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

In Streich’s ISHJÄRTA distinctive chordal characteristics emerge in a soundspace of contrasting layers—mists, shimmering veils, a capped, shielded world. This is a piece about heart and intensifying expression.

Eötvös’ DoReMi Concerto reconfigures the notes of various well-known nursery rhymes and childhood songs to create tensions and conflicts as in real life. Dramatic situations can evolve—and in this work they do!

A question for audiences of 2118 about how notions of time, space, sound and history have shaped their world guided Norman in writing Sustain as a continuous spiral contemplating the rise and fall of species, the movement of tectonic plates, the birth and death of stars and the question of how the Earth will fare over long periods into the future.

featuring

Alex Pauk Conductor
Akiko Suwanai (JPN) Violin
Lisa Streich (SWE) Guest Composer
Andrew Norman (USA) Guest Composer

PROGRAMME

Lisa Streich (SWE)
ISHJÄRTA * (2024)

Peter Eötvös (HUN)
Violin Concerto #2 "DoReMi" ** (2011-12)

Andrew Norman (USA)
Sustain (2018)

* North American Premiere
** Canadian Premiere