This season, Daniel Hope leads the New Century Chamber Orchestra (NCCO) on four Bay Area tours. At concerts in Berkeley (Oct 30), Vallejo (Oct 31), San Francisco (Nov 1), and Belvedere Tiburon (Nov 2), he undertakes the solo violin roles in both Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Dawn by Dobrinka Tabakova. Joined by the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Hope and the NCCO then return to Berkeley (Dec 11), Belvedere Tiburon (Dec 12), and San Francisco (Dec 13) for seasonal selections by Elgar, Rutter, Britten, Jake Heggie, Nico Muhly, and others.

Next spring, they give the world premieres of new NCCO commissions from San Francisco composers Jake Heggie and Nathaniel Stookey. At concerts in Berkeley (March 13), San Francisco (March 14), and Belvedere Tiburon (March 15), the two new compositions share a program with Haydn’s “Trauer” Symphony and – with Hope as soloist – the Second Violin Concerto by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

At concerts in Rohnert Park (April 23), Berkeley (April 24), and San Francisco (April 25), Hope and the orchestra complete their season in collaboration with Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, who joins them for guitar concertos by Joaquín Rodrigo and Michael Daugherty. These share a program with music for strings by Alberto Williams and “new tango” master Astor Piazzolla, together with the world premiere of a new piece, commissioned by the NCCO from Henry Dorn through the Emerging Black Composers Project.