ESTACIO The Harvesters (3rd movement of A Farmer’s Symphony) (1994) ESO commission Triton’s Trumpet (1st movement of the Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra) (2017) ESO co-commission “Away and Awake” (song cycle for baritone, piano, and violin; words by John Murrell) (2001) Test Run for String Quartet (2001) “A tooth in my pocket” (from the opera […]
Program to Include RAVEL Boléro Piano Concerto GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess - A Symphonic Picture GOULD Symphonette No. 2 "American" ESO Premiere Program subject to change. This concert will include an intermission. Featured Artists Alain Trudel, Conductor Élisabeth Pion, Piano ESO Debut
Program to Include RAVEL Boléro Piano Concerto GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess - A Symphonic Picture GOULD Symphonette No. 2 "American" ESO Premiere Program subject to change. This concert will include an intermission. Featured Artists Alain Trudel, Conductor Élisabeth Pion, Piano ESO Debut
About The Concert Bob Bernhardt celebrates the musicians and audience he has grown to love since his debut here in 2006. In addition to glittering and familiar classical showpieces (The Flight of the Bumble Bee, Sabre Dance), you’ll hear members of the orchestra play featured solos (Bach’s Arioso, Sarasate’s Gypsy Airs), plus many of Bob’s personal favourites, from […]
About The Concert Bob Bernhardt celebrates the musicians and audience he has grown to love since his debut here in 2006. In addition to glittering and familiar classical showpieces (The Flight of the Bumble Bee, Sabre Dance), you’ll hear members of the orchestra play featured solos (Bach’s Arioso, Sarasate’s Gypsy Airs), plus many of Bob’s personal favourites, from […]
With guest artists the Garneau String Quartet. Program includes the Mendelssohn String Octet.
J. S. BACH Goldberg Variations
Program to Include MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 "Italian" JONGEN Symphonie concertante for Organ Features Davis Concert Organ GILLILAND Shadows & Light ESO Commission (2000) Program subject to change. This concert will include an intermission. Featured Artists Carolyn Kuan, Conductor ESO Debut Paul Jacobs, Organ
Pro Coro Canada’s guest for this special performance is I Coristi, under the direction of Rob Curtis, alongside emerging artists Josiah Maxfield and Erin Moore, adding further depth and resonance to this choral event. The performance will be accompanied by the skilled pianists Leanne Regehr and Roger Admiral, whose interpretation of the two-piano arrangement brings a […]
Program to Include BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" LISZT Piano Concerto No. 2 CZERNY Grand Overture Program subject to change. Featured Artists Julian Kuerti, Conductor Sheng Cai, Piano ESO Debut
About The Concert Beethoven’s groundbreaking Third Symphony, nicknamed “Eroica” for its heroic qualities, was originally dedicated to Napoleon, but his name was later removed in a fury of rage. In his ESO debut, Canadian pianist Sheng Cai will perform Khachaturian’s mesmerizing Piano Concerto. A beloved Chorale by Bach and a Passacaglia based on its theme by Canadian composer Oskar Morawetz round […]