Press kit, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra · Press kit, official use
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 490 Riverside Drive, 11th floor New York, NY 10027-5788 For decades we have been delighting audiences worldwide with beautiful sound that reflects our unique capacity to create collaboratively. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a radical experiment in musical democracy, proving for over fifty years what happens when exceptional artists gather with total trust in each other and faith in the creative process. Orpheus began in 1972 when cellist Julian Fifer assembled a group of New York freelancers in their early twenties to play orchestral repertoire as if it were chamber music. In that age of co-ops and communes, the idealistic Orpheans snubbed the “corporate” path of symphony orchestras and learned how to play, plan, and promote concerts as a true collective, with leadership roles rotating from the very first performance.
