Hailed as "The Jewel of New Castle", the Chappaqua Orchestra has served Northern Westchester since 1958. Now under the baton of Michael Shapiro, the orchestra will play diverse and challenging programs and has grown into a sophisticated ensemble of professional level artists.

Many notable artists have been associated with TCO over the years, including Joseph Fuchs, Julius Baker, Timothy Fain, John Corigliano, Chee Yun, Allison Eldredge, Ruth Laredo, Eugenia Zukerman, Leslie Parnas, Andrew Litton, Kikuei Ikeda, Jerome Rose, Edward Arron, Ayako Yoshida, Lucie Arnaz, and Vanessa Williams.

TCO also has a proud history of collaboration with young soloists who later went on to stardom, many of them proteges of longtime Music Director Norman Leyden, who also conducted the Westchester County Youth Orchestra.