The New York Repertory Orchestra, New York's leading all-volunteer, community-based orchestra, is made up of talented professional and amateur musicians and presents a series of free concerts each season. Founded in 1992 by Music Director David Leibowitz, the orchestra strives for exciting performances, provocative programs and the highest artistic level. To its fans and followers, these qualities have become the hallmarks of this exceptional ensemble.

In addition to its regular season NYRO has participated in the Music Festival of the Hamptons and the Music at St. Paul's series at Columbia University. In 2002, the ensemble was invited to perform Johannes Brahms' German Requiem in a memorial concert for 9/11 as a participant in the "Columbia Remembers" program at Columbia University.

In January of 2004, NYRO performed in the Inaugural Chinese New Year Global Gala, broadcast worldwide by NTD Television, and in 2005 the ensemble recorded the soundtrack for the award-winning motion picture Casi Casi. Also in 2004, the orchestra presented a highly-acclaimed, fully-staged production of Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" at Baruch College's Mason Auditorium.

Since 2005, NYRO has performed an annual concert on Pier 35, on the East River, in association with the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council of New York's Lower East Side. In January of 2006, NYRO was again invited to perform in the Chinese New Year Global Gala at Radio City Music Hall, and broadcast worldwide by NTD Television.

The New York Repertory Orchestra was recently honored by the Omega Ensemble of New York with its "Gift to the City" award for past and ongoing contributions to the musical life of New York City.

  • Click here to see a complete list of works that have been performed by NYRO since its first "full season" in 2000, and those scheduled for the upcoming season.

  • Playing membership in NYRO is open to experienced orchestral players in the community upon a successful audition/interview with the Music Director and section leader. The weekly rehearsals are held on Thursday evenings at The Good Shepherd-Faith Church (152 West 66th Street) from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. If you are interested in joining, e-mail us at contact@nyro.org, or call us at (212) 662-8383.

    For NYRO Members:
    2010-2011 Season Schedule

  • The complete rehearsal/concert schedule is here!
  • The NYRO Attendance Policy is here.

  • NYRO Performance Photos:

    • 2003-2004 Season Finale Concert
    Saturday, May 22, 2004 - Jonathan Haas, timpani soloist
    (look at all those timpani!)


    Photo credit: Jeff Gamble
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    The Inaugural NTDTV Chinese New Year Global Gala
    January 17 and 18, 2004 at the Hammerstein Ballroom.


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    NYRO Past, Current, and Upcoming Repertoire

  • Bach-Stokowski: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
  • Barber: Essay No. 1 for Orchestra
  • Barber: Essay No. 2 for Orchestra
  • Barber: Knoxville - Summer of 1915; Jane Thorngren, soprano
  • Barber: Music for a Scene from Shelley
  • Barber: Mutations from Bach
  • Barber: Violin Concerto; Katie Lansdale, violin; Michi Wiancko, violin
  • Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3; Mitchell Vines, piano
  • Bartók: Rumanian Dances
  • Bartók: Violin Rhapsody No. 1; Katie Lansdale, violin
  • Beethoven: "Ah! Perfido" - Scene and Aria; Bernadette Fiorella, soprano
  • Beethoven: "Egmont" Overture
  • Beethoven: "Fidelio" Excerpts
  • Beethoven: Choral Fantasy
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Colin Jacobsen, violin
  • Berlioz: "Beatrice et Benedict" Overture
  • Berlioz: "Benvenuto Cellini" Overture
  • Berlioz: "Flight into Egypt" from "L’Enfance du Christ"
  • Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture
  • Berlioz: "Symphonie Fantastique"
  • Berlioz: Harold in Italy; John Dexter, viola
  • Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Été; Gretchen Windt, mezzo
  • Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
  • Brahms: A German Requiem
  • Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 1
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 2
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 3
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 4
  • Brahms: Violin Concerto; Airi Yoshioka, violin
  • Britten: "Les Illuminations;" Bernadette Fiorella, soprano
  • Britten: "Sinfonia da Requiem"
  • Britten: Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes"
  • Britten: Violin Concerto; Colin Jacobsen, violin
  • Bruch: Scottish Fantasy; Erin Keefe, violin
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 5
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
  • Busoni: Orchestral Suite No. 2 "Geharnischte"
  • Busoni: Sarabande and Cortege from "Doktor Faust"
  • Byrne: The Death of Ophelia (World Premiere)
  • Chausson: "Poeme de l’Amour et de la Mer;" Gretchen Windt, mezzo-soprano
  • Chausson: Symphony in B-flat
  • Copland: "El Salon México"
  • Copland: An Outdoor Overture
  • Copland: Appalachian Spring
  • Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
  • D’Indy: “Karadec” Suite
  • Debussy: Prelude to "Afternoon of a Faune"
  • Debussy: "LA Mer"
  • Debussy: Symphonic Fragments from "The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian"
  • Dello Joio: New York Profiles
  • Diamond: Music from "Romeo and Juliet"
  • Diamond: Symphony No. 2
  • Dickerson: Angels (NYRO Commission/World Premiere); June Han, harp
  • Dukas: Fanfare from "Le Peri"
  • Dvorak: "Czech" Suite
  • Dvorak: Cello Concerto; Eric Jacobsen, cello
  • Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
  • Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
  • Elgar: Cello Concerto; Sibylle Johner, cello
  • Farberman: Concerto for Jazz Drummer; Tim Froncek, drums
  • Farberman: Concerto for Timpani (World Premiere); Jonathan Haas, timpani
  • Faure: Pavane
  • Fusco: Symphony No. 1 (NYRO Commission/World Premiere)
  • Gould: American Salute
  • Griffes: The White Peacock
  • Griffes: Three Poems of Fiona McCloud; Bernadette Fiorella, soprano
  • Haydn: Symphony No. 60 "Il distratto"
  • Haydn: Symphony No. 83 “La Poule”
  • Haydn: Symphony No. 104 “London”
  • Hindemith: "Mathis der Maler" Symphony
  • Hindemith: "Nobilissima Visione"
  • Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
  • Humperdinck: "Hansel und Gretl" Prelude
  • Holst: St. Paul's Suite
  • Honegger: Symphony No. 3 “Liturgique”
  • Janacek: Suite for Orchestra, Op. 3
  • Janacek: Taras Bulba
  • Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1 in g minor
  • Kodaly: Concerto for Orchestra
  • Kurka: Suite from "Good Soldier Schweik"
  • Lalo: Cello Concerto; Matt Goeke, cello
  • Lutoslawski: Funeral Music
  • Mahler: "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen;" Daniella Carvalho, soprano
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 1
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 3; Judith Engel, mezzo-soprano; Riverside Choral Society
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Bernadette Fiorella, soprano
  • Martinu: Concerto for Violin No. 2; Susie Park, violin
  • Martinu: Rhapsody-Concerto; John Dexter, viola
  • Martinu: Symphony No. 4
  • Mendelssohn: "Ruys Blas" Overture
  • Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 ("Reformation")
  • Messiaen: "Les Offrandes Oubliées"
  • Milhaud: "Le Carnaval d'Aix;" Mitchell Vines, piano
  • Moncayo: "Huapango"
  • Moravec: Oboe Concerto (New York Premiere); Humbert Lucarelli, oboe
  • Mozart: Abduction from the Seraglio (fully staged)
  • Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate; Bernadette Fiorella, soprano
  • Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor; Anna Polonsky, piano
  • Mozart: Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"
  • Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3; Katie Lansdale, violin
  • Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
  • Nielsen: Symphony No. 2 "The Four Temperaments"
  • Nielsen: Symphony No. 3 "Sinfonia Espansiva"
  • Nielsen: Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable"
  • Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
  • Nielsen: Violin Concerto; Robin Zeh, violin
  • Paganini: Violin Concerto in D Major; Katie Lansdale, violin
  • Pärt: Da Pacem Domine
  • Pender: Re-Bach (World Premiere)
  • Piazzolla: Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas; Olivier Fluchaire, violin
  • Piston: Symphony No. 4
  • Pizzetti: Three Symphonic Preludes from “Oedipus Rex”
  • Poulenc: Concerto for Organ; James Kennerley, organ
  • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Phyllis Newman, narrator
  • Prokofiev: Sinfonietta
  • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
  • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7
  • Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1; Robin Zeh, violin
  • Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2; Rachel Lee, violin
  • R. Strauss: Til Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead
  • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D minor
  • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor
  • Rautavaara: Isle of Bliss (“Lintukoto”)
  • Ravel: "Ma mere l’Oye" Suite
  • Ravel: "Tzigane;" Katie Lansdale, violin
  • Respighi: Botticelli Triptych
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture on Russian Themes
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
  • Rosenhaus: New Work (NYRO Commission/World Premiere)
  • Rossini: "La Gazza Ladra" Overture
  • Roussel: Concerto for Small Orchestra
  • Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 ("Organ Symphony")
  • Sarasate: "Zigeunerweisen;" Katie Lansdale, violin
  • Scarlatti: Sinfonia in E minor
  • Schreker: "Ekkehard" Overture
  • Schubert: Symphony No. 5
  • Schuman: New England Triptych
  • Schumann: Cello Concerto; Eric Jacobsen, cello
  • Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1; Matt Goeke, cello
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
  • Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1; Christina Castelli, violin
  • Sibelius: Suite from "Pelleas and Melisande"
  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 3
  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 6
  • Sousa: "El Capitan" March
  • Sousa: "Hands Across the Sea" March
  • Sousa: "Manhattan Beach" March
  • Sousa: "Semper Fidelis" March
  • Sousa: "Stars and Stripes Forever" March
  • Sousa: "The Washington Post" March
  • Strauss, Johann: "Donner und Blitzen" Polka
  • Strauss, Johann: "Tritsch Tratsch" Polka
  • Strauss, Richard: Four Last Songs; Jennifer Grimaldi, soprano
  • Strauss, Richard: "Romanze" for Cello; Ellen Rose, cello
  • Strauss, Richard: Oboe Concerto; Humbert Lucarelli, oboe
  • Strauss, Richard: Serenade in E-flat for 13 Wind Instruments
  • Strauss, Richard: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
  • Stravinsky: "Monumentum pro Gesualdo"
  • Stravinsky: Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra; Robin Zeh, violin
  • Stravinsky: Suite from “The Firebird”
  • Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
  • Tchaikovsky: "Romeo and Juliet" Fantasy Overture
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
  • Thomson: "The Plow that Broke the Plains" Suite
  • Thomson: "The River" Suite
  • Tubin: Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (New York Premiere); Yoojin Oh, piano
  • Tubin: Symphony No. 4 "Sinfonia Lirica" (New York Premiere)
  • Tubin: Symphony No. 10 (New York Premiere)
  • Turina: "La Procesion del Rocio"
  • Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
  • Vaughan Williams: Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
  • Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending; Susie Park, violin
  • Vaughan Williams: "Scherzo alla Marcia"
  • Vaughan-Williams: Serenade to Music
  • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
  • Vaughan Williams: "The Wasps" Overture and Suite
  • Verdi: "I Vespri Siciliani" Overture
  • Verdi: "La Forza del Destino" Overture
  • Verdi: "Nabucco" Overture and Excerpts
  • Verdi: “Giovanna d’Arco” Overture
  • Vivaldi: Mandolin Concerto in C Major; Terry Pender, mandolin
  • Wagner: Prelude and Finale from "Tristan und Isolde"
  • Wagner: Prelude to “Parsifal”
  • Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
  • Walton: "Hamlet"
  • Walton: "Henry V"
  • Walton: "Richard III"
  • Warlock: "Capriol" Suite
  • Weill: Symphony No. 2
  • Xinghai: "Yellow River" Cantata