PHOENIX -- MusicaNova Orchestra announced today it is postponing its next three concerts:
- March 21, Young Artists Concert featuring Daniel Walker and Katheryn Chan.
- March 29, Music with a Voice: A Concert of Reclamation, featuring the orchestra at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.
- April 5, Stabat Mater: A Reflection on Holy Week, with vocal soloists and orchestra at Scottsdale Presbyterian Church.
Orchestra leaders are working with the three venues to find new dates.
MusicaNova was motivated by the same abundance of caution that so many other groups are exercising. We don’t know how COVID-19 will ultimately affect Arizona, but we have seen how quickly it has spread elsewhere in the world. It is better to take precautions now than to wish we had later. The health and safety of our audience members and musicians is paramount.
At this time, the May 10 Mannheim Phenomenon concert at the Musical Instrument Museum remains as scheduled.
For patrons who bought tickets for the March 29 concert, the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will handle refunds or transferring the tickets to the new date. Tickets purchased online for the March 21 Young Artists Concert will be honored on the new date, or the public can contact [email protected] to request a refund.
MusicaNova is a professional symphony orchestra founded in the Valley in 2003, dedicated to playing great new, neglected, and traditional symphonic music in ways you’ve never heard. In addition, MNO presents its Young Artists Concert and free Community Concert Series in Phoenix, Tempe, and Scottsdale, conducts extensive educational outreach with Valley schools, and created the unique MNO Composition Fellows Program for hands-on mentoring of emerging composers.
MusicaNova concerts are supported by grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Gannett Foundation, the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture,
and Tempe Arts Grants.
