May 2017 – Ode To Joy Concert

Join the orchestra for an exhilarating performance of the beloved Beethoven Ninth Symphony.
The combined singers of Matthews Chancel Choir and The Carolina Voices will be performing
with the orchestra. Tickets will be available at the door on the concert day 45 minutes ahead
of the concert. Prices are $15 adults, $12 seniors & students, $40 family. Come join us in Matthews, NC!

DATE: Sunday, May 21st, 2017, 4:00 pm
VENUE: Matthews United Methodist Church – 801 South Trade St. Matthews, NC 28105
TICKETS: Please purchase at the door of the concert: Adult $15, Senior $12, Student $12, Family $40. Seating is not reserved, so please arrive early to get your ticket and best available seating.
MUSIC: Featuring Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in d minor, Op. 125 “Ode to Joy”

January 20, 2017

Feb 2017 Moving Pictures at an Exhibition

Moving Pictures at an Exhibition

We’ll entertain you with popular TV & Movie theme music, as well as featured music from Mussorgsky’s famed Moving Pictures at an Exhibition. Come join us in Matthews, NC!

DATE: Sunday, February 19th 2017, 4:00 pm
VENUE: Matthews United Methodist Church – 801 South Trade St. Matthews, NC 28105
TICKETS: Online Purchase at Eventbrite or at the door of the concert: Adult $15, Senior $12, Student $12, Family $40 (plus online fees**)

October 2, 2016

Nov 2016 Christmas Extravaganza!

Christmas Extravaganza 2016!

Join us for the annual Christmas Extravaganza on Sunday, November 27th, 2016 at the beautiful Halton Theater in uptown Charlotte on the campus of CPCC.

Special guests include Charlotte City Ballet, the Holiday Singers, Encore Dance Studio, Caroline Keller, Jason Lanier, and choirs from South Meck and Providence High Schools. Over 300 performers will be showcased in this amazing concert sure to put you in the Christmas spirit!

Tickets will be available thru the CPCC box office only and will be on sale soon.

DATE: Sunday evening November 27^th 2016, 7:30 pm (weekend just after Thanksgiving)
VENUE: Halton Auditorium, CPCC Uptown 1206 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204
PARKING: Free parking on 4th street decks
TICKETS: CPCC Box Office – For lowest ticket fees call 704-330-6534. Tickets Available for Online Purchase Here via Vendini (tix.cpcc.edu)

Christmas Extravaganza 2016

June 4, 2016

1001 Arabian Nights

Charlotte Civic Orchestra presents 1001 Arabian Nights

DATE: Sunday October 9^th 2016, 3.30pm
VENUE: Providence Day School – McMahon Fine Arts Center 5800 Sardis Rd. Charlotte, NC
MUSIC: Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Op. 47
Featuring violin soloist Nathan Meltzer
TICKET: available at the door or online: Adult $15, Senior $12, Student $12, Family $40

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Nathan announces his return to Charlotte, NC to play with the Charlotte Civic Orchestra

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About Nathan – See and Hear more at Nathan’s website at http://www.nathanmeltzer.com

Sixteen-year-old Nathan Meltzer studies with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin at Juilliard Pre-College, where he is a Starling Delay scholar. Nathan has performed in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Israel, and across the U.S., playing solo violin with the Berliner Symphoniker, the Bloomington Symphony, the Charlotte Civic Orchestra, the Evansville Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Muncie Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfónica Concepción, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This season, Nathan joins the Omega Ensemble, solos with the Adelphi Orchestra and Ensemble 212, and returns to the Charlotte Civic Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica Concepción.

Nathan began his music education in a second-grade orchestra class in Vienna, joined the “Violin Virtuosi” at Indiana University in 2011, and entered the Perlman Music Program in 2013. Nathan has played on NPR’s From the Top, most recently with Mark O’Connor, appeared with The Piano Guys at Carnegie Hall, performed with Gilles Apap, David Chan, and Augustine Hadelich, and taken lessons and masterclasses with Joshua Bell, Pamela Frank, and Jaime Laredo, among others.

Nathan plays an 1844 Italian violin by Johannes Pressenda on generous loan from Juilliard.

March 10, 2016

Images -n- Sound

Charlotte Civic Orchestra presents Images -n- Sound

DATE: May 22^nd, 2016, 3.30pm
VENUE: Renovatus Church, 1209 Little Rock Rd., Charlotte, NC 28214
Dean Kluesner – The Voice Says! Volume 1: A Reality for Slam Poets and Orchestra
Beethoven Pastoral Symphony No. 6,
Featuring SlamCharlotte Poets: Sidekick, Ed Mabrey and Bluz
Tickets available in advance online here, or at the door of the event.

October 14, 2015

Magical Moments in Opera – Feb 21 2016

Magical Moments in Opera

DATE: February 21st, 2016 4:00pm
VENUE: Matthews United Methodist. 801 South Trade St., Matthews, NC 28105
Virginia Gutierrez, soprano soloist
Phantom of the Opera, Arias from Carmen, La Boheme, Madame Butterfly,The Marriage of Figaro,O Mio Babbino Caro, & more Franz Schubert Symphony No. 9
Tickets available in advance online at <<EventBrite>> or at the door of the event

September 10, 2015

Nov 2015 Christmas Spectacular

Christmas Spectacular 2015

Join us for the annual Christmas Spectacular on Sunday, November 29th, 2015 at the beautiful Halton Theater in uptown Charlotte on the campus of CPCC.
Special guests include Charlotte City Ballet, the Holiday Singers, Encore Dance Studio, and choirs from South Meck and Providence High Schools. Over 300 performers will be showcased in this amazing concert sure to put you in the Christmas spirit!
Tickets will be available thru the CPCC box office only and will be on sale soon.

DATE: November 29^th 2015, 7:30 pm
VENUE: Halton Auditorium, CPCC Uptown 1206 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204
PARKING: Free parking on 4th street decks
TICKETS: CPCC Box Office – For best price call 704-330-6534. Available for Online Purchase with fees.

September 10, 2015

Oct 2015 – Rising Virtuoso Concert

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The Rising Virtuoso

Experience burgeoning virtuosity when the Charlotte Civic Orchestra proudly presents Nathan Meltzer, teenage violin prodigy, in performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (movement 3) and Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra. Fifteen-year-old Nathan Meltzer began his music studies in a second-grade orchestra class in Austria. At age 11, he joined the “Violin Virtuosi” at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music; at age 13, he entered the Perlman Music Program. Nathan has performed in Buenos Aires, Quebec, São Paulo, Tel Aviv, Vienna, and across the U.S., including solo engagements with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Evansville Philharmonic, and the Bloomington and Muncie Symphony orchestras. Later this fall, Nathan solos with the Pittsburgh Symphony and returns to NPR’s From the Top for a duo with Mark O’Connor and a Beethoven sonata with Christopher O’Riley. Now a high-school sophomore in New York City, Nathan studies at Juilliard with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin.

The Charlotte Civic will also perform Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in e minor.

DATE: October 11^th 2015, 3:30 pm
VENUE: Dana Auditorium, Queens University of Charlotte, 1900 Selwyn Ave., Charlotte, NC
TICKETS: Online Purchase at Eventbrite: Adult $15, Senior $12, Student $12, Family $40

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Parking Detail

From Selwyn Ave, turn at Wellesley St
Dana Auditorium is on the corner next of Selwyn and Wellesley; You may drop off patrons street side to the sideway beside the auditorium, or in the small parking lot adjacent to Dana Auditorium.
Designated CCO Parking in parking deck A/North, which is behind the Levine building.
– On Wellesley St, Proceed pass the grassy quad, and take the second driveway entry behind the Levine building;
Parking deck A is the second deck on the right of the driveway (the first is reserved for Queens students). The gate will automatically open upon approach.
Campus Parking Map http://www.queens.edu/Documents/About%20Queens/FINALCAMPUSMAP.pdf
Obey posted traffic signs and parking zones. Do not park on the street when in doubt, since it is restricted in most areas.

April 15, 2015

April 19 2015 – Messiah!

The Charlotte Civic Orchestra will be performing Handel’s Masterpiece Messiah with the wonderful voices of the Gardner-Webb University Choral Union on stage at the Dover Theatre on the GWU campus in Boiling Springs, NC this Sunday April, 19th 2015 at 3pm. Concert admission is free, but consider supporting the Gardner-Webb Fine Arts program with a donation.

March 1, 2015

Is Pluto a planet?

The artist's concept above shows the Pluto system from the surface of one of the smaller moons. Pluto is the large disk at center, right. Charon, the system's largest confirmed moon, is the smaller disk to the right of Pluto. Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI) — The artist’s concept above shows the Pluto system from the surface of one of the smaller moons. Pluto is the large disk at center, right. Charon, the system’s largest confirmed moon, is the smaller disk to the right of Pluto.
Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)

The International Astronomical Union in 2006 declared Pluto a “Dwarf Planet” after being spurred on by the eminent American Astrological physicist Neil de Grasse Tyson. However, there are quite a number of people who object to this classification and support Pluto’s status as an official planet. Neil de Grasse Tyson thinks that the overwhelming interest in Pluto is due to the cartoon character of the same name.

Come hear our interpretation of Pluto as we perform a new composition by local composer Ronald Parks at our upcoming Planets concert! Click >> here << for more info