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Join us for Getting To Know You
$15.00 – $25.00 Select optionsJoin us for Getting To Know You
$15.00 – $25.00SOLD OUT: The concert is officially sold out. Depending on how we can configure the space on Saturday, we may have limited seating and/or standing room available, but we will not know that until the night of the concert. If you would like to be added to our waitlist, please email us at [email protected]. We will email you at around 6:00 pm the evening of the concert to let you know if seats will be available.
As Queer Urban Orchestra continues its 13th season uplifting queer artistry in NYC, the orchestra and its new Artistic Director, David Bloom, get to know each other, one section at a time. Evocative music by Yaz Lancaster spotlights the percussion section playing flower pots; the strings play wistful music by Caroline Shaw; and QUO’s woodwinds and brass play Stravinsky’s fierce, bite-sized Symphonies of Wind Instruments. The whole orchestra pulses to the rhythms of Arturo Márquez and soars in Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony, bursting at the seams with sunny melodies. Plus, warm up your vocal cords for a little Rodgers & Hammerstein sing-along finale!
Saturday, February 25 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYThe Church of the Holy Apostles is handicap accessible.
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Join us for Grandiose Spirit
$25.00TONIGHT: Tickets are not longer available online but there will be plenty of availability at the door. Join us for our pre-concert talk from 7:00 – 7:30; concert begins at 8:00 PM.
Our next live, in-person concert is “Grandiose Spirit.”
W’re excited to open this concert with living enby. This work by Zaq Latino was the winning selection from our call for scores from transgender and non-binary composers. Zaq is an NYC-based actor, musician, and composer who aims to normalize gender non-conforming representation in professional spaces.
Then we are joined by Matthieu Cognet, “one of the most gifted musicians in the world today” (Philip Setzer, Emerson Quartet) for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. We conclude the concert with Sibelius’ epic Symphony No. 2.
PRE-CONCERT TALK: Join us early for a pre-concert talk with the artists involved in this program. The pre-concert talk will be from 7:00 – 7:30, with general admission seating following. If you plan on attending the pre-concert talk, a $5.00 donation is suggested at checkout.
All tickets will be held at the door, and current protocols call for all patrons must be vaccinated and masked. Protocols are subject to change based on changing guidance from NYC officials and following the standards of other NYC arts institutions. Check back for updates closer to the concert.
Saturday, May 7 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYThe Church of the Holy Apostles is handicap accessible.
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Join us for Hope Remains
$15.00 – $25.00 Select options
Join us for Hope Remains
$15.00 – $25.00Our 2019-2020 season continues with “Hope Remains”, featuring pianist Spencer Myer. Lauded for “superb playing” and “poised, alert musicianship” by The Boston Globe and labeled “definitely a man to watch” by London’s The Independent, American pianist Spencer Myer is one of the most respected and sought-after artists on today’s concert stages.
The concert features:
- Ruth Seeger: Music for Small Orchestra
- Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4
- Sibelius: Symphony #2
Doors open at 7:30. All tickets will be held at the door.
Saturday, April 25 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYThe Church of the Holy Apostles is handicap accessible.
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Join us for Moving Forward
TONIGHT: Join us for a pre-concert talk at 7:15. Concert begins at 8 pm. Tickets are no longer available online but may be purchased at the door.
In our 2018-2019 season, QUO presents Queer We Are. Join us for our next concert: Moving Forward. This concert features the World Premiere of Ryan Key’s Expansion Ethics, which is the winning selection in the 2018-2019 QUO Composition Contest. We’ll also feature a marimba concerto by QUO’s own Bjorn Berkhout performed by special guest Matthew Coley, and a Mendelssohn Symphony to round out the program.
- Key: Expansion Ethics
- Berkhout: Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra (with Matthew Coley)
- Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, Reformation
We are presenting this concert in our usual venue on Saturday, May 11. Plus we will be performing selections from the concert at 4 pm on Sunday, May 12 at the Queens Museum (concert free with museum admission).
Saturday, May 11 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYQuick View -
Join us for Nevertheless, She Persisted
$25.00TONIGHT: Join us at 7:15 for our pre-concert discussion with Artistic Director Julie Desbordes, Assistant Conductor Ian Shafer, and Guest Soloist Brian Shaw. Concert begins at 8:00 pm.
Tickets are no longer available online but may be purchased at the door. If you ordered tickets, they will be available at the door.
In our 2017-2018 season, QUO presents We Are One: A musical journey around the world exploring t depths of the human condition. The featured work on this concert is a symphony by Florence Price, the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra.
- Price: Symphony No. 3
- Chabrier: Espana
- Glazunov: Saxophone Concerto
We are also excited to be performing the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto with Brian Shaw. Brian is a founding member of QUO and the winner of this year’s QUO concerto competition.
Join us at 7:15 for a pre-concert discussion with Artistic Director Julie Desbordes, Assistant Conductor Ian Shafer, and our soloist Brian Shaw.
Saturday, February 24 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue (at 28th Street), New York CityQuick View
