QUO's inaugural festival with chamber music, sound healing, and symphonic concerts.

For QUO, every month is Pride month, making the middle of our 15th anniversary season the perfect time to present our innaugural festival, QUOfest! The festival opens with a chamber program highlighting the musicianship of QUO's extraordinary artists. The next afternoon's unique program includes participatory music by queer luminaries well as an original sound bath by QUO's Associate Conductor and resident sound healer, Derek Weagle. Next, the full orchestra takes the stage with a program celebrating 10 years of marriage equality, and in the festival's final event, QUO presents a family program designed to inspire kids to compose. The whole festival takes place at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights. Whereas the festival model is increasingly popular among professional performing arts presenters, it is a novelty in the community music space.

Schedule of Events:

8 pm - Joy Boy
In an intimate program of musical dialogues, musicians from Queer Urban Orchestra pair music of two New York queer composers with three pillars of the chamber music repertoire. Julius Eastman's Joy Boy embraces the creative voices of the performers, and inti figgis-vizueta's branching patterns conjures sounds of nature and the city. These works shake hands with a bucolic decet for wind instruments Romanian composer George Enescu's, music from Debussy's beloved Petite Suite, and Tchaikovsky's string sextet Souvenier de Florence, a passion project of the last five years of the composer's life.

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