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Founded in 2004, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) personalizes the orchestral experience by inviting the audience into the musician’s world through interactive concerts with nationally and internationally recognized artists, exciting music old and new, and fun-to-read magazine-style programs promoting Family Literacy in the Arts. This innovative program features childcare coupled with music education for children ages two months through ten years.

ROCO-rooters, for children 10 and under, is a music education program during the 5 00p.m. concerts at St. John the Divine. After the concert at 6 45 p.m. childcare is available with pizza and movies until 9 30 p.m., allowing the parents to go out for post-concert entertainment. Reservations and prepayment required $20 for the first child and $15 for each additional child; ROCO-rooters regularly sells out.

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ROCO In Concert: Seismic

St. John the Divine Episcopal Church 2450 River Oaks Blvd. , Houston, TX, United States

ROCO kicks off its 19th season with SEISMIC, an opening concert of epic proportions, featuring the full 40-piece chamber orchestra in two ROCO-commissioned world premieres and an exhilarating tale of love, intrigue, and adventure! Anthony DiLorenzo’s ROCO world premiere commission Techtonal, featuring AI text-informed animation by composer and artist Cynthia Lee Wong and based on the acclaimed book The Telling Image by renowned […]

ROCO Connections: Sight and Sound

ROCO’s Connections Series returns to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on October 12 with “Sight and Sound,” an evening of chamber music curated by and featuring ROCO violinist Eva Burmeister, with ROCO pianist Audrey Andrist, paired with artworks from MFAH’s collections and presented in collaboration. Join us for the concert in MFAH’s Lynn Wyatt Theater at 7:00 pm, located in the Nancy and […]

ROCO Connections: Rise Up

Asia Society Texas Center 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, United States

ROCO’s Connections Series returns to the Asia Society Texas Center on October 20 with “Rise Up!” This performance will also be livestreamed free at ROCO.org, Facebook, YouTube, and 440. Artistic Partner Mei-Ann Chen leads an ensemble of female ROCO musicians in a program featuring two ROCO World Premiere commissions including Richard Danielpour’s Breaking the Veil written for the women of ROCO, inspired the female-led protests in […]

ROCO Unchambered: Rachel Jordan, violin

Join us as ROCO’s Season 19 Unchambered Series begins on November 4, at 5:00pm in The Historic Eldorado Ballroom! ROCO violinist Rachel Jordan curates and features in a vibrant, intimate program honoring the memory and legacy of her father, New Orleans-based musician Kidd Jordan, who performed once in the Ballroom during his career as an internationally acclaimed […]

ROCO In Concert: Infrared

St. John the Divine Episcopal Church 2450 River Oaks Blvd. , Houston, TX, United States

Conductor Johannes Debus makes his ROCO debut in INFRARED, a program featuring more than the eye can see—including two radiant world premieres commissioned by ROCO. Triple-threat Grammy-nominated Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad’s Fanfare opens, then experience “Nell ‘Inferno”, the blazing first movement of Richard Danielpour’s Symphony in Three Movements After the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Go galactic in Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia […]

ROCO Connections: Beer and Brass

Saint Arnold Brewery 2000 Lyons Avenue , Houston, TX, United States

Roll out the barrel – as this annual ROCO tradition returns to ring in the new year, continuing the Connections Series! Celebrate with good food, good friends, and good music as the ROCO Brass Quintet serenades audiences at the Saint Arnold Brewing Company. Featuring traditional beer hall music and favorite brass arrangements, with craft beers (plus root beer!) and yummy […]

ROCO Connections: Blossoms

Museum of Fine Arts - Rienzi 1406 Kirby Drive , Houston, TX, United States

Join us as ROCO’s Connections Series continues on January 27 in collaboration with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Rienzi house museum. Experience a concert in their glorious ballroom featuring Charles Loeffler’s Rhapsodies and the world premiere of Nicky Sohn’s Colors of Life’s Garden inspired by the plants and flowers in the 4.4-acre Rienzi Garden. […]

ROCO Connections: Simple Gifts

Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon, Houston, TX, United States

ROCO’s Connections Series continues on February 10 as we give thanks for collaboration in “Simple Gifts,” bringing us to a new location at Rothko Chapel! Led by conductor Delyana Lazarova, experience Aaron Copland’s iconic tone poem Appalachian Spring in its original 13-piece version, paired with a World Premiere ROCO Commission by Season 18 Composer-In-Residence Adam Schoenberg, composed as a companion work scored for the same forces. Houston Contemporary Dance […]

ROCO In Concert: Supersonic

St. John the Divine Episcopal Church 2450 River Oaks Blvd. , Houston, TX, United States

Conductor Delyana Lazarova returns, leading ROCO’s full chamber orchestra in a high-octane program brimming with dynamic energy! Elfrida Andree’s colorful, lyrical Symphony No. 2 in A Minor, with its exuberant opening theme, paves the way for the U.S. premiere of Richard Danielpour’s “Voci del Purgatorio”, a journey to rebirth – the second movement of his Symphony in Three Movements After the Divine […]

ROCO Unchambered: Alexis Gerlach, Cello

MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston) 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

ROCO Co-Principal Cellist Alexis Gerlach leads her first Unchambered Series concert on March 2 at MATCH! This electric evening highlighting the textures of the cello will feature the Texas premiere of Kevin Puts’ Arcana, originally written for and premiered by Alexis. This performance will also be livestreamed free on ROCO.org, Facebook, YouTube, and A440.live.

ROCO Connections: Addio

Museum of Fine Arts - European Wing 1001 Bissonnet Street , Houston, TX, United States

ROCO says goodbye to the old and in with the (relatively) new in this concert celebrating musical innovation via the string quartet. Lombardini Sirmen’s Quartet, a work that helped to shape the string quartet genre alongside those of Haydn and Boccherini, is an incredible example of a rare 18th-century woman who was not only able to live […]

ROCO In Concert: Luminescent

Rice University - Brockman Hall for Opera 6100 S. Main , Houston, TX, United States

ROCO welcomes back conductor JoAnn Falletta, as the full 40-piece chamber orchestra shines in works of luminous orchestral color and creativity, including three premieres! Glimpse a vision of paradise in the third and final movement of Richard Danielpour’s Symphony in Three Movements After the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, experience the bold sounds of Conni Ellisor’s consortium-commissioned A Woman Without […]