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

From the blast of percussive exuberance in Abe’s The Wave to the immense force of windpower summoned up in Žuraj’s Anemoi, audiences will be on the edge of their seats as the reverberations from these pieces wash over them. While The Wave features percussion only, a large battery of percussive forces forms part of a gigantic orchestra conveying the powers of Žuraj’s winds of antiquity.

Prepare to be swept away. In keeping with the meaning of its title, Shaw’s Entr’acte, for strings alone, is a refreshing diversion between these pieces as it riffs on classical form and ”takes you to the other side of Alice’s looking glass in a kind of absurd, subtle, technicolour transition.”

featuring

Alex Pauk Conductor
Ryan Scott (CAN) Marimba
Vito Žuraj (SVN) Guest Composer

PROGRAMME

Keiko Abe (JPN)
The Wave (2000)
for marimba & 4 percussionists

Caroline Shaw (USA)
Entr'acte (2011)
for string orchestra

Vito Žuraj (SVN)
Anemoi * (2024)

* North American Premiere, commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker & Esprit Orchestra