December 2023 concert

Our Fall 2023 concert featured Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D major, Stravinsky’s Concerto in E-flat major, “Dumbarton Oaks”, and Higdon’s Daylights. The program and concert notes can be found here.


Voices in the light

Click below to revisit the livestream of our Spring 2023 concert on Sunday, May 7 at 3:00pm EST. Download the concert program (pdf).


benefit concert for miracle league of the triangle

We had a wonderful time celebrating the opening of the new Miracle League baseball field in Durham with a special outdoor concert. Watch the video of our performance on April 2, 2023.


Places we can no longer go

Our Dec. 11, 2022 concert from Baldwin Auditorium in Durham, North Carolina, with a pre-concert talk. Download the concert program (PDF).


Simple gifts: music in bloom

Watch the livestream of our May 1, 2022 concert from Baldwin Auditorium in Durham, North Carolina, starting at 3 p.m. EDT. Download the concert program (PDF)


BRYANT: all stars are love

all stars are love was written as a surprise gift for my wife at our wedding. The original version was written for piano and soprano and premiered by Hila Plitmann. This soprano and orchestra version is based on a wind ensemble and soprano arrangement that was specifically made for Hila Plitmann to sing with the World Youth Wind Orchestra Project as part of Mid Europe 2017 in Schladming, Austria. all stars are love for orchestra and soprano was arranged by my wife, Dr. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant.

— Steven Bryant, composer

Beethoven: Symphony 1, movement 3

First performed in April 1800 when the composer was just 29 years old, the DMO recorded and released this virtual performance during the Covid-19 pandemic.


Berlioz: “March to the scaffold” from symphonie fantastique

He dreams that he has killed the woman he had loved, that he is condemned, led to the scaffold, and that he is witnessing HIS OWN EXECUTION. The procession moves forward to the sounds of a march that is now somber and fierce, now brilliant and solemn, in which the muffled noise of heavy steps gives way without mediation to the most noisy clangor. At the end of the march, the first four measures of the IDÉE FIXE reappear like a last thought of love interrupted by the fatal blow.

— Hector Berlioz, composer

BrYANT: The Machine Awakes

Members of DMO collaborated on a virtual premiere performance of “The Machine Awakes,” a new piece from Durham composer Steven Bryant. The resulting video features a 40-piece orchestra performing together by way of smart phones, webcams, editing software and three weeks of meticulous, exacting collaboration.

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Turina: Danzas fantasticas, Op. 22 III. Orgia

A sonic orgy, this movement consists of vibrant flamenco rhythms and the distinctive quality of Andalusian cante jondo (deep song), making it the most recognizably Spanish in nature of the three movements.

— Jennifer Reid, DMO member

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, 4th movement

The symphony … ends with a recapitulation, leading the listener to believe that rejoicing in the joy of others is reason enough for life.

— Kevin Kauffman, DMO member

Márquez: Conga del Fuego Nuevo

Live performance of the Durham Medical Orchestra at Baldwin Auditorium in Durham, North Carolina, on May 4, 2017.