News Release

The Nexus Chamber Orchestra, comprised of some of Nashville’s top recording studio players, will make its debut at Brentwood United Methodist Church on Sunday, June 27, at 4:00 p.m. It will be the first of many concerts scheduled as part of a concert series to be hosted by Brentwood United Methodist Church and will be conducted by the church’s music director, David Keith. The concerts will all be free to the public, the first one being a benefit concert for the Nashville Musicians Flood Relief Fund to benefit local musicians, many of whom lost not only their homes, but their instruments as well. The concert will feature works by Corelli, Mozart, Warlock and “Reveries” by local composer David Sartor. The group, founded by studio violinist Alan Umstead, will be Williamson County’s first professional chamber orchestra. The musicians, who are graduates of some of the top music schools in the country such as Juilliard, Eastman, Oberlin and Indiana, are all fortunate enough to be making their living in the studios of Nashville playing with the likes of Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, and Kid Rock. The NCO welcomes the opportunity to play classical music and music by some of the area’s talented local composers and arrangers. Future concerts will feature other works by local composers Sartor, Conni Ellisor and John Mock.