8:00PM Concert
7:15PM Musical Insights with Alexina Louie & Guests

Dalbavie’s violin concerto, its spectacular virtuosity combined with distribution of the orchestra throughout the hall exhibits the full power, intellect, and engaging capacity of his music.

In Just a stranger here myself…, the idiosyncratic Schmidt delivers a panorama of musical episodes immersing listeners in dreams of world-wide places that have influenced his music.

Sokolovic’s Ringelspiel (German for merry-go-round) evocatively inundates listeners with brilliantly inventive orchestration and effects to depict recollections of childhood.

With its cinematic feel, Bjarnason’s Emergence sweeps the listener up in a kind of daydream that reflects the composer’s wide-ranging experience working in pop and classical new music fields.

featuring

Alex Pauk Conductor
Véronique Mathieu Violin

Programme

Daníel Bjarnason (Iceland)
Emergence (2011)

Marc-André Dalbavie (France)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1996)*

Douglas Schmidt (Canada)
Just a stranger here myself... (2014)**

Ana Sokolovic (Canada)
Ringelspiel (2013)

*Canadian Premiere
**Previously commissioned and premiered by Esprit with funding from the Koerner Foundation

Artists and repertoire subject to change without notice.

Concert Sponsor

The Max Clarkson Family Foundation