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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, speaks with Chris Morrison about the second concert of the Reno Phil's 2026-27 Classix season, “Petrushka,” on November 14 and 15, 2026. The performances include the world premiere of boom/BUST by Max Deger, the Oboe Concerto by Richard Strauss, with oboe soloist Timothy Gocklin, and the ballet Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky.
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, speaks with Chris Morrison about the first concert of the Reno Phil's 2026-27 Classix season, “Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto,” on October 17 and 18, 2026. The concerts include Mariachitlán by Juan Pablo Contreras, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 2, and, with piano soloist Jon Nakamatsu, the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, speaks with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's 2026-27 Classix season of performances.
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, and composer Michelle Isaac speak with Chris Morrison about the sixth and final concerts of the Reno Phil's 2025-26 Classix season, “Carmina Burana,” happening April 17-19, 2026. The concerts include the Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront by Leonard Bernstein, the world premiere of Pressing Truths by Michelle Isaac, and Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. Along with the Reno Phil, the concerts feature soloists Ashley Fabian, Arnold Livingston Geis, and Weston Hurt, the Reno Phil Chorus, and the Sierra Nevada Children's Chorus.
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, speaks with Chris Morrison about the fifth concerts of the Reno Phil's 2025-26 Classix season, “Mendelssohn Violin Concerto,” on March 21 and 22, 2026. The concerts feature Robin’s Eye View by Autumn Maria Reed, the Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 by Felix Mendelssohn, with violin soloist Nathan Amaral, and the Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 by Johannes Brahms.
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, speaks with Chris Morrison about the fourth concerts of the Reno Phil's 2025-26 Classix season, “Stravinsky's Firebird,” on February 21 and 22, 2026. The concerts include What Trees May Speak by Jonathan Sokol, the Suite from Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird, and the Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with piano soloist Jon Nakamatsu.
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Nicholas Hersh, the guest conductor for the Reno Phil's concerts "Elgar Cello Concerto" on January 24 and 25, 2026, speaks with Chris Morrison about his life and career, and the featured music. The concerts will feature the Overture by Grazyna Bacewicz, the Cello Concerto by Sir Edward Elgar, with Davidson Fellow Zlatomir Fung as cello soloist, and the Symphony No. 7 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, speaks with Chris Morrison about the second concerts of the Reno Phil's 2025-26 Classix season, “John Williams and Sibelius,” on November 8 and 9, 2025. The concerts include Transcend by Zhou Tian, Escapades by John Williams (with soloists Timothy McAllister, alto saxophone, and Tennison Watts, vibraphone), and two pieces by Jean Sibelius, Finlandia and the Symphony No. 2.
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil music director and conductor, and Mark Clague, musicologist and professor at the University of Michigan, speak with Chris Morrison about the opening concerts of the Reno Phil's 2025-26 Classix Season, “American Masters,” on October 11 and 12, 2025. The concerts include the Piano Concerto in One Movement by Florence Price and Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin, both with piano soloist Michelle Cann, as well as two pieces by Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man and the orchestral suite from the ballet Appalachian Spring.
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, talks with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's “Lord Nelson Mass” concerts, the final concerts of the orchestra's 2024-25 Classix season, on April 12 and 13, 2025. The concerts feature the west coast premiere of Go where the wind takes you... by Iryna Aleksiychuk, the Mathis der Maler Symphony by Paul Hindemith, and, with the Reno Phil Chorus and soloists, the Lord Nelson Mass by Franz Josef Haydn.
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Composer Marko Bajzer talks about his composition The Sacrifice of Prometheus, which receives its World Premiere at the Reno Phil's concerts “Beethoven's Emperor Concerto" on March 22 and 23, 2025. Music director Laura Jackson leads the concerts, which also include Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, the "Emperor," with Davidson Fellow Katherine Emma Liu as piano soloist, and The Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi.
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, talks with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's “Symphonie fantastique” concerts, the third concerts of the orchestra's 2024-25 Classix season, on January 25 and 26, 2025. The program includes La valse by Maurice Ravel, the Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor by Camille Saint-Saens, with cello soloist Sterling Elliott, and the Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz.
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, talks with Chris Morrison about the Reno Phil's “Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto” concerts, the second concerts of the orchestra's 2024-25 Classix season, on November 23 and 24, 2024. The music on the program includes the Overture to La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi, the Negro Folk Symphony by William Dawson, and the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with piano soloist Sara Davis Buechner.
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Laura Jackson, Reno Phil Music Director and Conductor, and Aaron Doty, the President and CEO of the Reno Phil, discuss the concerts of the 2024-25 Classix season, including the season-opening performances, "Beethoven's Eroica," on September 28 and 19, 2024.
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